Heavy rain in north-west China is said to be disrupting rescue efforts in the Zhouqu county, which was hit by a landslide on Sunday killing more than 1,000 people.
A lawyer representing six of the 20 Cuban dissidents who arrived in Spain last month is threatening legal action unless Madrid grants them political asylum.
China has sent thousands of rescue workers to help search for survivors of deadly landslides that swept through a county in the northwest of the country.
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP):American military officers were flying to Guantanamo Bay from bases around the world yesterday to serve as jurors for war crimes suspects as the offshore tribunal system gears up for one of its busiest weeks under...
WARSAW (AP):The death toll in flooding in central Europe rose to 11 as Poland's interior minister said yesterday that two more people had died in the southwestern region of the country.
JERUSALEM (AP) An Israeli nuclear whistle-blower who spent 18 years behind bars was released from jail yesterday after serving an additional three months for violating his release terms....
Kenya (AP):Kenyans overwhelmingly backed a new constitution to replace a British colonial-era draft that had inflated the powers of the president, preliminary results announced yesterday revealed.
ABOARD THE ROK DOKDO (AP):South Korean troops fired artillery and dropped sonar buoys into the Yellow Sea, as naval drills kicked off yesterday, near the spot where a warship sank four months ago.Some 4,500 South Korean troops...
India (AP):The death toll from civil unrest in Indian-controlled Kashmir rose to 48 yesterday, after two more people were killed when paramilitary forces opened fire on demonstrators angry about decades of Indian rule...
Pakistan (AP):Pakistani authorities began evacuating half a million people living along the swollen Indus River in the country's south yesterday, as floods caused by the worst monsoon rains in decades threatened new...
BEIJING (AP):Police rescued 22 women and children abducted by a human-trafficking ring that operated in southern China for two decades, state media reported yesterday.Eighteen victims were reunited with family...
