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US re-examines Afghan civilian deaths from attack (AP)

In this Aug. 23, 2008 file photo, an Afghan woman shouts anti-U.S. slogans in front of her destroyed home in Azizabad, the village in Shindand district of Herat province, Afghanistan. Disillusionment is widespread in Afghanistan, feeding an insurgency that has killed 195 foreign soldiers so far this year, 105 of them Americans. Afghans are deeply bitter about American and NATO forces because of errant bombs, heavy-handed searches and seizures and a sense that the foreigners do not understand their culture. (AP Photo/Fraidoon Pooyaa, File)AP - The U.S. military said Sunday it has new evidence about civilian casualties from an American attack that Afghanistan says killed scores of women and children and it is sending a senior officer to the country to review its initial finding that no more than seven civilians died.





Hong Kong democrats retain veto power in election (AFP)

Pro-democracy legislator Leung Kwok Hung celebrates after winning a seat in the Legislative Council election in Hong Kong. Hong Kong's pro-democracy parties won more than one third of seats in weekend elections, retaining the key power to veto legislation in the city's legislature, results showed Monday.(AFP/Mike Clarke)AFP - Hong Kong's pro-democracy parties won more than one third of seats in weekend elections, retaining the key power to veto legislation in the city's legislature, results showed Monday.





Democrats retain veto power in Hong Kong election (AP) AP - Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp has won more than a third of seats in legislative elections, retaining its veto power over major legislation.


China foreign minister to meet Indian PM, hold talks on border row (AFP)

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, pictured in August 2008, arrived in India on Sunday for talks with top officials on a long-standing border row which triggered a brief but bloody war in 1962, officials said.(AFP/File/Boryana Katsarova)AFP - China's foreign minister arrived in India on Sunday for talks with top officials on a long-standing border row which triggered a brief but bloody war in 1962, officials said.





Student hacks into Bangladesh's elite force website (AFP)

A Bangladesh Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) soldier looks through a pair of binoculars in 2006. Bangladesh's elite security force, the Rapid Action Battalion, has arrested a student and three of his friends for hacking into its website, a spokesman for the unit said Sunday.(AFP/File/Farjana K. Godhuly)AFP - Bangladesh's elite security force, the Rapid Action Battalion, has arrested a student and three of his friends for hacking into its website, a spokesman for the unit said Sunday.





Democrats face key test as Hong Kong votes (AFP)

Policewomen stand by as a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist displays portraits of Hong Kong's Chief Executive Donald Tsang during a demonstration outside a polling station. Hong Kong voters headed to the polls, with the city's pro-democracy parties scrambling to avoid heavy losses and several high-profile politicians facing potential defeat.(AFP/Philippe Lopez)AFP - Hong Kong voters headed to the polls Sunday in lower numbers, with the city's pro-democracy parties scrambling to avoid heavy losses and several high-profile politicians facing potential defeat.





Congress seen passing India nuke deal eventually (Reuters) Reuters - The odds of the U.S. Congress passing a U.S.-India civil nuclear deal this year are long, U.S. congressional aides and analysts said on Sunday, but the deal is all but certain to win approval eventually.


India focuses on care for flood victims as rescue winds down (AFP)

Indian flood-affected villagers sit inside a school turned into a temporary flood relief camp at Janakinagar area in Purnia district, some 480 kms northeast of Patna. India was grappling on Sunday with the task of feeding and housing close to a million villagers displaced by huge floods in the eastern state of Bihar, as the rescue effort wound down.(AFP/Diptendu Dutta)AFP - India was grappling on Sunday with the task of feeding and housing close to a million villagers displaced by huge floods in the eastern state of Bihar, as the rescue effort wound down.





28 SKorean city councillors indicted for corruption (AFP)

A bank clerk moves piles of South Korean won notes. South Korean state prosecutors have indicted more than a quarter of Seoul's city councillors for corruption in the biggest crackdown on local legislatures, officials said Sunday.(AFP/File/Kim Jae-Hwan)AFP - South Korean state prosecutors have indicted more than a quarter of Seoul's city councillors for corruption in the biggest crackdown on local legislatures, officials said Sunday.





Deal reached to save India's cheap car plant (AFP)

The logo of Indian carmaker Tata Motors at a motor show. Tata Motors can go ahead with making the world's cheapest car in the east of the country after talks yielded a compromise ending violent protests against its factory, officials said Sunday.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)AFP - Tata Motors can go ahead with making the world's cheapest car at a factory in eastern India after talks yielded a compromise ending violent protests against the plant, officials said Sunday.





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