Asia Pacific
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NATO 'friendly' strike kills Afghan security personnel
AFP - Sunday, November 8KABUL (AFP) - - Seven Afghan security personnel were killed in a mis-targeted NATO air strike in the remote northwest, the defence ministry said Saturday, signalling further trouble for a fraying Western military effort.
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China PM reaches out to Muslims in Cairo speech
AFP - Sunday, November 8CAIRO (AFP) - - Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao sought to reassure the world's Muslims about his country's goodwill towards them in Cairo on Saturday, at a time when Beijing is criticised for the treatment of its own Muslim minority.
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Unique homecoming to Vietnam for US commander
AP - Sunday, November 8DANANG, Vietnam - On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees.
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ASEAN urges Thailand, Cambodia to resolve feud
AP - Sunday, November 8BANGKOK - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations expressed concern Saturday over a worsening diplomatic feud between Cambodia and Thailand and urged the neighboring countries to exercise restraint.
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ASEAN urges 'maximum restraint' in Thai-Cambodia row
AFP - Sunday, November 8BANGKOK (AFP) - - The head of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations urged Thailand and Cambodia to show "maximum restraint" amid tensions over Phnom Penh's job offer to a fugitive former Thai premier.
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Thaksin on a mission to humiliate Thai government
AP - Saturday, November 7BANGKOK - Thailand's fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has spent much of the past three years roaming the globe, shopping for diamonds in Africa, golfing at Asian resorts _ and humiliating the government from a distance.
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Disaster declared in flood-hit Australia
AFP - Saturday, November 7SYDNEY (AFP) - - Australian authorities declared a natural disaster along parts of the country's east coast as heavy floods cut the main road linking major cities, stranding thousands of people.
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China a big winner in carbon credit game
AFP - Saturday, November 7KUNMING, China (AFP) - - In energy-hungry China's southwestern Yunnan province, power is being produced at wind farms, dams and garbage dumps as the Asian giant adopts more "green" technology thanks to carbon trading.
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Alleged murderer says he didn’t intend to kill girlfriend
Channel NewsAsia - Saturday, November 7SINGAPORE — He had bought a knife to force a confession out of his teenage girlfriend about her infidelity, but alleged murderer Pathip Selvan Sugumaran argued on the stand on Friday that he never had the intention to stab or kill her.
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Sri Lanka boat people leader a known trafficker: Colombo
AFP - Saturday, November 7COLOMBO (AFP) - - The leader of a boat of Sri Lankan asylum seekers held in Indonesia is a known people smuggler previously deported from Canada, the government said Friday, a charge he has strongly denied.
