AP EXCLUSIVE: Taliban offer to free US soldier
Kathy Gannon, Associated Press |
posted 6 minutes ago
The Afghan Taliban say they are ready to hand over a U.S. soldier held captive since 2009 in exchange for five of their senior operatives being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Medical care lags behind Afghan military growth
Kristin M. Hall, Associated Press |
posted 16 minutes ago
The young Afghan soldier lay in great pain on a cot at an army base, his uniform pants cut up to his thigh so medics could clean the wound in his right knee where he was shot fighting insurgents.
India floods strand thousands; more than 100 dead
Biswajeet Banerjee, Associated Press |
posted 19 minutes ago
Days after floods killed more than 100 people _ possibly many more _ rescuers used helicopters and climbed through mountain paths to reach nearly 4,000 people trapped by landslides in a narrow valley near a Hindu shrine in the northern Himalayas, officials said Thursday.
SKorean nuclear operator raided in cable probe
Associated Press |
posted 46 minutes ago
South Korea's sole nuclear operator says investigators raided its offices as part of a probe into nuclear plant cables.
AP PHOTOS: Bangladesh collapse left many amputees
Associated Press |
posted 51 minutes ago
It was the worst disaster in the history of the garment industry. When the Rana Plaza factory building crashed down in April, 1,129 people were killed. But many others had to sacrifice their limbs to survive.
Singapore haze at worst yet, Malaysia schools shut
Associated Press |
posted Jun 20th - 12:29am
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 Jun 20th - 12:16am
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.
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