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North Korea demands U.S. drop sanctions
Jul 27 2006 11:48PM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - North Korea on Friday spurned appeals to join talks on its nuclear and missile programs, saying the United States should drop financial sanctions before any negotiations occur. A U.S. envoy said the communist nation was sinking deeper into isolation.
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Japan lifts ban on U.S. beef imports
Jul 27 2006 6:33PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan on Thursday announced the resumption of U.S. beef imports, ending a ban imposed over concerns about mad cow disease and removing a strain in relations with Washington.
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Rice to play piano piece at ASEAN dinner
Jul 27 2006 6:10PM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Colin Powell danced to "YMCA," and Madeleine Albright did an Eva Peron impersonation. But Condoleezza Rice decided to play a classical piano piece.
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Dozens said arrested at Chinese factory
Jul 27 2006 5:09PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Dozens of workers were detained after a two-day protest over pay and working conditions at a toy factory, a labor monitoring group reported Thursday.
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2 Americans killed in Afghan chopper crash
Jul 27 2006 4:13PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - American and Afghan troops hiked through rugged terrain Thursday to reach the wreckage of a civilian helicopter that crashed in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, killing up to 16 people, including at least two Americans.
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China specifies banned acts of torture
Jul 27 2006 11:21AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - New Chinese guidelines identify specific acts of torture for which police can be prosecuted in an apparent attempt to rein in such abuses.
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Japan's finance minister runs for premier
Jul 27 2006 9:33AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's finance minister on Thursday became the first announced candidate to succeed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumo, who plans to step down in September. Sadakazu Tanigaki, who is seen as something of a long shot, said he would seek to soothe relations with Japan's neighbors and bolster the economy.
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Death toll in China from storm up to 25
Jul 27 2006 9:28AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Flooding and landslides caused by Tropical Storm Kaemi have killed at least 25 people in southern China, including six who died when a torrent of water washed away a military barracks, state media said Thursday. At least 53 people were missing.
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6.1 quake hits Indonesia's Sumatra island
Jul 27 2006 9:24AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A strong earthquake rocked parts of Indonesia's North and West Sumatra provinces Wednesday. There were no immediate reports of a tsunami. The 6.1-magnitude earthquake occurred at 6:16 p.m. (7:16 a.m. EDT) and was centered under the Indian Ocean about 60 miles northwest off Nias island, said Lukito, an official at the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency.
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China says activist broke his own neck
Jul 27 2006 9:05AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese investigators have concluded that an activist who said he was paralyzed after assailants broke his neck inflicted the injury on himself, his son said Thursday.
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U.N. says 154 dead in North Korean floods
Jul 27 2006 9:03AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The death toll from floods and landslides in North Korea this month has risen to at least 154 people, with 127 others missing, according to the United Nations. More than 31,000 houses were destroyed and about 17,000 families left homeless, the world body said in a report Wednesday.
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22 Taliban killed in Afghanistan fighting
Jul 27 2006 2:54AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Fighting in southern Afghanistan killed 22 suspected Taliban militants, officials said Wednesday, as NATO nations approved expanding the alliance's peacekeeping force into the region.
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