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Hopes for finding typhoon survivors fade
Dec 4 2006 11:13PM (CT)
GUINOBATAN, Philippines (AP) - Officials could only apologize Monday when asked about the prospects of finding survivors in the towns and villages swamped by mudslides from devastating Typhoon Durian, which has killed an estimated 1,000 people in the Philippines.
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U.S.: Poorly paid Afghan cops get bribes
Dec 4 2006 6:57PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's police, who are often paid less than the Taliban militants they are fighting, frequently force those in custody to buy their freedom, a "bribe and release" arrangement undermining the government's legitimacy, a new U.S. report finds.
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Marine convicted of rape in Philippines
Dec 4 2006 2:38PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A young U.S. Marine faces 40 years in jail after being convicted Monday of rape in a landmark case that has become a symbol for women's rights and national sovereignty in the Philippines.
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6 men convicted in 1993 Mumbai bombings
Dec 4 2006 12:21PM (CT)
MUMBAI, India (AP) - A judge Monday convicted six men of involvement in the 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed 257 people, delivering the last verdicts of 123 defendants charged in India's worst terrorist attack.
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Court delays decision on returning girl
Dec 4 2006 11:19AM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - A court Monday decided to delay an earlier ruling that ordered a 12-year-old girl sent back to her Scottish mother, lawyers for the estranged parents said Monday.
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Militants killed in Afghanistan fighting
Dec 4 2006 10:45AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - An estimated 70 to 80 Taliban militants were killed by NATO soldiers in fighting in southern Afghanistan after police told military authorities where insurgents had gathered, an official said Monday.
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U.N.: Winter threatens quake survivors
Dec 4 2006 10:18AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Harsh winter weather is threatening to cut off more than 300,000 survivors of last year's killer South Asian earthquake from critical food supplies, the United Nations warned Monday as the season's first snows began to fall.
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Manager arrested for garbage in lard
Dec 4 2006 9:12AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A factory manager in east China has been arrested for using grease from swill, sewage, pesticides and recycled industrial oil to make lard for human consumption, state media said Monday in the country's latest food scare.
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Thai king backs post-coup government
Dec 4 2006 8:09AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's revered king offered support Monday for the country's post-coup government, using his annual birthday speech to deliver a veiled criticism of the country's deposed prime minister.
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NKorean nukes boost U.S. air power role
Dec 4 2006 6:16AM (CT)
OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea (AP) - U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets can fly to North Korea in minutes from this base 48 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone. Across the border are hundreds of North Korean artillery systems aimed at Seoul, and missiles capable of hitting Japan, Hawaii, and possibly the U.S. mainland.
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