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World Briefing | Asia: Australia: Cause Cited in Qantas Blast

Posted: August 29th, 2008, 10:52pm EDT by By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Air safety investigators say a pressurized oxygen cylinder set off the blast that blew a large hole in the side of a Qantas jet last month, forcing an emergency landing.
World Briefing | Asia: India: 120,000 Evacuated From Flooding

Posted: August 29th, 2008, 10:52pm EDT by By REUTERS

Indian troops helped evacuate more than 120,000 people from monsoon-related flooding in eastern India, officials said Thursday.
World Briefing | Asia: Nepal: Adoption Abuses Seen

Posted: August 29th, 2008, 10:50pm EDT by By REUTERS

The abduction and sale of children in purported adoptions are rife in Nepal, a United Nations study released on Friday said.
Report Accuses Officials In China of Embezzlement

Posted: August 29th, 2008, 4:32am EDT by By DAVID BARBOZA

A report from China’s top auditor says that ten central government departments “misused or embezzled” more than $660 million last year.
Car Bombing of Police Bus Kills 8 in Pakistan

Posted: August 29th, 2008, 2:59am EDT by By JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH

The bombing followed a pattern of Taliban attacks against government security installations in retaliation for a fierce Pakistani campaign against Islamic militants.
Faiths Clash, Displacing Thousands in East India

Posted: August 29th, 2008, 2:58am EDT by By HARI KUMAR

Days of Christian-versus-Hindu retaliatory violence sparked by the killing of a Hindu leader has left at least 3,000 people, most of them Christians, homeless.
Iraq Signs Oil Deal With China Worth Up to $3 Billion

Posted: August 29th, 2008, 2:52am EDT by By ERICA GOODE and RIYADH MOHAMMED

The contract was the first major oil deal the Iraq government has made with a foreign country since 2003.
World Briefing | Asia: China: Officers Killed in Uighur Clash

Posted: August 29th, 2008, 2:33am EDT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Chinese police clashed with members of the Uighur ethnic minority in the far western region of Xinjiang, authorities and an activist said Thursday.
World Briefing | Asia: India: Dalai Lama Admitted to Hospital

Posted: August 29th, 2008, 2:32am EDT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Dalai Lama, 73, has been hospitalized in Mumbai to undergo tests on Friday for “abdominal discomfort,” his spokesman said.
China Defends Its Reviled Soccer Team

Posted: August 29th, 2008, 2:25am EDT by By EDWARD WONG

The government is taking a step to shore up the reputation of that most dubious of national sports icons: the men’s soccer team.