Has Bangladesh's Elite Police Force Gone Too Far? (Time.com)

Has Bangladesh's Elite Police Force Gone Too Far? (Time.com)

Has Bangladesh's Elite Police Force Gone Too Far? (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 10:20 PM PDT

Time.com - Accused of random extrajudicial killings and torture, popular support for Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion force may be starting to wane


Pakistan looms large as India, China armies resume talks (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 11:13 PM PDT

Reuters - India resumes defense contacts with China frozen for a year when an Indian military delegation visits on Sunday, though few expect any breakthrough with Beijing pursuing its "all-weather friendship" with arch-rival Pakistan.


As Kabul Sees More Bloodshed, Karzai Drops Another Bombshell (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 10:20 PM PDT

Time.com - A suicide bombing attack came just hours after Karzai denied reports that his government was in negotiations with the Taliban


Pakistan looms large as India, China armies resume talks

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 11:13 PM PDT

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India resumes defense contacts with China frozen for a year when an Indian military delegation visits on Sunday, though few expect any breakthrough with Beijing pursuing its "all-weather friendship" with arch-rival Pakistan.

On Medicare, Krugman, Fools, and Bigger Fools

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 10:37 PM PDT

Regarding Medicare, who's the greater fool: Krugman, his employer, or his readers?


Skopje's revamp stirs up controversy (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 10:20 PM PDT

People walk past a bronze component of a statue at a construction site on the main square in Skopje. It already puzzles many at home but Skopje's high-priced makeover of its drab communist skyline has now infuriated neighbouring Greece with the arrival this week of the huge statue resembling Alexander the Great.(AFP/File/Robert Atanasovski)AFP - It already puzzles many at home but Skopje's high-priced makeover of its drab communist skyline has now infuriated neighbouring Greece with the arrival this week of a huge statue resembling Alexander the Great.

TEPCO to open second Fukushima reactor building (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 10:39 PM PDT

Members of a Japanese government panel inspect the damage at the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Fukushima nuclear power plant on June 17, 2011 in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture.(AFP/Japan Govt. via Jiji Press)AFP - Tokyo Electric Power Co. Sunday said it would open a second reactor building at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant to send repair crews inside for the first time since it was crippled.

Patient gets drunk on sanitizer in Aussie hospital (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 10:45 PM PDT

AP - A man who drank six bottles of alcohol-based hand sanitizer while being treated in an Australian hospital for alcoholism has sparked calls for the anti-bacterial gels to be better secured.


Vietnamese Protest China Amid Tensions

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 09:20 PM PDT

Hundreds of people in Vietnam launched a third week of protests against China on Sunday amid escalating tensions in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, where both countries recently conducted live-fire military drills.


Germany confirms human E. coli transmission

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 10:03 PM PDT

Female kitchen worker passes on strain to 20 people she prepared food for, after eating E. coli infected sprouts.


Portugal election puts high-speed rail at risk (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 10:02 PM PDT

Social Democratic Party (PSD) leader Pedro Passos Coelho gestures as he speaks to supporters in Lisbon during the June 5 election. An ambitious plan to link the capitals of Spain and Portugal by rail in less than three hours, which has already been postponed to 2013 from 2010, seems again to be under threat after the centre-right's victory in Portuguese elections.(AFP/File/Francisco Leong)AFP - An ambitious plan to link the capitals of Spain and Portugal by rail in less than three hours, which has already been postponed to 2013 from 2010, seems again to be under threat after the centre-right's victory in Portuguese elections.

NATO Tripoli strike kills civilians - Libya gov't (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 10:01 PM PDT

Reuters - Libyan officials said some seven civilians were killed in a NATO air strike in eastern Tripoli in the early hours of Sunday morning.


Weakened Al-Qaeda may speed US withdrawal: report (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 10:10 PM PDT

File photo of US soldiers in the village of Tarok Kolache in southern Kandahar province. Drone strikes and covert operations have weakened Afghanistan's Al-Qaeda network and could justify a White House decision to withdraw troops quicker than planned, The New York Times reported.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Drone strikes and covert operations have weakened Afghanistan's Al-Qaeda network and could justify a White House decision to withdraw troops quicker than planned, The New York Times reported.

Greeks protest, almost half oppose austerity (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 09:49 PM PDT

Reuters - Thousands of Greeks marched on parliament on Saturday in a show of unabated public anger after Prime Minister George Papandreou vowed to push on with an austerity campaign that a poll showed half the country opposed.


Blast wounds 5 in Philippine bar amid terror fears (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 09:50 PM PDT

AP - Police say an explosion wounded five women and slightly damaged a karaoke bar in a southern Philippine city amid fresh concerns about possible terrorist attacks in the country.


Greeks protest, almost half oppose austerity

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 09:49 PM PDT

ATHENS (Reuters) - Thousands of Greeks marched on parliament on Saturday in a show of unabated public anger after Prime Minister George Papandreou vowed to push on with an austerity campaign that a poll showed half the country opposed.

China claims its place at Paris airshow (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 08:43 PM PDT

The flag of the International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport near Paris during the preparations for the opening on June 20. China aims to claim its rightful place at the Paris International Airshow this week alongside giants Airbus and Boeing, laying down a marker for its ambitions to be a major player in global aviation.(AFP/Eric Piermont)AFP - China aims to claim its rightful place at the Paris International Airshow this week alongside giants Airbus and Boeing, laying down a marker for its ambitions to be a major player in global aviation.

Libya says NATO airstrike hits residential area (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 10:52 PM PDT

In this photo taken on a government-organized tour, Libyan man sits on debris from a damaged residential building in Tripoli's outskirts, Libya, on Sunday, June 19, 2011. The Libyan government says civilians have been killed in a NATO airstrike that has struck the residential neighborhood in Tripoli. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - The Libyan government said at least four civilians were killed Sunday in a NATO airstrike that hit a residential neighborhood in the capital, adding to charges that the alliance is striking nonmilitary targets.

Family of death row prisoner appeals to Indonesia (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 10:09 PM PDT

Australian drug smuggler Andrew Chan (R), one of the so-called AFP - The family of an Australian drug smuggler facing execution in Indonesia on Sunday pleaded with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to spare his life.

Asians bear brunt of fishing deaths in Australia (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 08:44 PM PDT

A man fishes from a rocky outcrop at Curl Curl on Sydney's northern beaches. Rock fishing is one of the most dangerous recreational sports in Australia, and it is mostly Asians who are dying.(AFP/Greg Wood)AFP - Rock fishing is one of the most dangerous recreational sports in Australia, and it is mostly Asians who are dying.
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