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Troops take back control in Myanmar
Sep 28 2007 11:34PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Soldiers and police took control of the streets Friday, firing warning shots and tear gas to scatter the few pro-democracy protesters who ventured out as Myanmar's military junta sealed off Buddhist monasteries and cut public Internet access.
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Troops take back control in Myanmar
Sep 28 2007 11:34PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Soldiers and police took control of the streets Friday, firing warning shots and tear gas to scatter the few pro-democracy protesters who ventured out as Myanmar's military junta sealed off Buddhist monasteries and cut public Internet access.
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Troops take back control in Myanmar
Sep 28 2007 11:34PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Soldiers and police took control of the streets Friday, firing warning shots and tear gas to scatter the few pro-democracy protesters who ventured out as Myanmar's military junta sealed off Buddhist monasteries and cut public Internet access.
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Troops take back control in Myanmar
Sep 28 2007 11:34PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Soldiers and police took control of the streets Friday, firing warning shots and tear gas to scatter the few pro-democracy protesters who ventured out as Myanmar's military junta sealed off Buddhist monasteries and cut public Internet access.
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Red Cross talks with Afghan kidnappers
Sep 28 2007 11:33PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The International Committee of the Red Cross has established contact with the armed group that kidnapped four of its workers but no progress has been made, officials said Friday.
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NKorean nuclear talks hit bumpy road
Sep 28 2007 11:10PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A U.S. envoy said Saturday negotiators were working to narrow a gap between how far North Korea is willing to go to close down its nuclear facilities and what the U.S. wants the reclusive communist country to do.
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NKorean nuclear talks hit bumpy road
Sep 28 2007 11:10PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A U.S. envoy said Saturday negotiators were working to narrow a gap between how far North Korea is willing to go to close down its nuclear facilities and what the U.S. wants the reclusive communist country to do.
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Japan lodges protest with Myanmar
Sep 28 2007 10:19PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan lodged a protest with Myanmar over the death of a Japanese journalist during a crackdown on protesters and said it will dispatch a senior official to press the country to respond to international concerns, an official said Saturday.
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Action on Myanmar unlikely despite anger
Sep 28 2007 9:07PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Southeast Asian leaders delivered their strongest condemnation of a neighbor and the U.S. ordered limited sanctions, but the international community has few pressure points on the brutal military junta that has ruled Myanmar for decades.
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Action on Myanmar unlikely despite anger
Sep 28 2007 9:07PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Southeast Asian leaders delivered their strongest condemnation of a neighbor and the U.S. ordered limited sanctions, but the international community has few pressure points on the brutal military junta that has ruled Myanmar for decades.
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Action on Myanmar unlikely despite anger
Sep 28 2007 9:07PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Southeast Asian leaders delivered their strongest condemnation of a neighbor and the U.S. ordered limited sanctions, but the international community has few pressure points on the brutal military junta that has ruled Myanmar for decades.
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Action on Myanmar unlikely despite anger
Sep 28 2007 9:07PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Southeast Asian leaders delivered their strongest condemnation of a neighbor and the U.S. ordered limited sanctions, but the international community has few pressure points on the brutal military junta that has ruled Myanmar for decades.
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Action on Myanmar unlikely despite anger
Sep 28 2007 9:07PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Southeast Asian leaders delivered their strongest condemnation of a neighbor and the U.S. ordered limited sanctions, but the international community has few pressure points on the brutal military junta that has ruled Myanmar for decades.
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Facebook group supports Myanmar protests
Sep 28 2007 2:20PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - An Internet group backing the monk-led protests in Myanmar has attracted more than 100,000 members in less than 10 days as people around the world try to harness the power of the Web to support the resistance movement.
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Mourners bury victims of bridge collapse
Sep 28 2007 1:27PM (CT)
CAN THO, Vietnam (AP) - Le Thi Dung sat by an altar in her small home Friday, praying for the two sons she just buried and hoping that her gravely injured husband would survive the bridge collapse that killed them.
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Mourners bury victims of bridge collapse
Sep 28 2007 1:27PM (CT)
CAN THO, Vietnam (AP) - Le Thi Dung sat by an altar in her small home Friday, praying for the two sons she just buried and hoping that her gravely injured husband would survive the bridge collapse that killed them.
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Mourners bury victims of bridge collapse
Sep 28 2007 1:27PM (CT)
CAN THO, Vietnam (AP) - Le Thi Dung sat by an altar in her small home Friday, praying for the two sons she just buried and hoping that her gravely injured husband would survive the bridge collapse that killed them.
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Court lets Musharraf run for president
Sep 28 2007 1:09PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf cleared the main hurdle to his bid for another five years in power Friday when Pakistan's Supreme Court squashed legal challenges to the leader's increasingly unpopular and bitterly opposed candidacy.
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Court lets Musharraf run for president
Sep 28 2007 1:09PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf cleared the main hurdle to his bid for another five years in power Friday when Pakistan's Supreme Court squashed legal challenges to the leader's increasingly unpopular and bitterly opposed candidacy.
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Court lets Musharraf run for president
Sep 28 2007 1:09PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf cleared the main hurdle to his bid for another five years in power Friday when Pakistan's Supreme Court squashed legal challenges to the leader's increasingly unpopular and bitterly opposed candidacy.
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Myanmar crackdown brings condemnation
Sep 28 2007 12:09PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Myanmar's crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators drew condemnation and sparked protests Friday, with the top U.S. diplomat in the reclusive nation calling the violence "tragic" and the European Union denouncing "gross and systematic violations of human rights."
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Myanmar blocks Internet, cuts off phones
Sep 28 2007 11:32AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - As soldiers in Myanmar intensified their crackdown on pro-democracy protesters Friday, authorities also went after the Internet and mobile phones that have proven so vital and powerful in documenting the dramatic confrontations.
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2 quakes off Japan, no tsunami
Sep 28 2007 10:32AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Two earthquakes struck almost simultaneously off Japan's central coast late Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. No tsunami warning was issued and no damage was reported.
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Russia seeks report on Iran nuke program
Sep 28 2007 5:24AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Russia's foreign minister made clear ahead of high-level talks Friday on Iran's nuclear program that Moscow wants to see a U.N. agency report on Tehran's past suspicious nuclear work before considering new sanctions.
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Security tightened on Tokyo subway
Sep 28 2007 4:50AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Police tightened security on Tokyo's subways this week after receiving a warning of an alleged terrorist attack, media and officials said Friday.
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