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Karzai invites contact with Taliban head
Jan 8 2006 3:23PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai said Sunday that a few hundred Taliban fighters have reconciled with the government and suggested militant leader Mullah Omar should "get in touch" if he wanted to talk peace.
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Land-grab fears dominate quake survivors
Jan 8 2006 2:25PM (CT)
MAIDAN, Pakistan (AP) - The snow is waist-deep, food stocks are dangerously low and villagers say the cold has been killing their children since a devastating earthquake three months ago.
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China investing $3B to clean up river
Jan 8 2006 10:24AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China will invest more than $3 billion over the next five years to clean up the Songhua River, a key source of drinking water for tens of millions of people that was polluted in November by a toxic spill that flowed into Russia, reports said Sunday.
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U.S., S. Korea withdraw power plant staff
Jan 8 2006 8:44AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The United States and South Korea withdrew their last remaining staff from the site of two North Korean nuclear reactors Sunday, ending a decade-old construction project amid rekindled tension over the North's nuclear ambitions.
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Afghan school that taught girls torched
Jan 8 2006 4:29AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Suspected Taliban gunmen burned down a primary school in Afghanistan's main southern city Sunday, the latest in a spate of attacks against teachers and institutions that educate girls.
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U.N. may resume flights to quake-hit areas
Jan 8 2006 1:45AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - U.N. flights to two areas of Pakistan's quake-hit Kashmir region could resume next week, the United Nations said Sunday, a day after suspending air deliveries because dozens of survivors stormed two helicopters.
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Pakistani quake survivors brace for winter
Jan 8 2006 1:36AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Three months after South Asia's monster earthquake, hundreds of thousands of survivors face a fight to survive the Himalayan winter, huddling in unheated tents and tin shacks near the ruins of their homes.
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