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More than 100 die in Pakistan heat wave
Jun 26 2005 10:57PM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - More than a week of sweltering heat has left more than 100 people dead in Pakistan, many of them in the country's eastern Punjab province, officials said Sunday.
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Survivors mourn 178,000 killed in tsunami
Jun 26 2005 3:28PM (CT)
VAKARAI, Sri Lanka (AP) - Marking the day six months ago that an earthquake and tsunami killed 178,000 people and left another 50,000 missing, volunteers in this Sri Lankan hamlet collected anything left from the rubble for an exhibition meant to help survivors mourn.
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U.S. reasserts control in Afghanistan
Jun 26 2005 2:33PM (CT)
KHAKERAN VALLEY, Afghanistan (AP) - Skimming low over the desert in helicopters with guns at the ready, American troops advanced Sunday into southern Afghanistan, seeking to reassert control after a spate of attacks raised fears of an Iraqi-style insurgency here.
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U.S. campaign to push for N. Korean rights
Jun 26 2005 2:14PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Christian supporters from President Bush's Texas hometown, believed to have been instrumental in pressuring the White House to raise concerns over war-ravaged Sudan, are launching another international human rights campaign _ this time against North Korea's hard-line regime.
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Ghost fears keep visitors from Thailand
Jun 26 2005 1:22PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Worries about another deadly tsunami are keeping many tourists from Phuket, the premier resort island of southern Thailand. But hordes of Asian vacationers are staying away for another reason: Fear that the ghosts of thousands of victims may be haunting the beaches and bungalows.
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Asia mourns 178,000 killed in tsunami
Jun 26 2005 1:13PM (CT)
VAKARAI, Sri Lanka (AP) - Along India's tsunami-battered eastern shore, fisherman Ravi Shankar burned incense sticks before a coconut sapling named after his niece, one of 207 trees planted and named in memory of children who died on this spot six months ago. Later on Sunday, about 1,000 children from India's hardest-hit Nagapattinam district planned a candlelight march.
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Report: Vatican, China will establish ties
Jun 26 2005 9:27AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - A Chinese Catholic official said Beijing and the Vatican will establish ties, but the process will take a long time, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Sunday.
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Explosion kills five Afghans, two Germans
Jun 26 2005 9:12AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A massive explosion at a weapons dump near an airfield in northern Afghanistan killed five Afghans and two German soldiers, officials said Sunday.
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Japan's emperor to visit WWII battle site
Jun 26 2005 6:37AM (CT)
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) - For the first time since World War II ended 60 years ago, a Japanese emperor will travel to an overseas battlefield to pay his respects to the dead. But Emperor Akihito won't be headed for China or Korea, where the wounds of war run deepest.
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U.S. asks Japan to keep troops in Iraq
Jun 26 2005 5:56AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The United States has asked Japan to extend its troop deployment in Iraq beyond the scheduled expiration of the current mandate in December, a Japanese newspaper reported Sunday.
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S.Korea to give fertilizer to N.Korea
Jun 26 2005 5:51AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea will provide North Korea with 150,000 tons of fertilizer, the government said Sunday, as its impoverished neighbor continued to struggle with food shortages following poor harvests.
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Taiwanese buy up sale-priced U.S. beef
Jun 26 2005 5:44AM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - After the U.S. confirmed its second mad cow case, Taiwan's authorities swiftly banned beef imports. But consumers didn't seem as worried: Scores flocked to supermarkets, wholesale outlets and butcher shops Sunday, stocking up on sale-priced cuts before they disappear.
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Pakistan police fired in lip-sewing probe
Jun 26 2005 2:59AM (CT)
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) - Seven Pakistani police officers have been fired after media reports that they sewed shut a prisoner's lips to stop him from shouting insults at them, an official said on Saturday.
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