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WTO delegates make final effort for deal
Dec 16 2005 11:26PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Trade delegates were huddling Saturday in a last-ditch effort to hammer out a watered-down compromise deal to save this week's World Trade Organization meeting from flopping completely.
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China starts dam to shield Russian city
Dec 16 2005 11:02PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China has begun work on a temporary dam in a waterway in its northeast in an effort to reduce the effects of a river-borne toxic spill flowing toward Russia's Far East, the government said Saturday.
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China official on trial for village attack
Dec 16 2005 5:06PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A local Communist Party official and 26 other people were being tried on charges of organizing a bloody attack on protesting villagers that killed six people in June, the government said Friday.
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6.2-magnitude earthquake rocks Japan
Dec 16 2005 3:01PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - An undersea earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 shook northern Japan early Saturday, but there was no danger of a tsunami, the Meteorological Agency said. There were no immediate reports of damages or injuries.
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39 die in hospital fire in China
Dec 16 2005 2:50PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The death toll from a hospital fire rose to 39 Friday as searchers looked for more victims in the wreckage from a blaze that swept through the four-story building, forcing desperate patients to leap from windows.
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EU threatens sanctions over Holocaust flap
Dec 16 2005 11:46AM (CT)
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - European leaders threatened sanctions against Iran for its president's remarks about Israel and the Holocaust, even as the regime's interior minister said Friday the widely condemned comments were "misunderstood" by Western governments.
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Indian parliament vacated following threat
Dec 16 2005 7:51AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - A bomb threat forced the evacuation of India's parliament Friday, but police and bomb-sniffing dogs failed to find any explosives, officials said.
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Divided Koreas seek quick nuke agreement
Dec 16 2005 5:56AM (CT)
JEJU, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Friday signaled its willingness to quickly implement an agreement to abandon its nuclear programs but refused to directly commit to more six-nation nuclear negotiations during high-level talks with South Korea.
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First shipment of U.S. beef reaches Japan
Dec 16 2005 2:21AM (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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Bush's dad named envoy for quake victims
Dec 16 2005 12:11AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Former President George H.W. Bush was appointed a special U.N. envoy for reconstruction in quake-hit areas of South Asia Thursday and said he accepted the post because he was "heartbroken over the tragedy."
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