Blast kills 10 Afghan girls collecting firewood

Blast kills 10 Afghan girls collecting firewood


Blast kills 10 Afghan girls collecting firewood

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 11:34 PM PST

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A blast killed 10 Afghan girls as they were collecting firewood in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, government officials said.


Blast in Pakistani market kills at least 15 people

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 11:30 PM PST

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A blast in a market in northwest Pakistan on Monday killed at least 15 people, a security official said.


South Africa police foil right-wing plot against ANC meeting

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 11:13 PM PST

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African police said on Monday they had foiled a plot by suspected right-wing extremists to bomb a major meeting of the ruling African National Congress (ANC).


Bombs, blasts kill 11 in Iraq's disputed areas

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 11:06 PM PST

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombs exploded in three towns and villages in Iraq's disputed territories on Monday, killing at least 11 people in the second day of attacks in areas at the centre of a feud between Baghdad and autonomous Kurdistan.


Armed with rocket and maybe heir, Kim Jong-un remembers father

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 11:02 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea may soon witness the birth of the fourth generation of its hereditary dictatorship as television pictures showed that the wife of the country's leader appeared to be heavily pregnant.


VIDEO: Obama: 'We must protect our children'

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 11:44 PM PST

President Barack Obama has said the US must do more to protect its children in the wake of Friday's shootings at a school in Newtown, Connecticut.

Japan's secret economic weapon: women

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 11:13 PM PST

In next month's general election, politicians -- nearly all of them men -- will make promises on what they will do to fix Japan's economic morass. Very few of them will even mention women.

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Blast in Pakistan's tribal belt kills at least 12 people

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 10:47 PM PST

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed on Monday when a blast struck a market area in Pakistan's volatile tribal belt, a security official said.


Blast heard in Afghan capital

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 10:44 PM PST

KABUL (Reuters) - A blast was heard in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, a Reuters witness said.


China cracks down on doomsday rumours: state media

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 11:11 PM PST

China has detained dozens of people, some of whom it terms doomsday cult members, as part of a nationwide crackdown on rumours about a supposed forthcoming apocalypse, state media said Monday.

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Moderate or polarisation?

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 11:04 PM PST

Middle voters are not members of any political parties and they do not blindly pledge loyalty to any politicians. They think that different parties have their own ideologies, as well as contradictory interest relationships and therefore, all parties and politicians must be questioned, supervised and criticised.

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Incoming Japan PM pledges no compromise on islands

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 10:49 PM PST

Incoming Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe came out fighting Monday after his sweeping election victory, saying there can be no compromise on the sovereignty of islands at the centre of a dispute with China.

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Myanmar courts wary investors on port project

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 10:27 PM PST

Myanmar sought Monday to drum up investment in a stalled multi-billion-dollar sea port project at the heart of the former junta-ruled country's efforts to revive its impoverished economy.

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Funerals begin for Newtown victims as schools confront tragedy

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 10:04 PM PST

NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - The small Connecticut town shattered by an act President Barack Obama called "unconscionable evil," holds on Monday the first two of 20 funerals for schoolchildren massacred in their classrooms last week.


Arctic town eyes future as Europe's gateway to space

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 09:29 PM PST

Sweden's small Arctic town of Kiruna has a surprisingly international airport with regular flights to London and Tokyo, but it has even bigger plans: to offer commercial space flights.

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Funeral in India for royal hoax call nurse

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 09:22 PM PST

Family and friends of the nurse who was found hanged after taking a hoax call to the hospital treating Prince William's wife prepared for her funeral on Monday in a small town in southwest India.

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Peru's winged wonders stir birders' competitive passions

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 09:22 PM PST

Competitive birdwatching might sound like an unlikely sport, but try telling that to ornithologists from around the world racing around Peru on a six-day marathon vying to become best birder.

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Testing time for China's migrant millions

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 09:14 PM PST

Dozens of frustrated parents crowded into a Beijing office, surrounding an education official and brandishing copies of the constitution to demand their children be allowed to take an exam.

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Japan's next PM Abe must deliver on economy, cope with China

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 08:46 PM PST

TOKYO (Reuters) - Conservative ex-premier Shinzo Abe got a second chance to lead Japan after his party surged back to power in Sunday's election and faces pressure to move swiftly to bolster a sagging economy and manage strained ties with China.


Armed with rocket and maybe heir, Kim Jong-un remembers father

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 08:41 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea may soon witness the birth of the fourth generation of its hereditary dictatorship as television pictures showed that the wife of the country's leader appeared to be heavily pregnant.


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