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Indian athlete to boycott torch relay
Mar 31 2008 11:33PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - An official says the captain of India's soccer team has refused to carry the Olympic torch during its relay through the Indian capital later this month to protest Chinese authorities' crackdown on recent protests in Tibet.
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Olympic torch rekindled in Beijing
Mar 31 2008 9:44PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The elaborate ceremony to rekindle the Olympic torch went off without a hitch Monday in closely guarded Tiananmen Square _ with hundreds of cheering women in brightly colored T-shirts, flower-toting children and confetti.
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Olympic torch rekindled in Beijing
Mar 31 2008 9:44PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The elaborate ceremony to rekindle the Olympic torch went off without a hitch Monday in closely guarded Tiananmen Square _ with hundreds of cheering women in brightly colored T-shirts, flower-toting children and confetti.
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Olympic torch rekindled in Beijing
Mar 31 2008 9:44PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The elaborate ceremony to rekindle the Olympic torch went off without a hitch Monday in closely guarded Tiananmen Square _ with hundreds of cheering women in brightly colored T-shirts, flower-toting children and confetti.
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Olympic torch rekindled in Beijing
Mar 31 2008 9:44PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The elaborate ceremony to rekindle the Olympic torch went off without a hitch Monday in closely guarded Tiananmen Square _ with hundreds of cheering women in brightly colored T-shirts, flower-toting children and confetti.
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Olympic torch rekindled in Beijing
Mar 31 2008 9:44PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The elaborate ceremony to rekindle the Olympic torch went off without a hitch Monday in closely guarded Tiananmen Square _ with hundreds of cheering women in brightly colored T-shirts, flower-toting children and confetti.
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Archaeologists start Stonehenge dig
Mar 31 2008 4:41PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Some of England's most sacred soil was disturbed Monday for the first time in more than four decades as archaeologists worked to solve the enduring riddle of Stonehenge: When and why was the prehistoric monument built?
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Archaeologists start Stonehenge dig
Mar 31 2008 4:41PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Some of England's most sacred soil was disturbed Monday for the first time in more than four decades as archaeologists worked to solve the enduring riddle of Stonehenge: When and why was the prehistoric monument built?
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Archaeologists start Stonehenge dig
Mar 31 2008 4:41PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Some of England's most sacred soil was disturbed Monday for the first time in more than four decades as archaeologists worked to solve the enduring riddle of Stonehenge: When and why was the prehistoric monument built?
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Turkey court considers ruling party ban
Mar 31 2008 1:58PM (CT)
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Turkey's top court voted unanimously Monday to hear a case for banning the Islamic-rooted ruling party, a decision that could lead to months of political uncertainty in a nation divided over the role of Islam in society.
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China: Tibet arson suspects caught
Mar 31 2008 1:39PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Suspects accused of setting fire to shops in Tibet, causing the deaths of 12 people during anti-government violence, have been taken into custody, state media said Monday.
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China: Tibet arson suspects caught
Mar 31 2008 1:39PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Suspects accused of setting fire to shops in Tibet, causing the deaths of 12 people during anti-government violence, have been taken into custody, state media said Monday.
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China: Tibet arson suspects caught
Mar 31 2008 1:39PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Suspects accused of setting fire to shops in Tibet, causing the deaths of 12 people during anti-government violence, have been taken into custody, state media said Monday.
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China: Tibet arson suspects caught
Mar 31 2008 1:39PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Suspects accused of setting fire to shops in Tibet, causing the deaths of 12 people during anti-government violence, have been taken into custody, state media said Monday.
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China: Tibet arson suspects caught
Mar 31 2008 1:39PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Suspects accused of setting fire to shops in Tibet, causing the deaths of 12 people during anti-government violence, have been taken into custody, state media said Monday.
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Japan: theaters cancel war shrine film
Mar 31 2008 1:38PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Several Japanese movie theaters canceled showings of a documentary about a controversial war shrine after at least one theater received threats, a cinema official said Monday.
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Freed judge, new Cabinet press Musharraf
Mar 31 2008 12:38PM (CT)
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's deposed chief justice revved up the campaign to win back his job Monday as new Cabinet ministers, some wearing black armbands, took their oath of office before President Pervez Musharraf.
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Freed judge, new Cabinet press Musharraf
Mar 31 2008 12:38PM (CT)
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's deposed chief justice revved up the campaign to win back his job Monday as new Cabinet ministers, some wearing black armbands, took their oath of office before President Pervez Musharraf.
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Freed judge, new Cabinet press Musharraf
Mar 31 2008 12:38PM (CT)
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's deposed chief justice revved up the campaign to win back his job Monday as new Cabinet ministers, some wearing black armbands, took their oath of office before President Pervez Musharraf.
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Afghanistan moves to censor TV
Mar 31 2008 12:18PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's lower house of Parliament passed a resolution Monday seeking to bar television programs from showing dancing and other practices deemed un-Islamic.
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2 British soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Mar 31 2008 9:51AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A clash in southern Afghanistan killed a Danish soldier and wounded two others Monday, officials said. A separate attack on a NATO patrol killed two British troops, officials said.
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New Pakistan Cabinet sworn in
Mar 31 2008 7:09AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Pervez Musharraf on Monday swore in a new Pakistani Cabinet made up of political opponents who have pledged to reduce the U.S.-backed leader's once-sweeping powers.
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Malaysian party urges Dutch boycott
Mar 31 2008 5:58AM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysia's Islamic opposition party delivered a protest note to the Netherlands' embassy Monday over the release of an anti-Islam movie by a maverick Dutch lawmaker, while hard-line Muslims in neighboring Indonesia demanded the death of the filmmaker.
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Cambodia remembers Dith Pran
Mar 31 2008 5:17AM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Dith Pran, the Cambodian journalist whose harrowing tale of survival was told in the movie "The Killing Fields," helped awaken the world to the Khmer Rouge's atrocities, people in his homeland said Monday.
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Myanmar dissident barred from office
Mar 31 2008 4:11AM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's draft constitution ensures that the country's pro-democracy leader cannot make a political comeback and guarantees a strong military presence in parliament, according to a copy of the proposed charter obtained Monday.
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Freed top Pakistani judge wants job back
Mar 31 2008 3:56AM (CT)
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's deposed chief justice arrived in his hometown Monday to a hero's welcome as he launched a drive to win back his old job and deal another blow to embattled President Pervez Musharraf.
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Lehman Brothers sues Marubeni in Japan
Mar 31 2008 2:04AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Lehman Brothers filed a lawsuit against major Japanese trading company Marubeni on Monday, demanding $350 million in a case of alleged fraud.
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Lehman Brothers sues Marubeni in Japan
Mar 31 2008 2:04AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Lehman Brothers filed a lawsuit against major Japanese trading company Marubeni on Monday, demanding $350 million in a case of alleged fraud.
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2 NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Mar 31 2008 12:12AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A blast struck a NATO patrol in southern Afghanistan, killing two soldiers, the alliance said in a statement Monday.
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