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N.Korea insists U.S. unfreeze $25M
Mar 16 2007 11:48PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - North Korea will not stop its nuclear activity unless $25 million of its funds held in a Macau bank are fully released, the regime's top nuclear envoy said Saturday.
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Premier says world should not fear China
Mar 16 2007 9:47PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Premier Wen Jiabao promised Friday to make China's authoritarian political system more accountable to the people and sought to allay concerns about the country's rising military power.
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Inspectors hope to soon revisit N. Korea
Mar 16 2007 3:29PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - The head of the U.N. nuclear agency said Friday he is optimistic after a visit to North Korea that his inspectors will be able to return to the country by the middle of next month.
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Pakistanis demonstrate over ousted judge
Mar 16 2007 3:23PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Police battled protesters and stormed a television news channel Friday as the ouster of the top judge pushed Pakistan toward a political crisis that could threaten President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's hold on power.
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Afghan insurgents fleeing NATO forces
Mar 16 2007 2:39PM (CT)
FORWARD OPERATING BASE DIABLO, Afghanistan (AP) - The top general in Afghanistan said Friday that NATO's latest offensive is the first of a "rolling series" of operations against Taliban insurgents, some of whom have been fleeing Western forces in the south.
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India opposition activists burn buses
Mar 16 2007 10:26AM (CT)
CALCUTTA, India (AP) - Thousands of activists burned buses and blocked roads in eastern India on Friday to protest the recent killing of 14 farmers opposed to government plans to build an industrial park on their land.
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5 Afghan police killed in clash
Mar 16 2007 5:02AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S.-led coalition forces mistakenly killed five Afghan police in a clash in a southern province, the government said Friday. There was no immediate comment from the coalition.
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Japan finds no evidence of WWII sex slav
Mar 16 2007 4:45AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The Japanese government has found no evidence that the military or the government forced women to work in World War II military brothels, the Cabinet said in a statement to a lawmaker Friday.
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55 police officers killed in India
Mar 16 2007 4:41AM (CT)
NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Hundreds of police officers scoured remote eastern Indian jungles on Friday for suspected communist rebels who attacked a police post with guns, grenades and gasoline bombs, killing 55 people.
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Premier: World shouldn't fear China army
Mar 16 2007 1:24AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The world should not fear China's military rise, premier Wen Jiabao said Friday, as he vowed to improve relations with regional rival Japan while repeating attacks on old foes Taiwan and the Dalai Lama.
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