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61 sailors missing in China accidents
Feb 16 2006 11:23PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Two shipping accidents off eastern China's Fujian province have left 61 sailors missing, official media reported Friday.
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Two Japan firms raided in N. Korea exports
Feb 16 2006 10:27PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Police on Friday raided two trading companies in Tokyo suspected of illegally exporting to North Korea equipment that can be used to create biological weapons, a news report said.
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Child fatally stabbed on street in Japan
Feb 16 2006 9:58PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Two young children were found stabbed on a roadside in western Japan on Friday, one dead and the other seriously injured, police said.
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U.S. military says goodbye to last MASH
Feb 16 2006 9:33PM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The U.S. Army said goodbye to its last MASH Thursday, handing over the green tents, emergency room and surgical tables to Pakistani doctors and nurses who had never seen the hit TV show that made the field hospital a household name in America.
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Nepal's Maoist rebels confident
Feb 16 2006 3:47PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - For a man who spends much of his time holed up in rundown apartment on the outskirts of Katmandu, Biraj is supremely confident his vision of a communist Nepal will soon become reality.
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NKorea marks Kim's birthday
Feb 16 2006 11:19AM (CT)
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - North Korea marked the 64th birthday of leader Kim Jong Il on Thursday with nationwide celebrations reasserting the strength of his regime and its ability to resist the United States.
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Shut-down Chinese newspaper reopening
Feb 16 2006 10:09AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese newspaper supplement known for hard-hitting coverage of sensitive issues will resume publishing more than a month after being shut down, but its two top editors were fired, one of the editors said Thursday.
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Pakistani cartoon protests in fourth day
Feb 16 2006 3:28AM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Thousands of people shouting "God is Great!" marched through Karachi on Thursday and burned effigies of the Danish prime minister in Pakistan's fourth day of protests over cartoons of Prophet Muhammad, police said.
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Pakistani cartoon protests in fourth day
Feb 16 2006 2:17AM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - About 10,000 people shouting "God is Great!" marched through the southern city of Karachi in the fourth consecutive day of protests in Pakistan over the publication of cartoons of Prophet Muhammad, police said.
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