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350 detained over Bombay train bombings
Jul 12 2006 11:32PM (CT)
BOMBAY, India (AP) - Indian police have detained about 350 people for questioning in connection with the Bombay train bombings, officials said Thursday, amid suspicion that Kashmiri militants could be linked to the attacks that killed at least 200 people.
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China, Russia introduce N. Korea resolution
Jul 12 2006 10:00PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - China and Russia introduced a resolution Wednesday deploring North Korea's missile tests but dropping language from a rival proposal that could have led to military action against Pyongyang.
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Japan court orders black lung compensation
Jul 12 2006 9:05PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese court ordered the government to pay workers and families nearly $2.3 million in compensation for black lung disease contracted while digging tunnels in public projects, according to officials and news reports.
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Powerful storm kills 9 in Philippines
Jul 12 2006 9:04PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A powerful Asian storm strengthen to a typhoon Thursday after killing at least nine people in the northern Philippines, officials said.
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Kasuri derides blaming attacks on Pakistan
Jul 12 2006 8:32PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pakistan's foreign minister bristled at suggestions that his country bore responsibility for the Bombay, India, terror attacks that have killed at least 200 people, saying no cause justifies killing women and children.
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Official says Afghan army must larger
Jul 12 2006 5:26PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's army cannot secure the country without at least 150,000 troops _ more than five times what it has today, the defense minister said Wednesday.
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China trying again to tame booming economy
Jul 12 2006 3:21PM (CT)
CHANGSHA, Hunan (AP) - The projects sound innocuous enough: "Star Town," "Dingji Mountain Villas," "Rockefeller Center." A massive new traffic police headquarters. Sunhere International Mall, floor space sufficient to cover 123 football fields.
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Pakistani court acquits plot suspect
Jul 12 2006 2:56PM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - An anti-terrorism court Wednesday acquitted a man of involvement in a failed car bombing attack on President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in 2002, lawyers said.
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Kids: Ex-Khmer Rouge leader didn't flee
Jul 12 2006 1:36PM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - The children of a former Khmer Rouge leader who recently left his home said Wednesday he was not fleeing a U.N.-backed genocide tribunal and believes he has nothing to fear.
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Bombay riders get back on rickety trains
Jul 12 2006 1:08PM (CT)
BOMBAY, India (AP) - They were the same rickety trains, rolling along the same tracks, carrying the same people _ millions of Bombay residents who a day earlier had been targeted in a series of bombings.
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Bombay families search for the missing
Jul 12 2006 12:13PM (CT)
BOMBAY, India (AP) - The soggy, crumpled photograph shows a young man grinning at the camera. An inconsolable Vasanti Chavan is afraid it is the last happy photograph she will ever have of her 24-year-old son, Chetan.
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Pakistani airline drops Fokker planes
Jul 12 2006 10:17AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A state-run airline will no longer use Fokker planes for passenger flights after one of the aging aircraft crashed in eastern Pakistan, killing all 45 people aboard, an official said Wednesday.
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Party has reduced majority in Kashmir
Jul 12 2006 9:50AM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The ruling party in Pakistan's portion of Kashmir appears to have won fewer seats than it held, officials said Wednesday, and 11 Cabinet ministers may lose their positions amid frustration over lagging reconstruction from October's massive earthquake.
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Child killed in Afghan suicide attack
Jul 12 2006 6:06AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide attacker in a car detonated a bomb near a U.S. military convoy in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing a boy who was playing nearby and wounding three other children, a provincial governor said.
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Bombing in crowded Afghan market kills 2
Jul 12 2006 5:06AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A bomb planted in a fruit cart exploded in a crowded southern Afghan market on Wednesday, killing two men and wounding eight others, police said.
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Police following leads in Bombay bombings
Jul 12 2006 4:51AM (CT)
BOMBAY, India (AP) - Indian authorities were aware Bombay could be targeted by terrorists and are investigating the possibility that a Kashmiri militant group carried out bombings that ripped through packed commuter trains in Bombay, a senior police official said Wednesday.
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