Middle East News
European News
Canadian News
Latin American News
Asian News
Australian & Pacific News
African News
|
|
|
|
|
|
Voters turn out in war-weary Aceh
Dec 10 2006 10:59PM (CT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - Voters in Aceh province took part Monday in elections seen as key to cementing a peace deal that ended a brutal 29-year war in the region worst hit by the 2004 tsunami.
|
|
|
Group urges China against lawyer rules
Dec 10 2006 10:21PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China should repeal restrictions imposed on lawyers that limit their ability to represent clients with grievances against the government, the group Human Rights Watch said Monday.
|
|
|
Troops patrol Bangladesh to end protests
Dec 10 2006 6:35PM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Soldiers patrolled Bangladesh's towns and cities Sunday to end weeks of often violent opposition protests, a deployment that prompted unease over the country's democratic future.
|
|
|
Karzai: NATO bombs, terrorists kill kids
Dec 10 2006 4:12PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - With his lips quivering and voice breaking, a tearful President Hamid Karzai on Sunday lamented that Afghan children are being killed by NATO and U.S. bombs and by terrorists from Pakistan _ a portrait of helplessness in the face of spiraling chaos.
|
|
|
N.Korean nuclear talks to resume Dec. 18
Dec 10 2006 6:43AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - International talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program are likely to resume in the week starting Dec. 18, South Korea's top nuclear envoy said Sunday.
|
|
|
Typhoon Utor lashes Philippines; 3 dead
Dec 10 2006 5:26AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Tens of thousands of people in an area devastated by a powerful typhoon last week in the eastern Philippines were told to evacuate after another storm slammed into the central part of the country, killing at three people, officials said Sunday.
|
|
|
Afghan poppies to get herbicide spray
Dec 10 2006 3:59AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The top U.S. anti-drug official said Saturday that Afghan poppies would be sprayed with herbicide to combat an opium trade that produced a record heroin haul this year, a measure likely to anger farmers and scare Afghans unfamiliar with weed killers.
|
|
|
|
|
|