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Hong Kong reporter to be released
Feb 4 2008 11:36PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong media reported Tuesday that journalist Ching Cheong, who was jailed in mainland China on spying charges, has been released and will return to Hong Kong.
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World Bank urges counter-opium measures
Feb 4 2008 11:33PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The world needs to invest more than $2 billion in irrigation, roads and other rural development to wean Afghanistan off booming opium cultivation, a development bank report said Tuesday.
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Philippine House leader ousted
Feb 4 2008 10:33PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Lawmakers ousted the powerful leader of the House of Representatives early Tuesday in a vote he alleged was orchestrated by former ally President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo because his son linked her husband to a corruption scandal.
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Philippine House leader ousted
Feb 4 2008 10:33PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Lawmakers ousted the powerful leader of the House of Representatives early Tuesday in a vote he alleged was orchestrated by former ally President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo because his son linked her husband to a corruption scandal.
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Khmer Rouge defendant taken to hospital
Feb 4 2008 10:31PM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - One of the five former Khmer Rouge leaders being held for trial by Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal was hospitalized for treatment of a urinary tract problem, officials said Tuesday.
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Khmer Rouge defendant taken to hospital
Feb 4 2008 10:31PM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - One of the five former Khmer Rouge leaders being held for trial by Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal was hospitalized for treatment of a urinary tract problem, officials said Tuesday.
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Khmer Rouge defendant taken to hospital
Feb 4 2008 10:31PM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - One of the five former Khmer Rouge leaders being held for trial by Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal was hospitalized for treatment of a urinary tract problem, officials said Tuesday.
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Separated Koreans exchange videos
Feb 4 2008 10:31PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Dozens of Koreans separated for decades by the border dividing North and South exchanged video messages with their kin Tuesday under a new program.
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Americans living overseas head to polls
Feb 4 2008 3:55PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Democrats living overseas became the first to vote in the Super Tuesday primaries, casting ballots at the stroke of midnight in Indonesia, where Sen. Barack Obama lived as a child.
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Americans living overseas head to polls
Feb 4 2008 3:55PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Democrats living overseas became the first to vote in the Super Tuesday primaries, casting ballots at the stroke of midnight in Indonesia, where Sen. Barack Obama lived as a child.
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Suicide bomb kills 6 in Pakistan
Feb 4 2008 2:16PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A suicide bomber blasted a military bus Monday in the northern city of Rawalpindi, killing six people, and a gunman fired on a political gathering in the south, stoking fears about security ahead of this month's crucial parliamentary elections.
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Suicide bomb kills 6 in Pakistan
Feb 4 2008 2:16PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A suicide bomber blasted a military bus Monday in the northern city of Rawalpindi, killing six people, and a gunman fired on a political gathering in the south, stoking fears about security ahead of this month's crucial parliamentary elections.
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Bus bombing mars Sri Lanka anniversary
Feb 4 2008 1:36PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka celebrated its 60th independence anniversary Monday with a display of military might, but suspected rebels marred the holiday with their own show of power, killing 13 passengers in a bus bombing.
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Bus bombing mars Sri Lanka anniversary
Feb 4 2008 1:36PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka celebrated its 60th independence anniversary Monday with a display of military might, but suspected rebels marred the holiday with their own show of power, killing 13 passengers in a bus bombing.
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Bus bombing mars Sri Lanka anniversary
Feb 4 2008 1:36PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka celebrated its 60th independence anniversary Monday with a display of military might, but suspected rebels marred the holiday with their own show of power, killing 13 passengers in a bus bombing.
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Japanese princess: is her food too rich?
Feb 4 2008 1:19PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - First, Crown Princess Masako feasted on a 13-dish special Mexican menu in her honor. Then it was shark fin soup and roast duck at a top Chinese restaurant. Then came a sumptuous French meal featuring black truffles.
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World launches talks on forest payoffs
Feb 4 2008 12:02PM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - For decades, a flood of aid and an army of conservationists couldn't save Indonesia's rain forests from illegal loggers, land-hungry peasants and the spread of giant plantations. Now the world is looking at a simpler approach: up-front cash.
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World launches talks on forest payoffs
Feb 4 2008 12:02PM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - For decades, a flood of aid and an army of conservationists couldn't save Indonesia's rain forests from illegal loggers, land-hungry peasants and the spread of giant plantations. Now the world is looking at a simpler approach: up-front cash.
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World launches talks on forest payoffs
Feb 4 2008 12:02PM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - For decades, a flood of aid and an army of conservationists couldn't save Indonesia's rain forests from illegal loggers, land-hungry peasants and the spread of giant plantations. Now the world is looking at a simpler approach: up-front cash.
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World launches talks on forest payoffs
Feb 4 2008 12:02PM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - For decades, a flood of aid and an army of conservationists couldn't save Indonesia's rain forests from illegal loggers, land-hungry peasants and the spread of giant plantations. Now the world is looking at a simpler approach: up-front cash.
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Koreas to form joint Olympic cheer squad
Feb 4 2008 9:26AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North and South Korea agreed Monday to send their first joint cheering squads with a total of 600 members to this summer's Beijing Olympics in a move toward reconciliation, the South's Unification Ministry said.
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19 killed in Afghan raids, clashes
Feb 4 2008 9:22AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan and foreign troops conducted two raids on the homes of suspected Taliban militants Monday, leaving 10 people dead, including women and children, police said. A separate clash in southern Uruzgan province left nine suspected militants dead.
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Malaysian airport customs seize Bibles
Feb 4 2008 9:20AM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysian customs officials seized 32 Bibles from a traveler, a church federation said Monday, adding its voice to a raft of complaints that the Muslim-majority country is becoming less tolerant of other religions.
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Bombs in Thai south kill 1
Feb 4 2008 8:31AM (CT)
PATTANI, Thailand (AP) - A bomb exploded Monday outside an Islamic boarding school in violence-wracked southern Thailand, killing one person and wounding 12, police said Monday. A separate bombing wounded six people, in the latest violence attributed to an Islamic separatist rebellion that has entered its fifth year.
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Roadside bomb kills 12 in Sri Lanka
Feb 4 2008 6:18AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A roadside bomb attack blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels tore through a civilian bus in northeastern Sri Lanka on Monday, killing 12 people and injuring 17, the military said.
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Suicide blast in Pakistan kills 6
Feb 4 2008 1:31AM (CT)
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - A suicide bomber on a motorbike rammed into a minibus carrying security personnel, detonating a blast Monday that killed at least six people and wounded more than 30, officials said _ the latest in a series of attacks in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi.
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Suicide blast in Pakistan kills 6
Feb 4 2008 1:31AM (CT)
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - A suicide bomber on a motorbike rammed into a minibus carrying security personnel, detonating a blast Monday that killed at least six people and wounded more than 30, officials said _ the latest in a series of attacks in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi.
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