To defang Taliban, some look to private schools
10:35AM CT
QUTBAL, Pakistan (AP) - The schoolhouse is so tiny that dozens of pupils have to sit outdoors. They're lucky if their teachers have more than a basic education. And the chanting of math equations and Quranic verses gets so loud that the children have a hard time hearing themselves.
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Afghan ministry: NATO strike kills Afghan soldiers
9:47AM CT
KABUL (AP) - NATO and Afghan authorities were investigating Saturday whether an airstrike during the intensive search for two missing U.S. paratroopers mistakenly killed eight Afghans and wounded more than 20 Afghan and American forces.
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Afghan gov't says UN representative out of line
9:18AM CT
KABUL (AP) - Pushing back against international criticism, Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the top U.N. official in the country overstepped his authority by giving instructions on how to rid the government of corruption and warlords.
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Unique homecoming to Vietnam for US commander
7:47AM CT
DANANG, Vietnam (AP) - On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming — as the commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer.
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Pakistan's fashionistas defy Taliban
6:36AM CT
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with shoulders — and tattoos — exposed. Male models wore long, Islamic robes as well as shorts and sequined T-shirts.
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UN: About 200 staff to be pulled from Afghanistan
6:13AM CT
KABUL (AP) - The U.N. says hundreds of its staffers will be temporarily pulled out of Afghanistan in the wake of an Oct. 28 attack that killed five of its workers, but it's still determining exactly how many.
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Pakistan: 12 militants killed in offensive
6:01AM CT
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistani soldiers killed 12 militants in gunbattles over the past day, officials said Saturday, as government forces pressed on with their offensive in the mountainous Taliban sanctuary of South Waziristan.
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Obama to meet Myanmar, other ASEAN leaders
4:14AM CT
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - President Barack Obama will meet leaders of Southeast Asian nations, including Myanmar, in a high-level affirmation of Washington's new policy of engaging the military-ruled country despite its dismal human rights record.
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Thaksin on a mission to humiliate Thai government
Nov 6 2009 11:30PM CT
BANGKOK (AP) - Thailand's fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has spent much of the past three years roaming the globe, shopping for diamonds in Africa, golfing at Asian resorts — and humiliating the government from a distance.
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Dalai Lama visit highlights India-China tensions
Nov 6 2009 10:38AM CT
TAWANG, India (AP) - This remote town in the Himalayan foothills spruced up its monasteries Friday to prepare for the Dalai Lama's arrival, a trip highlighting the growing friction between China and India — two nuclear-armed giants vying for economic and political power in the region.
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