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China, North Korea decry Japan textbooks
Apr 5 2005 9:33PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Fueling an international dispute over wartime history, Japan's government approved a new public school textbook Tuesday that China and South Korea immediately denounced as "poison" for whitewashing Japan's World War II atrocities.
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Chinese campaign to block Japan from U.N.
Apr 5 2005 4:35PM (CT)
NANJING, China (AP) - At the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, signs of Japanese wartime atrocities are everywhere. Gory photos and engraved stone tablets exhort visitors to remember that past and hold Tokyo to account. Now, the Internet is doing the same job _ only much faster.
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U.S. troops to widen Afghan anti-drug role
Apr 5 2005 3:14PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The U.S. military will take charge of training Afghanistan's police and will provide intelligence and transport for the country's new anti-drug forces, dramatically expanding America's role in combating a booming narcotics trade, a top general said Tuesday.
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Group: China leads world in executions
Apr 5 2005 12:40PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - China accounted for the majority of executions reported worldwide last year, but the true frequency of the death penalty is impossible to track because many of the sentences are carried out secretly, Amnesty International said Tuesday.
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Indonesians remember tsunami victims
Apr 5 2005 12:30PM (CT)
ULEE LHEU, Indonesia (AP) - Some prayed that Allah would welcome their dead relatives into heaven, while others wanted to be spared another deadly tsunami. And a few just asked for the strength to carry on.
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Beijing tells Vatican not to 'interfere'
Apr 5 2005 9:14AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China on Tuesday demanded the Vatican stay out of its internal affairs and break off diplomatic relations with Taiwan, reiterating its long-standing conditions for establishing diplomatic relations severed more than 50 years ago.
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Japan's oldest woman dies at 114
Apr 5 2005 7:11AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's oldest woman, 114-year-old Ura Koyama, died of pneumonia at a hospital in southern Japan, an official said Tuesday.
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U.N. expert: N. Korean bird flu different
Apr 5 2005 6:44AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The strain of bird flu that has struck poultry in North Korea is different from the one that has killed dozens of people in Southeast Asia, a U.N. expert said Tuesday after visiting the North.
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China says coal mining deaths up 21 pct.
Apr 5 2005 1:07AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The number of deaths in China's accident-plagued coal mines surged by nearly 21 percent in the first three months of this year despite a national safety crackdown, the country's top industrial safety official said Tuesday.
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