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Pakistani men arrested in 'honor' slays
Feb 24 2007 7:57PM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Police arrested two men in a remote southern village and accused them of hacking two young women to death for allegedly having sex outside marriage, officials said Saturday.
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Singapore lawmakers show off dance moves
Feb 24 2007 6:25PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - Clad in military-style pants, bright T-shirts and dangling chains, 12 Singapore lawmakers grooved to hip-hop music in the city-state's largest annual street parade Saturday, part of the ruling party's efforts to ditch its authoritarian and conservative image.
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Family mourns kids killed in train blast
Feb 24 2007 1:37PM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - The five small caskets were lined up head to foot at the border, each topped with a white wreath and scattered yellow flowers and holding the remains of a child killed in last week's train bombing in India.
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AP: CIA recruited Japanese war criminals
Feb 24 2007 11:22AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Col. Masanobu Tsuji was a fanatical Japanese militarist and brutal warrior, hunted after World War II for massacres of Chinese civilians and complicity in the Bataan Death March. And then he became a U.S. spy. Newly declassified CIA records, released by the U.S. National Archives and examined by The Associated Press, document more fully than ever how Tsuji and other suspected Japanese war criminals were recruited by U.S. intelligence in the early days of the Cold War. The documents
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Rebels ambush Indian police, killing 15
Feb 24 2007 7:30AM (CT)
GAUHATI, India (AP) - Fifteen police officers were killed Saturday when suspected rebels ambushed their patrol in India's remote northeast, officials said.
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Report: Israel wants to fly over Iraq
Feb 24 2007 6:56AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Israel opened negotiations to fly through U.S. controlled airspace in Iraq to carry out strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, a British newspaper reported Saturday. Israel's deputy defense minister denied the claim.
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3 suspected terrorists die in Pakistan
Feb 24 2007 2:52AM (CT)
CHEECHA WATNI, Pakistan (AP) - Three Islamic militants died in eastern Pakistan on Saturday when a powerful bomb they were carrying on a bicycle accidentally exploded, police said.
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N. Korea nuclear envoy to visit U.S.
Feb 24 2007 12:11AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator plans to visit the United States within days for follow-up talks on a recent disarmament deal, South Korean news reports said Saturday.
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