Middle East News
European News
Canadian News
Latin American News
Asian News
Australian & Pacific News
African News
|
|
|
|
|
|
3 arrested in Bombay train bombings probe
Jul 20 2006 11:00PM (CT)
BOMBAY, India (AP) - Police arrested three men in the July 11 train bombings in Bombay, the first formal arrests in the attacks that killed 207, Indian television reported Friday.
|
|
|
Rescue workers look for tsunami survivors
Jul 20 2006 9:32PM (CT)
PANGANDARAN, Indonesia (AP) - Rescue workers dug decomposed corpses from ruined homes and hotels in this tsunami-devastated town Thursday, and a mass burial was held for some of the 547 people killed by the waves.
|
|
|
Former Khmer Rouge military commander dies
Jul 20 2006 7:03PM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Ta Mok, known as "The Butcher" for his brutality as military chief of the communist Khmer Rouge, died Friday, his lawyer said. He was believed to be 80.
|
|
|
NATO chief says Afghan troops can't fail
Jul 20 2006 3:55PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - NATO troops moving into insurgency-wracked southern Afghanistan cannot fail in their mission to defeat the Taliban and promote reconstruction, the alliance's secretary-general said Thursday.
|
|
|
Japan, U.S. to deploy missile interceptors
Jul 20 2006 3:16PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan and the U.S. on Thursday announced a plan to deploy advanced Patriot interceptor missiles at American bases on southern Okinawa island, and a top government spokesman called for more pressure on North Korea to stop its missile tests.
|
|
|
U.S. to compensate Afghan accident victims
Jul 20 2006 1:24PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The U.S. military said Thursday it was paying $112,000 in compensation to victims of a traffic accident involving an American cargo truck that sparked the deadliest riot in Kabul in years.
|
|
|
Blind lawyer a legal crusader in China
Jul 20 2006 1:18PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Like many of China's blind, Chen Guangcheng studied acupressure to be a healer. Instead he ended up in jail. Self-taught in law, Chen has become one of China's most prominent legal crusaders _ what the Chinese call a "barefoot lawyer" _ who has made waves in Beijing by helping poor farmers in the cornfields of eastern China.
|
|
|
China's big clean-up sparks business boom
Jul 20 2006 10:16AM (CT)
JINSHAN, China (AP) - Shanghai's gleaming chemical industrial park, a processing zone for some of the world's most toxic materials, is a showcase in China's campaign to clean up its polluted land, skies and water. Frederic Gourdin's job is to keep it that way.
|
|
|
South Koreans end seizure of steelmaker
Jul 20 2006 9:51AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Striking workers agreed Thursday to end their weeklong seizure of the headquarters of Posco, the world's fifth largest steelmaker, Yonhap news agency reported. The leadership of the unionists sent a written message to police that they would disperse voluntarily, Yonhap said without citing where that information came from.
|
|
|
Taiwan holds drill for Chinese invasion
Jul 20 2006 5:14AM (CT)
ILAN, Taiwan (AP) - Patriot missiles streaked across the light-blue Asian sky and F-16s bombarded ships Thursday as Taiwan beat back a simulated Chinese invasion in the island's largest-ever military exercise.
|
|
|
Revelations of spy links set Taiwan abuzz
Jul 20 2006 4:34AM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - A veteran State Department officer takes up with a beautiful Taiwanese spy. FBI agents observe them in intimate circumstances in the man's car. He gives her the lowdown on a crucial U.S.-China summit meeting.
|
|
|
China becomes 3rd-largest food aid donor
Jul 20 2006 4:31AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China became the world's third-largest food aid donor in 2005, the same year it stopped receiving assistance from the World Food Program, while the United States and the European Union remained the top two contributors, the U.N. agency said Thursday.
|
|
|
East Timor's ex-prime minister questioned
Jul 20 2006 4:08AM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - Prosecutors questioned East Timor's former prime minister on Thursday over allegations he ordered a hit squad to kill political opponents during recent unrest in the country, officials said.
|
|
|
|
|
|