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Ambassadors injured in Sri Lanka attack
Feb 26 2007 11:51PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - The U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka and his Italian counterpart were "slightly injured" Tuesday when mortars fell near a helipad their helicopter landed on in the country's east, officials said.
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Cheney asks Pakistan to counter al-Qaida
Feb 26 2007 11:45PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Underscoring growing alarm in the West at how militants have regained ground in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday sought Pakistani aid to help counter al-Qaida's efforts to regroup, officials said.
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U.N. envoy for Nepal sees tough election
Feb 26 2007 10:26PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The chief U.N. envoy to Nepal said Monday there are a number of technical and political obstacles facing the country ahead of anticipated elections in mid-June.
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13 killed in bus accident in Nepal
Feb 26 2007 10:24PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - A bus veered off a mountain highway and plunged into a river in Nepal on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and injuring another 25, police said.
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Koreas restoring ties during talks
Feb 26 2007 10:08PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North and South Korea are restoring ties during talks this week following the communist country's pledge to shut down its nuclear reactor, paving the way for restoration of aid to the North and reunions for families split by the divided peninsula.
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Indonesian engineers plug crater
Feb 26 2007 9:58PM (CT)
SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesian engineers successfully dropped several large concrete balls into a fissure Monday to try to stem a gushing mud eruption that has engulfed hundreds of homes and displaced 11,000 people.
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Author to change anti-Semitic comic book
Feb 26 2007 9:04PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The author of a best-selling comic book series intended to teach children about other countries said Monday he would change a chapter on Jews that has been called anti-Semitic and similar to Nazi propaganda.
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3 killed in building fire in Bangladesh
Feb 26 2007 8:10PM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - A fire swept through a building that houses two private TV stations and a newspaper in Bangladesh's capital, killing at least three people and injuring scores, rescuers and news reports said Monday.
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Japan establishes spy satellite network
Feb 26 2007 4:52PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - After nearly a decade of trying, Japan has succeeded in establishing a network of spy satellites that can peer at any point on the globe, officials said Monday.
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Khmer Rouge remains may be key in trial
Feb 26 2007 3:26PM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - The bones of victims from the Khmer Rouge's notorious "killing fields" should be preserved because they could serve as critical evidence in upcoming genocide trials, Cambodia's prime minister said Monday.
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Yangtze drought cuts into water for 1M
Feb 26 2007 3:09PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Falling water levels in China's Yangtze River have left 1 million people short of drinking water, state media reported Monday. A severe drought has caused the water level in China's longest river to plunge over the last two weeks, severely cutting water-pumping capacity, Xinhua News Agency said.
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Court: Serbia failed to prevent genocide
Feb 26 2007 6:42AM (CT)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The United Nations' highest court ruled Monday that Serbia failed to use its influence with Bosnian Serbs to prevent the genocide of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica, but exonerated Serbia of direct responsibility for genocide or complicity in genocide during the 1992-95 war.
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Death toll in Indonesia ferry fire at 49
Feb 26 2007 5:35AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Authorities vowed Monday to investigate why accident investigators and reporters were allowed to board a fire-gutted Indonesian ferry that then capsized, killing one person and leaving three others missing.
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Death toll in Indonesia ferry fire at 49
Feb 26 2007 5:35AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Authorities vowed Monday to investigate why accident investigators and reporters were allowed to board a fire-gutted Indonesian ferry that then capsized, killing one person and leaving three others missing.
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Death toll in Indonesia ferry fire at 49
Feb 26 2007 5:35AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Authorities vowed Monday to investigate why accident investigators and reporters were allowed to board a fire-gutted Indonesian ferry that then capsized, killing one person and leaving three others missing.
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Chinese AIDS activist heads to U.S.
Feb 26 2007 4:52AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - An 80-year-old AIDS activist whom Chinese authorities have repeatedly blocked from going abroad left Monday for the United States to receive an award from a group supported by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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S. Koreans sue over Japan's war shrine
Feb 26 2007 4:13AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A group of South Koreans filed a lawsuit Monday against a Tokyo war shrine criticized for glorifying Japan's militaristic past, demanding it remove relatives' names from the list of war dead honored there.
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U.S. in Macau to discuss N. Korean funds
Feb 26 2007 12:33AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - A U.S. Treasury Department delegation was in Macau on Monday discussing with local officials how to resolve sanctions on a bank that allegedly was involved in North Korean money laundering and counterfeiting.
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