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China government audit uncovers vast waste
Mar 29 2006 11:46PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - China has arrested 76 officials and recovered about $510 million in misused funds following a national audit, state media reported Thursday.
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U.S. Peace Corps offers Cambodia services
Mar 29 2006 11:42PM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Peace Corps volunteers will arrive in Cambodia for the first time early next year to teach English and work in health education, a U.S. embassy official said Thursday.
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Soldiers killed in brazen Taliban attack
Mar 29 2006 11:40PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban militants launched a rare attack on a coalition base in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing an American and a Canadian soldier and sparking fierce U.S.-led retaliation that left 32 insurgents dead in the bloodiest fighting in months.
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Indian cattle drug is killing vultures
Mar 29 2006 6:20PM (CT)
BOMBAY, India (AP) - Conservationists said Wednesday that they expect Indian authorities soon to ban a cattle drug blamed for killing more than 90 percent of the country's vultures.
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Hmong Americans found slain in Thailand
Mar 29 2006 4:30PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The remains of four Hmong Americans are believed to be among seven decomposed bodies found Wednesday in a jungle near Thailand's border with Myanmar, police said.
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Afghan Christian given asylum in Italy
Mar 29 2006 4:20PM (CT)
ROME (AP) - The Afghan man who faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity received asylum in Italy Wednesday, despite requests by lawmakers in Afghanistan that he be barred from fleeing the conservative Muslim country.
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At Agent Orange conference, a plea to U.S.
Mar 29 2006 3:12PM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Activists and Vietnam War veterans wrapped up a global conference on Agent Orange Wednesday with a plea to the U.S. government and chemical companies to take responsibility for health problems linked to the wartime defoliant.
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Indian doctor sentenced for ultrasounds
Mar 29 2006 2:57PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - An Indian court sentenced a doctor to two years in prison for using ultrasound tests to determine the sex of fetuses, the first physician convicted for flouting a law designed to end an epidemic of parents aborting female fetuses, officials said Wednesday.
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Thai activists march in business district
Mar 29 2006 1:10PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Tens of thousands of protesters seeking the ouster of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra descended on Bangkok's busiest shopping district Wednesday, disrupting business and snarling traffic in the heart of the capital.
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Cambodian prime minister wants envoy out
Mar 29 2006 7:51AM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Cambodia's prime minister said Wednesday that a U.N. human rights representative was no longer welcome in the Southeast Asian nation after the envoy criticized the government's crackdown on dissent.
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Missing Chinese AIDS activist found
Mar 29 2006 4:24AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A prominent Chinese AIDS activist who disappeared after staging a hunger strike to protest violence against dissidents has returned home from what he claimed was a six-week ordeal in police custody, his wife said Wednesday.
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Attack at Afghan military base kills two
Mar 29 2006 12:30AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Militants attacked a coalition forces base in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, sparking a firefight that killed two foreign troops and at least 12 rebels, the U.S. military said. At least one of the soldiers was American.
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