Sudan set to divide amid Security Council pressure (AFP)

Sudan set to divide amid Security Council pressure (AFP)


Sudan set to divide amid Security Council pressure (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 10:18 PM PDT

Sudanese people take part in a government sponsored pro-unity rally in Khartoum on October 9, 2010. Africa's largest country remains on course to break up next year after the UN Security Council put new pressure on the government over a self-determination referendum, but the major powers are still fretting over how to avoid conflict.(AFP/Ashraf Shazly)AFP - Sudan remains on course to break up next year after the UN Security Council put new pressure on the government over a self-determination referendum, but the major powers are still fretting over how to avoid conflict.



Japan and China defense chiefs to meet Monday: report (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 10:34 PM PDT

Reuters - Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa and his Chinese counterpart Liang Guanglie will hold a meeting in Hanoi on Monday, Kyodo news agency said, the latest sign of a thaw in the two nations' strained ties.


Japan and China defense chiefs to meet Monday: report

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 10:34 PM PDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa and his Chinese counterpart Liang Guanglie will hold a meeting in Hanoi on Monday, Kyodo news agency said, the latest sign of a thaw in the two nations' strained ties.


Miners' rescue to start Wednesday

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:13 PM PDT

Chile's Mining Minister Laurence Golborne, has said he is hopeful that the operation to bring the miners to the surface will begin on Wednesday.


Kyrgyzstan votes in landmark election

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 10:14 PM PDT

By Robin Paxton BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan will vote Sunday to create the first parliamentary democracy in Central Asia, in an election its interim leaders hope can unite the country only four months after the worst bloodshed in its modern history.


Button 'rolls dice' with tyre strategy (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 09:30 PM PDT

Reigning world champion Jenson Button has taken a gamble on his tyre strategy for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka in a bid to keep his title defence alive. The 30-year-old hopes the harder one of the two Bridgestone tyres will be more durable in the early phases of the 53-lap race, in which he will start from fifth place on the grid.(AFP/Toshifumi Kitamura)AFP - Reigning world champion Jenson Button has taken a gamble on his tyre strategy for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka in a bid to keep his title defence alive.



Iran may be ready for nuclear talks by late October

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 09:33 PM PDT

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is ready to hold talks with six major powers over its nuclear program "in late October or early November," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday.


A glut of fatwas spurs Saudi king to impose curbs (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 09:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2010 file photo, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, the Saudi grand mufti, prays at the Imam Turki bin Abdullah mosque during Eid al-Fitr morning prayers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah is moving to regain control over an abundance of fatwas. Under a royal decree issued in mid-August 2010, only clerics on the government-appointed panel may issue the fatwas that answer every question of how pious Saudis should live their lives. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)AP - The ideology that reigns in Saudi Arabia comes into plain view on the website of the Council of Senior Religious Scholars, where boys and girls sharing a swimming pool causes "mischief and evil" and bringing flowers to a hospital patient is to be discouraged because it's a foreign custom that "imitates Allah's adversaries."



Top North Korean Defector Has Died

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 10:23 PM PDT

The highest-ranking defector to have ever left North Korea, a former party secretary and Kim Il Sung University president named Hwang Jong Yop, died at his home.


Mexico Mayor-Elect Killed

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 07:45 PM PDT

The mayor-elect of a small town near Oaxaca state's Pacific coast has been shot to death, the 12th town leader slain in a rising number of attacks on political figures in Mexico.


Bus and truck collide in foggy China, killing 17 (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 08:47 PM PDT

AP - Chinese state media says a collision between an intercity bus and a cement truck on a foggy eastern China highway has killed at least 17 people.


Hungarian sludge disaster darkens mood

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 06:20 PM PDT

KOLONTAR, Hungary - The disaster that buried three Hungarian villages in caustic red sludge last week is deepening the gloom of a country gripped by recession, polarization and the near-ubiquitous feeling that its people are doomed to be victims of calamity.


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Posted: 09 Oct 2010 06:20 PM PDT


In Arizona, an illegal immigrant and her family face a stark choice

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:45 PM PDT

It is a bright afternoon early in the month, a moment of anxiety at a sun-faded apartment complex in north Phoenix. Down a dusty breezeway, workers are painting white a recently vacated unit. A few doors away, the power company has posted a shut-off notice for a family that left rather suddenly, ...


Tehran denies worker espionage

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 04:31 PM PDT

Iran acknowledged Saturday that some personnel at the country's nuclear facilities were lured by promises of money to pass secrets to the West but insisted that increased security and worker privileges have put a stop to the spying.



Glut of fatwas spurs Saudi king to impose curbs

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 03:27 PM PDT

CAIRO - The ideology that reigns in Saudi Arabia comes into plain view on the Web site of the Council of Senior Religious Scholars, where boys and girls sharing a swimming pool causes "mischief and evil" and bringing flowers to a hospital patient is to be discouraged because it's a foreign custom...


Amsterdam's cannabis-selling coffee shops face crackdown

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:08 PM PDT

Coffee shops legally selling cannabis have been a feature of Amsterdam's streets for more than 30 years, a magnet for younger tourists and a symbol of the Dutch brand of liberal exceptionalism.


N Korea leader appears with son

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 08:02 PM PDT

Kim Jong-il stands with heir apparent in live broadcast for first time amid celebrations and a massive military parade.


Polls open in Kyrgyzstan elections

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 08:54 PM PDT

Vote in the troubled ex-Soviet state is held amid fears of ethnic violence that killed hundreds of people this year.


Kim Jong-un attends NKorea parade

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 07:59 PM PDT

North Korea has been celebrating the 65th anniversary of the Workers Party with the biggest military parade in the history of the country, according to government officials.