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  • Chinese premier visits India to boost ties

    NEW DELHI (AP) -- Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier visited India on Sunday on his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties. (   05/19/2013 1:47 PM )

  • Death toll in collapsed Indonesia mine rises to 9

    TIMIKA, Indonesia (AP) -- Rescuers recovered the bodies of four more workers from a collapsed underground room at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the confirmed death toll to nine, police and company officials said Sunday. Nineteen other workers were missing and feared dead. (   05/19/2013 11:38 AM )

  • Karzai seeks Indian military aid amid Pakistan row

    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai will seek increased military aid from India during a three-day visit starting Monday and will discuss recent cross-border clashes with Pakistan, India's archrival, an aide said. (   05/19/2013 10:39 AM )

  • Factory owner barred from leaving Bangladesh

    DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- The High Court in Bangladesh's capital asked authorities Sunday to prevent the owner of a garment factory where 112 people died in a fire last year from leaving the country, a lawyer said. (   05/19/2013 8:19 AM )

  • North Korea fires projectile into eastern waters

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area, officials said. (   05/19/2013 6:59 AM )

  • China asks NKorea to release fishing boat, crew

    BEIJING (AP) -- China says it is urging North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat whose owner publicized the plight of its 16 crew in an online account saying they were seized by gun-wielding North Koreans earlier this month and held for ransom. (   05/19/2013 10:24 PM )

  • Pakistan repeats vote in Karachi despite killing

    KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan held a repeat election on Sunday in an upscale area of the southern city of Karachi that was plagued with allegations of vote-rigging, despite the shooting death of a senior member of former cricket star Imran Khan's party. (   05/19/2013 6:19 AM )

  • Second Vietnamese TV provider drops CNN and BBC

    HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- A popular Vietnamese cable television provider has stopped providing CNN and BBC, saying the channels don't have the licenses needed under a law stipulating that much content on foreign channels must be translated into Vietnamese. (   05/19/2013 5:39 AM )

  • French president signs law legalizing gay marriage, adoption

    PARIS -- France will see its first gay weddings within days, after French President Francois Hollande signed a law Saturday authorizing marriage and adoption by same-sex couples and ending months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate. Hollande's office said he signed the bill Saturday morning, a day after the Constitutional Council struck down a challenge to the law and ruled it in line with France's constitution. Hollande, a Socialist, had made legalizing gay marriage one of his campaign pledges last year. While polls for years have shown majority support for gay marriage in France, adoption by same-sex couples is more controversial.(   05/19/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Chinese premier heads to India to boost ties

    NEW DELHI (AP) -- Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier is heading to India on his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to expedite efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties. (   05/18/2013 11:59 PM )

  • Member of Pakistani cricket star's party killed

    KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Police say gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party. (   05/18/2013 4:58 PM )

  • SKorea says NKorea fires 3 short-range missiles

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions. (   05/18/2013 2:38 PM )

  • Afghan lawmakers block law on women's rights

    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women's freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles and encourage disobedience. (   05/18/2013 11:25 AM )

  • Rescuers spot bodies at collapsed Indonesian mine

    TIMIKA, Indonesia (AP) -- Rescuers searching for 23 trapped workers at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia spotted six bodies Saturday but weren't able to immediately retrieve them because of falling debris, a company official said. (   05/18/2013 10:40 AM )

  • AP Impact: Myanmar sanctions list languishes

    YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- If you're American and want to do business in Myanmar, there's a list of people and companies you have to steer clear of by law. But it leaves off a former minister's son U.S. officials suspected of brokering arms deals with North Korea, and high-rolling relatives of the man who led the repressive military government for 19 years. (   05/18/2013 9:24 AM )

  • 64 including Saudi Arabian woman scale Everest

    KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Mountaineering officials say 64 climbers, including a Saudi Arabian woman, have successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the mountain. (   05/18/2013 9:02 AM )

  • Afghan police chief shot dead outside home

    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Motorcycle-riding gunmen assassinated a police chief in front of his house after he led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan, an official said Saturday. (   05/18/2013 3:51 AM )

  • China arrests man over fake plane bomb threats

    BEIJING (AP) -- A man has been arrested for allegedly making fake bomb threats against several domestic flights bound for Shanghai, Chinese officials said Saturday. (   05/18/2013 2:12 AM )

  • Myanmar leader frees prisoners ahead of US visit

    YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's president has pardoned at least 20 political prisoners just ahead of a historic visit to the United States that will highlight the two sides' improved relations brought about by the former pariah nation's democratic reforms. (   05/18/2013 12:57 AM )

  • Cultural attitudes impede organ donations in China

    BEIJING (AP) -- China is phasing out its reliance on executed prisoners for donated organs, but an architect of the country's transplant system said Friday that ingrained cultural attitudes are impeding the rise of donations among the general population. Almost all donated organs in China used to come from executed prisoners. A growing proportion now come from ordinary people, but the government is seeking to eliminate prisoner donations altogether. However, former vice health minister Huang Jiefu said Friday that there was little hope of changing a requirement that family members give consent before organs are donated, even if a person had expressed a desire to donate. ''China is a Confucian society. It's strongly hierarchical and the family's concerns usually trump those of the individual,'' said Huang.(   05/18/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Myanmar leader frees prisoners ahead of US visit

    YANGON, Myanmar (AP)-- Myanmar's president pardoned at least 20 political prisoners on Friday, just ahead of a historic state visit to the United States that will highlight the two sides' improved relations brought about by the former pariah nation's democratic reforms. Ye Aung, a member of the government's political prisoner scrutiny committee, said 20 prisoners had been freed so far Friday, with more releases expected. The exact number to be released was unclear, though a former prisoner who tracks releases, Ba Myo Thein, said he had heard that at least 32 would be freed. President Thein Sein will visit the White House on Monday, the first state visit by a Myanmar leader in almost 47 years.(   05/18/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Southern China rains kill 55, leave 14 missing

    BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese authorities say rainstorms that battered southern China this week have killed 55 people and left 14 others missing. (   05/17/2013 11:29 PM )

  • Bombs kill 9 inside elite Afghan housing complex

    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Two bombs hidden in a motorcycle and a car exploded inside an elite gated community linked to the family of Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday evening, killing at least nine people and wounding more than 70 near the southern city of Kandahar, an official said. (   05/17/2013 5:38 PM )

  • Bombs at mosques in northwest Pakistan kill 15

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Bombs that exploded outside two mosques in a village in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 15 people Friday, underlining the challenge of militant violence facing a new government set to take power under the leadership of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. (   05/17/2013 12:38 PM )

  • Rescuers keep digging to reach Indonesian miners

    TIMIKA, Indonesia (AP) -- Rescuers were digging for a fourth day Friday trying to reach 23 workers trapped in a caved-in tunnel at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia. (   05/17/2013 11:34 AM )

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