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Tibet adds pressure for Olympic sponsors
Mar 19 2008 11:42PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - McDonald's, Coca-Cola and other sponsors paid tens of millions of dollars to link their names with the Beijing Olympics. Now they're trying to mollify activists pressing for change on Tibet, Darfur and other issues, without angering China.
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Tibet adds pressure for Olympic sponsors
Mar 19 2008 11:42PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - McDonald's, Coca-Cola and other sponsors paid tens of millions of dollars to link their names with the Beijing Olympics. Now they're trying to mollify activists pressing for change on Tibet, Darfur and other issues, without angering China.
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Tibet adds pressure for Olympic sponsors
Mar 19 2008 11:42PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - McDonald's, Coca-Cola and other sponsors paid tens of millions of dollars to link their names with the Beijing Olympics. Now they're trying to mollify activists pressing for change on Tibet, Darfur and other issues, without angering China.
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Tibet adds pressure for Olympic sponsors
Mar 19 2008 11:42PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - McDonald's, Coca-Cola and other sponsors paid tens of millions of dollars to link their names with the Beijing Olympics. Now they're trying to mollify activists pressing for change on Tibet, Darfur and other issues, without angering China.
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China tightens grip in Tibetan areas
Mar 19 2008 10:59PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China acknowledged for the first time Thursday that anti-government riots that rocked Tibet last week have spread to other provinces, while communist authorities announced the first group of arrests in connection with the violence.
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China tightens grip in Tibetan areas
Mar 19 2008 10:59PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China acknowledged for the first time Thursday that anti-government riots that rocked Tibet last week have spread to other provinces, while communist authorities announced the first group of arrests in connection with the violence.
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China tightens grip in Tibetan areas
Mar 19 2008 10:59PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China acknowledged for the first time Thursday that anti-government riots that rocked Tibet last week have spread to other provinces, while communist authorities announced the first group of arrests in connection with the violence.
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Sri Lankan TV journalists attacked
Mar 19 2008 2:58PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Workers at Sri Lanka's state television channel fear they are being hunted. In the past two months, staff members have been stabbed, threatened and beaten up.
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Sri Lankan TV journalists attacked
Mar 19 2008 2:58PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Workers at Sri Lanka's state television channel fear they are being hunted. In the past two months, staff members have been stabbed, threatened and beaten up.
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Flashy lawmakers take seats in Pakistan
Mar 19 2008 1:34PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Gold-trimmed SUVs idle outside parliament. Among new female lawmakers, black Muslim veils are out and Gucci bags are in.
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Flashy lawmakers take seats in Pakistan
Mar 19 2008 1:34PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Gold-trimmed SUVs idle outside parliament. Among new female lawmakers, black Muslim veils are out and Gucci bags are in.
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Flashy lawmakers take seats in Pakistan
Mar 19 2008 1:34PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Gold-trimmed SUVs idle outside parliament. Among new female lawmakers, black Muslim veils are out and Gucci bags are in.
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Flashy lawmakers take seats in Pakistan
Mar 19 2008 1:34PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Gold-trimmed SUVs idle outside parliament. Among new female lawmakers, black Muslim veils are out and Gucci bags are in.
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Flashy lawmakers take seats in Pakistan
Mar 19 2008 1:34PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Gold-trimmed SUVs idle outside parliament. Among new female lawmakers, black Muslim veils are out and Gucci bags are in.
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Flashy lawmakers take seats in Pakistan
Mar 19 2008 1:34PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Gold-trimmed SUVs idle outside parliament. Among new female lawmakers, black Muslim veils are out and Gucci bags are in.
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Flashy lawmakers take seats in Pakistan
Mar 19 2008 1:34PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Gold-trimmed SUVs idle outside parliament. Among new female lawmakers, black Muslim veils are out and Gucci bags are in.
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China moves quickly on Tibet
Mar 19 2008 1:08PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - After four days hunkered down in his hotel as Lhasa reeled between rioting and police crackdown, 19-year-old Canadian tourist John Kenwood emerged to find street sweepers wearing vests with 2008 Beijing Olympics logos clearing away debris.
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Pakistan: 1st female parliament speaker
Mar 19 2008 12:32PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Legislators elected Pakistan's first female speaker of parliament Wednesday, seating a follower _ and lookalike _ of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
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Pakistan: 1st female parliament speaker
Mar 19 2008 12:32PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Legislators elected Pakistan's first female speaker of parliament Wednesday, seating a follower _ and lookalike _ of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
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Pakistan: 1st female parliament speaker
Mar 19 2008 12:32PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Legislators elected Pakistan's first female speaker of parliament Wednesday, seating a follower _ and lookalike _ of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
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Kouchner backtracks on Olympics boycott
Mar 19 2008 8:27AM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - France's foreign minister backtracked from comments suggesting he is open to a boycott of the Beijing Olympics' opening ceremonies, saying Wednesday that some economic decisions must be made "at the expense of human rights."
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Russian arms dealer jail stay lengthened
Mar 19 2008 6:22AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A Thai court extended the detention Wednesday of a Russian man dubbed the "Merchant of Death" for his alleged reputation as one of the world's biggest black market arms dealers.
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US raid kills 6 in Afghanistan
Mar 19 2008 6:00AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. forces searching for bomb makers raided Afghan homes near the border with Pakistan early Wednesday, exchanging gunfire with militants. Six people were killed, including two children and a woman, Afghan officials said.
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Pakistan stays execution of Indian spy
Mar 19 2008 5:52AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf granted a one-month stay in the execution of a convicted Indian spy who was due to be hanged on April 1, officials said Wednesday.
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Sri Lanka says 37 killed in clashes
Mar 19 2008 5:16AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Battles, roadside bombings and artillery attacks across the front lines of Sri Lanka's civil war killed 35 ethnic Tamil rebels and two soldiers, the military said Wednesday.
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Japan to pay billions to cut emissions
Mar 19 2008 5:15AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese households and businesses could end up paying more than $500 billion to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 11 percent over the next decade, the trade and industry ministry said Wednesday.
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SKorea arrests US murder suspect
Mar 19 2008 5:00AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean police said Wednesday they had arrested a Korean-American wanted for more than a decade by the FBI for the murder of a retired American policeman.
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SKorea balks at joint North-South zone
Mar 19 2008 4:39AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea will hold off on expanding a joint industrial complex in North Korea until the standoff over the communist nation's nuclear program is settled, an official said Wednesday.
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Australian sentenced to death in Vietnam
Mar 19 2008 1:45AM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - An appeals court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced an Australian woman to death for heroin trafficking, a court official said Wednesday.
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Election candidate killed in south Nepal
Mar 19 2008 1:23AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Masked gunmen in southern Nepal shot and killed a candidate from a small communist party contesting upcoming elections, police said Wednesday.
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Afghan official: US raid kills 6 Afghans
Mar 19 2008 12:42AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. forces raided a village near the border with Pakistan early Wednesday and killed six people, including two children and a woman, villagers and a government official said.
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