BREAKING NEWS
Guinea junta chief flying to Morocco for medical care
Guinea junta chief Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, injured in an assassination attempt on Thursday, is flying to Morocco for medical care, Guinean Communication Minister Idrissa Cherif told FRANCE 24.
PAKISTAN
Militants attack mosque in Rawalpindi during prayers
Gunmen stormed a mosque in Pakistan's garrison city of Rawalpindi, detonating bombs and shooting at worshippers gathered for Friday prayers inside a mosque near military barracks, rescue services said, reporting casualties.
AFGHANISTAN
NATO allies commit 7,000 more troops to aid US surge
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says 25 countries have pledged a total of around 7,000 more troops for Afghanistan - with more to come - following US President Barack Obama's commitment of 30,000 more US troops.
PHILIPPINES
More than 100 troops, police storm homes of massacre suspects
More than 100 Philippine troops and police stormed the homes on Friday of a powerful clan family suspected of involvement in a Nov. 23 massacre that left 57 people dead in what police say were politically motivated killings.
BURMA
Supreme Court agrees to appeal for Aung San Suu Kyi
Burma's supreme court has agreed to hear an appeal against the extended house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
PAKISTAN
Bin Laden not within Pakistani borders, says PM Gilani
Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has refuted intelligence reports that Osama bin Laden is hiding within Pakistan's borders following a meeting with his British counterpart, Gordon Brown, in London.
NUCLEAR IRAN
White House warns Tehran 'time is running out'
Time is ticking for Iran to make a decision regarding its contentious nuclear programme, the White House said Thursday. Tehran has until the end of the year to meet international demands or face a new raft of sanctions.
AFP
China 'sentences five to death' over Urumqi riots
A court in China's restive Xinjiang region sentenced five people to death on Thursday for murder and other crimes committed during deadly unrest in July, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.Two others were sentenced to life imprisonment by the ...
SOUTH KOREA
Several wounded in defence test site blast, ministry says
At least six people were injured in an explosion at a South Korean defence research institute in Pocheon, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday, contradicting earlier reports that 60 people had been injured.
FRENCH POLYNESIA
Former president Flosse in detention facing new corruption charges
After already spending time in jail on embezzlement allegations, former French Polynesia president Gaston Flosse, an ally of former French president Jacques Chirac, was again placed in provisional detention on Wednesday on fresh corruption charges.
AFGHANISTAN
Gates and Clinton attempt to sell troop surge to a sceptical Congress
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a Senate hearing Wednesday that the troop surge strategy decided by President Obama is necessary to roll back the Taliban and hasten military disengagement from the region.
PAKISTAN
Suicide bomber hits Islamabad navy headquarters
A suicide bomber has blown himself up outside Pakistan's naval headquarters in Islamabad, killing at least one and wounding four others seriously, said police on Wednesday.
INDIA
Bhopal still affected by poison legacy 25 years after deadly accident
Twenty-five years after a gas leak killed more than 8,000 people near the Bhopal pesticide factory, groundwater at the accident site remains contaminated, according to independent studies.
AFP
Australia rejects emissions laws, elections likely
Australia's parliament rejected controversial carbon-trading legislation on Wednesday, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd before UN climate talks and raising the prospect of snap polls.The upper house, or Senate, voted down the scheme 33 to ...
THE OBSERVERS
Chinese tissue advert sparks unification spat with Taiwan
One of China's public demonstrations of disregard for Taiwan's independence comes in the form of an advert for tissues. Not surprisingly, the ad was far from welcomed across the straits.
NUCLEAR ENERGY
Japanese diplomat takes over as UN nuclear watchdog chief
A Japanese diplomat and expert on disarmament, Yukiya Amano, has taken the helm of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). His appointment comes as the UN nuclear watchdog deals with a tense standoff over Iran's nuclear programme.
TAIWAN - RFI
What Typhoon Morakot left behind
Typhoon Morakot battered Taiwan in August 2009 and left more than a devastated landscape in its wake. The Kuomintang (KMT) government had returned to power just 15 months earlier.
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