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AFP - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki thanked Japan’s Crown Prince Naruhito Thursday for his country’s support in programmes to combat climate change, the government said.

AFP - Japan’s Coast Guard obtained an arrest warrant Thursday for an anti-whaling activist who has been held aboard a Japanese harpoon ship since boarding it in the Antarctic last month, press reports said.

AFP - Cambodia’s parliament approved a controversial anti-corruption law on Thursday, more than 15 years after the legislation was first proposed to tackle graft in the country.

AFP - Bangladesh’s High Court quashed a two-billion-dollar corruption case against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday, her fifth legal reprieve in a month, a state prosecutor said.

AFP - Separate bomb attacks killed five Afghan civilians, including four children, and a NATO soldier in troubled parts of Afghanistan on Thursday, the military said.

AFP - A team probing the anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat, western India, in 2002 has summoned the state’s Hindu nationalist chief minister for questioning, an investigator said Thursday.

AFP - US regulators, under fire for their handling of deadly Toyota defects, defended their record Thursday as the best in the world and vowed an industry-wide probe into electronics used in accelerators.

AFP - Myanmar’s detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi Thursday called on her people to respond to an “unjust” election law issued by the junta that bars her from the vote, her lawyer said.

AFP - Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday called on Myanmar’s people to give a united response to an “unjust” election law that bars her from the vote, her lawyer Nyan Win told AFP.

AP - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is urging citizens along the coast to move quickly to higher ground following five strongly felt aftershocks, including the biggest since last month’s 8.8-magnitude temblor.

AP - Partial preliminary results from four of 18 provinces in Iraq show the prime minister’s bloc and a secular challenger winning two provinces each.

AP - Serious street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in central Athens Thursday as some 30,000 people demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government’s austerity measures.

AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday implored Israelis and Palestinians to move beyond a diplomatic spat that has marred his trip to the region, urging the sides to waste no time in resolving their decades-old conflict despite daunting obstacles.

AP - In a victory for the concept album, Britain’s High Court on Thursday ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band’s original records.

AP - The DNA tests that revealed how the famed boy-king Tutankhamun most likely died solved another of ancient Egypt’s enduring mysteries — the fate of controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten’s mummy. The discovery could help fill out the picture of a fascinating era more than 3,300 years ago when Akhenaten embarked on history’s first attempt at monotheism.