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U.S. pointman on nuke talks visiting Asia
Jan 10 2006 10:54PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The top U.S. negotiator for international nuclear talks with North Korea is visiting Japan, South Korea and China this week for consultations aimed at breaking the impasse in the stalled negotiations, Seoul's foreign minister said Wednesday.
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Bird flu claims two people in China
Jan 10 2006 8:34PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Two people who had been sickened by bird flu in China have died, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, bringing the total number of people killed by the disease on the mainland to five.
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Girl gets bird flu after kissing chicken
Jan 10 2006 2:04PM (CT)
VAN, Turkey (AP) - Sumeyya Mamuk considered the chickens in her backyard to be beloved pets. The 8-year-old girl fed them, petted them and took care of them. When they started to get sick and die, she hugged them and tenderly kissed them goodbye. The next morning, her face and eyes were swollen and she had a high fever. Her father took her to a hospital, and five days later she was confirmed to have the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.
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Pakistan death toll surpasses 40 this week
Jan 10 2006 1:24PM (CT)
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan (AP) - A battle between Pakistani security forces and suspected Islamic militants firing rockets and assault rifles left 21 dead Tuesday in a tribal region near the Afghan border.
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Kim Jong Il's trip to China raises hopes
Jan 10 2006 12:20PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Secretive North Korean leader Kim Jong Il traveled to China on Tuesday, a South Korean military intelligence official said, raising hopes of a resumption of international talks on the North's nuclear weapons program.
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Lawyer says pope gunman might avoid army
Jan 10 2006 12:15PM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - The Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II and is to be released from prison this week was a draft dodger in the 1970s but may not have to do his obligatory service if he is found psychologically unfit, his lawyer said Tuesday.
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Some quake-hit villages cut off from aid
Jan 10 2006 12:05PM (CT)
SHARDA, Pakistan (AP) - It has no phone service, no open roads and no stockpiles of vegetables that normally would have been put away for winter. Like many villages in quake-hit Kashmir, Sharda is cut off.
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Protests fail to disrupt U.S.-Thai talks
Jan 10 2006 8:55AM (CT)
CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) - Protesters pushed through a police barricade outside a hotel where negotiators were trying to hammer out a U.S.-Thai free trade pact Tuesday, as demonstrations against the deal gained momentum but failed to disrupt the talks.
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