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Tamil rebels push to recapture peninsula
Aug 12 2006 10:42PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Rebels mounted a fierce offensive Saturday in Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna Peninsula, the heart of the island's Tamil minority, military officials and the rebels said amid the heaviest fighting since the two sides signed a 2002 cease-fire.
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Chinese begin clean-up after typhoon
Aug 12 2006 10:38PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's death toll from Typhoon Saomai rose by one to 106 on Sunday as residents of the drenched southeast cleared away wreckage after the most powerful storm to hit the country in more than five decades.
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Thousands decry Kashmir civilian deaths
Aug 12 2006 9:47PM (CT)
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - Thousands of villagers protested in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday after an ambush by security forces targeting Muslim militants mistakenly killed two civilians, including a teenage girl.
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3 U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Aug 12 2006 7:34PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Militants attacked a U.S. patrol with rocket-propelled grenades, killing three Americans in Afghanistan's wild northeast, an official said Saturday.
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Shrine casts shadow over Japan politics
Aug 12 2006 7:11PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Its name means "peaceful nation," but the Yasukuni shrine to Japan's war dead generates a lot of rage. Asian neighbors attack it as a promoter of militarism, Japanese have filed a slew of lawsuits against official visits there, and the U.S., Japan's main ally, finds its take on history disturbing.
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Bomb damages gas pipeline in Pakistan
Aug 12 2006 4:14PM (CT)
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - A bomb blew up a state-owned gas pipeline in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, leaving thousands without gas but causing no injuries, a spokesman said.
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U.S. walks fine line with China, Taiwan
Aug 12 2006 12:30PM (CT)
ILAN, Taiwan (AP) - The weaponry is heavily American _ F-16s bombarding a simulated Chinese flotilla, Cobra helicopters targeting invading ground troops, Patriot missiles streaking across the azure Asian sky.
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Japanese protest war shrine a 2nd day
Aug 12 2006 9:37AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Protesters marched for a second straight day Saturday to rally against a war shrine that critics say glorifies Japan's military conquests, demonstrating as emotions build before the Tuesday anniversary of the Japanese surrender in World War II.
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India bans liquids from carry-on luggage
Aug 12 2006 7:19AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - India banned liquids from airliners and limited carry-on luggage Saturday while intensifying security at airports and other public places a day after the U.S. Embassy warned that foreign militants, possibly al-Qaida terrorists, could be planning bomb attacks.
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