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Floods displace 40,000 in Jakarta
Feb 2 2007 11:33PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Floods that have sent some 40,000 people fleeing their homes in the Indonesian capital created more havoc Saturday, with many parts of the city still under neck-high water and authorities warning more rivers may burst their banks.
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Floods displace 40,000 in Jakarta
Feb 2 2007 11:33PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Floods that have sent some 40,000 people fleeing their homes in the Indonesian capital created more havoc Saturday, with many parts of the city still under neck-high water and authorities warning more rivers may burst their banks.
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Floods displace 40,000 in Jakarta
Feb 2 2007 11:33PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Floods that have sent some 40,000 people fleeing their homes in the Indonesian capital created more havoc Saturday, with many parts of the city still under neck-high water and authorities warning more rivers may burst their banks.
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Floods displace 40,000 in Jakarta
Feb 2 2007 11:33PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Floods that have sent some 40,000 people fleeing their homes in the Indonesian capital created more havoc Saturday, with many parts of the city still under neck-high water and authorities warning more rivers may burst their banks.
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Floods displace 40,000 in Jakarta
Feb 2 2007 11:33PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Floods that have sent some 40,000 people fleeing their homes in the Indonesian capital created more havoc Saturday, with many parts of the city still under neck-high water and authorities warning more rivers may burst their banks.
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Glitter may get prison sentence reduced
Feb 2 2007 10:32PM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - British rocker Gary Glitter, who was convicted of molesting two girls in southern Vietnam, may get his three-year prison term reduced next week as part of a nationwide Lunar New Year prison amnesty, a court official said Friday.
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Taliban militants overrun Afghan town
Feb 2 2007 2:11PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Hundreds of Taliban militants overran a southern Afghan town that British troops left after a contentious peace agreement in October, destroying the government center and temporarily holding elders hostage, officials and residents said Friday.
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Pakistan to fence border of Afghanistan
Feb 2 2007 1:19PM (CT)
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf acknowledged Friday that outgunned Pakistani frontier guards have allowed insurgents to cross into Afghanistan but denied the army or intelligence service was actively helping the Taliban.
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10 killed in India bus accident
Feb 2 2007 4:53AM (CT)
JAMMU, India (AP) - A crowded bus veered off a steep mountain road and fell into a gorge in northern India on Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 17 others, police said.
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Tanker explosion kills 23 in Philippines
Feb 2 2007 2:42AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - At least 23 people were killed and 15 others injured when a tanker truck exploded as it was negotiating a downhill mountain road in the southern Philippines, police officials said Friday.
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Peace Corps volunteers head to Cambodia
Feb 2 2007 1:14AM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Peace Corps volunteers were flying to Cambodia Friday to teach English at rural schools, marking the 45-year-old organization's first mission in the Southeast Asian country, officials said.
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Vietnamese boat rescues 9 fisherman
Feb 2 2007 12:15AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A Vietnamese fishing boat rescued nine Filipino fishermen who spent four days adrift in the South China Sea, officials said Friday.
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