Monday, June 21, 2010
International Headlines
>TOP STORIES as of 0800 HKT -- 22 June, 2010
> TIMES SQUARE BOMBING SUSPECT PLEADS GUILTY
Faisal Shahzad, a suspect in last month's failed New York Times
Square bombing attempt, entered pleas of guilty to all 10 counts
he was facing, an official said.
> JUDGE TO RULE ON U.S. DRILLING MORATORIUM
As oil continues gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, a U.S. judge
will hear arguments from companies seeking to end a six-month
ban on deepwater drilling.
> UK SUFFERS 300TH AFGHANISTAN FATALITY
The United Kingdom suffered its 300th fatality in Afghanistan
with the death of a Royal Marine from injuries suffered this
month, the Ministry of Defence announced Monday.
> TURKISH ARMY USING ISRAELI-BUILT DRONES
Despite an epic rift in Turkish-Israeli relations, Turkey's top
general announced his troops are relying on new unmanned aerial
drones recently purchased from Israel to battle Kurdish rebels.
> VAN DER SLOOT: 'I WAS TRICKED'
Joran van der Sloot is scheduled to appear in a Peruvian court
Monday for a hearing in the death of a 21-year-old woman last
month.
> TURKISH ARMY USING ISRAELI-BUILT DRONES
Despite an epic rift in Turkish-Israeli relations, Turkey's top
general announced his troops are relying on new unmanned aerial
drones recently purchased from Israel to battle Kurdish rebels.
> AFGHAN CHOPPER CRASH KILLS 4 NATO STAFF
Four members of NATO's International Security Assistance Force
died Monday as a result of a helicopter crash in southern
Afghanistan's Kandahar province, military officials said.
> IRAN TO BAN TWO NUCLEAR INSPECTORS
The head of Iran's atomic energy agency said Monday that the
nation will ban two U.N. atomic watchdog inspectors from
visiting nuclear facilities, the semiofficial Iranian Student
News Agency reported.
BUSINESS
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> INDIA TO PRESS U.S. OVER BHOPAL CASE
India will make "vigorous" efforts to push the United States to
extradite the former head of an American chemical company in
connection with the 1984 industrial disaster in Bhopal, India, a
government minister said Monday.
> ASIA MARKETS CLIMB ON CHINA YUAN PLANS
Markets in Asia moved up on news that China would eliminate its
peg to the U.S. dollar, an issue that has ratcheted tensions
between Washington and Beijing.
> Q&A: CHINA'S CURRENCY MOVES
China's announcement Saturday that it will resume a policy of
exchange rate flexibility has been greeted warmly by the markets
and countries that do trade with the world's most populous
nation.
