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China says no babies improperly adopted
Mar 15 2006 10:57PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The Chinese government says that an investigation found no children involved in a recent baby-trafficking case were adopted by American families, a U.S. State Department official said Wednesday.
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Embattled Thai leader vows to keep office
Mar 15 2006 10:49PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra vowed Thursday to hold onto his job in the face of mass street protests, saying he would not bow to mob rule but that he might retire from politics at a later date.
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Aid group suspends some tsunami operations
Mar 15 2006 10:17PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - International aid group Oxfam has suspended some of its tsunami-relief operations in hard-hit Aceh province while it investigates suspected financial irregularities there, a spokesman said Thursday.
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Boat capsizes in China, killing 27
Mar 15 2006 8:10PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A boat carrying people home from a fair capsized while crossing a river in southwest China Wednesday, leaving at least 27 dead, the government said.
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4 die in suspected group suicide in Japan
Mar 15 2006 7:55PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Four people suspected of committing group suicide were found dead inside a parked car Wednesday, officials said. The report follows a surge of such deaths arranged over the Internet.
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Tibetan Buddhist nun leaves China for U.S.
Mar 15 2006 5:49PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A Tibetan Buddhist nun who spent 15 years in prison on political charges was allowed to leave China and flew to the United States on Wednesday, a U.S. activist announced.
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Rice says Iraqis deserve world's patience
Mar 15 2006 2:52PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Iraq deserves time to solve its political differences and win the world's confidence that it can succeed as a democracy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday.
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Many Thais weary of 'CEO prime minister'
Mar 15 2006 2:29PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Mixing business and politics was a winning strategy for Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra back in 2001. A self-made billionaire, Thaksin called himself a new breed of politician, a "CEO prime minister" who could revitalize Thailand by running it like a company.
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Chinese president issues list of virtues
Mar 15 2006 12:42PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - President Hu Jintao has a message for Chinese who are greedy, lazy or unpatriotic: Be ashamed, be very ashamed. Hu's list of eight do's and don't's was unveiled during the meeting of parliament that ended this week.
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Japan: Death for man in subway gassing
Mar 15 2006 12:00PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Tokyo's High Court upheld the death penalty for a doomsday cult member convicted in the 1995 Tokyo subway nerve gas attack that killed 12 people, a court official said Wednesday.
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Canadian troops kill passenger in taxi
Mar 15 2006 11:22AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Canadian troops opened fire on a taxi that ran a police checkpoint and came too close to their patrol in southern Afghanistan, killing one person in the vehicle, the Canadian military said Wednesday.
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Afghans awaiting bird-flu confirmation
Mar 15 2006 8:32AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan authorities said Wednesday that preliminary test results from a U.N. lab make them "99 percent certain" that the country's first bird flu outbreak is the deadly H5N1 strain.
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U.S. may hurt India-Pakistan peace efforts
Mar 15 2006 5:41AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The United States could hurt peace efforts between India and Pakistan by offering civilian nuclear aid to New Delhi and opposing a planned Iranian gas pipeline crossing the subcontinent, analysts say.
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Pakistani quake refugees returning home
Mar 15 2006 5:38AM (CT)
MANIK PAYIAN, Pakistan (AP) - A smile breaks across the face of earthquake refugee Kiffayat Shah as he returns to his shattered mountain home after sheltering for five months in a lowland camp during the Himalayan winter.
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Bali terror suspect says he's ready to die
Mar 15 2006 1:47AM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - Three militants awaiting trial for their alleged role in last year's Bali bombings said Wednesday they considered themselves martyrs and are ready to die.
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South Korea opens immigration checkpoints
Mar 15 2006 1:39AM (CT)
PAJU, South Korea (AP) - South Korea formally opened new immigration checkpoints Wednesday for travelers crossing the heavily fortified border with North Korea, symbolizing Seoul's hopes for boosting exchanges with its longtime communist foe.
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