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U.N. warns of landslides in Pakistan
Jan 20 2006 10:19PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The harsh winter in Pakistan's northern mountains has been a major burden for millions recovering from a major earthquake victims. Now authorities are worrying about more destruction _ this time from the inevitable spring thaw.
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Pakistan PM: No evidence of al-Qaida dead
Jan 20 2006 6:28PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Pakistan's prime minister said Friday no "tangible evidence" has been found that al-Qaida operatives were among those killed in a U.S. missile strike on a border village last week.
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Pakistanis protest deadly U.S. airstrike
Jan 20 2006 6:26PM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Thousands of Pakistani protesters took to the streets Friday, chanting "Death to America" and calling for holy war as outrage persisted over an airstrike that devastated a remote border village.
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Wen warns China's rural situation unstable
Jan 20 2006 3:52PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Land conflicts, fluctuating crop prices and backward conditions in the countryside are threatening China's stability and its food supply, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in unusually blunt comments published Friday.
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Afghan bombings may be shift in tactics
Jan 20 2006 12:43PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Bashir Jan remembers the bearded suicide bomber arriving on a motorbike. The blast that followed tore through the crowd where he was watching a wrestling match and left a carnage of severed limbs, bloodied faces and 21 dead.
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Bus accident in Indian Kashmir kills 53
Jan 20 2006 11:07AM (CT)
JAMMU, India (AP) - A crowded bus veered off a steep mountain road in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday, killing at least 53 people, police said.
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Four Nepalese policemen killed in attack
Jan 20 2006 10:53AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Suspected communist rebels attacked a security checkpoint in west Nepal on Friday, killing at least four policemen and injuring four others, state-run Radio Nepal said.
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Islamic hard-liners protest in Pakistan
Jan 20 2006 6:53AM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - About 8,000 Islamic hard-liners on Friday protested a U.S. missile strike that targeted al-Qaida leaders in a Pakistani village, chanting their support for holy war and burning an effigy of President Bush.
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Taiwanese airline begins New Year flights
Jan 20 2006 5:09AM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan allowed students and tour groups to fly direct to China for the first time Friday in the third annual installment of symbolic Chinese New Year flights aimed at warming tense relations with the mainland.
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Japan may allow women to ascend throne
Jan 20 2006 2:24AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The Japanese government will submit a bill this year to allow women to ascend the imperial throne for the first time in centuries, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Friday in a speech to Parliament.
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Nepal imposes curfew, detains activists
Jan 20 2006 1:26AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Thousands of troops fanned across the Nepalese capital on Friday to enforce a government curfew ordered to foil a planned protest rally against King Gyanendra's assuming direct rule over the Himalayan country last year.
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