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A man evacuates his cows in Argomulyo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010.

photo: AP / Trisnadi

Indonesia ramps up volcano relief
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Rescue workers in Indonesia continue to pick through the remains of whole villages destroyed by the country's Mount Merapi volcano, which has so far claimed the lives of more than 120 people. Rescuers redoubled their efforts on Saturday, switching their focus to helping the 200,000 people who have been forced to leave their homes...

Myanmar activists holding placards take part in a protest in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok on Friday Nov. 5, 2010. They demanded Myanmar's military rulers to abolish the November 7 elections and release all political prisoners.

photo: AP / Sakchai Lalit

Burma poll aimed at transfer of power back to junta
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CLIFFORD COONAN BURMESE VOTERS go to the polls for the first time in two decades tomorrow for what has been widely flagged as an "election of generals" aimed at formally transferring the military junta's rule back to itself. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working in the country describe the election as a sham - a rubber-stamp vote...

An unidentified Yemeni man walks past the UPS office Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, in San'a, Yemen. Yemeni authorities are checking dozens more packages in the search for those who tried to mail bombs to Chicago-area synagogues in a brazen plot that heightened fears of a new al Qaida terror attack.

photo: AP / Hasan Jamali

Al-Qaida group claims mail bombs
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11:51 AM Saturday Nov 6, 2010 Share Email Print Expand Shrink DUBAI - A Yemen-based al-Qaida group on Friday claimed responsibility for the international mail bomb plot uncovered late last week as well as the crash of a United Parcel Service cargo plane in September....

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wave as they board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, Nov. 5, 2010, for a 10-day trip through India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan, the longest foreign outing of Obama's presidency.

photo: AP / Manuel Balce Ceneta

Obama flies to India, looking to boost US economy
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MUMBAI: President Barack Obama hasn't been able to drive down unemployment in America, so he's coming to India in search of US jobs. Four days after his party suffered heavy, economy-influenced losses in Congress, the president will arrive Saturday in Mumbai, India's booming financial center, where he will meet with local business leaders and with...

An injured person waits in a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. Three grenade blasts killed three people at a mosque in suburbs of Peshawar, where an anti-Taliban militia was active.

photo: AP / Mohammad Iqbal

More than 70 killed in Taliban attacks on Pakistani mosques
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PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber killed 67 people on Friday at a mosque frequented by tribal elders opposed to the Pakistani Taliban. Hours later, three people died in a grenade attack on another mosque associated with anti-Taliban militia. The strikes in northwest Pakistan were a reminder of the potency of the Taliban and their al-Qaida allies along the...

Space shuttle Discovery is seen on launch pad 39a after todays' launch was scrubbed because of rain in the area, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010. Just before daybreak, mission managers called off the afternoon liftoff and said they would try again Friday.

photo: AP / John Raoux

NASA Postpones Space Shuttle Discovery Launch
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Nov. 5, 2010 – CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Nov. 5, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has postponed the launch of space shuttle Discovery to no earlier than 4:05 a.m. EST on Nov. 30. The delay will allow engineers and technicians time to diagnose and repair a hydrogen gas leak detected while filling the external tank Friday...

Qantas QF-6 Boeing 747-400 passenger plane is parked at Changi International Airport in Singapore, Friday Nov.5, 2010. The Qantas Boeing 747 with 431 people on board landed safely in Singapore late Friday after reporting an engine problem shortly after takeoff, the airline said. The problem arose just a day after a Qantas Airbus A380 superjumbo jet made an emergency landing at the same airport due to an engine blowout.

photo: AP / Wong Maye-E

Second Qantas aircraft makes emergency landing
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SINGAPORE/SYDNEY - A Qantas Airways Ltd jet was forced to make an emergency landing in Singapore on Friday, less than 48 hours after another of the Australian carrier's planes had to land prematurely due to engine failure. The Sydney-bound Boeing 747-400 aircraft, with 412 people on board, returned to the airport 20 minutes after takeoff in a move...

People wade through a flooded street during the passing of Hurricane Tomas in Leogane, Haiti, Friday Nov. 5, 2010.

photo: AP / Ramon Espinosa

Tomas soaks quake homeless camps as it passes Haiti
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Hurricane Tomas soaked crowded Haitian earthquake survivors' camps with overnight rain as the re-strengthened storm headed north on Friday between Cuba and Haiti amid fears of flooding and landslides. An earthquake survivor walks in the rain early in the morning in a provisional camp in downtown Port-au-Prince November 5,...

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Fed bond move spurs backlash from Asia to Europe
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BEIJING — China, Germany and Brazil warned the Federal Reserve's move to inject money into the U.S. economy might harm the rest of the world, though Beijing said Friday the tactic was understandable because of the slow recovery. China's central bank chief said the debate about the Fed's attempt to spur growth by pumping $600 billion into the...

File - U.S. Marines assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment and Afghan soldiers move toward the site of a helicopter crash while conducting a foot patrol during Operation Thresher in Trek Nawa, Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 22, 2010.

photo: USMC / Sgt. Mark Fayloga

Afghan Taliban threaten death to all talking peace
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KATHY GANNON Associated Press= KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Scribbled notes from Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar have surfaced in mosques all over Afghanistan's ethnic Pashtun heartland, threatening death to anyone who takes up a government offer to negotiate for peace, according to a longtime Taliban member. Trying to quash rumors of a break in...