Monday, August 16, 2010
International Headlines
>TOP STORIES as of 0900 GMT -- 16 August, 2010
> U.S., S. KOREA BEGIN MILITARY EXERCISE
The United States and South Korea begin their annual joint
military exercise, which North Korea has warned will be met with
"the severest punishment."
> U.N., PAKISTAN ASKS WORLD FOR FLOOD HELP
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has met with
Pakistan's president to issue a joint appeal to the
international community to help desperate flood victims.
> KHMER ROUGE SENTENCE APPEALED
Prosecutors in Cambodia on Monday appealed the 30-year sentence
handed down to a man who ran a notorious torture prison in the
Southeast Asian nation where more than 14,000 people died under
the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime.
> JAPANESE ECONOMY SLOWS UNEXPECTEDLY
The strength of Japan's economic recovery came under question on
Monday as second-quarter growth figures came in sharply below
economists' expectations.
> ISLAMIC CLERIC TO REMAIN IN CUSTODY
An Islamic cleric detained last week in Indonesia has been
formally arrested, accused of helping fund and establish a
terror cell and military training camp.
> AL QAEDA NO. 2 SPEAKS ON FLOTILLA INCIDENT
In an audio message released Sunday, a speaker identified as al
Qaeda's second-in-command offers condolences to the Turkish
people on the loss of nine activists in a May 31 Israeli raid on
an aid flotilla headed for Gaza.
> VENEZUELA NEWSPAPER PROBE SLAMMED
Members of Venezuela's opposition lashed out Sunday against the
government's decision to investigate a newspaper that published
an explicit photograph of bodies at a morgue.
> STRONG QUAKE HITS PAPUA NEW GUINEA
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck a remote area of Papua New
Guinea early Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
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BUSINESS
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> EXPORTS DRIVE GERMAN GROWTH SPURT
A surprise surge in Germany's second quarter economic growth has
been put down to an increase in exports. But can the good times
in the typically pessimistic nation last?
> EAST INDIA CO. REBORN AS LUXURY BRAND
It was the world's first multinational company, a trading giant
during the colonial rule of the Indian subcontinent. This week,
The East India Company is being reborn as a luxury brand --
under Indian ownership.
> INDIA IMPOSES DEADLINE ON BLACKBERRY
India is expected to make a major decision Thursday regarding
BlackBerry, which is under serious scrutiny because the highly
encrypted messages in the device make it impossible for
intelligence agencies to monitor.
