Southeast Asia
Philippine Star - By Helen Flores Updated February 25, 2012 12:00 AM Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile prepare for the start of the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona, February 22, 2012. |
Straits Times - The group was founded in 2008 by JI spiritual leader Abu Bakar Bashir, 73, who continues to hold sway over members and sympathisers from his prison cell and who remains the organisation's emir. |
Inquirer.net - The repatriation of the remains of late Negros Occidental congressman Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo has been delayed anew. Arroyo's body was earlier reported to be due in Manila Friday night, but Leonard de Vera, lawyer of Arroyo's long-time companion, ... |
msnbc.com (blog) - Refugee boys from Myanmar look for items to salvage on Feb. 24 from the ruins of a burnt mosque in the Um-Piam refugee camp after a fire engulfed big part of it near Mae Sot on Feb. 23 . |
Inquirer.net - By Tina G. Santos MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Friday called on the families of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in conflict-wracked Syria to provide information on the whereabouts of their relatives. |
Philippine Star - By Charlie Lagasca Updated February 25, 2012 12:00 AM The grandmothers of hazing victim Marvin Reglos stay beside his coffin during his wake in Caliguian village in Burgos, Isabela. |
Philippine Star - By Flor Perolina Updated February 25, 2012 12:00 AM CEBU CITY, Philippines - Eleven people, including eight foreigners, involved in the operation of a mega shabu laboratory busted by authorities in Mandaue City almost eight years ago, were meted life ... |
Malaysia Star - By REGINA LEE KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Friday it was difficult to completely ban Israeli products from entering the local market because traders would always find a way around the blockade. |
Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines - Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo yesterday ordered an investigation into two separate massacres in Zamboanga del Sur and Quezon province last Thursday. |
Channel 6 News Online - KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA (BNO NEWS) -- Malaysian authorities on Tuesday ordered bookstores to stop selling a classic children's sex education book by a British author, local media reported on Wednesday. |
Phnom Penh Post - A new lizard species has been found in Ratanakkiri's Veun Sai-Siem Pang Conservation Area, scientists will announce today. A newly discovered species of skink crawls on a rock in Ratanakkiri province in 2010. |
Inquirer.net - By Norman Bordadora HOUSE PROUD. President Aquino turns over the house keys to a policeman and his family during Friday's symbolic turnover of 1500 houses for soldiers and policemen at Ciudad Adelina 2, Barangay Luciano, Trece Martires City, Cavite. |
Yahoo! Singapore News (blog) - By Jeanette Tan By Jeanette Tan | SingaporeScene - 6 hours ago Member of Parliament (MP) for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC Hri Kumar Nair said Friday that there is "no requirement" for a by-election to be called immediately in Hougang Single Member Constituency ... |
Bangkok Post - Forensic and bomb disposal experts were yesterday examining another motorcycle for possible links to the Sukhumvit 71 explosions. Police officers ask to check the identity card of a foreign visitor who acts as a security volunteer for police in Soi ... |
World
Salt Lake Tribune - Washington • International nuclear inspectors reported Friday that Iran was moving rapidly to produce nuclear fuel at a deep underground site that Israel and the United States have said is virtually invulnerable to attack. |
The Associated Press - BEIRUT (AP) - A Red Cross team evacuated 27 people from a besieged neighborhood in the Syrian city of Homs on Friday but apparently failed to get out two wounded Western journalists and the bodies of two others killed by government rockets. |
Chicago Tribune - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The UN-Arab League envoy on the Syrian crisis, Kofi Annan, brings global stature and experience in conflict resolution to his new job, but averting a long and bloody civil war that could further destabilize the Middle East ... |
Irish Times - KABUL - Twelve people were killed yesterday in the bloodiest day yet in protests that have raged across Afghanistan over the desecration of copies of the Muslim holy book at a Nato military base. |
Toronto Star - How can the world help Somalia break free from 20 years of chaos, an Islamist insurgency and famine, piracy and terrorism? At a conference in London on Thursday, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali made a pitch for stepped-up airstrikes against rebels ... |
Irish Times - PRIME MINISTER Vladimir Putin is heading for a massive victory in the first round of the Russian presidential elections on March 4th, according to the latest poll published by the reliable Levada Centre in Moscow. |
Herald Sun - IF Julia Gillard loses Monday's Labor leadership ballot, a third person could emerge to challenge in the future, a key Kevin Rudd backer says. |
Irish Times - THE NATION he ruled may still be an international pariah, but to judge by the International Friendship Exhibition, the late Kim Jong-il was a popular man indeed. |
Edmonton Journal - KANO, Nigeria, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Multiple blasts hit the northern Nigerian town of Gombe on Friday, witnesses said, and suspected Islamist gunmen killed five worshippers in a mosque attack in Nigeria's biggest northern city of Kano. |
Daily Mail - By Lauren Paxman Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria has given birth to the first royal baby in three decades. The little girl is called Estelle Silvia Eva Mary. |
Pakistan Daily Times - PESHAWAR: Four policemen were killed while five others sustained injuries when three suicide bombers launched a pre-dawn attack on a police station in the Old City area on Friday. |
The Associated Press - BAGHDAD (AP) - A spokesman for al-Qaida in Iraq said Friday that a Sunni Muslim war against Shiites in Iraq is inevitable and threatened relentless waves of attacks like the one a day earlier that killed at least 55 people. |
Salt Lake Tribune - By Corey J. Hodges This week began the season of Lent. The 40 days leading up to Easter (excluding Sundays) are intended to be a time of prayer and penance demonstrated by some form of self-denial. |
Indian Express - Italian ballistic experts will accompany the Kerala police Saturday when they search Enrica Lexie for the weapons allegedly used by marines on board the Italian tanker to fire at and kill two Indian fishermen on February 15. |
BBC News - Mr Chavez, 57, is expected to undergo an operation on a lesion which he says is probably malignant. He gave an emotional farewell to his supporters, telling them he would fight for his life, and promised to return to stand for re-election in October. |
Global Animal - (TAIJI DOLPHINS) The annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan, is ending early this year, according to Japanese reports. The killing season usually runs from September 1 to April 1, but sources claim this season is ending a few weeks early due to lack ... |
Kuwait Times - KUWAIT: Kuwaiti embassies around the globe continued to celebrate Kuwait's 51st Independence Day and the 21st Liberation Day, and the sixth Anniversary of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's assumption of leadership. |
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