Middle East News
European News
Canadian News
Latin American News
Asian News
Australian & Pacific News
African News
|
|
|
|
|
|
China clash: 1 dead, 'several' hurt
Mar 24 2008 9:51PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Clashes between rioters and authorities in China's western Sichuan province left one policeman dead and "several others" injured Monday, state media said, casting doubt on assurances by Chinese leaders that restive Tibetan areas had been brought under control.
|
|
|
Report says donors short on Afghan aid
Mar 24 2008 7:01PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The United States has not delivered $5 billion worth of aid it pledged to help rebuild Afghanistan, and other donors have fallen short by about that same amount, a report from humanitarian groups said Tuesday.
|
|
|
Royalists win election in Bhutan
Mar 24 2008 5:32PM (CT)
THIMPHU, Bhutan (AP) - Long known as a quirky holdout from modernity, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan ended a century of absolute monarchy Monday by electing a staunch royalist as its first prime minister.
|
|
|
Royalists win election in Bhutan
Mar 24 2008 5:32PM (CT)
THIMPHU, Bhutan (AP) - Long known as a quirky holdout from modernity, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan ended a century of absolute monarchy Monday by electing a staunch royalist as its first prime minister.
|
|
|
Royalists win election in Bhutan
Mar 24 2008 5:32PM (CT)
THIMPHU, Bhutan (AP) - Long known as a quirky holdout from modernity, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan ended a century of absolute monarchy Monday by electing a staunch royalist as its first prime minister.
|
|
|
Royalists win election in Bhutan
Mar 24 2008 5:32PM (CT)
THIMPHU, Bhutan (AP) - Long known as a quirky holdout from modernity, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan ended a century of absolute monarchy Monday by electing a staunch royalist as its first prime minister.
|
|
|
Royalists win election in Bhutan
Mar 24 2008 5:32PM (CT)
THIMPHU, Bhutan (AP) - Long known as a quirky holdout from modernity, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan ended a century of absolute monarchy Monday by electing a staunch royalist as its first prime minister.
|
|
|
Pakistani prime minister frees judges
Mar 24 2008 2:46PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The deposed chief justice emerged from house arrest Monday after Pakistan's new prime minister ordered police to pull back razor-wire barricades and release judges ousted last year by President Pervez Musharraf.
|
|
|
Pakistani prime minister frees judges
Mar 24 2008 2:46PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The deposed chief justice emerged from house arrest Monday after Pakistan's new prime minister ordered police to pull back razor-wire barricades and release judges ousted last year by President Pervez Musharraf.
|
|
|
Pakistani prime minister frees judges
Mar 24 2008 2:46PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The deposed chief justice emerged from house arrest Monday after Pakistan's new prime minister ordered police to pull back razor-wire barricades and release judges ousted last year by President Pervez Musharraf.
|
|
|
Army: 34 killed in Sri Lanka fighting
Mar 24 2008 2:27PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Government troops and Tamil rebels fought scattered battles across northern Sri Lanka over two days, leaving 30 rebel fighters and four soldiers dead, the military said Monday.
|
|
|
Demining team attacked in Afghanistan
Mar 24 2008 1:57PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Gunmen fatally shot two Afghan members of a mine-clearing team on Monday, a day after five members of another team were killed in an attack in a nearby province.
|
|
|
Cambodian tribunal seeks more funding
Mar 24 2008 1:37PM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Officials from Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal traveled Monday to the United Nations in New York to request almost $114 million in additional funds for trying the Khmer Rouge's surviving leaders.
|
|
|
Far from Tibet, a neighborhood is silent
Mar 24 2008 12:41PM (CT)
CHENGDU, China (AP) - Her phone calls home no longer go through, and there's been no word for days from her family in their locked-down Tibetan area. But you can't tell by her smile.
|
|
|
Far from Tibet, a neighborhood is silent
Mar 24 2008 12:41PM (CT)
CHENGDU, China (AP) - Her phone calls home no longer go through, and there's been no word for days from her family in their locked-down Tibetan area. But you can't tell by her smile.
|
|
|
Far from Tibet, a neighborhood is silent
Mar 24 2008 12:41PM (CT)
CHENGDU, China (AP) - Her phone calls home no longer go through, and there's been no word for days from her family in their locked-down Tibetan area. But you can't tell by her smile.
|
|
|
Nepal police arrest Tibetan protesters
Mar 24 2008 12:34PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Police in Nepal's capital arrested about 475 Tibetan refugees, monks and their supporters Monday as they gathered to protest a crackdown on Tibetans in neighboring China, the U.N. said.
|
|
|
Japan wants softer greenhouse gas target
Mar 24 2008 11:05AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan will push for an easier target for reducing greenhouse gases in the next international pact on global warming, a government official said Monday.
|
|
|
China rights activist sentenced to jail
Mar 24 2008 9:54AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese activist who had petitioned for land rights was sentenced Monday to five years in prison and then shocked with electric batons when police scuffled with his family, his lawyer said.
|
|
|
100 Afghan drug police killed last year
Mar 24 2008 5:38AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Around 100 police officers on Afghanistan's poppy eradication force were killed in the line of duty over the last year, an official said Monday.
|
|
|
18 Ukrainian sailors feared dead in HK
Mar 24 2008 4:56AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Eighteen Ukrainian sailors were feared dead Monday after they were trapped underwater in their capsized tugboat in Hong Kong for nearly 45 hours amid strong currents, a salvage company said.
|
|
|
18 Ukrainian sailors feared dead in HK
Mar 24 2008 4:56AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Eighteen Ukrainian sailors were feared dead Monday after they were trapped underwater in their capsized tugboat in Hong Kong for nearly 45 hours amid strong currents, a salvage company said.
|
|
|
SKorea wants its POWs in exhange for aid
Mar 24 2008 4:49AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's president has asked North Korea to consider sending home prisoners of war and captured civilians in return for receiving humanitarian aid from Seoul.
|
|
|
Court acquits Zardari in murder case
Mar 24 2008 4:41AM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - A prosecutor says a Pakistani court has acquitted the widower of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in the murder of a retired judge.
|
|
|
Malaysia cancels show at China request
Mar 24 2008 4:37AM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - The Malaysian government, under pressure from China, canceled a dance performance containing acts alluding to the Falun Gong spiritual movement, an official and the U.S.-based organizer said Monday.
|
|
|
Greeks to light Beijing flame
Mar 24 2008 4:17AM (CT)
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) - More than 1,000 police officers surrounded Ancient Olympia on Monday ahead of the flame-lighting ceremony for the Beijing Olympics amid fears that protesters angered by China's crackdown in Tibet could disrupt the high-profile event.
|
|
|
Former Philippines president has cancer
Mar 24 2008 3:37AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, who sparked a wave of pro-democracy movements around the world by leading a 1986 "people power" revolt, has colon cancer, her daughter said Monday.
|
|
|
Blasts, fire hurt 100 at Pakistan border
Mar 24 2008 2:59AM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Nearly 40 trucks carrying fuel to U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan have been destroyed in two bomb attacks on the Pakistani border. Officials say about 100 people have been injured.
|
|
|
East Timor extends state of emergency
Mar 24 2008 12:11AM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - East Timor extended by one month a state of emergency imposed after last month's assassination attempts on the president and prime minister.
|
|
|
|
|
|