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American gets 9 years for Okinawa rapes
Mar 23 2006 11:42PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A U.S. military civilian employee was sentenced to nine years in prison for two rapes on Okinawa, court officials and media reports said Friday.
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Fire razes shantytown in Philippine city
Mar 23 2006 10:47PM (CT)
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) - A huge fire swept through a slum area in a southern Philippine city, destroying more than 1,500 wooden homes but causing no casualties, officials said Friday.
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Japanese court orders reactor closed
Mar 23 2006 9:42PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A court on Friday ordered the shutdown of Japan's second-largest nuclear reactor in response to a lawsuit by local residents who feared it could leak dangerous radiation during an earthquake, a court official said.
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Blossom Forecasting Is Crucial in Japan
Mar 23 2006 4:49PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - One would think Eishin Murakata has a pleasant, relaxing job. In springtime, he strolls every day to the same cherry tree in central Tokyo and gazes up at the boughs. When he spots a full bud on the verge of blossoming, he carefully snaps a photograph.
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Afghan clerics demand convert be killed
Mar 23 2006 3:17PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Senior Muslim clerics demanded Thursday that an Afghan man on trial for converting from Islam to Christianity be executed, warning that if the government caves in to Western pressure and frees him, they will incite people to "pull him into pieces."
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Pakistan protests killings by Afghans
Mar 23 2006 3:07PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan summoned the Afghan ambassador Thursday to protest the alleged killing of at least 14 Pakistanis by Afghan soldiers and demanded punishment for those responsible.
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Chinese get crash course in bird flu
Mar 23 2006 1:17PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Can the bird flu virus pass through skin? Can Chinese medicine help protect people against the illness? Is it useful to stockpile bird flu vaccines?
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Musharraf to militants: Leave or die
Mar 23 2006 1:02PM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf _ under pressure to do more to prevent foreign extremists from using Pakistan as a safe haven _ Thursday ordered all foreign militants to leave Pakistan or be killed.
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China: Researcher's case handled legally
Mar 23 2006 12:51PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's government insisted Thursday it is properly handling a detained Chinese researcher for The New York Times, following complaints that he is still being held despite a decision to drop state secrets charges against him.
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Sonia Gandhi quits Indian parliament
Mar 23 2006 11:25AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Sonia Gandhi, the leader of India's governing coalition, stepped down Thursday as a member of Parliament amid feuding with opposition parties over whether she violated a once-obscure election law by holding another government job.
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Japan police investigate 1980 kidnapping
Mar 23 2006 11:08AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Police investigating the 1980 kidnapping of a Japanese man by North Korean agents raided the offices of a group affiliated with North Korea's de facto embassy in Japan on Thursday, officials said.
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North Korea bristles at U.S.-South drills
Mar 23 2006 8:46AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea warned Thursday it will react to upcoming joint U.S-South Korean joint military exercises with an unspecified "strong measure of self-defense," condemning the drill as saber-rattling for a pre-emptive nuclear attack on the North.
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Afghan district police chief shot dead
Mar 23 2006 5:46AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A police chief was killed Thursday by his own guard in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, while coalition forces announced the killing of six Taliban members in a separate incident.
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Blast in southwestern Pakistan kills one
Mar 23 2006 4:47AM (CT)
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - An explosion ripped through a town bazaar in southwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing one person and wounding eight, an official said.
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Suspected militants kill Islamic cleric
Mar 23 2006 3:08AM (CT)
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) - Suspected Islamic militants opened fire on a car carrying an Islamic cleric near a tribal town in northwestern Pakistan, killing him and abducting his three body guards, an intelligence official said Thursday.
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Afghan district police chief shot dead
Mar 23 2006 2:04AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A police chief in southern Afghanistan was killed Thursday by his own guard, who was shot dead by other security forces, a government official said.
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