Japan Warns of Tsunami Up to 9 Feet Along Coast
 28.02.2010 5:00  24 views  0 comments
Filed at 8:14 p.m. ET TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's Meteorological Agency has warned that a ''major'' tsunami of up to 9 feet (3 meters) could hit northern coastal areas within the next few hours following a massive earthquake in Chile. The agency issued the tsunami alert Sunday morning for its entire Pacific coast. The tsunami was expected to be biggest in the north, with waves of 6 feet (2 meters) or less expected along other coastal areas. The tsunami was expected to hit northern areas about 1:30 p.m. local time (0430 GMT). The agency urged residents in coastal areas to head quickly to higher ground. A version of this article appeared in print on February 27, 2010, on 3 of the New York edition....
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Troops clear last pockets of resistance in Marjah
28.02.2010 4:15 24 views 0 comments
MARJAH, Afghanistan – Marines and Afghan troops cleared the last major pocket of resistance in the former Taliban-ruled town of Marjah on Saturday — part of an offensive that is the run-up to a larger showdown this year in the most strategic part of Afghanistan's dangerous south. Although Marines say their work in Marjah isn't done, Afghans are bracing for a bigger, more comprehensive assault in neighboring Kandahar province, the birthplace of the Taliban where officials are talking to aid organizations about how to handle up to 10,000 people who could be displaced by fighting. "I was in Kabul, and we were talking that Kandahar will be next, but we don't know when," said...
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Polls open in Tajikistan parliamentary elections
28.02.2010 4:15 22 views 0 comments
DUSHANBE (AFP) – Polls opened Sunday in Tajikistan's parliamentary elections, expected to cement President Emomali Rakhmon's power and introduce his son as a possible...
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Japan warns of tsunami up to 9 feet along coast
28.02.2010 3:06 27 views 0 comments
TOKYO – Japan's Meteorological Agency has warned that a "major" tsunami of up to 9 feet (3 meters)...
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Japan Says 'major' Tsunami Of Up To 3 Meters Could Hit Northern Japanese Coastal Areas
28.02.2010 3:05 20 views 0 comments
Japan Says 'major' Tsunami Of Up To 3...
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Tsunami races across Pacific after massive Chile quake
28.02.2010 2:02 19 views 0 comments
SYDNEY (AFP) – A tsunami raced across the vast Pacific Ocean after a massive killer quake in Chile, with dozens of nations on alert for destructive waves and thousands of people fleeing their homes. Waves hit Chile, Hawaii, French Polynesia and the South Pacific as the tsunami moved at jetspeed around the "Ring of Fire" after the 8.8-magnitude quake on Saturday which left at least 214 people dead. Five people were killed and 11 missing on the remote Robinson Crusoe archipelego far off the coast of Chile, the first reported casualties from the tsunami as it powered west across the Pacific. Warning sirens wailed as about 50 countries and territories along an arc stretching from...
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Indian prime minister visits Saudi Arabia for commercial, security talks
28.02.2010 1:21 20 views 0 comments
“Both King Abdullah and I reject the notion that any cause justifies wanton violence against innocent people ... We are strong allies against the scourge of extremism and terrorism that affects global peace and security.” Manmohan Singh, Indian prime minister Terrorism, regional political issues and the sharp rise in bilateral commercial ties will be in focus for talks after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was to arrive in Riyadh yesterday, Singh said. The first Indian prime minister to visit the...
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Saudis roll out red carpet to Manmohan
28.02.2010 1:04 18 views 0 comments
Vinay Kumar Three-day visit aimed at reinvigorating ties with oil-rich kingdom...
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Nanaji Deshmukh passes away
28.02.2010 1:04 23 views 0 comments
Nanaji Deshmukh...
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Frustrated Strivers in Pakistan Turn to Jihad
28.02.2010 1:01 21 views 0 comments
LAHORE, Pakistan — Umar Kundi was his parents’ pride, an ambitious young man from a small town who made it to medical school in the big city. It seemed like a story of working-class success, living proof in this unequal society that a telephone operator’s son could become a doctor. The New York Times Lahore has enduring social problems like chronic unemployment. But things went wrong along the way. On campus Mr. Kundi fell in with a hard-line Islamic group. His degree did not get him a job, and he drifted in the urban crush of young people looking for work. His early radicalization helped channel his ambitions in a grander, more sinister way. Instead of healing the sick,...
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Thailand's Ex-Premier Vows to Keep Up Fight
28.02.2010 1:01 21 views 0 comments
BANGKOK (AP) — The former determination after a court ordered the seizure of $1.4 billion of his assets. But analysts and editorials speculated that the Supreme Court’s decision not to seize all $2.3 billion of Mr. Thaksin’s frozen assets would at least temporarily ease political conflicts that have plagued the country for the past four years. The court ruled Friday that Mr. Thaksin, who made a fortune in telecommunications, abused his power to enrich himself and his family while in office. In a statement issued Saturday, Mr. Thaksin, who is in self-imposed exile in Dubai, said the ruling would not stop him from trying to lead a nonviolent struggle against the government....
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Grenade blast damages Thailand bank: police
27.02.2010 23:44 23 views 0 comments
BANGKOK (AFP) – A grenade exploded in Bangkok outside a branch of Thailand's biggest bank Saturday, police said, a day after a court verdict against deposed premier Thaksin Shinawatra sparked a security alert. The blast shattered the windows and...
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Taiwan's ruling party in fresh election setback
27.02.2010 23:43 24 views 0 comments
TAIPEI (AFP) – Taiwan's embattled ruling party on Saturday suffered an election setback in what some observers warn could hurt its chances in the 2012 presidential election. The Kuomintang (KMT) party took just one county in the legislative by-elections...
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Chile quake: Toll rises to 147
27.02.2010 23:25 21 views 0 comments
Next » 1 2 By Jose Luis Saavedra One of the most powerful earthquakes in decades battered Chile on Saturday, killing at least 147 people, knocking down buildings and triggering a tsunami that rolled menacingly across the Pacific. Buildings caught fire, major highway bridges collapsed and debris lay in the streets across large swathes of central Chile. A 15-storey building collapsed in Concepcion, the closest major city to the epicentre, and overturned cars lay scattered below a fallen overpass in the capital Santiago. Telephone and power lines went down,...
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Manmohan Singh tells Arab journalists: Terrorism single biggest threat
27.02.2010 22:31 20 views 0 comments
New Delhi, Feb 27 (ANI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said that terrorism remains the single biggest threat to peace and stressed the need for global efforts to defend the values of pluralism and peaceful co-existence. In a special interaction with Arab journalists prior to leaving New Delhi for a three day visit to Saudi Arabia, Singh said: Terrorism remains the single biggest threat to peace, stability and to our progress. Global efforts are...
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Asia braces for tsunami after Chile quake
27.02.2010 21:30 21 views 0 comments
Wide swaths of the south Pacific, Asia and Australia braced for a tsunami after a devastating earthquake hit the coast of Chile on Saturday. Officials in Japan and Australia warned a tsunami from the...
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Chile has history of big earthquakes
27.02.2010 21:30 18 views 0 comments
A magnitude 8.8-earthquake struck south-central Chile on Saturday, triggering a tsunami warning for Chile and Peru. Chile, like other countries around the Pacific Rim's "ring of fire" earthquake zone, has a long history of major quakes, including the...
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Tsunami hits Chile as Pacific Basin braces for impact
27.02.2010 21:15 19 views 0 comments
SYDNEY (AFP) – A tsunami crashed into Chile's coast Saturday in a potential portent of disaster across the vast Pacific Ocean as nations went on alert for towering waves generated by a killer earthquake. The ominous sound of evacuation sirens blared in Hawaii and French Polynesia as a tsunami raced around the Pacific's "Ring of Fire" after the 8.8-magnitude quake in Chile, which left at least 122 people dead. About 50 countries and territories along an arc stretching from New Zealand to Japan were braced for immensely powerful waves, not long after the fifth anniversary of the Indian Ocean disaster that killed more than 220,000 people. The Pacific Tsunami...
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Bollywood's first family boycotts 'Indian Oscars'
27.02.2010 21:15 22 views 0 comments
MUMBAI (AFP) – Bollywood's first family said Saturday they would boycott the industry's top awards ceremony because of a row with a tabloid newspaper. Screen legend Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek both said they would not attend the Filmfare Awards Saturday evening after the Mumbai Mirror published a story about Abhishek's...
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Bomber Kills 4 at Police Post in Pakistan
27.02.2010 21:07 17 views 0 comments
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide car bomber attacked a police station on Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, killing four people and wounding about two dozen, underscoring the continuing security threat to the country despite army operations against militants. Also, a paramilitary commander said his forces had killed 25 militants in another area of the volatile frontier region. The blast at the police station in Karak in North-West Frontier Province also toppled a mosque next door, said Ajmal Khan, a government official. Two police officers and two civilians were killed; police officers and civilians were among the wounded. The wounded were taken to a nearby hospital, where some...
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