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Japan extends air force mission in Iraq
Mar 29 2007 11:09PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's Cabinet approved a two-year extension of the country's air force mission in Iraq after it expires in July, the foreign minister announced Friday.
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Japan deploys advanced Patriot system
Mar 29 2007 9:19PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan began deploying its first advanced Patriot missile defense system Friday near Tokyo, part of an effort to accelerate missile defense capabilities following North Korea's missile and nuclear tests last year, officials said.
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Police face dismissal after bus crisis
Mar 29 2007 9:10PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The Manila police chief and two of his officers will be removed from their posts in the fallout from a hostage standoff in which 26 children were held aboard a bus in the name of social reform, the interior secretary said Thursday.
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Police face dismissal after bus crisis
Mar 29 2007 9:10PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The Manila police chief and two of his officers will be removed from their posts in the fallout from a hostage standoff in which 26 children were held aboard a bus in the name of social reform, the interior secretary said Thursday.
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Police face dismissal after bus crisis
Mar 29 2007 9:10PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The Manila police chief and two of his officers will be removed from their posts in the fallout from a hostage standoff in which 26 children were held aboard a bus in the name of social reform, the interior secretary said Thursday.
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Vietnam priests goes on trial
Mar 29 2007 9:00PM (CT)
HUE, Vietnam (AP) - A dissident Catholic priest denounced Vietnam's Communist Party in a startling diplay of defiance as he went on trial Friday on charges of disseminating materials intended to undermine the country's government.
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S. Korea optimistic for nuclear deal
Mar 29 2007 8:56PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's point man on North Korea voiced optimism Thursday that agreements reached in a breakthrough deal on curbing North Korea's nuclear weapons program will be implemented.
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Thai PM: No state of emergency needed
Mar 29 2007 4:25PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Imposing a state of emergency in Bangkok is unnecessary, Thailand's military-installed prime minister said Thursday, turning down a request by coup leaders who wanted to use the decree to silence opponents.
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Thai PM: No state of emergency needed
Mar 29 2007 4:25PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Imposing a state of emergency in Bangkok is unnecessary, Thailand's military-installed prime minister said Thursday, turning down a request by coup leaders who wanted to use the decree to silence opponents.
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Thai PM: No state of emergency needed
Mar 29 2007 4:25PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Imposing a state of emergency in Bangkok is unnecessary, Thailand's military-installed prime minister said Thursday, turning down a request by coup leaders who wanted to use the decree to silence opponents.
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Suicide bomber kills soldier in Pakistan
Mar 29 2007 4:07PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A suicide attacker blew himself up at a military training ground in eastern Pakistan on Thursday, killing one soldier and wounding at least six more, officials said.
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Beijing tunnel collapses; 6 trapped
Mar 29 2007 3:10PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Rescuers are trying to reach six workers trapped underground after a subway construction site for the 2008 Beijing Olympics collapsed, but hopes for their survival are slim, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.
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Beijing tunnel collapses; 6 trapped
Mar 29 2007 3:10PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Rescuers are trying to reach six workers trapped underground after a subway construction site for the 2008 Beijing Olympics collapsed, but hopes for their survival are slim, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.
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Beijing tunnel collapses; 6 trapped
Mar 29 2007 3:10PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Rescuers are trying to reach six workers trapped underground after a subway construction site for the 2008 Beijing Olympics collapsed, but hopes for their survival are slim, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.
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Beijing tunnel collapses; 6 trapped
Mar 29 2007 3:10PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Rescuers are trying to reach six workers trapped underground after a subway construction site for the 2008 Beijing Olympics collapsed, but hopes for their survival are slim, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.
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Taiwan VP offers love, respect for China
Mar 29 2007 3:07PM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Vice President Annette Lu, the outspoken target of scathing criticism from Beijing, said Thursday that if she becomes Taiwan's next president, she will use a feminine touch to ease hostilities with China _ the island's biggest security threat.
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Taiwan VP offers love, respect for China
Mar 29 2007 3:07PM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Vice President Annette Lu, the outspoken target of scathing criticism from Beijing, said Thursday that if she becomes Taiwan's next president, she will use a feminine touch to ease hostilities with China _ the island's biggest security threat.
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Taiwan VP offers love, respect for China
Mar 29 2007 3:07PM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Vice President Annette Lu, the outspoken target of scathing criticism from Beijing, said Thursday that if she becomes Taiwan's next president, she will use a feminine touch to ease hostilities with China _ the island's biggest security threat.
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Taiwan VP offers love, respect for China
Mar 29 2007 3:07PM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Vice President Annette Lu, the outspoken target of scathing criticism from Beijing, said Thursday that if she becomes Taiwan's next president, she will use a feminine touch to ease hostilities with China _ the island's biggest security threat.
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British woman slain in Tokyo
Mar 29 2007 1:09PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A British language teacher whose naked body was found in a sand-filled bathtub at an apartment outside Tokyo was beaten and then suffocated, police said Thursday, as authorities handed the woman's body to her father.
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Pakistani woman freed in brothel case
Mar 29 2007 11:18AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A woman kidnapped by female seminary students and accused of running a brothel was freed Thursday after a hard-line cleric forced her to repent in public _ an episode in vigilante justice that shows the boldness of Islamic extremists in Pakistan.
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Indian court suspends government plan
Mar 29 2007 6:30AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - India's Supreme Court suspended a government program Thursday to reserve spots for lower-caste students at the country's top medical, engineering and professional schools _ a plan that has repeatedly prompted widespread protests.
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China: Don't link Olympics, Darfur
Mar 29 2007 4:19AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China on Thursday blasted separate calls by a French politician and Mia Farrow to use the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games to pressure Beijing into doing more to stop the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region.
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Singapore airs anti-smoking ads at night
Mar 29 2007 1:25AM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - Singapore's graphic anti-smoking TV ads are working _ but now will be aired only at night following complaints that they're too disturbing for children, officials said Thursday.
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Man gets 10 years in Thai graffiti case
Mar 29 2007 12:50AM (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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China probes whether workers underpaid
Mar 29 2007 12:30AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Labor officials in China's southern province of Guangdong said Thursday they are investigating reports that fast-food chains such as McDonald's and KFC pay their part-time workers less than the minimum wage of about $1 an hour.
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