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Allies rally around Musharraf
Feb 28 2008 7:30PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's allies rejected demands Thursday for his ouster _ but some called for clipping his powers to ensure democracy can flourish in a nation that's been ruled more often by generals than civilians.
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Allies rally around Musharraf
Feb 28 2008 7:30PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's allies rejected demands Thursday for his ouster _ but some called for clipping his powers to ensure democracy can flourish in a nation that's been ruled more often by generals than civilians.
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Allies rally around Musharraf
Feb 28 2008 7:30PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's allies rejected demands Thursday for his ouster _ but some called for clipping his powers to ensure democracy can flourish in a nation that's been ruled more often by generals than civilians.
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Britain backs China on Olympics
Feb 28 2008 3:52PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Under attack for its human rights record before the Beijing Olympics, China gained support Thursday from British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who opposed linking the event to progress on human rights.
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Britain backs China on Olympics
Feb 28 2008 3:52PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Under attack for its human rights record before the Beijing Olympics, China gained support Thursday from British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who opposed linking the event to progress on human rights.
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Britain backs China on Olympics
Feb 28 2008 3:52PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Under attack for its human rights record before the Beijing Olympics, China gained support Thursday from British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who opposed linking the event to progress on human rights.
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Thaksin back at center of Thai politics
Feb 28 2008 2:10PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's homecoming Thursday was a triumphant return to the center of Thai politics despite the military's efforts to eradicate his legacy and keep him at bay.
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Thaksin back at center of Thai politics
Feb 28 2008 2:10PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's homecoming Thursday was a triumphant return to the center of Thai politics despite the military's efforts to eradicate his legacy and keep him at bay.
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Thaksin back at center of Thai politics
Feb 28 2008 2:10PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's homecoming Thursday was a triumphant return to the center of Thai politics despite the military's efforts to eradicate his legacy and keep him at bay.
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Thaksin back at center of Thai politics
Feb 28 2008 2:10PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's homecoming Thursday was a triumphant return to the center of Thai politics despite the military's efforts to eradicate his legacy and keep him at bay.
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Singapore apologizes for terror escape
Feb 28 2008 12:24PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - The Singapore government apologized Thursday for the security lapse that allowed a suspected Islamic terrorist leader to escape from jail, triggering a manhunt across this usually well-policed island nation.
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Singapore apologizes for terror escape
Feb 28 2008 12:24PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - The Singapore government apologized Thursday for the security lapse that allowed a suspected Islamic terrorist leader to escape from jail, triggering a manhunt across this usually well-policed island nation.
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Singapore apologizes for terror escape
Feb 28 2008 12:24PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - The Singapore government apologized Thursday for the security lapse that allowed a suspected Islamic terrorist leader to escape from jail, triggering a manhunt across this usually well-policed island nation.
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Singapore apologizes for terror escape
Feb 28 2008 12:24PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - The Singapore government apologized Thursday for the security lapse that allowed a suspected Islamic terrorist leader to escape from jail, triggering a manhunt across this usually well-policed island nation.
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Singapore apologizes for terror escape
Feb 28 2008 12:24PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - The Singapore government apologized Thursday for the security lapse that allowed a suspected Islamic terrorist leader to escape from jail, triggering a manhunt across this usually well-policed island nation.
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Indian newborn survives fall from train
Feb 28 2008 12:17PM (CT)
AHMADABAD, India (AP) - A newborn girl fell through the toilet in a moving train and onto the tracks moments after her mother gave birth prematurely, surviving nearly two hours before being found, relatives said Thursday.
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Blast kills 12 in Pakistan border zone
Feb 28 2008 10:46AM (CT)
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) - A pre-dawn explosion demolished a house in Pakistan's wild frontier zone on Thursday, killing up to 12 suspected militants, the military, intelligence officials and a local militant said.
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Nepal's ethnic groups to end protests
Feb 28 2008 10:02AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Ethnic rights groups in southern Nepal pledged to end violent protests and a paralyzing general strike after reaching an agreement with the government Thursday to establish autonomous regions in the Himalayan nation.
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30 die after Bangladesh ferry capsizes
Feb 28 2008 10:00AM (CT)
PAGLA, Bangladesh (AP) - A ferry carrying more than 100 people collided with a cargo vessel and capsized in a river near the Bangladeshi capital Thursday, killing at least 30 people, authorities said.
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Chinese mothers remember crackdown
Feb 28 2008 8:52AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Mothers of those killed in China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests have joined the list of groups invoking this summer's Beijing Olympics to draw attention to their causes.
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Gov't insists it controls Afghanistan
Feb 28 2008 8:51AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's Defense Ministry on Thursday denied an assertion by the top U.S. intelligence official that only 30 percent of the country is under the control of President Hamid Karzai's government.
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29 militants killed in south Afghanistan
Feb 28 2008 8:41AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Militants ambushed an opium poppy eradication force in southern Afghanistan, sparking clashes that left 25 Taliban fighters and a policeman dead, police said Thursday. Four other militants died when a bomb went off.
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Darfur cannot be solved by China alone
Feb 28 2008 7:14AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China cannot resolve the Darfur crisis on its own, and the rest of world bears an equal responsibility to prompt a settlement, China's Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
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Ousted PM gets mixed welcome
Feb 28 2008 6:33AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Huddled around radios on Bangkok's busy streets, Thais listened anxiously for news Thursday that ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra had returned home from self-imposed exile.
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600 cashmere goats die in harsh winter
Feb 28 2008 6:31AM (CT)
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - At least 600 rare Himalayan goats _ famed for their pashmina wool, also known as cashmere _ have died and thousands face starvation after their desert habitat was blanketed with snow during the region's worst snowfall in three decades, authorities said Thursday.
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Indian lawyers to defend terror suspects
Feb 28 2008 5:42AM (CT)
LUCKNOW, India (AP) - A group of Muslim lawyers in northern India said Thursday they would defy their fellow attorneys and defend terror suspects accused of bombing courts _ and killing lawyers.
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US nuclear envoy wraps up talks in China
Feb 28 2008 5:23AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A top U.S. diplomat left Beijing on Thursday after spending an extra day in the Chinese capital to flesh out ideas for jump-starting the stalled process of dismantling North Korea's nuclear programs.
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Report: Railway hasn't helped Tibetans
Feb 28 2008 4:55AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's railway to Tibet is allowing the government to exploit the region's natural resources while threatening its Buddhist culture and traditional way of life, an activist group said Thursday.
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Dumplings said not contaminated in China
Feb 28 2008 2:35AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese authorities said Thursday that their investigation shows there is little chance that pesticide-tainted dumplings blamed for sickening at least 10 people in Japan were contaminated in China.
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Dumplings said not contaminated in China
Feb 28 2008 2:35AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese authorities said Thursday that their investigation shows there is little chance that pesticide-tainted dumplings blamed for sickening at least 10 people in Japan were contaminated in China.
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Dumplings said not contaminated in China
Feb 28 2008 2:35AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese authorities said Thursday that their investigation shows there is little chance that pesticide-tainted dumplings blamed for sickening at least 10 people in Japan were contaminated in China.
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Premature blast kills Philippine bomber
Feb 28 2008 12:50AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A grenade exploded during a town fiesta in the southern Philippines, killing a would-be bomber and wounding four people, police said Thursday.
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Shell explodes, kills couple in Vietnam
Feb 28 2008 12:48AM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A couple who scavenged for old munitions to sell as scrap metal were killed when a Vietnam War-era artillery shell they were sawing exploded, police said Thursday.
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Algae to blame for red rivers in China
Feb 28 2008 12:35AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - An algae bloom, not chemical pollution, was to blame for red and foamy water in parts of a major river system in central China, environmental officials said Thursday.
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16 run over by train in western India
Feb 28 2008 12:07AM (CT)
AHMADABAD, India (AP) - A train ran over and killed 16 people, including two children, in western India, a local railway official said Thursday.
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