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2010-09-01 22:45

Greens party backs Australian Labor Party gov't (AP)

AP - Australia's Labor Party won the backing of a Greens party lawmaker Wednesday in its attempt to form the country's first minority government in nearly seven decades, while other nonaligned legislators said they are close to deciding which party they will support.

2010-09-01 22:45

Tar balls coat Indian beaches after ship dumps oil (AP)

In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, a couple hugs each other surrounded by lumps of oil on Colva beach in Goa, India. Indian navy and coast guard vessels were trying to trace a ship that is believed to have dumped burnt oil about three days ago, said Aleixo Sequeira, the state's environment minister. Wave after wave of tar balls have been floating ashore at Goa beaches for two days, layering the beaches six inches (15 centimeters) deep with semisolid oil lumps after an unknown ship dumped tons of waste oil into the sea off western India. (AP Photo)AP - Wave after wave of tar balls floated ashore Wednesday on the renowned Goa beaches after a ship dumped tons of waste oil off India's western coast, officials said.


2010-09-01 22:45

Pakistani PM: Floods slow growth, raise inflation (AP)

** ALTERNATIVE CROP ** A Pakistani boy helps his father rebuild their flood-damaged house in Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan Tuesday Aug. 31, 2010. Floodwaters that have devastated Pakistan for five weeks headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday after swallowing two final towns, but the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - Pakistan's prime minister is predicting that economic growth will fall by 2.5 percentage points because of this summer's devastating floods.


2010-09-01 16:45

Birthplace of the Taliban: the next battleground (AP)

American soldiers of the 2-502 Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, participate in a memorial service for an Afghan Army officer from a partner unit who was killed in an insurgent ambush a day earlier, at Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Friday Aug. 27, 2010. American soldiers, and their Afghan partners in Zhari, operate in a district which as the birthplace of the Taliban movement holds many well-armed insurgents who blend in with an organized support network providing explosives and safe haven. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - As some 400 U.S. and Afghan soldiers gather to honor their first fallen comrade, mournful Muslim prayers mingle with the stutter of machine gun fire and the thud of exploding grenades just beyond their heavily fortified camp.


2010-09-01 16:45

Mass grave holds soldiers killed in Tet Offensive (AP)

AP - A mass grave has been found containing the remains of 30 communist soldiers believed to have been killed during the Tet Offensive, seen by many as the turning point to the Vietnam War.

2010-09-01 16:45

Aussie mom jailed 27 years for killing two sons (AP)

AP - An Australian mother twice convicted of killing her two young sons was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Wednesday for what the judge called "the greatest act of betrayal."

2010-09-01 10:45

Petraeus: Afghan concern about Pakistan is legit (AP)

Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of ISAF and U.S. forces in Afghanistan speaks to the media at his office in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. The top NATO commander in Afghanistan says international forces will gradually hand over security to Afghan forces in small areas of the country as security allows rather than giving them responsibility for whole provinces at once. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)AP - President Hamid Karzai's recent complaints that international forces should focus on militant leaders hiding in neighboring Pakistan instead of Afghan villages doesn't mean the government no longer supports the U.S. war strategy, the top NATO commander said Tuesday.


2010-09-01 10:45

Corruption probe ruffles US-Afghan relations (AP)

FILE - In this March 28, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama walks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. A bribery probe involving a top adviser to President Hamid Karzai threatens to put U.S. relations with Afghanistan on a collision course just three months after a White House visit that seemed to smooth ties at a critical stage in the war.  (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - A bribery probe involving a top adviser to President Hamid Karzai has angered the Afghan leader and threatens to damage U.S. relations with Kabul just three months after a White House visit that seemed to smooth ties at a critical stage in the war.


2010-09-01 10:45

Flood refugee gives birth in graveyard in Pakistan (AP)

** ALTERNATIVE CROP ** A Pakistani boy helps his father rebuild their flood-damaged house in Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan Tuesday Aug. 31, 2010. Floodwaters that have devastated Pakistan for five weeks headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday after swallowing two final towns, but the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - Jannah Soorjo was forced to give birth in a sprawling Muslim graveyard in southern Pakistan filled with hundreds of thousands of flood victims, a reminder of the pain and despair gripping the country even as the floodwaters begin to flow out to sea.


2010-09-01 04:33

Philippines counts cost of China's fury at deaths (AP)

Philippine National Police officers light candles and offer prayers at the flower bedecked site where eight Hong Kong tourists were killed in a nearly 12-hour bus hostage standoff on Aug. 23, 2010, involving a dismissed police officer, at Manila's Rizal Park in the Philippines, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. The 'Mass for Peace and Non-violence' was held as the Philippines worked to calm China's outrage over the bloodshed. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - China is angry after a violent hostage drama in the Philippines killed eight tourists from Hong Kong, and the Southeast Asian nation can do little to soothe the powerhouse, as a raft of visitor cancellations has hit the country's tourism industry.


2010-09-01 04:33

2010-09-01 04:33

Japan political veteran says he'll vie for PM job (AP)

Japan's Prime Minister and ruling Democratic Party of Japan President Naoto Kan speaks during a press conference following his meeting with veteran lawmaker Ichiro Ozawa in Tokyo Tuesday, Aug, 31, 2010. Kan announced his candidacy in an internal party election next month, being challenged for the top job by 68-year-old Ozawa, a powerbroker in the party but unpopular with the public. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - A Japanese ruling party veteran confirmed Tuesday he will run in an internal party election next month, mounting a challenge to a prime minister who has been in office less than three months.


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