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First shipment of U.S. beef reaches Japan
Dec 15 2005 10:20PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The first shipment of U.S. beef in nearly two years arrived in Japan Friday after the easing of an import ban put in place amid concerns about mad cow disease, Japan's Health Ministry said.
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Hospital fire kills at least 38 in China
Dec 15 2005 10:16PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Patients leapt from the windows of a four-story hospital in northeastern China to escape a fire that killed at least 38 people, the government said Friday.
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Drugs called No. 1 threat in Afghanistan
Dec 15 2005 5:46PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Drugs are a greater security threat in Afghanistan than a Taliban resurgence, NATO's top operational commander said Thursday, despite a rise in attacks blamed on remnants of the hard-line Islamic regime and their al-Qaida allies.
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Doc: Stem-cell pioneer admitted fake data
Dec 15 2005 4:13PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A doctor who provided human eggs for research by cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-suk said in a broadcast Thursday that the South Korean scientist admitted that most of the stem cells produced for a key research paper were faked.
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Nepalese protest shooting of villagers
Dec 15 2005 2:25PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - A Nepalese soldier ended an argument with a group of villagers by spraying them with bullets, killing at least 11 people, officials and witnesses said Thursday. Another 19 civilians were injured in the shooting late Wednesday, the Royal Nepalese Army said in a statement.
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U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan
Dec 15 2005 9:51AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A U.S. soldier was killed and another wounded in a firefight with insurgents Thursday in southern Afghanistan, the military said.
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Malaysian: U.S. scheming on Iran, Syria
Dec 15 2005 7:48AM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysia's former prime minister accused the U.S. Thursday of scheming to invade Iran and Syria, and said the Iranian president's recent statements against Israel are providing Washington the excuse.
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WFP, N. Korea fail to agree on food aid
Dec 15 2005 5:28AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The World Food Program failed to reach agreement with North Korea in talks this week on continuing food assistance programs and has stopped supplying aid to most of the 6.4 million people it was feeding this year, WFP officials said Thursday.
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Probe of China protest shootings sought
Dec 15 2005 5:17AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The U.N. or another independent body should be asked to investigate the killing by police of villagers protesting the seizure of land for a power plant in southern China, a U.S.-based human rights group said Thursday.
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