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Japan launches Internet satellite
Feb 23 2008 6:11PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's space agency launched an experimental communications satellite Saturday designed to enable super high-speed data transmission at home and in Southeast Asia.
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Japan launches Internet satellite
Feb 23 2008 6:11PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's space agency launched an experimental communications satellite Saturday designed to enable super high-speed data transmission at home and in Southeast Asia.
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Pakistan's ousted rulers to cooperate
Feb 23 2008 3:41PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's outgoing ruling party promised Saturday to support the victors in combating Islamic extremism, while the winners discussed ways to curb President Pervez Musharraf's powers _ especially his right to dismiss parliament.
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Insurgency hotbeds increase in Thailand
Feb 23 2008 1:35PM (CT)
RAE POH, Thailand (AP) - The tea shop is abandoned. Rubber plantations stand untended. Soldiers constantly patrol the one-lane road leading into this Muslim village.
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Bomb wounds 14 near Sri Lankan capital
Feb 23 2008 11:47AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Two days of scattered fighting between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels left at least 39 insurgents and a soldier dead, the military said Saturday.
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Bomb wounds 14 near Sri Lankan capital
Feb 23 2008 11:47AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Two days of scattered fighting between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels left at least 39 insurgents and a soldier dead, the military said Saturday.
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Bomb wounds 14 near Sri Lankan capital
Feb 23 2008 11:47AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Two days of scattered fighting between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels left at least 39 insurgents and a soldier dead, the military said Saturday.
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Bomb wounds 14 near Sri Lankan capital
Feb 23 2008 11:47AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Two days of scattered fighting between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels left at least 39 insurgents and a soldier dead, the military said Saturday.
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North Korea praises Cuba's Castro
Feb 23 2008 8:31AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea praised Fidel Castro on Saturday as a close ally who did not allow U.S. sanctions and a blockade to hinder his leadership of Cuba.
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Japan's crown prince asks for patience
Feb 23 2008 7:43AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's crown prince, who turned 48 on Saturday, said his wife needs more time to recover from a stress-induced illness before she can return to official duties.
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Bomb kills 7 Afghan security guards
Feb 23 2008 6:37AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Seven Afghan security guards died Saturday when their car hit a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, while a gunman killed a district police chief in the region, police said.
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Bush, new SKorean leader allied on North
Feb 23 2008 4:41AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - For the first time in his seven years in office, President Bush will have a South Korean counterpart with similar views on North Korean nuclear disarmament when Lee Myung-bak is inaugurated Monday.
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Indonesians protest Muhammad drawings
Feb 23 2008 2:46AM (CT)
SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) - Muslims protested in two Indonesian cities Saturday over drawings in Denmark portraying the Prophet Muhammad, with some calling for the artist to be put to death.
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Bomb explodes in Sri Lanka
Feb 23 2008 1:34AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A bomb exploded Saturday inside a passenger bus near Sri Lanka's capital, wounding at least eight people, officials said.
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Japan's oldest person dies at 113
Feb 23 2008 12:17AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's oldest person has died at a hospital in southwestern Japan, her nursing home said Saturday. She was 113.
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