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China coal mine blast leaves 15 dead: media
AFP – 54 mins ago

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BEIJING (AFP) - Fifteen people have been killed in a coal mine blast in northern China, state media reported Saturday, in the latest accident to hit the notoriously dangerous industry. Full Story »
US casualties in Afghanistan soar to record highs
AP – 1 hr 4 mins ago

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KABUL, Afghanistan - In a summer of suffering, America's military death toll in Afghanistan is rising, with back-to-back record months for U.S. losses in the grinding conflict. All signs point to more bloodshed in the months ahead, straining the already shaky international support for the war. Full Story »
U.S., India formally sign nuclear reprocessing pact
Reuters – 2 hrs 19 mins ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and India on Friday formally signed an agreement on reprocessing spent nuclear fuel that U.S. officials hope will allow American firms a share of India's $150 billion nuclear energy market. Full Story »
Expo shows illegal pet trade rampant in Indonesia
AP – 2 hrs 29 mins ago

AP

JAKARTA, Indonesia - The most threatened tortoise in the world is being sold openly at a plant and animal exposition in the heart of Indonesia's capital, highlighting concerns about the rampant — and growing — illegal pet trade. Full Story »
China FM signs cooperation deal in Mexico
AFP – 2 hrs 37 mins ago

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MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi signed on Friday a four-year cooperation accord with Mexico aimed at boosting political and economic ties. Full Story »
Turkey sued in California over Armenian genocide
Reuters – 2 hrs 54 mins ago

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lawyers for two Armenian men have sued Turkey and two of its major banks, claiming they and others were victims of genocide and seeking what could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. Full Story »
US, India sign nuclear reprocessing pact
AFP – Fri Jul 30, 7:16 pm ET

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States and India signed an agreement Friday enabling the Asian power to reprocess American nuclear material, a key requirement under their landmark atomic energy pact. Full Story »
Jury weighs B-2 engineer's alleged secret-selling
AP – Fri Jul 30, 6:07 pm ET

HONOLULU - A federal jury in Hawaii has started deliberating in the trial of a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of selling military secrets to China. Full Story »
White House urges halt to spilling of war secrets
AP – Fri Jul 30, 5:45 pm ET

AP

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration on Friday implored the website WikiLeaks to stop posting secret Afghanistan war documents, as the Pentagon pressed its investigation of the massive security breach by bringing a soldier under scrutiny back to the U.S. for trial. Full Story »
Floods kill more than 400 in Pakistan's northwest
Reuters – Fri Jul 30, 4:49 pm ET

Reuters

PESHAWAR (Reuters) - Heavy monsoon rains have triggered the worst floods in decades in Pakistan's northwest, killing more than 400 people and forcing thousands from their homes as authorities struggle to reach stranded villagers. Full Story »
Cambodia claims win in UNESCO tussle over temple
AP – Fri Jul 30, 1:26 pm ET

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia declared victory Friday in a diplomatic standoff with Thailand after the U.N. cultural agency agreed to consider its plan for managing a temple that is on land claimed by both countries. Full Story »
SKorea cracks down on marriage brokers after death
AP – Fri Jul 30, 12:30 pm ET

AP

SEOUL, South Korea - Young and poor, the Vietnamese woman jumped at the chance to marry a South Korean introduced to her through a matchmaking agency. Full Story »
Floods ravage NW Pakistan, kill 430 people
AP – Fri Jul 30, 12:20 pm ET

AP

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as the government said 430 people had been killed in the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929. Full Story »
Minority Islamic sect under fire in Indonesia
AP – Fri Jul 30, 11:03 am ET

MANISLOR, Indonesia - A minority Islamic sect told followers Friday to prepare for war after rock-throwing mobs attacked one of their mosques in central Indonesia, calling its members heretics. Full Story »
Soldiers fire on protesters in Kashmir, 3 killed
AP – Fri Jul 30, 11:00 am ET

AP

SRINAGAR, India - Paramilitary soldiers fired on thousands of demonstrators in Indian Kashmir on Friday, killing three men and wounding at least 80 others as protests against Indian rule spread across the disputed region. Full Story »
China says it opposes EU sanctions against Iran
AP – Fri Jul 30, 9:26 am ET

BEIJING - China said Friday that it opposes the sanctions the European Union is imposing on Iran over its disputed nuclear program, saying it supports Iran's renewed efforts to hold talks on a possible swap of nuclear fuel. Full Story »
Grenade wounds 1; Thai court frees protest leader
AP – Fri Jul 30, 8:07 am ET

Reuters

BANGKOK - A grenade exploded near a Bangkok shopping mall early Friday, wounding one person in the second explosion in a week in the Thai capital still rattled by deadly political clashes and living under emergency rule. Full Story »
US 'carefully watching' Myanmar-NKorea talks
AP – Fri Jul 30, 7:25 am ET

AP

YANGON, Myanmar - The U.S. said it is carefully watching the budding secretive relationship between Myanmar and North Korea for signs of nuclear cooperation, as official talks between the authoritarian regimes entered a second day Friday. Full Story »