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Sri Lanka prime minister leads balloting
Nov 17 2005 11:37PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse led presidential balloting Friday with most votes counted. His office declared victory for the leader, a hard-liner toward the nation's separatist rebel insurgency. The vote count was still under way and no announcement had been made by the election commission.
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Bush, Putin seek unity among differences
Nov 17 2005 11:22PM (CT)
BUSAN, South Korea (AP) - Glossing over differences straining their political relationship, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin greeted each other warmly Friday in talks expected to emphasize cooperation in the war on terror and the campaign to stop North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
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Attack on Sri Lanka mosque kills four
Nov 17 2005 11:05PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Suspected separatist rebels tossed grenades into a Mosque during morning prayers Friday, killing at least four Muslim worshippers, police said.
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South Korea plans partial Iraq pullout
Nov 17 2005 10:52PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea plans to bring home about one-third of its troops in Iraq next year, the Defense Ministry said Friday.
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China and Chile sign free-trade agreement
Nov 17 2005 10:07PM (CT)
BUSAN, South Korea (AP) - China and Chile on Friday signed a free-trade agreement on behalf of their nations _ the first between China and a Latin American country.
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U.N. panel concerned about N. Korea abuse
Nov 17 2005 8:04PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A divided U.N. General Assembly committee approved a resolution Thursday expressing "serious concern" about reports of widespread human rights violations in North Korea.
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Top terror suspect buried in Malaysia
Nov 17 2005 5:49PM (CT)
JASIN, Malaysia (AP) - One of Southeast Asia's top terror suspects was buried by crowds of weeping relatives and childhood friends at a traditional Muslim funeral Thursday in a Malaysian village, a week after he was killed by police in Indonesia.
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Hu: China will contribute to global peace
Nov 17 2005 4:49PM (CT)
BUSAN, South Korea (AP) - Chinese President Hu Jintao took center stage at a Pacific Rim forum Thursday, offering assurances there is nothing to fear from his fast-developing country and emphasizing that China has great potential to contribute to world peace.
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Activists urge Bush on Chinese prisoners
Nov 17 2005 1:04PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A California businessman jailed on tax charges. A U.S.-based dissident arrested while meeting Chinese activists. A man imprisoned after accusing local officials of selling donated medicine. All are targets of lobbying by activists and relatives who want President Bush to use his visit to Beijing to press for the release of dissidents, friends or loved ones.
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Annan appeals for quake aid in Pakistan
Nov 17 2005 12:55PM (CT)
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - Civilians crossed Pakistan's disputed frontier with India on Thursday for the first time since the devastating Oct. 8 earthquake, and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed to donors at a key conference on reconstruction to give generously for victims of the disaster.
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5 from rare tribe were killed in tsunami
Nov 17 2005 11:25AM (CT)
CAR NICOBAR, India (AP) - Last year's Indian Ocean tsunami killed nine members of the wandering Shompen tribe in India's remote Nicobar islands, an official said Thursday in the first confirmation of casualties among a prehistoric tribe that is nearing extinction.
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Video theatens U.S. allies in Iraq war
Nov 17 2005 11:20AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A masked man believed to be one of Asia's most-wanted terrorists appeared in a video seized from his hide-out, threatening attacks against U.S. allies in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, police said Thursday.
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3 al-Qaida suspects killed in Afghanistan
Nov 17 2005 10:40AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Security forces have killed three al-Qaida suspects, a provincial governor said Thursday, while the country's defense minister warned that militants have smuggled explosives, weapons and cash into Afghanistan for a resurgent terror campaign.
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Schwarzenegger promotes Calif. in China
Nov 17 2005 7:18AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger toured China's largest steel plant Thursday morning, praising its use of California technologies to reduce wastewater pollution.
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Vietnam to purge cities of live poultry
Nov 17 2005 4:16AM (CT)
TRAN PHU, Vietnam (AP) - Stepping into a cramped coop, Pham Tuyet Anh grabbed a squawking chicken with a gloved hand and stuffed it inside a burlap bag soon filled with 15 other chickens. Dragging the bag down a dirt street to a collection point, Anh threw it beside a pile of other squirming sacks.
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2 U.S. troops face charges in Afghanistan
Nov 17 2005 1:24AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The U.S. military said Thursday it would prosecute in a military court two of its soldiers for allegedly punching two detainees in the chest, shoulders and stomach at a military base in Afghanistan.
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U.S. serviceman gets suspended sentence
Nov 17 2005 12:35AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese court on Thursday convicted a U.S. Air Force serviceman of molesting a 10-year-old Japanese girl on the southern island of Okinawa earlier this year, sentencing him to a suspended prison term, a court spokesman said.
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