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Report: Indian official hurt in accident
Apr 7 2007 10:58PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - India's foreign minister was seriously injured on Saturday when a truck slammed into his car in rural eastern India, Indian media reported.
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Maternity ward opens amid tsunami debris
Apr 7 2007 8:14PM (CT)
GIZO, Solomon Islands (AP) - As flies buzzed around a basket of bloody gauze, Moana Saito nursed her newborn daughter, delivered Saturday in an open air maternity ward near the epicenter of the Solomon Islands' earthquake and tsunami disaster.
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Pakistan: 40 die in Sunni-Shiite clashes
Apr 7 2007 11:50AM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Gunbattles between majority Sunnis and minority Shiites left at least 40 people dead and 43 wounded in remote northwestern Pakistan after men opened fire on Shiite Muslims, a Pakistani official said Saturday.
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Taliban ambush leaves 7 dead, 4 wounded
Apr 7 2007 8:00AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Suspected Taliban militants ambushed Afghan workers of an American de-mining company in southwestern Afghanistan on Saturday, leaving seven people dead and four wounded, an official said.
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Taliban ambush leaves 7 dead, 4 wounded
Apr 7 2007 8:00AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Suspected Taliban militants ambushed Afghan workers of an American de-mining company in southwestern Afghanistan on Saturday, leaving seven people dead and four wounded, an official said.
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YouTube seeks to end ban in Thailand
Apr 7 2007 7:18AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - YouTube offered Saturday to "educate" Thai officials who want to block individual clips from its video-sharing service, hoping to end an impasse that arose after a slideshow mocking the country's revered king appeared online.
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NATO troops take over Taliban stronghold
Apr 7 2007 6:45AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - More than 1,000 NATO and Afghan troops clashed with Taliban and took over control of a district center in southern Afghanistan long held by the militants, officials and witnesses said Saturday.
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Explosion kills 16, wounds 22 in India
Apr 7 2007 6:09AM (CT)
CHENDUR, India (AP) - A jeep carrying a gelatin-based explosive used for a highway construction project exploded in a south Indian village on Saturday, killing 16 people and injuring 22 more, a senior police official said.
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China blasts U.S. report on human rights
Apr 7 2007 6:00AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A U.S. State Department report that criticized China's human rights record is without basis and irresponsible, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
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Official: Press on with Khmer tribunal
Apr 7 2007 3:22AM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - A senior U.S. official urged Cambodian and foreign lawyers on Saturday to put aside their squabble over legal fees and move forward with the much-delayed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal.
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7 killed in Sri Lanka bus bombing
Apr 7 2007 3:08AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A roadside bomb tore through a civilian bus in northern Sri Lanka on Saturday, killing seven people and wounding 26, the army said, blaming Tamil Tiger rebels for the attack.
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Report: Indonesia jet flying too fast
Apr 7 2007 3:00AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - An Indonesian passenger jet was flying at up to 265 mph, almost double the normal landing speed, when it crash-landed one month ago, killing 21 people, a chief investigator Saturday.
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China: New rules on organ transplants
Apr 7 2007 2:18AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China published new rules governing human organ transplants in its latest effort to clean up a business critics say has little regard for medical ethics.
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1 dead as Indonesian train derails
Apr 7 2007 12:32AM (CT)
SEMARANG, Indonesia (AP) - A crowded Indonesian passenger train jumped its tracks and skidded into a rice field Saturday, killing a baby and injuring nearly two dozen other people, a railway official said.
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