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Islamic militants jailed for beheadings
Mar 21 2007 11:30PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Three Islamic militants were found guilty Wednesday of decapitating three Christian schoolgirls in Indonesia and dumping their bloodied heads in nearby villages, judges said. They were sentenced to between 14 and 20 years.
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19 die in China coal mine explosion
Mar 21 2007 10:29PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The death toll in a coal mine explosion in northern China rose to 19 on Thursday with two miners still missing and presumed dead, state media reported.
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Stalled N.Korean nuclear talks extended
Mar 21 2007 10:20PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Stalled six-nation talks on the nuclear disarmament of North Korea are being extended for at least a day, Japan's envoy to the negotiations said Wednesday. The negotiations were supposed to end Wednesday but have made no progress since Monday because of a dispute over $25 million in North Korean funds that were frozen in a Macau bank under pressure from the United States.
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S. Korea to resume flood aid to North
Mar 21 2007 9:32PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea said Thursday it would resume emergency flood aid to North Korea that had been suspended after last year's nuclear test, the latest sign that Pyongyang's recent agreement on nuclear disarmament has warmed ties between the Koreas.
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Taliban prisoners exchanged for reporter
Mar 21 2007 9:03PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Italy's deputy foreign affairs minister confirmed Wednesday that the Afghan government released five Taliban prisoners to win the freedom of a reporter who had been kidnapped in lawless Helmand province.
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4 dot-com executives sentenced in Japan
Mar 21 2007 8:47PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced Ryoji Miyauchi, former chief financial officer of dot-com company Livedoor, to 20 months in prison for inflating earnings reports.
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Lawyers protest Pakistan judge's removal
Mar 21 2007 6:54PM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - Angry lawyers scuffled with police as protests erupted across Pakistan Wednesday over the removal of nation's top judge, intensifying a crisis that threatens President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's grip on power.
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Scores of militants killed in Pakistan
Mar 21 2007 4:50PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's government said Wednesday that fighting this week between local and foreign militants near the Afghan border, which has killed about 100 people, is testament to the success of efforts to get tribesmen to root out al-Qaida fighters.
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Man protests sex slaves at Japan Embassy
Mar 21 2007 11:09AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A South Korean activist scaled a wall of the Japanese Embassy on Wednesday and staged a brief protest of Tokyo's refusal to acknowledge it forced Korean and Chinese women to work as sex slaves during World War II.
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Man protests sex slaves at Japan Embassy
Mar 21 2007 11:09AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A South Korean activist scaled a wall of the Japanese Embassy on Wednesday and staged a brief protest of Tokyo's refusal to acknowledge it forced Korean and Chinese women to work as sex slaves during World War II.
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7 of 10 N. Koreans may lack enough food
Mar 21 2007 7:23AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Seven out of 10 North Koreans are believed to have insufficient food, a South Korean aid group said Wednesday, citing the communist nation's distribution offices.
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Flight lands after passenger scuffle
Mar 21 2007 7:02AM (CT)
CALCUTTA, India (AP) - An Indian Airlines flight from Bangkok to New Delhi made an emergency landing in Calcutta in eastern India on Wednesday after a passenger said he had a bomb in his bag after a scuffle with another passenger, an airline spokesman said.
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Landslides kill 31 in Pakistan's Kashmir
Mar 21 2007 5:43AM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Heavy rains triggered landslides that buried three homes in Pakistan's portion of Kashmir, leaving 31 people dead, officials said Wednesday.
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Cracks appear in new Palestinian govt.
Mar 21 2007 5:23AM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - The appointment of a divisive Gaza strongman to a top security post is threatening the new Palestinian unity government just days after its inauguration.
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2 Koreas resume building reunion center
Mar 21 2007 3:26AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Dozens of South Korean workers entered North Korea Wednesday to resume construction of a hotel-like facility to be used for reunions of families separated by the world's most heavily fortified border.
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