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U.N.: Time running out for quake survivors
Oct 13 2005 10:13PM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - With snow falling in parts of Kashmir, harried relief workers tried to reach remote areas on foot Thursday as the U.N.'s emergency relief chief warned time was running out for many survivors of South Asia's massive earthquake.
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Burden of fasting added to quake aid work
Oct 13 2005 7:58PM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Bent over for hours, the men labored to remove the debris that was once the Agrotech Education College, searching for bodies buried deep below. It was backbreaking work, made all the harder because they never allowed themselves even a sip of water.
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U.S. wants Myanmar on U.N. Council agenda
Oct 13 2005 7:25PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States is making a new push for the U.N. Security Council to confront human rights abuses by the ruling military government in Myanmar, despite strong opposition from a few members, a U.S. official said Thursday.
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Blanket's journey illustrates quake aid
Oct 13 2005 7:20PM (CT)
TILGAM, India (AP) - The wool blanket _ gray-blue-and-green plaid with fringe _ started out in a New Delhi government supply office. Loaded onto a rickety yellow truck with tents and other Indian-made blankets, it traveled north to earthquake-stricken Kashmir. That took one day.
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U.N.: Quake effort needs helicopters, cash
Oct 13 2005 4:35PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Relief crews need helicopters and cash more than anything else to help the estimated 4 million people affected by the earthquake in the disputed Kashmir region, a U.N. official said Thursday.
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Hopes fading in search for quake survivors
Oct 13 2005 3:45PM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Rescue workers were desperately trying to reach her, making steady progress toward the spot sniffer dogs had located. But the 22-year-old woman died Thursday after an aftershock shifted the rubble she was trapped underneath.
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India's first female bomber strikes
Oct 13 2005 3:37PM (CT)
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - As other militants lay down their arms to help earthquake victims, a female suicide bomber blew herself up Thursday near an Indian army convoy, the first such attack by a woman in the Kashmir region.
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U.N.: Food problems remain in N. Korea
Oct 13 2005 1:57PM (CT)
ROME (AP) - Cereal production in North Korea this year is expected to be the highest in a decade, but chronic food insecurity will likely remain widespread, a U.N. food agency said Thursday.
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U.S. choppers ferry injured from Pakistan
Oct 13 2005 1:42PM (CT)
BALAKOT, Pakistan (AP) - With a whoosh of dust, the twin-rotor Chinook helicopter circled a scene of devastation in this quake-flattened town in northern Pakistan and landed on a river bank, in front of hundreds of bedraggled survivors of South Asia's quake.
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Philippine police break up student protest
Oct 13 2005 12:45PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Philippine police fired jets of water and used anti-riot shields to break up a march Thursday by about 300 left-wing student activists demanding the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
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Tokyo, Washington in stalemate over bases
Oct 13 2005 10:40AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Talks between Japan and the United States failed Thursday to resolve their disagreement over the relocation of a U.S. air base in Okinawa, a Japanese foreign ministry official said.
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Indian quake relief focuses on homeless
Oct 13 2005 6:00AM (CT)
JULLA, India (AP) - With children dying from exposure, officials overseeing the earthquake rescue effort in India switched priorities Thursday from searching for survivors to caring for the tens of thousands left homeless.
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Pakistan docs overwhelmed by quake victims
Oct 13 2005 4:26AM (CT)
BALAKOT, Pakistan (AP) - Inside the makeshift tent hospital in Balakot, crushed limbs hang limply from children's bodies, badly injured people lie on cots soaked with blood and buzzing with flies, and a little girl has a gaping wound in her skull.
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Man opens fire in Chinese school
Oct 13 2005 4:23AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A man armed with homemade guns opened fire at a primary school in eastern China, injuring 16 students before escaping, a state news agency said Thursday. No deaths were reported.
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