News http://newshourly.net/asia/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:53:05 +0100 Tuna, tuskers, tigers headline wildlife trade meet (AFP) http://newshourly.net/asia/news_938265.html Qatar's Minister of Enivronment Abdallah bin Mubarak al-Maadhadi (R) talks to the head of the UN wildlife trade organisation, Willem Wijnsteker, during the opening session of the triennial meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Doha. Atlantic bluefin tuna is in crisis and meets the criteria for a total ban on international trade, Wijnsteker said.(AFP)AFP - Atlantic bluefin tuna is in crisis and meets the criteria for a total ban on international trade, the head of the UN wildlife trade organisation said on Saturday in opening a 13-day meeting.


]]> Qatar's Minister of Enivronment Abdallah bin Mubarak al-Maadhadi (R) talks to the head of the UN wildlife trade organisation, Willem Wijnsteker, during the opening session of the triennial meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Doha. Atlantic bluefin tuna is in crisis and meets the criteria for a total ban on international trade, Wijnsteker said.(AFP)AFP - Atlantic bluefin tuna is in crisis and meets the criteria for a total ban on international trade, the head of the UN wildlife trade organisation said on Saturday in opening a 13-day meeting.


]]> wiadomosci_en Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:53:05 +0100 http://newshourly.net/asia/news_938265.html Explosions across Afghanistan's Kandahar; 30 dead (Reuters) http://newshourly.net/asia/news_938266.html A screen grab shows a police convoy at the site of a bomb blast in Kandahar March 13, 2010. REUTERS/Reuters TVReuters - Taliban suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar on Saturday, killing 30 people and wounding scores in a series of strikes the militants called a message to NATO.


]]> A screen grab shows a police convoy at the site of a bomb blast in Kandahar March 13, 2010. REUTERS/Reuters TVReuters - Taliban suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar on Saturday, killing 30 people and wounding scores in a series of strikes the militants called a message to NATO.


]]> wiadomosci_en Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:53:05 +0100 http://newshourly.net/asia/news_938266.html Ex-US Secretary of State Kissinger hospitalized (AP) http://newshourly.net/asia/news_938264.html Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger delivers a speech during a lecture about North Korea's nuclear program, in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)AP - A hospital official says former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is recovering after being hospitalized in the South Korean capital with stomach pains.


]]> Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger delivers a speech during a lecture about North Korea's nuclear program, in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)AP - A hospital official says former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is recovering after being hospitalized in the South Korean capital with stomach pains.


]]> wiadomosci_en Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:53:02 +0100 http://newshourly.net/asia/news_938264.html Sri Lankan Tamil party drops separatist demand (AP) http://newshourly.net/asia/news_938084.html A man walks past a police officer before the start of a protest by members of the National Freedom Front (JNP) against a meeting David Milliband, British Foreign Secretary, had with the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) in London, at the British High Commission in Colombo March 1, 2010. The JNP perceived Miliband's meeting with the GTF on February 25 as giving his support to the group, which they considered to be pro-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The Sri Lankan army defeated the LTTE in May 2009 after a 25-year civil war. REUTERS/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds (SRI LANKA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)AP - Sri Lanka's main ethnic Tamil party on Friday dropped its demand for an independent state and said it is ready to accept regional self-rule, following the defeat of separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in a 25-year civil war.


]]> A man walks past a police officer before the start of a protest by members of the National Freedom Front (JNP) against a meeting David Milliband, British Foreign Secretary, had with the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) in London, at the British High Commission in Colombo March 1, 2010. The JNP perceived Miliband's meeting with the GTF on February 25 as giving his support to the group, which they considered to be pro-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The Sri Lankan army defeated the LTTE in May 2009 after a 25-year civil war. REUTERS/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds (SRI LANKA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)AP - Sri Lanka's main ethnic Tamil party on Friday dropped its demand for an independent state and said it is ready to accept regional self-rule, following the defeat of separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in a 25-year civil war.


]]> wiadomosci_en Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:48:05 +0100 http://newshourly.net/asia/news_938084.html Protesters surge into Bangkok wanting new election (AP) http://newshourly.net/asia/news_938085.html Thai anti-government demonstrators converge at a check point in Wang Noi, Thailand, Saturday, March 13, 2010. Thousands of 'Red Shirt' demonstrators were expected to converge on Bangkok this weekend for a massive rally. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)AP - Thousands of red-shirted protesters surging into the Thai capital from impoverished rural areas Saturday gave the government an ultimatum to "return power to the people" or face mass marches in key locations.


]]> Thai anti-government demonstrators converge at a check point in Wang Noi, Thailand, Saturday, March 13, 2010. Thousands of 'Red Shirt' demonstrators were expected to converge on Bangkok this weekend for a massive rally. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)AP - Thousands of red-shirted protesters surging into the Thai capital from impoverished rural areas Saturday gave the government an ultimatum to "return power to the people" or face mass marches in key locations.


]]> wiadomosci_en Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:48:05 +0100 http://newshourly.net/asia/news_938085.html Suicide attack in northwest Pakistan kills 13 (AP) http://newshourly.net/asia/news_938086.html An injured victim walks away from a burning vehicle at the site of suicide bombing in Saidu Sharif, a town of Pakistan's Swat Valley, Saturday, March 13, 2010. A suicide attacker struck a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, killing scores of people and injuring dozens. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)AP - A renewed wave of violence struck Saturday in small-town Pakistan when a suicide bomber on a motorized rickshaw killed 13 people at a security checkpoint, raising fears the nation is sliding back into a period of relentless bloodletting.


]]> An injured victim walks away from a burning vehicle at the site of suicide bombing in Saidu Sharif, a town of Pakistan's Swat Valley, Saturday, March 13, 2010. A suicide attacker struck a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, killing scores of people and injuring dozens. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)AP - A renewed wave of violence struck Saturday in small-town Pakistan when a suicide bomber on a motorized rickshaw killed 13 people at a security checkpoint, raising fears the nation is sliding back into a period of relentless bloodletting.


]]> wiadomosci_en Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:48:05 +0100 http://newshourly.net/asia/news_938086.html Kazakhstan flooding death toll rises to 35 (AP) http://newshourly.net/asia/news_937870.html wiadomosci_en Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:42:06 +0100 http://newshourly.net/asia/news_937870.html Health care battle delays Obama Pacific trip (AFP) http://newshourly.net/asia/news_937871.html The fierce and fateful battle over health care reform has forced President Barack Obama to delay his departure on a trip to Indonesia and Australia by three days, to March 21.(AFP/FIle/Saul Loeb)AFP - The fierce and fateful battle over health care reform has forced President Barack Obama to delay his departure on a trip to Indonesia and Australia by three days, to March 21.


]]> The fierce and fateful battle over health care reform has forced President Barack Obama to delay his departure on a trip to Indonesia and Australia by three days, to March 21.(AFP/FIle/Saul Loeb)AFP - The fierce and fateful battle over health care reform has forced President Barack Obama to delay his departure on a trip to Indonesia and Australia by three days, to March 21.


]]> wiadomosci_en Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:42:06 +0100 http://newshourly.net/asia/news_937871.html Report: NKorea to rejoin nuclear talks in April (AP) http://newshourly.net/asia/news_937869.html North Koreans work on a farm field at the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong March 13, 2010. North Korea has internally decided to return to long-stalled six-nation talks on its nuclear arms activities in early April, South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo reported on Saturday, citing an unnamed source from the North. REUTERS/Jacky Chen (NORTH KOREA - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS)AP - North Korea plans to head back to the bargaining table early next month for talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program, a news report said Saturday.


]]> North Koreans work on a farm field at the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong March 13, 2010. North Korea has internally decided to return to long-stalled six-nation talks on its nuclear arms activities in early April, South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo reported on Saturday, citing an unnamed source from the North. REUTERS/Jacky Chen (NORTH KOREA - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS)AP - North Korea plans to head back to the bargaining table early next month for talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program, a news report said Saturday.


]]> wiadomosci_en Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:42:03 +0100 http://newshourly.net/asia/news_937869.html Chinese zoo blamed for death of 11 Siberian tigers (AP) http://newshourly.net/asia/news_937628.html ** SPECIFIES THE ZOO WHERE TIGERS DIED ** FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2010 file photo, an endangered Siberian tiger runs away with a chicken tossed by tourists at the Harbin Tiger Park in Harbin in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province. Eleven rare Siberian tigers kept in small cages and fed only chicken bones have died of malnutrition at the cash-strapped Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in Liaoning province in China's frigid northeast, state media said Friday March 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - Eleven rare Siberian tigers have died at a wildlife park in a startling case that activists say hints at unsavory practices among some zoos and animal farms in China: They are overbreeding endangered animals in the hopes of making illicit profit on their carcasses.


]]> ** SPECIFIES THE ZOO WHERE TIGERS DIED ** FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2010 file photo, an endangered Siberian tiger runs away with a chicken tossed by tourists at the Harbin Tiger Park in Harbin in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province. Eleven rare Siberian tigers kept in small cages and fed only chicken bones have died of malnutrition at the cash-strapped Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in Liaoning province in China's frigid northeast, state media said Friday March 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - Eleven rare Siberian tigers have died at a wildlife park in a startling case that activists say hints at unsavory practices among some zoos and animal farms in China: They are overbreeding endangered animals in the hopes of making illicit profit on their carcasses.


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