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  • 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 6:35 AM )

  • Hard-line Afghan MPs block law protecting women

    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An Afghan legislator says conservative lawmakers have blocked a law that aims to protect women's freedoms, saying parts of it violate Islamic principles. (   05/18/2013 6:18 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 )

  • 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. (   05/17/2013 10:25 AM )

  • Japan envoy leaves NKorea, gives no hints on talks

    TOKYO (AP) -- An adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ended a visit to North Korea on Friday but would not give details of his talks with leaders in Pyongyang. (   05/17/2013 9:05 AM )

  • Dozens hurt in Hong Kong train derailment

    HONG KONG (AP) -- A light rail train has derailed in Hong Kong's northern suburbs, injuring dozens of passengers. (   05/17/2013 8:41 AM )

  • More controversy for Japan party over sex comments

    TOKYO (AP) -- An emerging Japanese nationalist political party whose co-leader outraged many with remarks about Japan's wartime and modern sexual services became embroiled in more controversy Friday when a party lawmaker accused ethnic Koreans of involvement in prostitution. (   05/17/2013 8:04 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 an 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. (   05/17/2013 7:17 AM )

  • Indonesia executes 3 inmates on prison island

    JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia has executed three death row inmates who were convicted of mutilating a man and murdering a family. (   05/17/2013 7:14 AM )

  • Police say bombings at 2 mosques in northwest Pakistan kill at least 10 people

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Police say bombings at 2 mosques in northwest Pakistan kill at least 10 people. (   05/17/2013 5:41 AM )

  • Indian circuses struggle to adapt after court bans

    MUMBAI, India (AP) -- In the early morning heat and dust, daily practice at the Rambo Circus is in full swing. A trapeze creaks as two performers perfect their throws. A Colombian daredevil shouts to his colleagues scrambling atop a giant set of spinning wheels called the Ring of Death. (   05/17/2013 5:04 AM )

  • Philippines fears for workers in Taiwan amid row

    MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The Philippine envoy to Taiwan on Friday advised thousands of Filipino workers there to eat at home and avoid the streets while emotions run high on the island over the shooting death of a fisherman by the Philippine coast guard. (   05/17/2013 4:00 AM )

  • Aussie minister sorry he 'liked' exposed teen pic

    SYDNEY (AP) -- An Australian politician says he has learned a valuable lesson in social networking after he "liked" a Facebook photo without realizing that it showed a teenage prankster exposing himself. (   05/17/2013 12:46 AM )

  • Japan mayor: Lack of sensitivity caused flap

    TOKYO (AP) -- An outspoken Japanese mayor who outraged many with remarks about Japan's wartime and modern sexual services stood by his comments Thursday, but said he may have lacked ''international sensitivity.'' Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said his lack of sensitivity to America's perception of prostitution might have caused outrage to his suggestion earlier this week that U.S. troops based in southern Japan should patronize legal adult entertainment establishments to reduce sex crime there. Hashimoto, co-leader of an emerging nationalist party, also has angered Japan's neighbors by saying the Japanese military's wartime practice of forcing Asian women into prostitution was necessary to maintain discipline and provide relaxation for soldiers. He claimed Thursday that the practice was widely used by many other countries during World War II and that Japan was being unfairly singled out.(   05/17/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Residents shout 'Protest!' over refinery in China

    KUNMING, China (AP) -- More than 2,000 people in southern China unfurled banners and shouted ''Protest! Protest!'' on Thursday to oppose plans for a petroleum refinery, in a large environmental rally that local authorities allowed to go forward in order to let the public vent frustration. The gathering in downtown Kunming -- the second one in the city this month -- was largely peaceful, though there were minor scuffles with police. Witnesses said at least two people were briefly detained, though it was noteworthy that authorities -- apparently eager to appear open and inclusive -- made no effort to shut down the rally. A city vice mayor, He Bo, even tried to meet with the demonstrators, but his attempts to explain the refinery project to the crowd were cut short by the cries of a protester.(   05/17/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Cyclone Mahasen fizzles as it hits Bangladesh

    COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP)-- Cyclone Mahasan weakened Thursday afternoon into a tropical storm and then dissipated, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed over Bangladesh and spared Myanmar almost entirely, meteorological officials said. At least 45 deaths related to Mahasen were reported in Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka, but officials had prepared for a far greater storm. Bangladesh evacuated 1 million people from coastal areas and the United Nations warned that 8.2 million people could face life-threatening conditions. The cyclone lost power as it shed huge amounts of rainfall and then veered west of its predicted path, sparing major Bangladeshi population areas, including Chittagong and the seaside resort of Cox's Bazar, said Mohammad Shah Alam, director of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department.(   05/17/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Google challenger in Vietnam redirecting queries

    HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- A Russian-financed search engine seeking to challenge Google's dominance in Vietnam is redirecting queries for some politically sensitive terms to the American company's search engine, apparently as a way of avoiding government anger or legal liability for sending surfers to sites containing criticism of the ruling party. (   05/16/2013 11:30 PM )

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