Tropical Storm Muifa left three people dead and one missing in South Korea Monday, after sweeping up the Chinese coast. South Korean officials say Muifa has toppled hundreds of power lines, cutting power to thousands of houses in southwestern provinces, while roads, port facilities and breakwaters on the country’s west coast were destroyed in dozens […]
Storm Batters Chinese Coast, Kills 3 in South Korea
Posted August 8th, 2011 at 1:50 am (UTC-5)
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Major Asian Markets Lower After S&P Cuts
Posted August 8th, 2011 at 1:25 am (UTC-5)
Global markets continue to have a negative reaction to Friday’s first-ever downgrade of the U.S. credit rating by the Standard & Poors rating agency. Major indexes across Asia were down between 2 percent and 4 percent in midday trading Monday, with shares in South Korea tumbling by 7 percent at one point. Stock futures in […]
Swede Attempts to Build Homemade Nuclear Reactor
Posted August 8th, 2011 at 1:15 am (UTC-5)
A Swedish man was arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen. Richard Handl said he was splitting atoms as a hobby. Handl had the radioactive elements radium, americium and uranium in his apartment in south Sweden when he was taken into police custody in late July. Handl told various media outlets he wanted […]
Malaysian Court Delays Restart of Anwar Trial
Posted August 8th, 2011 at 1:15 am (UTC-5)
A Malaysian judge has postponed the restart of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy trial to allow defense lawyers to interview witnesses, including Prime Minister Najib Razak. Anwar had been expected to testify this week for the first time in the three-year-long trial, to rebut a charge that he sodomized a male former aide in 2008. […]
Killed US Navy SEALs Were On Rescue Mission
Posted August 8th, 2011 at 1:15 am (UTC-5)
Afghan and U.S. forces battled insurgents in central Wardak province Sunday, near the site where a U.S. Army helicopter went down a day earlier, killing 30 U.S. troops, including special force Navy SEALs. Seven Afghan commandos and an interpreter also died in the crash. U.S. officials said Sunday the troops had come to the rescue […]
Former US Senator Hatfield Dies at 89
Posted August 8th, 2011 at 1:05 am (UTC-5)
Mark Hatfield, a former five-term U.S. senator and outspoken war critic, has died at a home in the northwestern city of Portland. He died Sunday at the age of 89. No cause of death was given. Hatfield served 30 years in the Senate beginning in 1967, where he worked to end U.S. military involvement in […]
Malaysian Court Delays Restart of Anwar Trial
Posted August 8th, 2011 at 12:45 am (UTC-5)
A Malaysian judge has postponed the restart of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy trial to allow defense lawyers to interview witnesses, including Prime Minister Najib Razak. Anwar had been expected to testify this week for the first time in the three-year-long trial, to rebut a charge that he sodomized a male former aide in 2008. […]
Dalai Lama’s Political Successor Takes Oath of Office
Posted August 8th, 2011 at 12:35 am (UTC-5)
Lobsang Sangay was sworn in Monday as head of the Tibetan government in exile, replacing the Dalai Lama as the movement’s political leader. Mr. Sangay took the prime minister’s oath of office at a ceremony presided over by the Dalai Lama in the Indian hill town of Dharamsala, where the exiled government is based. The […]
UN Chief Offers Encouragement to Japan’s Nuclear Plant Evacuees
Posted August 8th, 2011 at 12:15 am (UTC-5)
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has offered encouragement to victims of Japan’s nuclear crisis during a visit to an evacuation center in Fukushima. Speaking in Japanese Monday to about 300 people who have been removed from their homes around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, Mr. Ban urged them to persevere. The U.N. chief later told a […]
