UK charity says Blair donation 'no-win situation' (AFP)

UK charity says Blair donation 'no-win situation' (AFP)

UK charity says Blair donation 'no-win situation' (AFP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 10:44 PM PDT

A protestor with 'blood'-soaked hands wearing a Tony Blair mask takes part in a demonstration outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in central London. A veterans' charity benefiting from sales of the former British prime minister's memoirs has said that accepting the donation was not an endorsement of his policies.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - A veterans' charity benefiting from sales of former British prime minister Tony Blair's memoirs said Saturday that accepting the donation was not an endorsement of his policies.

AIDS activists: Chinese colleague detained (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 10:42 PM PDT

AP - Police in central China have detained an AIDS activist who contracted the virus as a boy and whose tireless campaigning for the rights of those with the disease angered local authorities, his fellow activists said Saturday.


Start-up of Iran's Bushehr plant under way: report

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 10:30 PM PDT

BUSHEHR, Iran (Reuters) - The start-up of the Russian-built reactor at Iran's first nuclear power plant got under way on Saturday, Russia's state-run RIA news agency cited Russian nuclear chief Sergei Kiriyenko as saying.

Israel and Palestinians agree to direct peace talks

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 10:21 PM PDT

WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel and the Palestinians accepted on Friday an invitation by the United States and other powers to restart direct talks on September 2 in a modest step toward forging a deal within 12 months to create a Palestinian state and peacefully end one of the world's most intractable conflicts.

(AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 10:04 PM PDT

AP - Iranian and Russian engineers begin loading fuel into Iran's first nuclear power plant.


Two Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:56 PM PDT

An Australian soldier stands guard in the southern province of Uruzgan in January, 2010. A foreign soldier fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan was killed in an attack, while a woman and two children died in an operation aimed at an insurgent with Al-Qaeda contacts, NATO said Saturday.(AFP/File/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)AFP - Two Australian soldiers were killed and two wounded by a bomb blast in Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday, taking the country's death toll in the conflict to 20.

China to restrict knife sales ahead of Asian Games (AFP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:31 PM PDT

Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou will restrict the sale of knives as they step up security ahead of the Asian Games in November, state media said Saturday. From November 1, anyone wanting to buy kitchen knives or other large cutting tools will have to visit designated shops and present identity documents. Additionally, buyers would be registered by police.(AFP/File/Balint Porneczi)AFP - Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou will restrict the sale of knives as they step up security ahead of the Asian Games in November, state media said Saturday.

U.S., Afghanistan plan to screen cash at Kabul airport to prevent corruption

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 07:56 PM PDT

Alarmed by an exodus of money from Afghanistan, U.S. and Afghan authorities are trying to constrict a flow of cash through the country's main airport, believed to be a major conduit for drug proceeds and diverted foreign aid.


Kabul - Afghanistan - Asia - Government - Maps and Views


South Korea tries to block Twitter messages from North

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:00 PM PDT

TOKYO -- The sour state of relations on the Korean Peninsula has led to equally sour relations on the Internet, with North and South Korea now engaged in a micro-battle over micro-blogging.


South Korea - Asia - Twitter - YouTube - Government


U.S., Britain protest anniversary of Lockerbie bomber Megrahi's release

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:00 PM PDT

As the British government warned Libya against celebrating the anniversary of the release of a plotter in the Lockerbie bombing, the Obama administration called Friday for Scottish authorities to return the man to prison.


Lockerbie - Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi - Libya - Britain - Terrorism


Frozen mamey fruit pulp recalled in U.S.

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 08:53 PM PDT

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned consumers on Friday not to eat frozen mamey fruit pulp -- sold under the La Nuestra and Goya brands -- after at least nine people in California and Nevada fell ill with typhoid fever.

Obama's Cuba policy finds key critics

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 06:52 PM PDT

Five Cuban-American members of Congress expressed concern Friday over reports that the Obama administration is planning to announce rules loosening restrictions on travel and economic aid to Cuba. They asked the president to reconsider.

Over 50,000 evacuated as floods hit northeast China

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:27 PM PDT

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - More than 50,000 people have so far been evacuated from a city in northeastern China after flooding from a rain-swollen river that also borders North Korea, the official Xinhua News Agency said on Saturday.

Police arrested in northern Mexico mayor's killing (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 08:45 PM PDT

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, right, speaks during the anti-crime round-table 'Dialog for Security', beside Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake, center, and Mexico's Senate's President Carlos Navarrete in Mexico City, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - Six city police officers were arrested Friday in the killing of a mayor in northern Mexico, as the country's escalating drug violence targets more public officials.

50,000 evacuated in China flooding near N.Korea border (AFP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:07 PM PDT

A North Korean factory is seen across Yalu River in this photo, taken from Dandong, China's northeast Liaoning province. More than 10,000 residents of Dandong were evacuated on Saturday after the Yalu river, which forms the border with N.Korea, flooded its banks, according to officials and state media.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Three people were missing and more than 50,000 evacuated from a city on Saturday after flooding along the Yalu river, which forms the border with North Korea, officials and state media said.

Hip-hop star barred from Haiti poll

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 08:53 PM PDT

Wyclef Jean declared ineligible to stand in November's presidential election.


Grisly Photo Stirs Venezuela Voters

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 08:17 PM PDT

A photo of bodies piled up at a Caracas morgue and a move by President Chávez to censor such images thrust the issue of crime into the spotlight a month before legislative elections.


Mystery surrounds Mubarak Jr 'presidency bid' (AFP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 10:17 PM PDT

A man walks past posters ripped to shread showing Gamal Mubarak, son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in Cairo on August 20. A campaign to nominate the son of Egypt's aging leader to succeed him has long intrigued palace watchers in this country, which faces an uncertain political future amid growing dissent.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)AFP - A campaign to nominate the son of Egypt's aging President Hosni Mubarak to succeed him has long intrigued palace watchers in this country, which faces an uncertain political future amid growing dissent.

Japan's Miyazato leads at LPGA Safeway Classic (AFP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 08:34 PM PDT

Ai Miyazato hits her second shot on the 12th hole during the first round of the Safeway Classic at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, on August 20, in North Plains, Oregon.(AFP/Getty Images/Jonathan Ferrey)AFP - Japan's Ai Miyazato fired a six-under 66 for the first-round lead at the LPGA Safeway Classic at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club.

Australia votes on whether first woman PM survives (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:01 PM PDT

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, front right, waves as she walks through a shopping center in Sydney's suburb of Ryde Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. A national election will be held Saturday. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)AP - Australians chose between two relatively unknown, but divergent personalities in a tight race Saturday pitting the country's first female prime minister against her socially conservative challenger just two months after she took power.
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