HONG KONG, Aug. 21, 2008 (Reuters) — A typhoon that killed four people in the Philippines is heading towards Hong Kong and may hit the city dead-on if it continues along its current track, said the Hong Kong Observatory. ... > full story
TBILISI, Aug. 21, 2008 (Reuters) — Russia said it would complete a pullback of troops in Georgia by the end of Friday but it stopped short of the extensive withdrawal demanded by the West, saying it would keep a force deep inside Georgia's heartland. ... > full story
BEIJING, Aug. 20, 2008 (Reuters) — At least eight American blogger-activists and several other foreigners have been detained in Beijing as the government intensifies a crackdown on pro-Tibetan protests in the home stretch of the Olympics, rights groups said on Wednesday. ... > full story
ON BOARD FLIGHT TO BEIJING, Aug. 20, 2008 (Reuters) — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged China on Wednesday to make more progress on human rights, saying the issue needed to be addressed not only during the Olympic Games. ... > full story
BANGKOK, Aug. 15, 2008 (Reuters) — Thailand's Supreme Court denied a request on Friday by the lawyers of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to have a corruption case against him and his wife suspended after they skipped bail and went into exile. ... > full story
KATHMANDU, Aug. 14, 2008 (Reuters) — Nepali police detained 760 Tibetan exiles in renewed crackdowns against protests outside the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu on Thursday, police and witnesses said. ... > full story
BEIJING, Aug. 14, 2008 (Reuters) — The leader of China's restive far-western region of Xinjiang has warned of a "life and death struggle" against terrorism, following a series of attacks that raised fears of threats to the Olympic Games. ... > full story
PARIS, Aug. 13, 2008 (Reuters) — French parliamentarians who met the Dalai Lama on Wednesday quoted him as saying there was a risk China would accelerate the settlement of one million Han Chinese in Tibet immediately after the Olympic Games. ... > full story
MADRID, Aug. 13, 2008 (Reuters) — Spanish basketball player Jose Calderon rejected international media accusations on Wednesday that slit-eyed gestures by his team at the Beijing Olympics were racist and said he had great respect for Asian people. ... > full story
BANGKOK, Aug. 13, 2008 (Reuters) — Thailand has begun the lengthy process of trying to extradite former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who skipped bail this week and went into exile in London, a state prosecutor said on Wednesday. ... > full story
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Relief groups assist refugees caught in Georgia-Russia conflict Aug. 21, 2008 (Cleveland Jewish News) — Vissarion Manasherov left his Georgian city as the bombs were falling.. One day later, on Monday, with bombs still falling, he returned to Gori, a ...
G7 Calls for More Aid to Georgians Aug. 21, 2008 (The St. Petersburg Times, Russia) — The world's major industrial countries are calling for increased economic support for war-torn Georgia.. Finance ministers from the Group of Seven ...
Red Cross Will Visit Detainees Aug. 21, 2008 (Moscow Times) — Aid workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross, who have reached South Ossetia, will focus on visiting detainees and helping ...
U.S., Georgia Dispute Russian Claim of Troop Pullback Aug. 21, 2008 (Yahoo! News) — U.S. and Georgian officials disputed Russia's assertion that it had begun withdrawing its forces to the separatist region of South Ossetia, leaving ...
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