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Pakistan gang rape victim heads to U.S.
Oct 22 2005 11:05PM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistani woman who won international fame but irked the government for speaking out about her gang rape left for the United States on Saturday to receive an award for her courage.
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India, Pakistan propose setting up camps
Oct 22 2005 10:13PM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - In another sign of growing cooperation between South Asia's nuclear rivals, India and Pakistan on Saturday proposed setting up aid camps along their disputed border in Kashmir, allowing earthquake victims to cross the frontier for medical treatment.
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U.N. copter crashes in Azerbaijan; 4 dead
Oct 22 2005 4:36PM (CT)
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) - A U.N. helicopter on a mission to help Pakistan earthquake victims crashed Saturday in western Azerbaijan, killing at least four crew members, officials said.
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Bulldozers race to clear land after quake
Oct 22 2005 3:55PM (CT)
NISAR CAMP, Pakistan (AP) - When South Asia's massive quake struck, a chunk of forested mountainside tumbled into the Neelum River here, sweeping away dozens of homes and blocking a key route to the nearest town. Since then, many villagers have died as they slipped into the deep valley while trying to negotiate past the landslide to find aid they desperately need.
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Bulldozers race to clear land after quake
Oct 22 2005 3:50PM (CT)
NISAR CAMP, Pakistan (AP) - When South Asia's massive quake struck, a chunk of forested mountainside tumbled into the Neelum River here, sweeping away dozens of homes and blocking a key route to the nearest town. Since then, many villagers have died as they slipped into the deep valley while trying to negotiate past the landslide to find aid they desperately need.
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New Orleans, Pakistan united in misery
Oct 22 2005 3:25PM (CT)
BATTAL, Pakistan (AP) - They can smell the bodies. They haven't found them yet, but they're digging, heaving one rock at a time from a home that's now a grave.
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8 police, 4 Taliban killed in Afghanistan
Oct 22 2005 12:32PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A Taliban ambush touched off fierce fighting in southern Afghan mountains that left eight police and four rebels dead, officials said Saturday.
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Hariri's son seeks world court for trial
Oct 22 2005 7:29AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The son and political heir of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Saturday called for an international tribunal to try his father's killers after a U.N. probe implicated top Syrian and Lebanese intelligence officials.
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Earthquake dramatizes power of nature
Oct 22 2005 4:43AM (CT)
JABLA, India (AP) - This month's massive earthquake did not destroy Mohammad Shafi Mir's house and bury his mother, but what followed seconds later did: a torrent of boulders thundering down a mountainside.
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Rumsfeld promotes peacekeeping in Mongolia
Oct 22 2005 1:46AM (CT)
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia (AP) - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld stopped briefly in this former communist nation Saturday to encourage its efforts to build a peacekeeping force with global reach.
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U.S. diplomat defends Iraq war
Oct 22 2005 12:18AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Karen Hughes, who has faced a rocky road since being named Washington's public relations chief, answered tough questions Friday about the invasion of Iraq, and wrongly stated that Saddam Hussein gassed to death "hundreds of thousands" of his people.
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