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Children unfazed during Manila bus siege
Mar 28 2007 11:57PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A young girl waved a Barbie doll in the air while a boy licked an ice cream cone. Another girl casually finished a bottle of water while chatting with a classmate.
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Children unfazed during Manila bus siege
Mar 28 2007 11:57PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A young girl waved a Barbie doll in the air while a boy licked an ice cream cone. Another girl casually finished a bottle of water while chatting with a classmate.
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Children unfazed during Manila bus siege
Mar 28 2007 11:57PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A young girl waved a Barbie doll in the air while a boy licked an ice cream cone. Another girl casually finished a bottle of water while chatting with a classmate.
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Children unfazed during Manila bus siege
Mar 28 2007 11:57PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A young girl waved a Barbie doll in the air while a boy licked an ice cream cone. Another girl casually finished a bottle of water while chatting with a classmate.
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Bank: N.Korean accounts appeared legit
Mar 28 2007 11:56PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - The head of a Macau bank holding $25 million in North Korean funds denied Thursday that the money was linked to illicit dealings as alleged by the United States.
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China warns officials on family planning
Mar 28 2007 11:38PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Communist Party officials in China's most populous province have been told they will not be promoted if they have more children than the law allows, state media said.
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Man gets 10 years in Thai graffiti case
Mar 28 2007 11:12PM (CT)
CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) - A Swiss man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for spray-painting graffiti over images of Thailand's revered king, the first conviction of a foreigner in at least a decade under strict Thai laws protecting the monarchy.
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Vietnam crackdown targets dissidents
Mar 28 2007 9:50PM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - For a short time last year, things were looking up for the tiny band of Vietnamese dissidents who dared challenge the Communist Party's monopoly on power. They circulated petitions for democracy, organized online, even formed political parties.
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Pakistani students abduct brothel owner
Mar 28 2007 3:56PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Female Islamic students wearing black burqas kidnapped an alleged brothel owner and held her prisoner at their seminary in the Pakistani capital Wednesday, part of an anti-vice drive in defiance of the military-dominated government.
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Pakistani students abduct brothel owner
Mar 28 2007 3:56PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Female Islamic students wearing black burqas kidnapped an alleged brothel owner and held her prisoner at their seminary in the Pakistani capital Wednesday, part of an anti-vice drive in defiance of the military-dominated government.
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Pakistani students abduct brothel owner
Mar 28 2007 3:56PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Female Islamic students wearing black burqas kidnapped an alleged brothel owner and held her prisoner at their seminary in the Pakistani capital Wednesday, part of an anti-vice drive in defiance of the military-dominated government.
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Pakistani students abduct brothel owner
Mar 28 2007 3:56PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Female Islamic students wearing black burqas kidnapped an alleged brothel owner and held her prisoner at their seminary in the Pakistani capital Wednesday, part of an anti-vice drive in defiance of the military-dominated government.
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Afghan journalists face growing pressure
Mar 28 2007 12:55PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Political talk show host Razaq Mamoon never held back with the cameras rolling. He railed at former warlords now in government and accused Afghanistan's Parliament of being a den of war criminals and drug smugglers.
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Blast traps 20 in Chinese coal mine
Mar 28 2007 10:26AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Rescuers scrambled on Wednesday to reach at least 20 miners trapped underground after a gas explosion struck a coal mine in northern China, state media said.
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World's tallest man marries
Mar 28 2007 10:20AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - After searching high and low, the world's tallest man has married a woman two-thirds his height, a Chinese newspaper reported Wednesday.
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World's tallest man marries
Mar 28 2007 10:20AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - After searching high and low, the world's tallest man has married a woman two-thirds his height, a Chinese newspaper reported Wednesday.
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Militants attack town in Pakistan
Mar 28 2007 7:37AM (CT)
TANK, Pakistan (AP) - Hundreds of militants fired rockets, killed one security official and kidnapped a school principal Wednesday in a northwestern town where police had slain two men accused of recruiting students for suicide attacks, police said.
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Former SKorea minister proposes summit
Mar 28 2007 7:30AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's president and the leader of North Korea should hold a summit later this year, a former South Korean minister suggested Wednesday.
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Suicide bomber kills 4 in Kabul
Mar 28 2007 7:23AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber trying to blend in with street beggars exploded himself near a top intelligence official in a crowded part of the capital early Wednesday, killing four people, police said.
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Coup leader calls for emergency powers
Mar 28 2007 5:18AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The army commander who led September's bloodless coup has asked the military-installed government to impose a state of emergency in Bangkok to halt protests by supporters of the ousted prime minister, a spokesman said Wednesday.
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Man faces execution for Internet murders
Mar 28 2007 4:56AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese man was sentenced to death Wednesday for murdering three people he lured through a suicide Web site by offering to die with them, a court official said.
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U.N.: Millions may go hungry in NKorea
Mar 28 2007 4:19AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - North Korea is facing one of its biggest food shortages in the past decade with millions of people going hungry because of a poor harvest and a huge drop in donor aid, a U.N. official said Wednesday.
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Vietnam repeals detention practice
Mar 28 2007 2:02AM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Vietnam has abolished a measure used to hold dissidents without trial, a government official said Wednesday. However, analysts said the move could prove to be largely symbolic.
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