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Floods, landslides kill 27 in China
Jul 30 2007 11:54PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Water levels were set to peak Tuesday at China's huge Three Gorges Dam as another 27 deaths were reported from flooding and landslides in different parts of the country, state media said.
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U.N. nuke team says N. Korea cooperative
Jul 30 2007 11:50PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - North Korea has cooperated fully with a team U.N. nuclear experts who were monitoring the shutdown and sealing of the country's sole plutonium-producing reactor, the leader of the team said Tuesday.
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Police find body of 2nd slain SKorean
Jul 30 2007 11:39PM (CT)
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) - Police at daybreak Tuesday discovered the body of a second South Korean hostage slain by the Taliban, officials said. A purported Taliban spokesman had said the hostage was killed because the Afghan government failed to release imprisoned insurgents.
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Philippine volcano spews ash
Jul 30 2007 10:32PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A volcano in the central Philippines spewed ash early Tuesday, blanketing fields and villages as far as three miles away, but there was no immediate sign of a major eruption, scientists said.
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Militants seize shrine in Pakistan
Jul 30 2007 2:26PM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Pro-Taliban fighters seized an Islamic shrine in restive northwestern Pakistan and renamed it after the Red Mosque, where dozens of militants died this month in a showdown with government forces in the capital, officials said Monday.
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Independent weekly shut in Uzbekistan
Jul 30 2007 2:06PM (CT)
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) - Hardline Uzbek authorities closed down a popular Islam-oriented weekly, its editor said Monday, amid an ongoing crackdown on independent media in the authoritarian ex-Soviet state.
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China military marks 80th anniversary
Jul 30 2007 2:01PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's military is celebrating its 80th birthday Wednesday with snazzy new uniforms, lavish exhibitions and a degree of transparency for a force long swathed in secrecy.
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China military marks 80th anniversary
Jul 30 2007 2:01PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's military is celebrating its 80th birthday Wednesday with snazzy new uniforms, lavish exhibitions and a degree of transparency for a force long swathed in secrecy.
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China military marks 80th anniversary
Jul 30 2007 2:01PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's military is celebrating its 80th birthday Wednesday with snazzy new uniforms, lavish exhibitions and a degree of transparency for a force long swathed in secrecy.
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China military marks 80th anniversary
Jul 30 2007 2:01PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's military is celebrating its 80th birthday Wednesday with snazzy new uniforms, lavish exhibitions and a degree of transparency for a force long swathed in secrecy.
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China military marks 80th anniversary
Jul 30 2007 2:01PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's military is celebrating its 80th birthday Wednesday with snazzy new uniforms, lavish exhibitions and a degree of transparency for a force long swathed in secrecy.
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China military marks 80th anniversary
Jul 30 2007 2:01PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's military is celebrating its 80th birthday Wednesday with snazzy new uniforms, lavish exhibitions and a degree of transparency for a force long swathed in secrecy.
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China military marks 80th anniversary
Jul 30 2007 2:01PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's military is celebrating its 80th birthday Wednesday with snazzy new uniforms, lavish exhibitions and a degree of transparency for a force long swathed in secrecy.
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Japan's opposition demands premier quit
Jul 30 2007 11:17AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Fresh off a spectacular election win, Japan's opposition on Monday demanded that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resign, opposed his support of U.S. foreign policy and promised to gain leadership of the world's second-largest economy.
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Japan's opposition demands premier quit
Jul 30 2007 11:17AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Fresh off a spectacular election win, Japan's opposition on Monday demanded that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resign, opposed his support of U.S. foreign policy and promised to gain leadership of the world's second-largest economy.
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Japan's opposition demands premier quit
Jul 30 2007 11:17AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Fresh off a spectacular election win, Japan's opposition on Monday demanded that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resign, opposed his support of U.S. foreign policy and promised to gain leadership of the world's second-largest economy.
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Freed doctor wants to go back
Jul 30 2007 11:04AM (CT)
BANGALORE, India (AP) - An Indian doctor freed from jail in Australia after terror charges against him were dropped said Monday he wants Australia to restore his work permit.
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Freed doctor wants to go back
Jul 30 2007 11:04AM (CT)
BANGALORE, India (AP) - An Indian doctor freed from jail in Australia after terror charges against him were dropped said Monday he wants Australia to restore his work permit.
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Freed doctor wants to go back
Jul 30 2007 11:04AM (CT)
BANGALORE, India (AP) - An Indian doctor freed from jail in Australia after terror charges against him were dropped said Monday he wants Australia to restore his work permit.
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Freed doctor wants to go back
Jul 30 2007 11:04AM (CT)
BANGALORE, India (AP) - An Indian doctor freed from jail in Australia after terror charges against him were dropped said Monday he wants Australia to restore his work permit.
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Dengue on rise in Asia
Jul 30 2007 11:03AM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Dengue fever is raging across Asia, prompting the World Health Organization to warn that the region could face the worst outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus in nearly a decade.
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69 trapped Chinese miners alive
Jul 30 2007 9:44AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Nearly 70 miners trapped for more than 24 hours in a flooded coal mine in central China were still alive Monday, and rescuers were trying to send them supplies through a long ventilation pipe, state media said.
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Rain, flooding kills 652 in China
Jul 30 2007 7:40AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Floods, landslides and mud flows triggered by torrential rains have killed 652 people in China so far this year, with more heavy rains in the forecast, state media reported Monday.
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Ex-Bangladeshi leader's trial suspended
Jul 30 2007 7:14AM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Bangladesh's High Court on Monday suspended former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's extortion trial and ordered her released on bail, according to her lawyer.
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