Nearly 6,000 Chinese babies still hospitalized from tainted milk, dairy farmers get subsidies

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) _ Escalating tensions between Thailand and Cambodia over a disputed border near a historic temple erupted Wednesday in a deadly gunbattle, prompting officials to quickly declare that they would resolve the dispute through talks, not bullets. >>

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) _ North Korea threatened Thursday to break off all relations with South Korea if its new conservative government continues what the North called a policy of reckless confrontation with the communist nation. >>

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) _ Police in northwest Pakistan say that a suicide car bomber has killed at least two security officials. >>

YAZD, Iran (AP) _ It all seemed like the stirrings of a major political challenge to Iran's firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: schoolchildren serenaded the popular reformist leader he replaced and a hometown audience chanted Wednesday: "Our next president." >>

BAGHDAD (AP) _ American troops could face trial before Iraqi courts for major crimes committed off base and when not on missions, under a draft security pact hammered out in months of tortuous negotiations, Iraqi officials familiar with the accord said Wednesday. >>

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) _ The Group of Eight major industrial nations announced Wednesday they will hold a global summit — perhaps as early as November in New York — to forge common action to prevent another economic meltdown. >>