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6 tourists, 2 guides killed in Thailand
Oct 13 2007 11:44PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Six Western tourists and two Thai guides were killed after being swept away by flash floods while exploring a cave at a national park in southern Thailand, police said Sunday. One tourist was still missing.
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Myanmar arrests 4 prominent activists
Oct 13 2007 10:03PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's junta arrested four prominent political activists Saturday, Amnesty International said, including one who went into hiding after leading some of the first major marches against the government several weeks ago.
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Myanmar arrests 4 prominent activists
Oct 13 2007 10:03PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's junta arrested four prominent political activists Saturday, Amnesty International said, including one who went into hiding after leading some of the first major marches against the government several weeks ago.
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Myanmar arrests 4 prominent activists
Oct 13 2007 10:03PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's junta arrested four prominent political activists Saturday, Amnesty International said, including one who went into hiding after leading some of the first major marches against the government several weeks ago.
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Afghan suicide blast kills 7
Oct 13 2007 5:26PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber on a motorbike detonated his explosives in a crowded marketplace near Afghan police Saturday, killing seven people and injuring 29, officials said.
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Pakistan's Bhutto faces death threats
Oct 13 2007 2:10PM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan will deploy 3,500 police and paramilitary troops to guard former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who faces death threats from Islamic militants on her return from self-imposed exile, an official said Saturday.
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North Korean official to visit Syria
Oct 13 2007 1:21PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A high-level North Korean official left on Saturday for an overseas trip including a visit to Syria, the North's state media reported, amid suspicions the two countries might be cooperating on a secret nuclear program.
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UN: More rights protections in Sri Lanka
Oct 13 2007 12:03PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - The large numbers of people reported killed, abducted and disappeared in Sri Lanka's protracted civil war underscores the need for greater protection of human rights in the country, the top U.N. rights official said Saturday.
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In Afghanistan, a fiancee aged 3
Oct 13 2007 11:53AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - When asked about her engagement party this summer, little Sunam glanced blankly at her family, then fiddled with her gold-sequined engagement outfit _ a speechless response not out of shyness, but because she does not yet talk much. Sunam is 3.
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In Afghanistan, a fiancee aged 3
Oct 13 2007 11:53AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - When asked about her engagement party this summer, little Sunam glanced blankly at her family, then fiddled with her gold-sequined engagement outfit _ a speechless response not out of shyness, but because she does not yet talk much. Sunam is 3.
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In Afghanistan, a fiancee aged 3
Oct 13 2007 11:53AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - When asked about her engagement party this summer, little Sunam glanced blankly at her family, then fiddled with her gold-sequined engagement outfit _ a speechless response not out of shyness, but because she does not yet talk much. Sunam is 3.
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In Afghanistan, a fiancee aged 3
Oct 13 2007 11:53AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - When asked about her engagement party this summer, little Sunam glanced blankly at her family, then fiddled with her gold-sequined engagement outfit _ a speechless response not out of shyness, but because she does not yet talk much. Sunam is 3.
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China's leaders look for heirs apparent
Oct 13 2007 11:51AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - When President Hu Jintao needed someone to jump-start an economically listless province in China's northeastern rust belt, he turned to a trusted aide with a doctorate in economics and a low-key manner.
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Thailand's 79-year-old king hospitalized
Oct 13 2007 10:47AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's beloved and influential king was hospitalized Saturday after feeling weakness on the right side of his body, the royal palace said.
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Thailand's 79-year-old king hospitalized
Oct 13 2007 10:47AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's beloved and influential king was hospitalized Saturday after feeling weakness on the right side of his body, the royal palace said.
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Wild elephants converge on Indian island
Oct 13 2007 9:08AM (CT)
GAUHATI, India (AP) - About 100 wild elephants have converged on a river island in northeast India, demolishing homes, feasting on sugarcane and panicking residents, officials said Saturday.
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HK chief sorry for democracy remarks
Oct 13 2007 5:49AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang apologized Saturday for a comment that too much democracy could lead to another Cultural Revolution, when gangs of youths were given free rein to persecute suspected government opponents in mainland China.
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China plans huge new national park
Oct 13 2007 5:32AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China plans to carve a huge national park out of its vast northwest Xinjiang region that would eclipse Yellowstone National Park in size, state media said Saturday.
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5 die in Bangladesh train derailment
Oct 13 2007 5:31AM (CT)
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (AP) - Five rear carriages of an overcrowded express train jumped their tracks Saturday in southern Bangladesh, killing at least five passengers and injuring more than 100 others, a railway spokesman said.
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Report: Missile defense concerns Russia
Oct 13 2007 4:00AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Russia is concerned that a joint U.S.-Japanese missile defense effort could be an effort to preserve military superiority, the country's foreign minister said in a news interview published Saturday.
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7-nation naval exercise starts
Oct 13 2007 1:57AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Ships and aircraft from seven countries, including the U.S., began three days of Pacific maritime exercises Saturday that involve the mock interception of vessels suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction.
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7-nation naval exercise starts
Oct 13 2007 1:57AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Ships and aircraft from seven countries, including the U.S., began three days of Pacific maritime exercises Saturday that involve the mock interception of vessels suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction.
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Ailing Myanmar prime minister dead at 59
Oct 13 2007 12:01AM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Prime Minister Gen. Soe Win, reviled for his role in a bloody attack on Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her followers in 2003, died Friday after a long illness, relatives and state media said. He was 59 and was said to have been suffering from leukemia.
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Ailing Myanmar prime minister dead at 59
Oct 13 2007 12:01AM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Prime Minister Gen. Soe Win, reviled for his role in a bloody attack on Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her followers in 2003, died Friday after a long illness, relatives and state media said. He was 59 and was said to have been suffering from leukemia.
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