Japan PM shuns shrine, apologizes at WWII ceremony (AP)

Japan PM shuns shrine, apologizes at WWII ceremony (AP)

Japan PM shuns shrine, apologizes at WWII ceremony (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 10:16 PM PDT

Visitors in Japanese Imperial army and navy uniforms enter Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, including convicted war criminals, during a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Tokyo, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)AP - Japan's new liberal prime minister shunned a visit to a shrine that has outraged Asian neighbors for honoring war criminals, breaking from past governments' tradition and instead apologizing Sunday for the suffering World War II caused.

S.Lanka exporters brace for life without EU tax breaks (AFP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 10:33 PM PDT

In this picture taken on August 13, a Sri Lankan crockery worker attached to Japan's Dankotuwa Porcelain works on the production line in Dankotuwa on the outskirts of Colombo. Sri Lankan exporters braced for hard times as the EU's withdrawal of import concessions took effect Sunday after Colombo's refusal to allow scrutiny of its human rights record.(AFP/Ishara S.Kodikara)AFP - Sri Lankan exporters braced for hard times as the EU's withdrawal of import concessions took effect Sunday after Colombo's refusal to allow scrutiny of its human rights record.

Pacific villagers await their god: Britain's Prince Philip (AFP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 10:02 PM PDT

Sikor Natuan, the son of the local chief, holds official portraits of Britain's Prince Philip in front of the chief's hut in the remote village of Yaohnanen on Tanna, in Vanuatu. In this South Pacific village, where men wear nothing but grass penis sheaths, and marijuana and tobacco grow wild, Prince Philip is worshipped as a god.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Sitting in an ancient banyan tree in his remote village in Vanuatu, tribesman Sikor Natuan cradles a faded portrait of Britain's Prince Philip against his naked and tattooed chest.

South Korea president calls for reunification tax

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 09:42 PM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Sunday proposed a "reunification tax" to help fund the expected $1 trillion bill when the two Koreas eventually rejoin, but maintained his tough stance against the North.

South Korea president calls for reunification tax (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 09:42 PM PDT

South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak is shown at the presidential Blue House in Seoul in this August 12, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Jo Yong-HakReuters - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Sunday proposed a "reunification tax" to help fund the expected $1 trillion bill when the two Koreas eventually rejoin, but maintained his tough stance against the North.

China holds day of mourning for landslide dead (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 09:21 PM PDT

Residents and rescue workers hold a memorial at the site of a mudslide that devastated the town of Zhouqu in northwest China's Gansu province Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Cinemas closed and coal miners stopped work as China observed a day of mourning Sunday for more than 1,200 victims of a mudslide a week earlier in a northwestern town, while authorities rushed to protect survivors from more flooding.

Germany revving up but Merkel continues to sputter (AFP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 09:07 PM PDT

The city of Frankfurt am Main, central Germany with its banking towers. The latest data for Germany has confirmed that Europe's biggest economy, unlike the United States and elsewhere, is firing on all cylinders. But voters aren't giving Chancellor Angela Merkel the credit.(AFP/File/Daniel Roland)AFP - The latest data for Germany has confirmed that Europe's biggest economy, unlike the United States and elsewhere, is firing on all cylinders. But voters aren't giving Chancellor Angela Merkel the credit.

Underneath Lebanon, Israel sees hidden battlefield (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 09:01 PM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, July 21, 2010, an Israeli soldier from the Golani Brigade takes position during training in a forest simulating military posts in south Lebanon, at the Elyakim training grounds in northern Israel. With tensions mounting along their shared border, Israel's military says Hezbollah is moving fighters and weapons into the villages of south Lebanon, building up a secret network of arms warehouses, bunkers and command posts in preparation for war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - With tensions mounting along their shared border, Israel's military says Hezbollah is moving fighters and weapons into the villages of south Lebanon, building up a secret network of arms warehouses, bunkers and command posts in preparation for war.

Japanese officials avoid war shrine on anniversary (AFP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 10:10 PM PDT

Japanese Emperor Akihito (R) and Empress Michiko (L) bow at the alter during the memorial ceremony for the national war dead in Tokyo on August 15, 2010. Japan commemorated the 65th anniversary of its surrender in WWII without any ministerial visits to the controversial Tokyo war shrine for the first time in decades.(AFP/Toshifumi Kitamura)AFP - Japan on Sunday commemorated the 65th anniversary of its surrender in World War II without the ministerial visits to a controversial war shrine that regularly provoke outrage across Asia.

Ethiopia's amazing rock churches

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 08:07 PM PDT

Churches built underground in the Ethiopian town of Lalibela draw tourists from all over the world, including local Christians for whom the site is their religious home.


Experts not consulted over Lockerbie bomber's release (AFP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 08:46 PM PDT

Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the sole Libyan convicted over the 1988 Pan Am jetliner bombing, returns to Tripoli, August 20, 2009. He was freed by the Scottish authorities on the grounds that he was suffering from terminal cancer(AFP/File)AFP - Four cancer specialists who were closely involved in the Lockerbie bomber's treatment have said they were not consulted before his release, a report said Sunday.

Protests in Kashmir cloud India's independence day (AFP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 08:47 PM PDT

Indian police unfurl a roll of barbed wire as they prepare to block a road during a curfew in Srinagar. India celebrates the anniversary of its independence from British rule on Sunday, but turmoil in Kashmir and threats of attacks by Islamist militants are casting a shadow over the annual event.(AFP/Rouf Bhat)AFP - Thousands of Muslims Sunday held protests against Indian rule in Kashmir after security forces shot dead six protesters in two days and beefed up security for India's independence day.

Australia elections rest on knife-edge: analysts (AFP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 08:27 PM PDT

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (R) speaks at a construction site in inner-west Sydney on August 13, 2010. As Gillard battles a resurgent conservative opposition headed by Tony Abbott, polls predict that the August 21 elections could go down to the wire.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - Australia's elections are set to hang on a knife-edge, with no party streaking ahead in opinion polls with less than a week to go, raising the prospect of the first hung parliament in 70 years.

China mourns landslide victims

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 08:26 PM PDT

Flags fly at half mast and entertainment suspended on national day of mourning.


Ethiopia's amazing rock churches

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 08:07 PM PDT

Churches built underground in the Ethiopian town of Lalibela draw tourists from all over the world, including local Christians for whom the site is their religious home.


Canada: Tamil migrants in good condition (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 06:12 PM PDT

Migrants are escorted off the MV Sun Sea by officials in Colwood, B.C., Canada Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. A rusting cargo ship crammed with hundreds of Tamil asylum seekers from Sri Lanka docked at a Canadian navy base on Friday after a grueling three-month journey. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)AP - Hundreds of Tamil asylum seekers from war-ravaged Sri Lanka spent a grueling three months at sea in a cramped, ramshackle cargo ship but arrived in fairly good condition, Canadian officials said Saturday.

AP: Wyclef Jean seeks dual citizenship for Haiti (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 08:05 PM PDT

Haiti's presidential candidate and Hip hop singer Wyclef Jean, second right, greet supporters at the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. Jean said that if he is elected he will work to change Haiti's constitution to allow dual citizenship and give Haitians living abroad the right to vote. Haiti will hold presidential elections next Nov. 28. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - Hip hop artist and presidential hopeful Wyclef Jean said Saturday that as leader he would work to change Haiti's constitution to allow dual citizenship and give many Haitians living abroad the right to vote in their homeland.

China holds national mourning for mudslide victims (AFP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 08:17 PM PDT

The Dalai Lama (R) and The Karmapa pray in Dharamsala, for the victims of landslides in China's Gansu province. China marked a national day of mourning Sunday for the more than 1,200 people killed by massive mudslides in the country's northwest.(AFP/File/Strdel)AFP - Flags were flying at half mast and public entertainment was on hold Sunday as China marked a national day of mourning for the more than 1,200 people killed by massive mudslides in the northwest.

Canada processes Sri Lanka migrants

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 09:21 PM PDT

Asylum seekers "in good health" as officials investigate possible Tamil Tiger links.


6 Iraqi security personnel slain in separate attacks

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 09:00 PM PDT

BAGHDAD -- Gunmen killed six Iraqi security personnel Saturday, including a pair of sleeping policemen who were shot and set on fire, at a time of persistent debate over whether Iraqi forces can protect the country as U.S. troops leave.


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