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Crashes put aviation safety in spotlight
Mar 8 2007 11:20PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - One Indonesian jetliner plunged to sea from 35,000 feet, killing everyone on board. Another's fuselage split in half after a hard landing. This week, a Boeing 737 careened off a runway and burst into flames, leaving 21 people dead.
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Afghan warlord splits with Taliban
Mar 8 2007 6:29PM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - A veteran Afghan warlord wanted by the U.S. distanced himself from the Taliban and gave his strongest indication yet that he was open to talks with embattled President Hamid Karzai.
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Afghan official a convicted trafficker
Mar 8 2007 4:17PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - When the deal went down in Las Vegas, the seller was introduced only as "Mr. E." In a room at Caesars Palace hotel, Mr. E exchanged a pound-and-a-half bag of heroin for $65,000 cash _ unaware that the buyer was an undercover detective. The sting landed him in Nevada state prison for nearly four years.
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Exclusive: Warlord splits with Taliban
Mar 8 2007 3:19PM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Fugitive Afghan rebel leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar told The Associated Press that his forces have ended cooperation with the Taliban and suggested that he was open to talks with embattled President Hamid Karzai. In a video response to questions submitted by AP, Hekmatyar said that his group contacted Taliban leaders in 2003 and agreed to wage a joint jihad, or holy war, against American troops.
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Japan to probe WWII military brothels
Mar 8 2007 3:18PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Under intense pressure from Asia and the United States, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday that ruling party lawmakers will conduct a fresh investigation into the Japanese military's forced sexual slavery of women during World War II.
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Probe of Indonesian plane crash begins
Mar 8 2007 2:19PM (CT)
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Investigators probing the crash-landing of a Boeing 737-400 that burst into flames after careening off a runway, killing 21 people, said Thursday the jetliner's front wheels had snapped off as it touched down.
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Ex-premier's son arrested in Bangladesh
Mar 8 2007 11:20AM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - The security forces of Bangladesh's emergency interim government on Thursday arrested six politicians, including the son of the former prime minister, over corruption allegations, local media reported.
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German aid worker killed in Afghanistan
Mar 8 2007 10:44AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Gunmen killed a German aid worker and robbed his three Afghan colleagues Thursday in northern Afghanistan, while a suicide bomber targeting a NATO convoy wounded five civilians in the country's south.
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Official: Dalai Lama homecoming unlikely
Mar 8 2007 10:41AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The Dalai Lama is unlikely ever to return to Tibet unless he completely abandons the idea of independence for the remote Himalayan region, Tibet's Chinese-appointed leader said Thursday.
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Soldiers dig for boy in Indonesia rubble
Mar 8 2007 10:25AM (CT)
BUKIT TINGGI, Indonesia (AP) - Rescuers dug through dirt, sand and rocks Thursday for an 8-year-old boy torn from his neighbor's grasp in a landslide unleashed by a powerful earthquake, which killed up to 74 people in Indonesia.
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China's dog extermination plan condemned
Mar 8 2007 10:18AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A U.S. animal rights group Thursday condemned a plan to kill all pet dogs in an anti-rabies campaign in a district of the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing.
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No breakthrough in Japan, N. Korea talks
Mar 8 2007 8:27AM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Talks between Japan and North Korea on normalizing ties ended after only 45 minutes Thursday, leaving wide gaps as their top envoys blamed each other for the lack of agreement on key historical issues.
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N. Korea kills livestock after outbreak
Mar 8 2007 7:43AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Impoverished North Korea has slaughtered hundreds of cows and pigs after an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, according to the World Organization for Animal Health.
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China: U.S. violated Iraqis' rights
Mar 8 2007 5:16AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China on Thursday accused the United States of trampling on Iraq's sovereignty, saying Washington was using its campaign against terrorism as an excuse to torture people around the world and violate the rights of its own citizens.
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Australian engineers feared dead in Malawi
Mar 8 2007 4:02AM (CT)
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - A private plane carrying eight Australian engineers to a mine crashed on Thursday in the southern African country, police said. All were feared dead.
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Sick Japan empress attends flower show
Mar 8 2007 3:53AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's Empress Michiko attended a flower arrangement exhibition Thursday, her first official duty outside the moat since the palace said earlier this week she is being treated for stress-related ailments.
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Japan accused of suppressing Koreans
Mar 8 2007 3:31AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - North Korea accused Japan of suppressing Koreans who support Pyongyang and urged U.N. members not to support Tokyo's campaign for a seat on the U.N. Security Council.
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China introduces landmark property law
Mar 8 2007 2:34AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese lawmakers formally introduced a hotly debated law to protect private property Thursday, saying that personal wealth in an increasingly prosperous China requires legal safeguards.
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Strong quake hits seas off Japan coast
Mar 8 2007 1:04AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 struck in Pacific Ocean waters off Japan's eastern coast Thursday, but there was no danger of a tsunami, Japan's Meteorological Agency said.
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