Middle East News
European News
Canadian News
Latin American News
Asian News
Australian & Pacific News
African News
|
|
|
|
|
|
U.S. expects intense N.Korea nuke talks
Feb 6 2007 11:42PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The U.S. expects "hard bargaining" at upcoming talks aimed at getting North Korea to abandon its nuclear program, Washington's chief negotiator in the talks said Wednesday.
|
|
|
Suicide bomber dies at Pakistan airport
Feb 6 2007 4:05PM (CT)
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - Police thwarted a suicide attack on the airport serving Pakistan's capital late Tuesday, officials said. A shootout about 200 yards from the international terminal killed the assailant and wounded three police.
|
|
|
In flooded Jakarta, conditions worsen
Feb 6 2007 3:10PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A boat ride with emergency workers Tuesday revealed the hardships residents are suffering five days after torrential rains unleashed floodwaters that have killed 44 people and chased hundreds of thousands from their homes in this city of 12 million.
|
|
|
Staged killings spark Kashmir protests
Feb 6 2007 2:30PM (CT)
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - The story, as security forces told it, was simple: they'd killed a Pakistani militant during a gunbattle in a Himalayan town late last year. The dead man was a member of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a Pakistan-based group feared across India.
|
|
|
Race is on to prevent Taliban's return
Feb 6 2007 12:48PM (CT)
SPERWAN GHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Gunfire rang out from every hedgerow, hut and irrigation ditch, the vines so thick that U.S. Special Forces soldiers couldn't even see the muzzle flashes from the AK-47s aimed their way.
|
|
|
Group hopes to honor China AIDS activist
Feb 6 2007 12:32PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A U.S. women's advocacy group said Tuesday it hopes that an apparent travel ban against a prominent Chinese AIDS activist can be lifted so she can be honored at a ceremony in Washington next month.
|
|
|
Bank helps Asia to prepare for growth
Feb 6 2007 9:38AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The populations of Asia's already crammed cities will rise by 1.1 billion in the next 20 years, and rising pollution and poor infrastructure will make lives more miserable without effective urban management, the Asian Development Bank warned Tuesday.
|
|
|
Bodies of 2 men found in Pakistan region
Feb 6 2007 4:18AM (CT)
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan (AP) - Villagers discovered the bullet-riddled bodies of two men Tuesday in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border where the government is at loggerheads with pro-Taliban militants, an official said.
|
|
|
Thai agrees to reopen old Bankok airport
Feb 6 2007 2:14AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The Thai government agreed Tuesday to reopen Bangkok's old Don Muang airport for international and domestic flights amid growing problems at the scandal-ridden new Suvarnabhumi Airport.
|
|
|
Bangladesh jails 19 politicians
Feb 6 2007 2:12AM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Nineteen Bangladeshi politicians arrested under emergency powers were sent to jail for a month on Monday, a lawyer said.
|
|
|
Bomb survivors' benefits upheld in Japan
Feb 6 2007 12:33AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's highest court ordered Hiroshima's local government to settle medical backpayments to three Japanese citizens who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attack but were deprived of government benefits because they moved to Brazil, a court official said Tuesday.
|
|
|
Pakistan, Turkey in Mideast peace effort
Feb 6 2007 12:00AM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Pakistan and Turkey have agreed to work together to inject new life into Middle East peace efforts, Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Monday.
|
|
|
|
|
|