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Afghan authorities are questioning Rayes Abdul Wahid, the Taliban commander who surrendered to government forces Friday, querying him about the location of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar.

The United Nations agency UNICEF is launching a program this week to vaccinate people against measles in Afghanistan, which it says is the disease most preventable by vaccine in the nation.

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been holding reconciliation talks with Myanmar's ruling military, has secretly met with the junta leader.

Pakistani tribal militia are working with the Pakistani military to watch for any Taliban or al Qaeda fighters trying to slip across the Afghan border into Pakistan.

The leader of Afghanistan's interim government Thursday dismissed the circumstances surrounding a decision not to hold what had been described as seven top Taliban government officials who surrendered in Kandahar this week.

Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai has left Japan after attending an international meeting where donors pledged over $4.5 billion to rebuild his country.

One day before his scheduled meeting with President Bush, Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai called on expatriates to return home and help rebuild their shattered homeland.

Indian security officials say at least 15 people have been killed in the disputed region of Kashmir in the past 24 hours in attacks being blamed on Kashmiri militants.

A siege between Indian troops and two militants holed up in a mosque in Kashmir has ended after one of the gunmen was killed and the other surrendered.

Kazakhstan's government has resigned after its prime minister quit, saying it was time to make way for people with new ideas.

Tired of uncertainty about their citizenship, ethnic Kazakh villagers living along the unmarked border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have declared their settlements an independent nation.

At age 4, Jamer Natalaray is eager to grow up. He wants to be big enough to kill and exact revenge, his grandparents say.

South Korean President Kim Dae-jung has shaken up his cabinet replacing eight ministers including his key frontline official on relations with North Korea.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has temporarily taken over the post of foreign minister after he sacked the popular Makiko Tanaka.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has sacked his controversial Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka, saying her power struggles were stalling the passing of crucial budget legislation.

Two Pakistanis have been killed in a shootout with Indian police probing last week's attack on a U.S. government building in the eastern city of Kolkata.

Indian police have shot and killed two men in eastern India blamed for a deadly shooting attack last week on the American Center in Kolkata, India's home secretary Kamal Pande said.

A fifth Indian policemen has died of injuries received when motorcycle-riding gunmen attacked the U.S. cultural center in Kolkata last week, a news report said.

As South Korea promised to push for another summit to repair ties with North Korea in the New Year, Pyongyang renewed demands that have long hindered reconciliation talks.

Plans are in the works for North and South Korean athletes to march together at the opening ceremony of next month's Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, South Korea's Olympics chief says.

Homosexual rights advocates in South Korea have filed a lawsuit against the government for blocking access to the nations first Web site for lesbians and gays.

The Singapore government and religious leaders have condemned the acts of the 13 men now under arrest for suspected links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda group and found to have been engaged in bombing plots in the city-state.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says he may run again in the next election due by the end of 2004.

Hong Kong's highest court has ruled against thousands of mainland Chinese, crushing their dreams of remaining in the prosperous territory and opening the way for their deportation back to the mainland.

Malaysia's main opposition Islamic party is demanding the government withdraw a TV spot it says portrays party leaders as terrorists and implies links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.

Malaysia is reportedly holding 22 members of the Muslim militant group Jemaah Islamiah among a group of 47 arrested on internal security charges.

A man identifying himself as a member of the Taliban Shura, a council of elders, has turned himself in to U.S. forces in Kandahar, Afghanistan, a U.S. military official said Wednesday.

About 200 U.S. Marines returned to base here in the pre-dawn hours Wednesday after conducting a search of a walled compound where it is believed Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar once stayed.

The Marines hardly paused to observe the coming of a new year in Afghanistan as they pressed on in their search for Taliban and al Qaeda leaders. CNN's Bill Hemmer filed this report on today's military operations from the Marine base at Kandahar Airport in Afghanistan.

U.S. soldiers detained five people Saturday along the perimeter of the army base at the Kandahar airport. Underscoring security concerns there, the entire base was placed on full alert as a precaution.

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are in charge at Afghanistan's Kandahar International Airport after taking over from the U.S. Marines.

Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri has cleared one of the final hurdles to a trial over alleged human rights abuses in East Timor, approving the names of judges to sit on the special court scheduled to open later this month.

After days of widespread flooding in peninsular Malaysia, thousands of people have begun to return home as the waters recede.

Pakistan's president says he thinks Osama bin Laden is most likely dead because the suspected terrorist has been unable to get treatment for his kidney disease.

Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf is on his way to Nepal for a summit of South Asian leaders, traveling via a brief stopover in Beijing.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says it is up to India to make the next move to defuse the tensions between the South Asian neighbors.

The military government of Myanmar has confirmed that it is planning to build the country's first nuclear reactor with help from Russia.

U.S. officials believe they have thwarted some terrorist attacks with intelligence gathered during the military campaign in Afghanistan, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday.

The Federated States of Micronesia has asked U.S. authorities to help solve the puzzle of mysterious bamboo rafts that have washed up on its atolls with sun-bleached skeletons aboard.

Bracing itself for possible terrorist strikes, India has unveiled an elaborate security plan for its annual Republic Day parade using commandos, sharp shooters and anti-aircraft guns.

Taking advantage of new rules, Japanese fishermen last year sold more than 50 whales that had become trapped in their nets.

A team of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has arrived for its first official visit of a nuclear laboratory in North Korea.

There is growing international pressure on both India and Pakistan to step back from a standoff on the border as leaders of the two nuclear powers gather in Nepal for a South Asian summit.

New Zealand police have beefed up security for a golf tournament featuring Tiger Woods after a letter containing cyanide was sent to the United States embassy.

John Walker, the California resident captured last November fighting with the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, will likely return to the United States within a week, U.S. government officials told CNN on Saturday.

Pakistan will hold elections by October 12 to replace the military government headed by General Pervez Musharraf, Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar said Thursday.

Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, announced a ban Saturday on four militant Islamic groups, including two that have been blamed for the December 13 attack on the Indian Parliament that killed 14 people.

Pakistan's president says he thinks Osama bin Laden is most likely dead because the suspected terrorist has been unable to get treatment for his kidney disease.

Pakistani military ruler General Pervez Musharraf has urged India's leader to join him in the pursuit of peace and end a tense military standoff between their nuclear-armed forces on their border.