S. Korean Tourist Is Shot Dead In North- July 12, 2008 TOKYO, July 11 -- A North Korean soldier shot dead a middle-aged South Korean housewife Friday after she walked into a restricted area near a mountain resort inside the communist North.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/332757605/AR20080711... Pakistan Wants 'Partnership' With U.S., Official Says- July 12, 2008 The new government of Pakistan is seeking a "partnership" with the United States and wants tangible signs that the Bush administration will increase aid and embrace Pakistani democracy, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said yesterday.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/333205468/AR20080711... U.N. Zimbabwe Measure Vetoed by Russia, China- July 12, 2008 UNITED NATIONS, July 11 -- Russia and China on Friday vetoed a U.S.-sponsored Security Council resolution that would have imposed an arms embargo on Zimbabwe and sanctioned President Robert Mugabe and his top advisers for rigging the country's presidential elections.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/333230622/AR20080711... India's Unlikely Obama- July 11, 2008 NEW DELHI -- An 81-year-old Hindu nationalist who wants to become India's next prime minister has chosen an unlikely model for his election efforts, the Internet-based campaign of Sen. Barack Obama.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/332237164/AR20080710... Pakistani Lawyer At Helm of Change- July 11, 2008 Leading a motorcade marathon from Islamabad to Lahore in May last year, lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan threaded his way gingerly through throngs of impassioned Pakistanis lining the road in the 110-degree heat. At the climax of his campaign to get the country's suspended Supreme Court chief justice reinstated,...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/332237165/AR20080710... China's Silencing Season- July 10, 2008 BEIJING -- Outside the small restaurant where he was having dinner, Huang Qi saw men he recognized, plainclothes police officers. He got on his cellphone to alert colleagues: Something might happen tonight, he said. We were followed.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/331314136/AR20080709... At Summit, More Promises of African Aid- July 10, 2008 RUSUTSU, Japan, July 9 -- The United States and other members of the Group of Eight industrialized countries this week reiterated their commitment to doubling aid to Africa by 2010, seeking to assuage growing concern that they will miss the ambitious targets they set three years ago in Gleneagles...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/331283680/AR20080709... G-8 Conference Tackles Global Warming Treaty- July 9, 2008 RUSUTSU, Japan, July 9-- The leaders of the countries most responsible for greenhouse gas emissions pledged Wednesday to combat global warming, but developing countries such as China and India continued to balk at the approach favored by the United States.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/330696763/AR20080709... U.S. Joins G-8 Plan To Halve Emissions- July 9, 2008 RUSUTSU, Japan, July 9 -- The United States for the first time joined the major industrialized countries Tuesday in committing to try to halve greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050. President Bush immediately began promoting the plan with skeptical developing country leaders who would be crucial to its...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/329755394/AR20080708... China Says N. Korea Talks to Resume This Week- July 9, 2008 BEIJING, July 8 -- After a nine-month stall, China announced Tuesday that formal negotiations will resume this week on dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program, including ways to verify its recent accounting of plutonium-based nuclear material.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/329717238/AR20080708... |