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Obama rounds out econ team ahead of jobs speech

Aug 30, 2011

(AP)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama tapped labor economist Alan Krueger for a top administration post Monday as the White House scrambles for solutions to repair an ailing economy ahead of the 2012 election.Obama announced Krueger's nomination to chair the White House Council of Econo
Indonesian Muslim youths keep faith amid reform

Aug 29, 2011

JAKARTA (AFP) ― As a pious young Muslim in Indonesia, Didit Sukmana prays five times a day, recites the Koran daily and fasts during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.That’s not all. The 23-year-old student and Jakarta resident refuses to shake hands with women, will not marry a non-Muslim and appro
Typhoon departs Taiwan, heads for China

Aug 29, 2011

TAIPEI (AP) -- Typhoon Nanmadol headed to southeastern China on Monday after dumping more than half a meter of rain in southern Taiwan, where wide swaths of agricultural land were flooded and some 8,000 people evacuated.The storm skirted Taiwan’s southwestern quadrant, remaining over the island for
New Nepal P.M. elected

Aug 29, 2011

KATMANDU (AP) ― Nepal’s parliament elected the deputy leader of the former Maoist rebels as the new prime minister on Sunday, halting the Himalayan nation’s latest political crisis.Baburam Bhattarai of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) received 340 votes in the 601-seat parliament with the backi
Flood worries, some relief in Irene’s wake

Aug 29, 2011

21 lives claimed and $7 billion lost, but N.Y. largely unscathedNEW YORK (AP) ― Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, inflicting relatively little damage to New York but leaving a trail of treacherous flooding and millions without power along America’s E
Knife attack at Chinese daycare center wounds 8

Aug 29, 2011

SHANGHAI (AP) _ A staff member slashed children with a knife at a daycare center for migrant workers in eastern China on Monday, wounding eight children, one seriously.The attack took place at noon at an informal daycare center in Shanghai's suburban Minhang district, home to many migrant workers.Th
Taiwan hospital transplants 5 HIV-infected organs

Aug 29, 2011

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- One of Taiwan's best regarded hospitals transplanted organs from an HIV carrier into five patients, a hospital official said Monday, in what appears to be one of the most egregious examples of medical negligence in the island's modern history.(AP)The five are now be
Finance minister wins Japan party vote, to be P.M.

Aug 29, 2011

Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda speaks shortly after he was elected as the new leader of the Democratic Party of Japan at a voting by the party lawmakers in Tokyo Monday, Aug 29, 2011. (AP-Yonhap News)TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's ruling party has elected Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda as its new chief, me
Boy dies after parents refuse to let him drink water for 5 days

Aug 29, 2011

A couple in the U.S. has been arrested for killing the husband’s son by refusing him water for five days, Daily Mail reported.Jonathan James was being punished for wetting his bed and taking guitar strings from his twin brother. Jonathan’s father and his stepmother, have been arrested and charged fo
Looters attack S. Korea embassy in Libya: official

Aug 29, 2011

South Korea‘s embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli has been attacked by looters amid the chaos arising from battles to topple leader Moamer Kadhafi, a Seoul official said Monday.Some 10 armed attackers stormed the mission on Sunday afternoon and tried to steal furniture and electronics, said foreig
33 killed in fiery day across Iraq

Aug 28, 2011

BAGHDAD (AP) ― Bombs in Baghdad killed six people Saturday night, capping a deadly day in which at least 33 people died across Iraq, officials said.Late Saturday night, a bomb hidden in a bicycle outside a Sunni mosque killed three worshippers and wounded eight others leaving evening prayers at the
Iran warns of crisis if Syria falls

Aug 28, 2011

BEIRUT (AP) ― Syria’s closest ally, Iran, warned Saturday that a power vacuum in Damascus could spark an unprecedented regional crisis while urging President Bashar Assad to listen to some of his people’s “legitimate demands.” Thousands of protesters, meanwhile, insisted they will defy tanks and bul
Singapore narrowly elects Tony Tan as president

Aug 28, 2011

SINGAPORE (AP) ― Former Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan won a narrow victory to become the country’s seventh president, officials said Sunday, a sign that the popularity of the Southeast Asian city-state’s ruling party is eroding.The 71-year-old Tan received 35 percent of about 2.1 million
Hurricane Irene tears into New York

Aug 28, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) -- A weakened but still dangerous Hurricane Irene shut down New York and menaced other cities more accustomed to snowstorms than tropical storms as it steamed up the East Coast, unloading a foot of rain on North Carolina and Virginia and knocking out power to 2 million homes and busine
Al-Qaida's No. 2 reported killed by US in Pakistan

Aug 28, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. and Pakistani officials said Saturday that al-Qaida's second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, delivering another big blow to a terrorist group that the U.S. believes to be on the verge of defeat.Since Navy SEALs stormed Osama bin Laden's compound