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Western Governments Are Blamed for Asia's Shortage of Women
The Atlantic Wire – Sat Jun 18, 4:41 pm ET Sent 296 times

In her new book "Unnatural Selection," Science writer Mara Hvistendahl examines how the trend toward choosing boys over girls through sex-selective abortions has spread through the developing world, particularly in Asia. Coining the term "Generation XY," Hvistendahl provides the grim results of sex selection: while the natural sex ratio at birth is 105 boys born for every 100 girls, in India the figure has risen to 112 boys and in China, 121. The Chinese city of Lianyungang actually recorded 163 boys per 100 girls in 2007. Full Story »
Iraq hunting $17 billion missing after U.S. invasion
Reuters – Sun Jun 19, 2:16 pm ET Sent 253 times

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament is chasing about $17 billion of Iraqi oil money it says was stolen after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and has asked the United Nations for help to track it down. Full Story »
Obama's Puerto Rico visit spurs anger, discontent
AP – Sat Jun 18, 2:50 pm ET Sent 137 times

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — President Barack Obama may have been in Puerto Rico for only four hours, but his brief fundraising visit has unleashed a growing political furor in this U.S. Caribbean territory. Full Story »
India releases oldest prisoner, aged 108
AFP – Sun Jun 19, 8:00 am ET Sent 111 times

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LUCKNOW, India (AFP) - Prison authorities in India have released the country's oldest inmate, 108-year-old Brij Bihari Pandey, who was convicted of a murder he committed at the age of 84, officials said Saturday. Full Story »
Defiant Saudi women get behind wheel
AFP – Sat Jun 18, 9:09 am ET Sent 110 times

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RIYADH (AFP) - Defiant Saudi women got behind the wheels of their cars Friday in response to calls for nationwide action to break a traditional ban unique to the ultra-conservative kingdom. Full Story »
Indonesian branch of Obedient Wives Club opens
AP – Sun Jun 19, 8:12 am ET Sent 101 times

AP

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A new club in Indonesia that encourages women to be totally obedient to their husbands and focus on keeping them sexually satisfied has generated an outcry from some activists. Full Story »
New rocketplane 'could fly Paris-Tokyo in 2.5 hours'
AFP – Sun Jun 19, 7:33 am ET Sent 92 times

AFP/EADS

PARIS (AFP) - European aerospace giant EADS on Sunday unveiled its "Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation" (Zehst) rocket plane it hopes will be able to fly from Paris to Tokyo in 2.5 hours by around 2050. Full Story »
US envoy reproaches Afghan president on criticism
AP – Sun Jun 19, 2:29 pm ET Sent 41 times

AP

KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan publicly reproached Afghanistan's president Sunday for painting American forces here as occupiers and enemies — one of the strongest signs yet that Afghanistan's international allies are no longer willing to excuse President Hamid Karzai's harangues as harmless domestic politicking. Full Story »
Israel asks US to let spy attend father's funeral
AP – Sun Jun 19, 1:55 pm ET Sent 33 times

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JERUSALEM - Israelis are rallying behind convicted spy Jonathan Pollard like never before, urging the U.S. on Sunday to let the former Pentagon analyst leave prison to attend his father's funeral. Full Story »
Gunmen in Mexico kill 22 as FIFA tournament opens
AFP – Sun Jun 19, 7:34 pm ET Sent 30 times

AFP/File

MONTERREY, Mexico (AFP) - At least 22 people were killed in a string of attacks in Mexico, authorities said Sunday, including a shooting at a bar in Monterrey just hours after the opening of soccer's Under-17 World Cup. Full Story »
Saudi beheads Indonesian woman convicted of murder
AFP – Sat Jun 18, 7:24 am ET Sent 30 times

AFP

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - An Indonesian woman was beheaded by the sword on Saturday after being convicted of murdering a Saudi woman, the interior ministry said. Full Story »
South Korean troops shoot at civilian airliner by mistake
Reuters – Sat Jun 18, 5:20 am ET Sent 29 times

SEOUL, Jun (Reuters) - South Korean Marines fired rifles at a South Korean commercial aircraft flying near the sea border with North Korea, thinking it was one of the communist North's jet fighters, but they never hit their target, military sources said on Saturday. Full Story »
Assad to address Syria as his troops block refugees
Reuters – Sun Jun 19, 9:36 pm ET Sent 29 times

Reuters

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is to address the nation Monday as his forces sweep through the northwestern border region with Turkey blocking refugees fleeing a military crackdown on protests against his autocratic rule. Full Story »
Islamic group seeks place in a democratic Egypt
AP – Sun Jun 19, 12:07 am ET Sent 25 times

AP

CAIRO - The night breeze blew foul wafts from a nearby canal black with garbage and pollution. The streets jammed with trucks and motorized rickshaws were so shattered that they hardly seemed paved at all. Full Story »
9 bodies discovered in southern Mexico
AP – Sat Jun 18, 6:46 pm ET Sent 24 times

AP

MORELIA, Mexico - Mexican authorities said Saturday the bodies of nine victims of suspected drug violence have turned up in the western state of Michoacan. Full Story »
Libya says NATO airstrike killed 9 civilians
AP – Sun Jun 19, 11:26 pm ET Sent 24 times

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TRIPOLI, Libya - Libya's government said NATO warplanes struck a residential neighborhood in the capital Sunday and killed nine civilians, including two children. Hours later, NATO confirmed one of its airstrikes went astray. Full Story »
In ravaged Libya, ghosts of a Jewish past
AP – Sat Jun 18, 5:33 am ET Sent 24 times

AP

TRIPOLI, Libya - What was once the most beautiful synagogue in Libya's capital city can now be entered only by sneaking through a hole smashed in a back wall, climbing over dusty trash and crossing a stairwell strewn with abandoned shoes to a space occupied by cooing pigeons. Full Story »
Patient gets drunk on sanitizer in Aussie hospital
AP – Sun Jun 19, 1:45 am ET Sent 23 times

SYDNEY - A man who drank six bottles of alcohol-based hand sanitizer while being treated in an Australian hospital for alcoholism has sparked calls for the anti-bacterial gels to be better secured. Full Story »