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Envoys hash out details on N.Korea deal
Mar 17 2007 11:38PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Envoys met Sunday to hammer out the details of a landmark agreement on disarming North Korea ahead of fresh talks, while it remained unclear whether a dispute over frozen North Korean funds in a Macau bank would block further progress.
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3 children killed in Thai school attack
Mar 17 2007 10:44PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Three Muslim schoolchildren were killed and seven injured in an attack by suspected insurgents at an Islamic school in restive southern Thailand, police said Sunday.
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1 child killed in Kandahar suicide blast
Mar 17 2007 3:53PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber targeting a Canadian military convoy killed a child and wounded a NATO soldier and three other people Saturday in southern Afghanistan, officials said.
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Musharraf defends removal of chief judge
Mar 17 2007 11:12AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf defended his decision to remove Pakistan's chief justice and insisted Saturday that he had no personal differences with the former top judge.
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Indian state drops industrial zone plan
Mar 17 2007 8:19AM (CT)
CALCUTTA, India (AP) - An Indian state government said Saturday it is dropping plans for an industrial zone after deadly riots by farmers furious that their land was being taken for the project.
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Indonesian militant condemns bombings
Mar 17 2007 3:43AM (CT)
KUDUS, Indonesia (AP) - Muslim militants behind a series of bombings in Indonesia in recent years are damaging the cause of radical Islam in the country, an alleged leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah militant group said, highlighting a split in extremist ranks.
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Indonesian militant condemns bombings
Mar 17 2007 3:43AM (CT)
KUDUS, Indonesia (AP) - Muslim militants behind a series of bombings in Indonesia in recent years are damaging the cause of radical Islam in the country, an alleged leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah militant group said, highlighting a split in extremist ranks.
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Activists challenge status quo in China
Mar 17 2007 2:35AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - It started with a small protest over a twofold increase in bus fares in a central Chinese village and escalated into a bloody clash between 20,000 farmers and police armed with batons. The melee in Zhushan this week reportedly left one dead, dozens wounded and a police-enforced lock-down on the village nestled in the hills of Hunan province. All of which would likely have gone unreported under the Communist Party's tight grip on information.
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N.Korea insists U.S. unfreeze $25M
Mar 17 2007 1:06AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - North Korea will not stop its nuclear activity unless $25 million of its funds held in a Macau bank are fully released, the regime's top nuclear envoy said Saturday.
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