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Terror training camp found in Indonesia
Nov 8 2005 11:16PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesian police uncovered a recently abandoned jungle training camp where militants taught bomb-making skills to scores of extremists, security officials said Wednesday.
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North Korea nuke talks open in Beijing
Nov 8 2005 10:18PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - New talks aimed at persuading North Korea to give up its nuclear programs opened Wednesday in Beijing, and the chief Chinese envoy called for negotiators to start work on the contentious details of how the North will disarm and what it will get in exchange.
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Japanese whalers aim to double usual kill
Nov 8 2005 5:01PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A fleet of Japanese whaling ships left for the seas of Antarctica amid protests Tuesday, aiming to kill 850 minke whales _ almost double last year's catch _ and expand the hunt to fin whales for the first time.
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Indian police kill infamous bandit
Nov 8 2005 4:32PM (CT)
LUCKNOW, India (AP) - One of India's most dreaded and colorful bandits has been shot to death by police in the forests of central India, ending a nearly three-decade career in crime that included murders, kidnappings and looting, police said Tuesday.
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Indian PM: Oil-for-food evidence lacking
Nov 8 2005 2:54PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - India's prime minister said Tuesday that a U.N. report about corruption in the Iraqi oil-for-food program provides no proof that one of his Cabinet ministers profited from it, but he promised a thorough investigation into the charges.
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Relief pace still slow a month after quake
Nov 8 2005 2:51PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A month after last year's tsunami, aid groups were hailing history's most successful fund-raising drive and starting to rebuild. A month after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans was nearly pumped dry and the mayor spoke optimistically of the future.
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New hotel part of Kabul's extreme makeover
Nov 8 2005 2:44PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Insurgent violence wracks the countryside, but a building boom fueled by international aid, profits from the opium trade and foreign investment is remaking Afghanistan's dusty capital. The city even got its first five-star hotel Tuesday.
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Death toll in Asian quake surpasses 87,000
Nov 8 2005 11:22AM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - One month after South Asia's Oct. 8 earthquake, the estimated death toll shot up sharply to 87,350 on Tuesday following a new count of Pakistan's casualties, an official said.
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Bomb blast injures 25 at market in India
Nov 8 2005 10:11AM (CT)
GAUHATI, India (AP) - A powerful bomb exploded in a crowded market in India's troubled northeast on Tuesday, wounding at least 25 people, police said.
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Afghan poet Nadia Anjuman beaten to death
Nov 8 2005 9:02AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Poet Nadia Anjuman was beaten to death, and her husband and mother have been arrested. The United Nations condemned the killing Tuesday as symptom of continuing violence against Afghan women four years after the fall of the Taliban.
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Divided families wait in vain in India
Nov 8 2005 4:31AM (CT)
GULPUR, India (AP) - Clutching a box of sweets for his Pakistani uncle, 21-year-old law student Suheb Mir waited at an Indian military post on the disputed frontier dividing Kashmir.
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Violence in southern Thailand kills three
Nov 8 2005 1:13AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - At least three people were killed, two others injured and dozens of suspected Muslim insurgents arrested as militants attacked more than 20 government targets in a southern Thai province, officials said Tuesday.
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