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Flood victims fight for food
Aug 6 2007 11:37PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Starving flood victims fought each other for scarce food supplies Monday as the Indian air force stepped up airlifts of provisions to some 2 million stranded people.
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Flood victims fight for food
Aug 6 2007 11:37PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Starving flood victims fought each other for scarce food supplies Monday as the Indian air force stepped up airlifts of provisions to some 2 million stranded people.
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Flood victims fight for food
Aug 6 2007 11:37PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Starving flood victims fought each other for scarce food supplies Monday as the Indian air force stepped up airlifts of provisions to some 2 million stranded people.
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Amnesty criticizes China over Olympics
Aug 6 2007 11:31PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China is failing to live up to its promise that staging the 2008 Olympic Games would bring greater civil liberties, human rights group Amnesty International said in a report issued Tuesday.
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Amnesty criticizes China over Olympics
Aug 6 2007 11:31PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China is failing to live up to its promise that staging the 2008 Olympic Games would bring greater civil liberties, human rights group Amnesty International said in a report issued Tuesday.
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Amnesty criticizes China over Olympics
Aug 6 2007 11:31PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China is failing to live up to its promise that staging the 2008 Olympic Games would bring greater civil liberties, human rights group Amnesty International said in a report issued Tuesday.
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Amnesty criticizes China over Olympics
Aug 6 2007 11:31PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China is failing to live up to its promise that staging the 2008 Olympic Games would bring greater civil liberties, human rights group Amnesty International said in a report issued Tuesday.
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Amnesty criticizes China over Olympics
Aug 6 2007 11:31PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China is failing to live up to its promise that staging the 2008 Olympic Games would bring greater civil liberties, human rights group Amnesty International said in a report issued Tuesday.
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N. Korea aid for disarmament talks begin
Aug 6 2007 11:12PM (CT)
PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) - North Korea joined the U.S. and four regional powers Tuesday at the heavily armed border dividing the Korean Peninsula to hash out details of the aid that Pyongyang will receive for its nuclear disarmament.
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N. Korea aid for disarmament talks begin
Aug 6 2007 11:12PM (CT)
PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) - North Korea joined the U.S. and four regional powers Tuesday at the heavily armed border dividing the Korean Peninsula to hash out details of the aid that Pyongyang will receive for its nuclear disarmament.
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Opposition to lead Japan's upper house
Aug 6 2007 9:50PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The upper house of Japan's Parliament elected a Democratic Party lawmaker as its president Tuesday, the first time an opposition member has held the post.
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Taliban threatens more kidnappings
Aug 6 2007 5:28PM (CT)
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban will keep kidnapping foreigners in Afghanistan, a purported spokesman for the group said Monday, as the Afghan and U.S. presidents ruled out making any concessions for the release of 21 South Korean hostages.
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Taliban threatens more kidnappings
Aug 6 2007 5:28PM (CT)
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban will keep kidnapping foreigners in Afghanistan, a purported spokesman for the group said Monday, as the Afghan and U.S. presidents ruled out making any concessions for the release of 21 South Korean hostages.
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Taliban threatens more kidnappings
Aug 6 2007 5:28PM (CT)
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban will keep kidnapping foreigners in Afghanistan, a purported spokesman for the group said Monday, as the Afghan and U.S. presidents ruled out making any concessions for the release of 21 South Korean hostages.
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Taliban threatens more kidnappings
Aug 6 2007 5:28PM (CT)
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban will keep kidnapping foreigners in Afghanistan, a purported spokesman for the group said Monday, as the Afghan and U.S. presidents ruled out making any concessions for the release of 21 South Korean hostages.
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Taliban threatens more kidnappings
Aug 6 2007 5:28PM (CT)
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban will keep kidnapping foreigners in Afghanistan, a purported spokesman for the group said Monday, as the Afghan and U.S. presidents ruled out making any concessions for the release of 21 South Korean hostages.
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Taliban threatens more kidnappings
Aug 6 2007 5:28PM (CT)
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban will keep kidnapping foreigners in Afghanistan, a purported spokesman for the group said Monday, as the Afghan and U.S. presidents ruled out making any concessions for the release of 21 South Korean hostages.
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Report: Sri Lanka guilty of rights abuse
Aug 6 2007 4:22PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - The Sri Lankan government has committed a wide array of human rights abuses in its fight against Tamil rebels, illegally detaining some opponents, secretly abducting others and waging battles with little regard for the safety of civilians, a human rights group said Monday.
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Thai PM: We will send Hmong back to Laos
Aug 6 2007 3:14PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand will return some 8,000 ethnic Hmong refugees to Laos despite their claims that they face persecution in their homeland, the Thai prime minister said Monday.
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Thai PM: We will send Hmong back to Laos
Aug 6 2007 3:14PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand will return some 8,000 ethnic Hmong refugees to Laos despite their claims that they face persecution in their homeland, the Thai prime minister said Monday.
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Sri Lanka remembers 17 slain aid workers
Aug 6 2007 2:49PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Aid workers honored 17 colleagues killed execution-style a year ago Monday in eastern Sri Lanka, demanding that the government bring their killers to justice.
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China will use GPS to track Olympic food
Aug 6 2007 2:01PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China said Monday it will use global positioning satellites to ensure food safety at the Beijing Olympics as it steps up efforts to blacklist manufacturers who violate safety regulations.
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3 SKorean ministers resign ahead of vote
Aug 6 2007 1:49PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Three South Korean Cabinet ministers resigned, officials said Monday, in a political shake-up ahead of December's presidential elections.
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Pakistan: No al-Qaida safe havens
Aug 6 2007 11:52AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan said Monday there are no al-Qaida or Taliban safe havens in its territory and that new laws tying U.S. aid to Islamabad's performance in fighting militants threatens to harm security cooperation between the two countries.
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Gusmao named as Timor premier
Aug 6 2007 10:00AM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - Independence hero Xanana Gusmao was named East Timor's new prime minister on Monday, triggering fresh violence in the capital a year after bloody street battles led to the collapse of the government.
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Press freedom group protests in Beijing
Aug 6 2007 7:36AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Police detained journalists at a rare protest Monday in Beijing, staged by a free-press advocacy group that accuses the government of failing to meet promises for greater media freedom one year ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games.
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Bad Thai cops to endure Kitty shame
Aug 6 2007 5:57AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thai police officers who break rules will be forced to wear hot pink armbands featuring "Hello Kitty," the Japanese icon of cute, as a mark of shame, a senior officer said Monday.
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Korean troops exchange fire along border
Aug 6 2007 5:17AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North and South Korean soldiers briefly exchanged gunfire along their border Monday, the office of South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
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Not so cuddly: panda attacks zookeeper
Aug 6 2007 2:51AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A zookeeper needed more than 100 stitches after a 2-year-old panda bit and scratched him during feeding time at a zoo in northwestern China, a zoo official and a newspaper reported Monday.
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China seizes 27 snow leopard pelts
Aug 6 2007 1:45AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese police have seized a record cache of 27 snow leopard furs in far western China, state media said Monday.
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