Beirut (AFP) Jul 27, 2006 - Israeli warplanes carried out new air strikes Thursday on south Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley to the east of the capital, keeping up the pressure on two strongholds of the militant group Hezbollah, police said.
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Jul 27, 2006 - China, Japan and South Korea attempted to restart stalled nuclear talks Thursday as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her North Korean counterpart headed for a security forum here.
Beirut (AFP) Jul 27, 2006 - Israeli warplanes carried out new air strikes Thursday on Hezbollah strongholds in south Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley to the east of the capital, killing three people, police said.
Jakarta (AFP) Jul 27, 2006 - A 64-year-old Indonesian has been killed by elephants rampaging through a hamlet on Indonesia's Sumatra island, officials and state media reported Thursday.
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Jul 27, 2006 - The chief US negotiator on North Korea said Thursday Pyongyang would apparently not rejoin stalled talks on its nuclear programme on the sidelines of an Asian security forum.
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Jul 27, 2006 - With North Korea firing off missiles, carnage in Lebanon, rockets raining on Israel and killings convulsing Iraq, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in no mood for frivolity.
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Jul 27, 2006 - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived for a regional security forum in Malaysia Thursday holding out little hope that North Korea would return to stalled talks on its nuclear weapons.
Washington (AFP) Jul 27, 2006 - The US House of Representatives approved a controversial US-India civilian nuclear energy deal, which supporters said will be the cornerstone of a new strategic alliance between the two countries.
Paris (AFP) Jul 27, 2006 - French software group Bull said on Thursday that sales in the first half of the year had slipped but held to its reduced forecast for an operating profit for the whole of the year.
Tokyo (AFP) Jul 27, 2006 - Japanese computer maker Fujitsu said Thursday its net profit dropped 73.4 percent in the quarter to June due to a lack of special gains that had inflated its earnings a year earlier.
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Jul 27, 2006 - North Korea will not rejoin six-nation nuclear talks until the United States drops financial sanctions, a spokesman for the country's delegation to a regional security forum said Thursday.
Paris (AFP) Jul 27, 2006 - French digital technology group Thomson said on Thursday it had slashed a net loss in the first half of the year, sparking a sharp rise in its share price on the Paris stock exchange.
Beijing (AFP) Jul 27, 2006 - Chinese police said a protester allegedly beaten by law enforcement personnel had been paralyzed from self-inflicted injuries, a New York-based rights group reported Thursday.
Beijing (AFP) Jul 27, 2006 - Torrential rains from Typhoon Kaemi left more than 80 people dead or missing in China Thursday, with a military barracks swept away, landslides wiping out thousands of homes and rivers bursting their banks.
Helsinki (AFP) Jul 27, 2006 - Finnish paper and forestry group UPM-Kymmene reported strong second-quarter earnings on Thursday, with operating profit and sales on the rise.
Jakarta (AFP) Jul 27, 2006 - Two smuggled orangutans repatriated to Indonesia this week are to be prepared for a return to their home in the jungles of Kalimantan, the organisation charged with their care said Thursday.
