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Lawmaker: N.Korea ready to resume talks
Jan 12 2007 11:52PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese lawmaker said Saturday an official he met in North Korea told him Pyongyang wanted to resume nuclear disarmament talks right after the communist country's financial discussions with Washington later this month.
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Troops help after Sri Lanka landslides
Jan 12 2007 10:56PM (CT)
KANDY, Sri Lanka (AP) - Military troops and helicopters intensified rescue operations in Sri Lanka's central tea growing region Saturday, after landslides killed at least 15 people and left thousands homeless, officials said.
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Japan detects deadly frog fungus
Jan 12 2007 10:13PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - At least five frogs have died in Japan's first confirmed cases of a fungal infection linked to sharp reductions in amphibians in other parts of the world, an expert said Friday.
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China, Russia veto Myanmar resolution
Jan 12 2007 9:54PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - China and Russia cast a rare double veto Friday of a U.S. resolution calling on Myanmar's military government to release all political prisoners, speed up progress toward democracy, and stop attacks against ethnic minorities.
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Pakistan says it's not a terrorist haven
Jan 12 2007 5:55PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan on Friday rejected allegations by America's spy chief that it is a refuge for terrorist leaders and demanded that his intelligence networks share information on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and other top al-Qaida figures.
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Bomber attacks foreign convoy near Kabul
Jan 12 2007 12:57PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber in an explosives-packed car followed and then struck a two-vehicle convoy carrying foreign police advisers south of Kabul on Friday, killing himself and wounding one adviser, police and NATO said.
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Bangladesh soldiers arrest politician
Jan 12 2007 11:16AM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Bangladesh's president on Friday swore in a respected economist as head of the country's new caretaker government, trying to defuse a bloody political crisis that has paralyzed the country ahead of general elections.
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China facing major gender imbalance
Jan 12 2007 10:14AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China will have 30 million more men of marriageable age than women in less than 15 years as a gender imbalance resulting in part from the country's tough one-child policy becomes more pronounced, state media reported Friday. Traditional preferences for sons has led to the widespread - but illegal - practice of women aborting babies if an early term sonogram shows it is a girl.
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Shanghai cancels plans for Ferris wheel
Jan 12 2007 9:23AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - China's commercial hub of Shanghai has abandoned plans to build a Ferris wheel that would have been the world's tallest, a city official said Friday.
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Ex-Khmer Rouge leader denies genocide
Jan 12 2007 8:11AM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - A former Khmer Rouge leader denied in an interview published Friday that the regime whose extremist policies wiped out much of Cambodia's population in the 1970s committed mass murder.
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China court backs blind activist's term
Jan 12 2007 7:14AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese court on Friday rejected the final appeal of a blind activist who was jailed on what he says are false charges after he recorded complaints of officials compelling villagers to undergo late-term abortions and sterilizations.
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11 dead in Indonesia landslide, flooding
Jan 12 2007 12:19AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A landslide and floodwaters triggered by heavy rains barreled into a village in northeastern Indonesia on Friday, killing 11 people and leaving more than 20 others missing, officials said.
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