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Pakistani militants declare cease-fire
Feb 6 2008 8:13PM (CT)
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) - Taliban militants declared a cease-fire Wednesday in fighting with Pakistani forces, and the government said it was preparing for peace talks with al-Qaida-linked extremists in the lawless tribal area near the border with Afghanistan.
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UK military ends testing on goats
Feb 6 2008 5:45PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - The British military said Wednesday it will no longer use goats in experiments to gauge the risks of evacuating a submerged submarine.
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Rice: NATO facing test in Afghanistan
Feb 6 2008 2:37PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday the fight in Afghanistan won't be won quickly and Defense Secretary Robert Gates scolded NATO countries who haven't committed combat troops "willing to fight and die" to defeat a resurgent Taliban.
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High school athletes buried in Sri Lanka
Feb 6 2008 1:28PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Students and families mourned Wednesday for seven high school baseball players and their coach, whose killing in a suicide attack at a train station devastated their school and left many questioning the cost of Sri Lanka's civil war.
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High school athletes buried in Sri Lanka
Feb 6 2008 1:28PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Students and families mourned Wednesday for seven high school baseball players and their coach, whose killing in a suicide attack at a train station devastated their school and left many questioning the cost of Sri Lanka's civil war.
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High school athletes buried in Sri Lanka
Feb 6 2008 1:28PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Students and families mourned Wednesday for seven high school baseball players and their coach, whose killing in a suicide attack at a train station devastated their school and left many questioning the cost of Sri Lanka's civil war.
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High school athletes buried in Sri Lanka
Feb 6 2008 1:28PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Students and families mourned Wednesday for seven high school baseball players and their coach, whose killing in a suicide attack at a train station devastated their school and left many questioning the cost of Sri Lanka's civil war.
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Wicked winter weather tests China
Feb 6 2008 1:08PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China tackled its snow crisis with a striking _ and uniquely Chinese _ display of communist mass mobilization, propaganda and state control.
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New Thai government takes office
Feb 6 2008 12:19PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand made an uneasy return to elected government Wednesday, as a Cabinet packed with politicians of unsavory reputations tied to ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was sworn in by the king.
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New Thai government takes office
Feb 6 2008 12:19PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand made an uneasy return to elected government Wednesday, as a Cabinet packed with politicians of unsavory reputations tied to ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was sworn in by the king.
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Pakistan: 8 killed in helicopter crash
Feb 6 2008 10:09AM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistani army helicopter crashed Wednesday in northwestern Pakistan, killing three generals and five other soldiers, officials said.
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India cracks down on rhino poaching
Feb 6 2008 7:54AM (CT)
GAUHATI, India (AP) - Authorities in India's remote northeast will deploy 100 armed guards in a protected game reserve after poachers killed a rare one-horned rhinoceros _ the fourth this year _ a senior official said Wednesday.
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US aid to fight Philippine child labor
Feb 6 2008 7:16AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The United States said Wednesday it would provide $5.5 million to the Philippines to help combat the use of child labor.
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Laos to improve protection of tigers
Feb 6 2008 7:13AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Laos has agreed to improve protection at one of its key tiger reserves, a conservation group said Wednesday, in a sign the country is recognizing the need to crack down on poaching and other threats to the animals.
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Chinese official gets life for bribery
Feb 6 2008 7:13AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The former communist party boss of Olympic host city Qingdao was sentenced to life in prison for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, state media reported Wednesday.
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China lifts winter weather warning
Feb 6 2008 7:02AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China lifted an extreme winter weather alert Wednesday as the crisis sparked by the worst ice and snow storms in half a century began to wind down.
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Trial of ex-Bangladesh PM ruled illegal
Feb 6 2008 7:02AM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - The extortion trial of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was declared illegal by Bangladesh's High Court on Wednesday, throwing the high-profile case and government efforts to crack down on corruption into turmoil.
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UN: Afghan rebels growing more opium
Feb 6 2008 6:23AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Opium cultivation in rebel-controlled areas in southern and southwestern Afghanistan is expected to grow this year, fueling the Taliban insurgency with more drug money, a U.N. report said Wednesday.
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Landslide kills at least 7 in Indonesia
Feb 6 2008 5:35AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Rescuers dug for survivors after a landslide on Indonesia's main island pummeled a village on Wednesday, killing at least seven people and destroying homes and roads, officials said.
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Shrine bombing kills 1 in south Thailand
Feb 6 2008 5:02AM (CT)
PATTANI, Thailand (AP) - Suspected Muslim insurgents detonated a bomb near a Chinese shrine in southern Thailand on Wednesday, killing one soldier and wounding six other people.
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Japan: 2nd pesticide in China dumplings
Feb 6 2008 2:29AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Tests found a second type of pesticide in dumplings made by a Chinese company whose products sickened at least 10 people in Japan and set off a nationwide panic over food safety, a supermarket chain said Wednesday.
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Japan: 2nd pesticide in China dumplings
Feb 6 2008 2:29AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Tests found a second type of pesticide in dumplings made by a Chinese company whose products sickened at least 10 people in Japan and set off a nationwide panic over food safety, a supermarket chain said Wednesday.
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Japan resumes whale hunt
Feb 6 2008 2:28AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the country's fleet, a Japanese official said Wednesday.
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Coalition soldier killed in Afghanistan
Feb 6 2008 1:29AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A roadside bomb hit a U.S.-led coalition vehicle in volatile Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, killing one soldier and wounding two others.
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