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Judges fail to resolve trial rules rift
Jan 26 2007 6:43PM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Judges have failed to resolve their differences on draft rules for genocide trials of Khmer Rouge leaders, threatening to further delay the long-pending cases, the tribunal's office said Friday.
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3 reportedly held in 'ghost bride' sale
Jan 26 2007 2:49PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Police in northern China have detained three men for the deaths of two women whose corpses were to be sold as "ghost brides" to accompany dead men in the afterlife, state media said.
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U.S. battalion to head to Afghanistan
Jan 26 2007 2:17PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - NATO's commander in Afghanistan said Friday that a battalion of U.S. troops will be sent to the country's insurgency-plagued south, where an airstrike on a Taliban command post killed a senior militant leader.
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Bombing at hotel in Pakistan kills 2
Jan 26 2007 1:46PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A security guard blocked a suicide bomber who triggered a blast just outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Friday, killing the guard and wounding seven other people. The explosion wrecked a side entrance leading to the luxury hotel often frequented by foreigners.
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Premier: Japan must amend constitution
Jan 26 2007 1:06PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan must overhaul its pacifist constitution, increase its international security role and free itself of World War II's political remnants, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told Parliament in a major policy speech Friday. Setting out his administration's objectives for the coming year, Abe highlighted rewriting the constitution, bolstering Japan's security alliance with the United States and implementing classroom reforms that will instill a sense of patriotism in the nation's youth.
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Afghan President Karzai becomes a father
Jan 26 2007 11:36AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai's wife gave birth to their first child _ a son they named Mirwais, Karzai's spokesman said Friday. Mirwais was born Thursday evening in the capital, Kabul, and mother Zeenat Quraishi, and son were doing fine, spokesman Karim Rahimi said.
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Report: Koreas' nuclear talks to resume
Jan 26 2007 10:36AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's foreign minister says the next round of international talks on North Korea's nuclear program should resume early next month, a news report said Friday.
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U.S. seeks to alter Pakistan-terror bill
Jan 26 2007 9:55AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The Bush administration will press Congress to drop a provision in a new bill linking military assistance for Pakistan to its commitment to fighting terrorism, a U.S. official said Friday. The action comes as Pakistan, a key U.S. ally against terrorism, faces growing international pressure to crack down on militants launching attacks across the border in Afghanistan.
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10 arrested in China pollution protest
Jan 26 2007 7:06AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Police in southern China arrested 10 farmers embroiled in a dispute with a paper mill over pollution they say is killing their crops and fouling their water sources, villagers and media reports said Friday.
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Suicide car bombing kills 26 in Baghdad
Jan 26 2007 3:45AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's prime minister insisted Thursday there will be "no safe place in Iraq for terrorists," hours before a suicide car bombing killed at least 26 people in the Shiite neighborhood of Karradah and two rockets slammed into the heavy fortified Green Zone not far from the U.S. Embassy.
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Japan criticizes U.S. over Iraq war
Jan 26 2007 1:58AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's defense minister backtracked Friday on earlier comments criticizing the United States' decision to invade Iraq as a mistake, but said he thought the decision should have been more cautiously made.
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