India floods strand thousands; more than 100 dead
Biswajeet Banerjee, Associated Press |
posted 5 minutes ago
Days after floods killed more than 100 people _ possibly many more _ Indian officials say rescuers are using helicopters and climbing through mountain paths to reach nearly 4,000 people trapped by landslides in a narrow valley near a Hindu shrine in the northern Himalayas.
Singapore haze at worst yet, Malaysia schools shut
Associated Press |
posted 8 minutes ago
Singapore urged people to remain indoors amid unprecedented levels of air pollution Thursday as a smoky haze wrought by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia worsened dramatically. Nearby Malaysia closed 200 schools and banned open burning in some areas.
SKorea adopts tougher penalties for sex offenders
Associated Press |
posted 21 minutes ago
South Korea says it's taking tougher action against sex offenders by allowing plaintiffs other than the direct targets of sexual violence to press charges of rape or sexual harassment.
Asian stocks down as Fed sees slower bond buys
Teresa Cerojano, Associated Press |
posted Jun 19th - 11:27pm
Asian stock markets plummeted Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it could start scaling back its huge economic stimulus program later this year.
China jails 11 for extremist crimes in Muslim west
Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press |
posted Jun 19th - 10:02pm
Chinese courts have sentenced 11 people for inciting religious extremism and related crimes in the northwestern Muslim region of Xinjiang, just weeks ahead of the anniversary of bloody ethnic rioting that spread through the region four years ago.
China's Xi harks back to Mao in party 'cleanup'
Gillian Wong, Associated Press |
posted Jun 19th - 8:12pm
China's new leader Xi Jinping is commanding wayward Communist Party cadres to purify themselves of corruption, and he's summed it up in a pithy slogan as Mao Zedong might have done: Look in the mirror, take a bath.
US tries saving Taliban talks after Karzai objects
David Rising and Amir Shah, Associated Press |
posted Jun 19th - 4:14pm
Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the militants.
Militants kill 6 soldiers in northwest Pakistan
Riaz Khan, Associated Press |
posted Jun 19th - 1:48pm
A senior police official says militants attacked a military convoy with rocket-propelled grenades and other heavy weapons in northwest Pakistan, killing six soldiers.
China, North Korea hold strategic talks in Beijing
Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press |
posted Jun 19th - 1:39pm
Negotiators from North Korea and China held strategic talks in Beijing on Wednesday as they work to repair strained relations, but offered little indication they will lead to a resumption of nuclear disarmament talks any time soon.
China, Vietnam agree to set up hotline
Associated Press |
posted Jun 19th - 10:44am
China and Vietnam agreed on Wednesday to set up a hotline to resolve fishing incidents in disputed South China Sea waters that have been a frequent source of tensions between the two ideological allies.
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