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Putin in India for visit dominated by arms deals
(AFP)

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, pictured in February 2010, arrived in India Friday where he is slated to sign a series of multibillion-dollar arms deals with Moscow's old Cold War ally.(AFP/Pool/File/Alexey Druzhinin)AFP - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in India Friday where he is slated to sign a series of multibillion-dollar arms deals with Moscow's old Cold War ally.


(Source: Yahoo! News: Asia News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:07:10 GMT)

Anti-whaling activist faces arrest on arrival in Japan
(AFP)

This undated handout obtained from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society shows New Zealand's Pete Bethune. The anti-whaling activist held on a Japanese harpoon ship he boarded in Antarctic waters last month was expected to arrive in Tokyo harbour on Friday and likely face arrest.(AFP/HO/File/Barbara Veiga)AFP - A New Zealand anti-whaling activist held on a Japanese harpoon ship he boarded in Antarctic waters last month was expected to arrive in Tokyo harbour on Friday and likely face arrest.


(Source: Yahoo! News: Asia News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:03:03 GMT)

Stricken trainer Roach says Pacquiao should go out on top
(AFP)

Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao listens to his trainer Freddie Roach (L) before a practice session at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, California, in 2009. Roach and Pacquiao have never spoken about Roach's battle with Parkinson's disease but there is a candid conversation the trainer and boxer expect to have one day.(AFP/File/Gabriel Bouys)AFP - Freddie Roach and Manny Pacquiao have never spoken about Roach's battle with Parkinson's disease but there is a candid conversation the trainer and boxer expect to have one day.


(Source: Yahoo! News: Asia News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:44:25 GMT)

US regulator defends handling of Toyota
(AFP)

David Strickland, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), seen here on Capitol Hill on March 2, defended NHTSA's record Thursday as the best in the world and vowed an industry-wide probe into electronics used in accelerators.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)AFP - A top US automotive safety official flatly rejected charges Thursday that his agency had bungled its handling of deadly Toyota defects or acted as “a lapdog” to the Japanese auto giant.


(Source: Yahoo! News: Asia News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:28:52 GMT)

Turkey recalls envoy to Sweden over Armenia vote
(Reuters)
Reuters - Turkey recalled its ambassador to Sweden on Thursday and canceled an upcoming summit between the countries after the Swedish parliament branded the World War One killing of Armenians by Ottoman forces genocide.
(Source: Yahoo! News: Asia News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:26:56 GMT)

Gunmen kill five including Muslim cleric in Pakistan
(AFP)

Pakistani policemen patrol on motorcycles through a busy neighbourhood in Karachi on March 8. Pakistani authorities on Thursday said unidentified gunmen killed five people including the head of a hardline religious organisation in two separate shooting incidents in Karachi.(AFP/File/Asif Hassan)AFP - Pakistani authorities on Thursday said unidentified gunmen killed five people including the head of a hardline religious organisation in two separate shooting incidents in Karachi.


(Source: Yahoo! News: Asia News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:12:47 GMT)

Myanmar's Suu Kyi calls for united response to 'unjust' law
(AFP)

Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, seen here in 2002, has called on Myanmar's people to give a united response to an AFP - Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi Thursday called on her people to respond to an “unjust” election law issued by the junta that bars her from the vote, her lawyer said.


(Source: Yahoo! News: Asia News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:11:01 GMT)

Bomb planted outside store kills 4 in NW Pakistan
(AP)

Pakistani volunteers carry a boy injured during a bomb blast in Peshawar, Pakistan Thursday, March 11, 2010. Pakistani officials say a homemade bomb has exploded on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - A homemade bomb placed outside a store in northwestern Pakistan where locals watch movies exploded Thursday, killing four people, including a child, said officials.


(Source: Yahoo! News: Asia News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:15:55 GMT)

Myanmar abuse may be crimes against humanity: UN expert
(AFP)

This United Nations photo taken in 2009 shows a press conference with Tomas Quintana, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. Human rights violations in Myanmar may amount to crimes against humanity and could warrant a UN inquiry, a UN expert said in a report to be examined next Monday at the Human Rights Council.(AFP/UN/File/Devra Berkowitz)AFP - Human rights violations in Myanmar may amount to crimes against humanity and could warrant a UN inquiry, a UN expert said in a report to be examined next Monday at the Human Rights Council.


(Source: Yahoo! News: Asia News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:13:58 GMT)

Other world leaders should meet Dalai Lama: envoy
(AFP)

World leaders should follow the example of US President Barack Obama and meet the Dalai Lama, pictured on March 10, despite China's objections, the Tibetan spiritual leader's envoy to Europe said Thursday.(AFP/File)AFP - World leaders should follow the example of US President Barack Obama and meet the Dalai Lama despite China's objections, the Tibetan spiritual leader's envoy to Europe said Thursday.


(Source: Yahoo! News: Asia News - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:56:53 GMT)

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