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Boy foils attempt on Maldives president
Jan 8 2008 11:08PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A quick-thinking Boy Scout foiled an assassination attempt on the president of the Maldives on Tuesday, grabbing an attacker's knife as the man leapt from a crowd and lunged at the leader, an official said.
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Boy foils attempt on Maldives president
Jan 8 2008 11:08PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A quick-thinking Boy Scout foiled an assassination attempt on the president of the Maldives on Tuesday, grabbing an attacker's knife as the man leapt from a crowd and lunged at the leader, an official said.
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Benazir Bhutto's son meets the media
Jan 8 2008 1:49PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Sweating slightly, the son of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto slipped into the basement of a swanky London hotel, took his place behind a bank of microphones and looked up. Cameras flashed. He barely blinked.
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Benazir Bhutto's son meets the media
Jan 8 2008 1:49PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Sweating slightly, the son of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto slipped into the basement of a swanky London hotel, took his place behind a bank of microphones and looked up. Cameras flashed. He barely blinked.
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Benazir Bhutto's son meets the media
Jan 8 2008 1:49PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Sweating slightly, the son of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto slipped into the basement of a swanky London hotel, took his place behind a bank of microphones and looked up. Cameras flashed. He barely blinked.
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Benazir Bhutto's son meets the media
Jan 8 2008 1:49PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Sweating slightly, the son of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto slipped into the basement of a swanky London hotel, took his place behind a bank of microphones and looked up. Cameras flashed. He barely blinked.
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British detectives meet with Musharraf
Jan 8 2008 1:37PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Pervez Musharraf told British forensic experts Tuesday they would have a free hand in investigating the circumstances surrounding the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, a government official said.
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British detectives meet with Musharraf
Jan 8 2008 1:37PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Pervez Musharraf told British forensic experts Tuesday they would have a free hand in investigating the circumstances surrounding the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, a government official said.
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British detectives meet with Musharraf
Jan 8 2008 1:37PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Pervez Musharraf told British forensic experts Tuesday they would have a free hand in investigating the circumstances surrounding the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, a government official said.
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British detectives meet with Musharraf
Jan 8 2008 1:37PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Pervez Musharraf told British forensic experts Tuesday they would have a free hand in investigating the circumstances surrounding the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, a government official said.
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British detectives meet with Musharraf
Jan 8 2008 1:37PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Pervez Musharraf told British forensic experts Tuesday they would have a free hand in investigating the circumstances surrounding the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, a government official said.
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British detectives meet with Musharraf
Jan 8 2008 1:37PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Pervez Musharraf told British forensic experts Tuesday they would have a free hand in investigating the circumstances surrounding the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, a government official said.
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Bomb kills Sri Lanka government minister
Jan 8 2008 1:37PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A roadside bombing blamed on the Tamil Tigers killed a Sri Lankan government minister Tuesday in an attack likely to intensify the civil war already raging across this Indian Ocean island nation.
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Bomb kills Sri Lanka government minister
Jan 8 2008 1:37PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A roadside bombing blamed on the Tamil Tigers killed a Sri Lankan government minister Tuesday in an attack likely to intensify the civil war already raging across this Indian Ocean island nation.
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Bomb kills Sri Lanka government minister
Jan 8 2008 1:37PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A roadside bombing blamed on the Tamil Tigers killed a Sri Lankan government minister Tuesday in an attack likely to intensify the civil war already raging across this Indian Ocean island nation.
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Malaysia backtracks on Indian worker ban
Jan 8 2008 1:20PM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A Malaysian Cabinet minister denied Tuesday that the country had frozen the recruitment of workers from India, a surprising turnaround that came after other officials read out a government order on the ban.
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Malaysia backtracks on Indian worker ban
Jan 8 2008 1:20PM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A Malaysian Cabinet minister denied Tuesday that the country had frozen the recruitment of workers from India, a surprising turnaround that came after other officials read out a government order on the ban.
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Malaysia backtracks on Indian worker ban
Jan 8 2008 1:20PM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A Malaysian Cabinet minister denied Tuesday that the country had frozen the recruitment of workers from India, a surprising turnaround that came after other officials read out a government order on the ban.
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Indonesia's Suharto's health worsens
Jan 8 2008 10:58AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Former Indonesian dictator Suharto's health deteriorated Tuesday, with signs of internal bleeding, fluid in his lungs and heart complications, doctors said.
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Indonesia's Suharto's health worsens
Jan 8 2008 10:58AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Former Indonesian dictator Suharto's health deteriorated Tuesday, with signs of internal bleeding, fluid in his lungs and heart complications, doctors said.
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Afghan bomb kills 2 coalition soldiers
Jan 8 2008 6:21AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A roadside bomb killed two soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition in eastern Afghanistan, and a suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a border police patrol in the south, killing a policeman, officials said.
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Canadian: Thailand police killed friend
Jan 8 2008 5:48AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A Canadian woman wounded in a scuffle with a Thai policeman said the officer attacked her, fatally shot her friend and then fabricated a story that the pair had picked a fight with him, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
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Chinese official fired from post
Jan 8 2008 5:45AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese official who put on an elaborate funeral for his mother that included erecting a massive stage and hiring a 20-piece band has been fired from his Communist Party post and demoted, a state-run newspaper report Tuesday.
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Koreans mourn, seek clues in deadly fire
Jan 8 2008 4:03AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - More than 1,000 South Koreans burned incense and offered flowers for the dead Tuesday as police sought to determine what caused a fire at a cold storage warehouse that killed 40 people.
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Koreans mourn, seek clues in deadly fire
Jan 8 2008 4:03AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - More than 1,000 South Koreans burned incense and offered flowers for the dead Tuesday as police sought to determine what caused a fire at a cold storage warehouse that killed 40 people.
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Koreans mourn, seek clues in deadly fire
Jan 8 2008 4:03AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - More than 1,000 South Koreans burned incense and offered flowers for the dead Tuesday as police sought to determine what caused a fire at a cold storage warehouse that killed 40 people.
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US wants 'full disclosure' from N. Korea
Jan 8 2008 3:31AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said Tuesday that North Korea's failure to deliver a declaration divulging its nuclear programs by the end of 2007 is not a problem so long as it offers a full disclosure.
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Indian prosthetic inventor dies at 80
Jan 8 2008 2:57AM (CT)
JAIPUR, India (AP) - Dr. Pramod Karan Sethi, inventor of a low-cost prosthetic foot that has helped millions of people in developing and war-torn countries, has died. He was 80.
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China: Safety of ag products improving
Jan 8 2008 2:36AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A four-month-long national campaign to improve the quality of Chinese products has achieved encouraging progress but challenges remain, a top agriculture official said Tuesday.
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