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Pakistan president's woes deepen
Aug 24 2007 11:38PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The party of exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ruled out reconciliation with Pakistan's embattled military leader Friday, a day after a court said he can return home before upcoming elections.
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Pakistan president's woes deepen
Aug 24 2007 11:38PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The party of exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ruled out reconciliation with Pakistan's embattled military leader Friday, a day after a court said he can return home before upcoming elections.
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Pakistan president's woes deepen
Aug 24 2007 11:38PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The party of exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ruled out reconciliation with Pakistan's embattled military leader Friday, a day after a court said he can return home before upcoming elections.
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Pakistan president's woes deepen
Aug 24 2007 11:38PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The party of exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ruled out reconciliation with Pakistan's embattled military leader Friday, a day after a court said he can return home before upcoming elections.
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Arrests thwart new Myanmar protest
Aug 24 2007 10:43PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's military junta moved swiftly Friday to crush the latest in a series of protests against fuel price hikes, arresting more than 10 activists in the main city of Yangon before they could start any action.
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U.N. to seek N.Korea flood aid
Aug 24 2007 8:38PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. will launch an appeal next week to raise as much as $20 million to help about 400,000 North Koreans affected by serious floods, a senior U.N. official said Friday.
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China bans TV show on cosmetic surgery
Aug 24 2007 5:51PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - The Chinese government banned television shows about cosmetic surgery and sex changes Friday, less than two weeks after shutting down a talent show that regulators deemed coarse.
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3 British soldiers killed by U.S. bomb
Aug 24 2007 3:11PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A U.S. warplane mistakenly dropped a 500-pound bomb on British troops after they called for air support in Afghanistan, killing three soldiers and seriously wounding two others in an accident that could re-ignite debate about America's heavy use of air power.
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China, Japan race for the moon
Aug 24 2007 12:09PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan claims its project is the biggest since Apollo. China says it is readying its probes to study the lunar surface to plan a landing.
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Housewife hid millions in currency gains
Aug 24 2007 9:29AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese housewife who made $3.4 million as an amateur foreign exchange trader was convicted Friday of evading taxes from the profits, according to media reports.
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Ex-Pakistani leader challenges Musharraf
Aug 24 2007 8:02AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Immediately after Pakistan's highest court ruled he could return, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said he would go home soon to lead his party's campaign to oust the general who overthrew and exiled him eight years ago.
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Pakistan: 310 killed in militant fight
Aug 24 2007 7:26AM (CT)
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan (AP) - A month of fierce fighting near the Afghan border has killed about 250 militants and 60 Pakistani troops, the army said Friday, hours after the deaths of six soldiers in a suicide attack and roadside bombing.
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New China arrests follow religion push
Aug 24 2007 7:21AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Authorities have increased arrests on Christian groups operating outside China's sole official government church following a crackdown ordered last month, an overseas monitoring group reported Friday.
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China blocks activist's wife at airport
Aug 24 2007 6:21AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese authorities on Friday barred the wife of an imprisoned human rights activist from leaving the country to accept a humanitarian award on her husband's behalf, a friend of the woman said.
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4 in China tried on uranium sale charges
Aug 24 2007 5:57AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Authorities said that 17 pounds of weapons-grade uranium disappeared and that a verdict in the trial of four men accused of trying to sell the radioactive material will be delayed until it is found, state media reported Friday.
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Newspaper suspended over Jesus picture
Aug 24 2007 5:15AM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysia's government ordered a Tamil-language daily to immediately halt publication for a month Friday as punishment for printing an image of Jesus Christ holding a cigarette, an official with the newspaper said.
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China: Another mine flood, 8 missing
Aug 24 2007 4:38AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Water rushed into a coal mine in southwestern China and trapped eight workers, a newspaper reported Friday, one week after similar flooding left 181 miners missing and presumed dead.
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Bangladesh suspends indefinite curfew
Aug 24 2007 4:24AM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Streets and markets bustled again in Bangladesh's biggest cities Friday after the government temporarily suspended an indefinite curfew imposed to quell violent student protests demanding an end to emergency rule.
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Kidnapped S. Koreans said to be healthy
Aug 24 2007 4:13AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Nineteen South Koreans held hostage for six weeks in Afghanistan are kept on the move by their Taliban captors, but are said to be in good health, a doctor in touch with a senior commander in the insurgent group told reporters Friday.
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Sharif vows to fight Musharraf in vote
Aug 24 2007 2:41AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Immediately after Pakistan's highest court ruled he could return, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said he would go home soon to lead his party's campaign to oust President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who exiled Sharif eight years ago.
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Ousted PM vows to return to Pakistan
Aug 24 2007 2:16AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Nawaz Sharif, head of a powerful Pakistani political party that wants to oust embattled President Pervez Musharraf, vowed to return quickly after the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the former prime minister can come back from exile.
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Ousted PM vows to return to Pakistan
Aug 24 2007 2:16AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Nawaz Sharif, head of a powerful Pakistani political party that wants to oust embattled President Pervez Musharraf, vowed to return quickly after the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the former prime minister can come back from exile.
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Ousted PM vows to return to Pakistan
Aug 24 2007 2:16AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Nawaz Sharif, head of a powerful Pakistani political party that wants to oust embattled President Pervez Musharraf, vowed to return quickly after the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the former prime minister can come back from exile.
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