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Koreas at odds over North's push for aid
Feb 28 2007 11:57PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea appealed at high-level talks Thursday for aid from South Korea, which appeared resistant to promising major assistance until Pyongyang keeps its pledge to start dismantling its nuclear weapons program.
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Dozens injured in Japan train collision
Feb 28 2007 10:42PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A passenger train derailed in northern Japan after slamming into a truck on Thursday, leaving dozens injured including 25 high school students, officials said.
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Report: China's migrants face abuse
Feb 28 2007 7:02PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - China's migrant workers are becoming an "urban underclass," held down by economic exploitation and residency rules that deny them access to medical, housing and education benefits, Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday.
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CIA papers reveal 1950s Japan coup plot
Feb 28 2007 6:52PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Declassified documents reveal that Japanese ultranationalists with ties to U.S. military intelligence plotted to overthrow the Japanese government and assassinate the prime minister in 1952.
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CIA papers reveal 1950s Japan coup plot
Feb 28 2007 6:52PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Declassified documents reveal that Japanese ultranationalists with ties to U.S. military intelligence plotted to overthrow the Japanese government and assassinate the prime minister in 1952.
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Pakistan denies hosting bin Laden, camps
Feb 28 2007 6:26PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan on Wednesday rejected a claim by the U.S. intelligence chief that Osama bin Laden and his deputy were hiding in northwestern Pakistan, and that al-Qaida was setting up camps near the Afghan border.
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NATO: Intelligence suggested bomb threat
Feb 28 2007 3:01PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Intelligence reports indicated that the Taliban had the ability to carry out suicide attacks near the main U.S. base in Afghanistan even before a bloody bombing during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, NATO said Wednesday.
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Japan to pull whaling fleet in Antarctic
Feb 28 2007 2:02PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese whaling fleet is heading home after high-seas brinksmanship with environmental groups and a deadly fire that crippled its mother ship and ended the hunt in the Antarctic hundreds of whales short of its goal.
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Japan to pull whaling fleet in Antarctic
Feb 28 2007 2:02PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese whaling fleet is heading home after high-seas brinksmanship with environmental groups and a deadly fire that crippled its mother ship and ended the hunt in the Antarctic hundreds of whales short of its goal.
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Indian police charged in Kashmir death
Feb 28 2007 1:26PM (CT)
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - Seven policemen were charged Wednesday with murdering a man and claiming he was an Islamic militant, police said, the first charges in an alleged plot by officers to kill innocent people and earn rewards.
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Tiger, orangutan babies playmates at zoo
Feb 28 2007 12:49PM (CT)
CISARUA, Indonesia (AP) - Call them the odd couples. A pair of month-old Sumatran tiger twins have become inseparable playmates with a set of young orangutans, an unthinkable match in their natural jungle habitat in Indonesia's tropical rainforests.
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Tiger, orangutan babies playmates at zoo
Feb 28 2007 12:49PM (CT)
CISARUA, Indonesia (AP) - Call them the odd couples. A pair of month-old Sumatran tiger twins have become inseparable playmates with a set of young orangutans, an unthinkable match in their natural jungle habitat in Indonesia's tropical rainforests.
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Afghan teacher, alleged spy, beheaded
Feb 28 2007 10:22AM (CT)
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) - Suspected Islamic militants captured and beheaded an Afghan teacher whom they accused of being a spy for the United States, an official said Wednesday. The man's body was found early Tuesday in a large sack dumped by a road near Jandola, a town in the South Waziristan tribal district, the local security official said. He asked not to be identified due to the sensitive nature of his job.
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20 new ocean species found in Indonesia
Feb 28 2007 9:58AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Twenty new species of sharks and rays have been discovered in Indonesia in a five-year survey of catches at local fish markets, Australian researchers said Wednesday.
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SAfrica proposes elephant slaughter limits
Feb 28 2007 5:39AM (CT)
ADDO ELEPHANT PARK, South Africa (AP) - The environment minister on Wednesday proposed limited culling and contraception to slow rampant elephant population growth but stressed there would be no mass slaughter.
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Indonesia to ban old jetliners
Feb 28 2007 5:21AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia is planning to ban local carriers from operating jetliners more than 10 years old as part of a safety campaign following a string of crashes and accidents, the government said Wednesday.
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Tsunami victim becomes father of triplets
Feb 28 2007 4:12AM (CT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - Darmi Ali lost his three daughters and wife to the 2004 tsunami. The 44-year-old remarried, and last week became a father again _ of triplets, all of them female.
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Thai finance minister resigns
Feb 28 2007 1:25AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Pridiyathorn Devakula resigned Wednesday, quitting the troubled government that took power after a September coup and casting further doubt on Thailand's economic policy.
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4 killed in China train derailment
Feb 28 2007 12:30AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A sandstorm with hurricane-strength wind gusts derailed a train in China's far west on Wednesday, killing at least four people and injuring another 30, state media said.
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Taiwanese mark anniversary of massacre
Feb 28 2007 12:23AM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwanese on Wednesday commemorated the 60th anniversary of a massacre that left thousands dead, with President Chen Shui-bian expected to rally the support of his party's core constituency in a nationally televised speech.
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