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25 dead in Indonesia flood; 340,000 flee
Feb 4 2007 11:36PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Boats ferried supplies to desperate residents of Indonesia's flood-stricken capital on Sunday as rivers burst their banks following days of rain. At least 25 people have been killed and almost 340,000 forced from their homes, officials said.
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25 dead in Indonesia flood; 340,000 flee
Feb 4 2007 11:36PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Boats ferried supplies to desperate residents of Indonesia's flood-stricken capital on Sunday as rivers burst their banks following days of rain. At least 25 people have been killed and almost 340,000 forced from their homes, officials said.
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25 dead in Indonesia flood; 340,000 flee
Feb 4 2007 11:36PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Boats ferried supplies to desperate residents of Indonesia's flood-stricken capital on Sunday as rivers burst their banks following days of rain. At least 25 people have been killed and almost 340,000 forced from their homes, officials said.
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25 dead in Indonesia flood; 340,000 flee
Feb 4 2007 11:36PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Boats ferried supplies to desperate residents of Indonesia's flood-stricken capital on Sunday as rivers burst their banks following days of rain. At least 25 people have been killed and almost 340,000 forced from their homes, officials said.
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AIDS activist stopped from visiting U.S.
Feb 4 2007 11:30PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A retired Chinese doctor who helped expose blood-buying schemes that infected thousands with HIV has been put under house arrest to stop her from traveling to Washington to be honored by a charity backed by Sen. Hillary Clinton, a friend said Monday.
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5 miners killed in northern Vietnam
Feb 4 2007 11:17PM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Five miners were killed when a large rock fell on them as they worked to extract zinc ore in northern Vietnam, an official said Monday.
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Police shoot, kill 3 protesters in Nepal
Feb 4 2007 11:11PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Police opened fire on protesters in two southern Nepalese towns on Sunday, killing at least three people and wounding several more, police and a news report said, bringing the death toll from recent demonstrations to at least 19.
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U.S. gen. leads NATO in Afghanistan
Feb 4 2007 6:27PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Gen. Dan McNeill, the highest ranking U.S. general to lead troops in Afghanistan, took command of 35,500 NATO-led soldiers on Sunday, putting an American face on the international mission after nine months of British command.
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U.S. gen. leads NATO in Afghanistan
Feb 4 2007 6:27PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Gen. Dan McNeill, the highest ranking U.S. general to lead troops in Afghanistan, took command of 35,500 NATO-led soldiers on Sunday, putting an American face on the international mission after nine months of British command.
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U.S. gen. leads NATO in Afghanistan
Feb 4 2007 6:27PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Gen. Dan McNeill, the highest ranking U.S. general to lead troops in Afghanistan, took command of 35,500 NATO-led soldiers on Sunday, putting an American face on the international mission after nine months of British command.
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Pakistan arrests 6 alleged militants
Feb 4 2007 4:53PM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani police arrested six suspected members of an al-Qaida-linked Sunni Muslim militant group who were plotting attacks on a major Shiite festival, officials said Sunday.
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3M Muslims join mass Bangladeshi prayer
Feb 4 2007 12:54PM (CT)
TONGI, Bangladesh (AP) - Some 3 million Muslim devotees raised their hands in prayer for global peace, putting aside their country's sometimes violent struggle with political corruption and Islamic extremists, at one of the world's largest religious gatherings.
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Older Japanese men tend their marriages
Feb 4 2007 12:38PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Mitsutoshi Fukatsu has been with his wife for three decades, but their lives have grown apart. As a busy stationmaster in central Japan, he has usually come home only to eat, bathe and sleep.
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Japan's ruling bloc suffers poll setback
Feb 4 2007 10:28AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's ruling bloc lost a key local election on Sunday, a possible bellwether of public support after a Cabinet minister caused an uproar by calling women "birth-giving machines."
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U.S.: N. Korea must live up to pledge
Feb 4 2007 8:17AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea must live up to its pledge to fully dismantle its nuclear program, the main U.S. envoy to disarmament talks said Sunday, as news reports suggested Pyongyang may be willing to shut down a key reactor.
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U.S.: N. Korea must live up to pledge
Feb 4 2007 8:17AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea must live up to its pledge to fully dismantle its nuclear program, the main U.S. envoy to disarmament talks said Sunday, as news reports suggested Pyongyang may be willing to shut down a key reactor.
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U.S.: N. Korea must live up to pledge
Feb 4 2007 8:17AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea must live up to its pledge to fully dismantle its nuclear program, the main U.S. envoy to disarmament talks said Sunday, as news reports suggested Pyongyang may be willing to shut down a key reactor.
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20 freed from rebel camp in Philippines
Feb 4 2007 5:24AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A Philippine marine general and 19 others were released Sunday from a Muslim rebel camp where they were held for two days by guerrillas demanding more benefits under a 1996 peace accord, officials said.
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13 politicians detained in Bangladesh
Feb 4 2007 3:35AM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Bangladeshi security forces used emergency powers to detain 13 senior politicians and former government ministers early Sunday, according to news reports and family members of those detained.
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Taliban leader killed in NATO airstrike
Feb 4 2007 2:42AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - NATO-led troops killed a senior Taliban leader with a precision airstrike near a southern Afghan town overrun by militants, a spokesman for the alliance said Sunday.
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Train crushes 6 to death in Pakistan
Feb 4 2007 2:36AM (CT)
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) - A passenger train crushed to death a group of six young boys as they played on a railway track in eastern Pakistan on Sunday, police said.
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Tour buses collide in China, killing 13
Feb 4 2007 1:58AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A tour bus traveling in the wrong lane on a highway in southern China plowed into an oncoming bus, killing 13 passengers and injuring 75, state media said Sunday.
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Building fire in eastern China kills 17
Feb 4 2007 12:20AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A fire swept through a two-story building of shops and apartments in eastern China on Sunday, killing at least 17 people, state media reported.
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