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Shanghai to prosecute 9 gov't officials
Mar 1 2007 11:30PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - China plans to prosecute nine former government and state industry officials over a politically charged pension fund scandal in its business hub of Shanghai, state media reported Friday.
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Japan's Abe: No proof of WWII sex slaves
Mar 1 2007 10:37PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Yasuji Kaneko, 87, still remembers the screams of the countless women he raped in China as a soldier in the Japanese imperial army in World War II. Some were teenagers from Korea serving as sex slaves in military-run brothels. Others were women in villages he and his comrades pillaged in eastern China.
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Analysis: U.S. intel on nukes in doubt
Mar 1 2007 9:29PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - New doubts are arising about the accuracy of U.S. intelligence on the nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran, only a few years after faulty warnings about weapons of mass destruction helped President Bush justify the invasion of Iraq.
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Blast in Afghanistan kills 2, injures 48
Mar 1 2007 8:54PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A roadside bomb in western Afghanistan left three civilians dead and 48 wounded, including 10 children, officials said Thursday.
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Seeking aid, N. Korea vows to stop nukes
Mar 1 2007 8:51PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea's No. 2 leader reiterated Thursday his country's pledge to abandon its nuclear weapons, as the impoverished nation sought a resumption of aid at its first high-level talks with South Korea since conducting an atomic test.
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Koreas agree to resume family reunions
Mar 1 2007 8:35PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North and South Korea, holding their first high-level talks since Pyongyang conducted a nuclear test, agreed Friday to resume reunions of families that have been separated by their divided border.
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Belarus dismisses new U.S. sanctions
Mar 1 2007 4:58PM (CT)
MINSK, Belarus (AP) - Belarus on Thursday dismissed new financial sanctions imposed by the United States as politically senseless, and President Alexander Lukashenko said his country was ready to normalize relations with Washington.
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Rivals joust in Hong Kong's 1st debate
Mar 1 2007 4:48PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Candidates for Hong Kong's top job squared off Thursday in the city's first electoral debate since its handover to China a decade ago, with the incumbent pledging to tackle democratic reforms by 2012.
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8 feared dead after Himalayan avalanches
Mar 1 2007 2:48PM (CT)
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - Avalanches and landslides in Kashmir forced Indian security teams to airlift thousands of people to safe areas, while at least eight Pakistani soldiers were feared dead after they were buried under a snowslide near the Afghan border, officials said Thursday. Both incidents occurred in the Himalayas, about 150 miles apart.
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Anti-whaler nations give Japan a warning
Mar 1 2007 2:47PM (CT)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Anti-whaling nations New Zealand and Australia vowed Thursday to continue the fight to end Japan's annual whale hunts, warning that its plans to kill humpback whales off Antarctica in December could spark outrage. The warning comes just a day after Japan ended its latest southern whale program following a deadly fire that crippled the mother ship of its whaling fleet and left it drifting near the Antarctic coast. A crewman died in the fire.
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Mao Zedong hall to close for repairs
Mar 1 2007 9:52AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The memorial hall displaying the preserved remains of Communist China's founder Mao Zedong will close for almost six months this year for renovations, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.
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Chinese activist's wife to visit him
Mar 1 2007 8:10AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The wife of a blind Chinese activist who was jailed after he documented cases of forced abortions was reunited with her husband Thursday for a 10-minute visit, the first such meeting since he was detained a year ago.
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China urges Iran to return to nuke talks
Mar 1 2007 7:11AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China urged Iran on Thursday to halt uranium enrichment and step up efforts to reach a peaceful, negotiated solution to the international dispute over its nuclear program amid a visit by Iran's deputy foreign minister.
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12 N.Korean defectors seek U.S. asylum
Mar 1 2007 5:08AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A group of 12 North Korean refugees has arrived in the United States to seek asylum, a South Korean activist said Thursday _ the largest group from the communist nation to have recently defected there.
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E.Timor rebel leader urged to surrender
Mar 1 2007 4:58AM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - Officials called on a fugitive East Timorese rebel leader to surrender Thursday as international troops surrounded a mountain town where he and scores of armed followers were holed up.
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Uranium issue could undo N.Korea deal
Mar 1 2007 3:29AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - It was late 2002 when U.S. officials in the North Korean capital confronted their hosts with intelligence purporting to prove the North was embarking on a program to enrich uranium for nuclear bombs.
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Dozens injured in Japan train derailment
Mar 1 2007 12:31AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A passenger train derailed in northern Japan after slamming into a truck on Thursday, leaving dozens injured including 25 high school students, officials said.
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Dozens injured in Japan train derailment
Mar 1 2007 12:31AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A passenger train derailed in northern Japan after slamming into a truck on Thursday, leaving dozens injured including 25 high school students, officials said.
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