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Boy called reincarnated Buddha disappears
Mar 11 2006 11:09PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - A 15-year-old boy whose followers believe he is the reincarnation of Buddha has disappeared after 10 months of meditation in the Nepalese jungle, officials said Saturday.
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Hundreds defy Pakistan city's kite ban
Mar 11 2006 6:29PM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - Hundreds of kites filled the skies of Pakistan's cultural capital on Saturday, the opening day of a traditional spring festival, despite a ban that followed the deaths of seven people killed by glass-coated or wire kite strings.
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2 police beheaded in S. Afghan drug belt
Mar 11 2006 5:28PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Two policemen were beheaded and their bodies dumped in a desert after being kidnapped from their homes in the heartland of Afghanistan's opium poppy region, an official said Saturday.
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Regulator warns on China environment woes
Mar 11 2006 3:26PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China must sharply improve environmental protection or it could face disaster following two decades of breakneck growth that have poisoned its air, water and soil, the country's top environmental official warned Saturday.
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Pakistan army kills 30 militants on border
Mar 11 2006 11:59AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani soldiers backed by helicopter gunships attacked a suspected militant hideout in Pakistan's volatile tribal region near the Afghan border and killed about 30 fighters, an army spokesman said Saturday.
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Two Afghan police kidnapped and beheaded
Mar 11 2006 11:08AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Two policemen were kidnapped from their homes in southern Afghanistan and later beheaded and their bodies dumped in the desert, an official said Saturday.
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Police detain 8 for bombings in India
Mar 11 2006 7:30AM (CT)
VARANASI, India (AP) - Police questioned eight men Saturday in the bombings that killed 20 people at a temple and train station in Hinduism's holiest city, a police official said.
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N.Korea delays Cabinet talks with South
Mar 11 2006 7:27AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Saturday postponed high-level talks with South Korea this month in anger over U.S. military exercises in the region and vowed to strengthen its peaceful nuclear activity.
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Report: Japan may delay Iraq withdrawal
Mar 11 2006 5:57AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan may extend its humanitarian mission in Iraq beyond a reported May deadline because of the deteriorating security and political crisis there, a news report said Saturday.
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Pair held in Pakistan despite court order
Mar 11 2006 5:47AM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan will keep two doctor brothers in jail despite a court overturning their convictions for treating and financially assisting terrorists, a lawyer and an official said Saturday.
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Japan residents protest U.S. base changes
Mar 11 2006 5:44AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Residents of a Japanese city that hosts a U.S. military base rallied Saturday against plans to boost troop numbers there as part of an overall realignment of American forces in the country.
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