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US poised to seize Afghan town as Taliban dig in
U.S. and Afghan forces pushed Tuesday to the edge of the southern Afghan town of Marjah, poised to seize the major Taliban supply and drug-smuggling stronghold in hopes of building public support by providing aid and services once the insurgents are gone.
updated: 1 hour, 3 minutes ago

Sri Lankan parliament dissolved ahead of new vote
Sri Lanka's president dissolved parliament Tuesday to make way for spring elections a day after authorities arrested a key opposition leader, crippling the only serious threat to the ruling party's stifling grip on power.
updated: 2 hours, 1 minutes ago

Over 60 feared dead, 400 hurt in Afghan avalanches
A series of avalanches engulfed a mountain pass in Afghanistan, trapping hundreds of people in their buried cars and killing as many as 64 people so far, authorities said Tuesday.
updated: 2 hours, 42 minutes ago

China gives 5 years to activist who probed quake
A Chinese activist who investigated the deaths of thousands of children crushed in their schools during the Sichuan earthquake was sentenced Tuesday to five years, underscoring the government's determination to suppress questions about why the buildings fell.
updated: Feb 9th - 11:55am

Stranded panda lured to safety in China
It was like getting a cat out of a tree _ Sichuan style.
updated: Feb 9th - 8:55am

Bad liquor kills 8 on Indonesia's Java island
Indonesian police say eight people have died after drinking liquor laced with methanol on the country's main island of Java.
updated: Feb 9th - 8:28am

Nearly 200 people indicted in Philippines massacre
Philippine prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against the head of a powerful clan and 195 others in the biggest and deadliest murder case since the country's World War II war crimes trials.
updated: Feb 9th - 8:09am

Sri Lanka opposition to strike after leader held
Sri Lanka's opposition called Tuesday for countrywide protests after its defeated presidential candidate was arrested for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government while serving as army commander.
updated: Feb 9th - 8:06am

UN envoy arrives in North Korea to spur nuke talks
A senior U.N. envoy arrived in North Korea on Tuesday, the world body's highest-level visit to the reclusive state in nearly six years, amid an international push to get it back to the nuclear negotiating table.
updated: Feb 9th - 7:53am

Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons
Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontations that have led to collisions and a sunken vessel continue.
updated: Feb 9th - 6:53am

UN appeals for $538M in Pakistan humanitarian aid
Aid groups in Pakistan need nearly $538 million over the next six months to help hundreds of thousands of people displaced by army clashes against the Taliban, the U.N. said in an international appeal Tuesday.
updated: Feb 9th - 5:47am

TV show fined in Australia for killing, eating rat
A British broadcaster has been convicted of animal cruelty after two reality show contestants skinned, cooked and ate a rat during filming in Australia.
updated: Feb 9th - 4:56am

Lawmaker: Taiwan still wants US subs
A Taiwanese lawmaker says the island's navy commander told him that the island still wants to acquire diesel submarines from the United States, despite their absence from a recent U.S. arms package.
updated: Feb 9th - 4:52am

China releases first national pollution census
China has revealed its most ambitious measure of what explosive development has done to its environment, saying Tuesday its first national pollution census has mapped nearly 6 million sources of industrial, residential and agricultural waste.
updated: Feb 9th - 4:19am

Marines wait in the cold for Afghan offensive
Take a desert of yellow-orange dust so flat it looks like Mars, with a freezing wind that blows so hard it can lift a large tent.
updated: Feb 9th - 4:17am

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