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12 killed as India police, farmers clash
Mar 14 2007 10:54PM (CT)
CALCUTTA, India (AP) - Farmers in eastern India angered by government plans to build an industrial park on their land fought police with rocks, machetes and pickaxes Wednesday, and at least 12 people were killed, officials said.
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12 killed as India police, farmers clash
Mar 14 2007 10:54PM (CT)
CALCUTTA, India (AP) - Farmers in eastern India angered by government plans to build an industrial park on their land fought police with rocks, machetes and pickaxes Wednesday, and at least 12 people were killed, officials said.
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12 killed as India police, farmers clash
Mar 14 2007 10:54PM (CT)
CALCUTTA, India (AP) - Farmers in eastern India angered by government plans to build an industrial park on their land fought police with rocks, machetes and pickaxes Wednesday, and at least 12 people were killed, officials said.
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U.S. pays kin in deaths of Afghan boys
Mar 14 2007 3:33PM (CT)
CHINAR, Afghanistan (AP) - The American colonel bowed his head at the fresh dirt graves of three young boys marked by brightly colored martyrs' flags Wednesday. Then he sat down next to the boys' fathers, expressed his condolences and handed them an envelope full of cash.
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8 killed in attack on van in Thailand
Mar 14 2007 3:24PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Suspected Muslim militants ambushed a commuter van carrying a group of Buddhists and killed eight of them execution-style in Thailand's restive south Wednesday, military and hospital officials said.
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ElBaradei says N. Korea sold on nuke ban
Mar 14 2007 1:53PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - North Korea is committed to closing its main nuclear reactor within a month as long as Washington meets a promise to drop financial sanctions, the chief U.N. nuclear inspector said Wednesday after a one-day trip to Pyongyang.
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Suicide attack in Afghanistan kills 4
Mar 14 2007 8:10AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber struck near a police convoy Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan, killing four people and wounding 35, officials said.
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Blast levels shops in Kabul, kills 6
Mar 14 2007 6:26AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - At least six people were killed Wednesday in an explosion caused by gunpowder in shops selling ammunition for hunting rifles, police said. Nine others were injured, and the blast gouged a huge crater into the neighborhood.
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2 arrests in India-Pakistan train attack
Mar 14 2007 6:14AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Two people who allegedly sold the suitcases used to make bombs that ignited deadly fires on a train linking India and Pakistan have been arrested, police said Wednesday, announcing the first arrests in the attack that killed 68 people.
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Hostage standoff in Philippines ends
Mar 14 2007 5:06AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Philippine police stormed a courtroom to end a 24-hour hostage standoff Wednesday, freeing all four captives who were held by a movie stuntman and his common-law wife. The gunman was killed when he dropped a grenade during the confrontation.
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Japan court overturns ruling in China suit
Mar 14 2007 3:18AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese court overturned a lower court's landmark ruling that held a company and the government responsible for the World War II conscription of Chinese as slave laborers, a court official said Wednesday.
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Report: Calm restored to China village
Mar 14 2007 3:15AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese activist who witnessed a clash between farmers and police in which one person was reportedly killed said Wednesday he was taken away and warned by police not to speak with the media.
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Report: Calm restored to China village
Mar 14 2007 3:15AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese activist who witnessed a clash between farmers and police in which one person was reportedly killed said Wednesday he was taken away and warned by police not to speak with the media.
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Cambodian tribunal mired by dispute
Mar 14 2007 3:01AM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Bickering between Cambodian and international judges has all but paralyzed the effort to bring members of the Khmer Rouge regime to justice for their murderous rule in the late 1970s.
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China: Use of prisoners' organs regulated
Mar 14 2007 12:03AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The use of organs from executed prisoners in China is strictly regulated and happens only in exceptional cases, state media reported Wednesday.
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