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Pakistan test-fires short-range missile
Mar 2 2007 11:44PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan on Saturday successfully test-fired a short-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, the military said, two weeks ahead of peace talks with archrival neighboring India.
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Bomb blast at Indonesian port wounds 12
Mar 2 2007 11:31PM (CT)
AMBON, Indonesia (AP) - A bomb packed with nails exploded at a port in the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon on Saturday, wounding 12 people in a region that has seen deadly Muslim-Christian violence in the past, police said.
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N.Korean nuke negotiator arrives in U.S.
Mar 2 2007 11:04PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - North Korea's top nuclear negotiator arrived in New York Friday night for talks with a senior American official on first steps toward establishing diplomatic relations after decades of hostility that followed the 1950-53 Korean War.
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Thai army kills 5 suspected insurgents
Mar 2 2007 7:06PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Soldiers killed five suspected Muslim insurgents during a raid on a weapons training camp in the jungles of southern Thailand on Friday, army officials said.
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Ousted Thai leader says career is over
Mar 2 2007 5:49PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Friday that his political career is over and he has no immediate plans to return to Thailand.
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Indian sex workers demand legal status
Mar 2 2007 5:04PM (CT)
CALCUTTA, India (AP) - Sex workers from across India ended a weeklong meeting Friday with the demand that they be allowed to work legally.
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Taliban arrest may help Pakistan's image
Mar 2 2007 3:19PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The reported capture of the former Taliban defense minister will likely boost Pakistan's anti-terror credentials and deliver a setback to the insurgent movement, but some doubt it will curb militant violence.
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Growing chorus slams war-brothel remarks
Mar 2 2007 2:51PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Anyone who doubts that the Japanese army forced Asian women into sexual slavery in World War II should "face the truth," South Korea's foreign minister said Friday as outrage grew over comments by Japan's prime minister that there was no evidence of the enslavement.
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S. Korea urges N. Korea to shut reactor
Mar 2 2007 2:00PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea added pressure on North Korea to comply with an international disarmament agreement on Friday, refusing the impoverished nation's demand to restore full aid shipments until after its main nuclear reactor is shut down.
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Chinese national legislature convenes
Mar 2 2007 12:55PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's leaders are displaying renewed confidence in their ability to control political debate, putting to a vote a toughly contested law on property rights at this year's session of the national legislature. The proposed property rights law and an uncontroversial corporate tax bill are the only pieces of legislation before the National People's Congress in its 12-day session that opens Monday. The two measures are all but certain to pass, legal scholars and Chinese political watc
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Indian man admits killing 19 women, kids
Mar 2 2007 9:13AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - An Indian servant confessed to killing and sexually assaulting at least 19 children and women and stuffing their dismembered remains into a storm drain outside the house where he worked, officials said Friday.
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Roadside bomb kills 2 in east Pakistan
Mar 2 2007 5:46AM (CT)
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) - A bomb rigged to a bicycle exploded near a car carrying a judge in eastern Pakistan on Friday, seriously wounding him and killing at least three people, police and doctors said.
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U.S.: N.Korea sanctions to stand for now
Mar 2 2007 5:07AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - North Korea will have to take substantial steps to abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions before the U.S. considers lifting sanctions or removing Pyongyang from the list of nations sponsoring terrorism, a top U.S. official said Friday.
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Activist: 80 NKoreans to seek U.S. asylum
Mar 2 2007 4:45AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Eighty North Korean refugees are hiding in various Asian countries and preparing to seek asylum in the United States, a South Korean activist said Friday.
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Talibanization takes root in Pakistan
Mar 2 2007 3:51AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Barbers are too scared to shave their customers' chins. Alleged thieves are paraded before jeering crowds. People suspected of spying for Americans are found beheaded.
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