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Report: NKorea may shutdown nuke reactor
Apr 16 2007 11:26PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea may be preparing to shut down its main nuclear reactor, news reports said Tuesday, renewing hopes that Pyongyang will comply with a disarmament agreement days after it missed a deadline to shutter the facility.
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Report: NKorea may shutdown nuke reactor
Apr 16 2007 11:26PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea may be preparing to shut down its main nuclear reactor, news reports said Tuesday, renewing hopes that Pyongyang will comply with a disarmament agreement days after it missed a deadline to shutter the facility.
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Bangladesh graft probe grabs ex-PM's son
Apr 16 2007 5:26PM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Army-led security forces using emergency powers in a broad-ranging anti-corruption drive arrested another son of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on Monday, an official in Bangladesh's interim government said.
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Rights group: Taliban targets civilians
Apr 16 2007 1:50PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban and other militant groups are committing war crimes by targeting Afghan civilians, killing nearly 700 last year, according to a report issued Monday by Human Rights Watch that also pointed to dramatically escalating violence since 2005.
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Bullet removed from Vietnamese veteran
Apr 16 2007 1:02PM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A Vietnamese soldier who was shot by U.S. troops in 1968 and has lived with a bullet lodged in his heart for nearly four decades underwent surgery and the slug was successfully removed, doctors said Monday.
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Bullet removed from Vietnamese veteran
Apr 16 2007 1:02PM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A Vietnamese soldier who was shot by U.S. troops in 1968 and has lived with a bullet lodged in his heart for nearly four decades underwent surgery and the slug was successfully removed, doctors said Monday.
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Suicide attack kills 10 in Afghanistan
Apr 16 2007 6:25AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber ran onto a police training field and blew himself up, killing up to 10 policemen and wounding dozens of others Monday in northern Afghanistan, officials said.
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Philippine police search for American
Apr 16 2007 6:11AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The director of the U.S. Peace Corps will monitor the search for a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer missing for a week in a remote northern Philippine village while hiking solo, officials said Monday.
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Report: Insurgents killed 669 Afghans
Apr 16 2007 5:34AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Insurgents committed war crimes by attacking ordinary Afghans and killing 669 civilians in 2006, the heaviest toll since the Taliban's ouster in 2001, according to a report released Monday.
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5 Japanese in apparent suicide
Apr 16 2007 5:29AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Five young Japanese were found dead inside a sealed van on Monday in an apparent group suicide, authorities said.
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Korean-American sentenced for spying
Apr 16 2007 3:27AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A South Korean court convicted a Korean-American of spying for North Korea and sentenced him to nine years in prison on Monday.
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11 killed in India train crash
Apr 16 2007 2:40AM (CT)
CHENNAI, India (AP) - A passenger train crashed into a minibus carrying local council officials at an unmanned rail crossing in southern India on Monday, killing 11 people and injuring another 12 in the vehicle, police said.
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Reports: S. Korea may halt aid to North
Apr 16 2007 2:08AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea is considering holding off on rice aid to North Korea until the communist nation takes steps to shut down its main nuclear reactor, news reports said Monday.
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Pakistanis rally against mosque
Apr 16 2007 1:47AM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - About 100,000 people rallied in Pakistan's largest city Sunday against a radical Islamic mosque and seminary that launched a Taliban-style anti-vice campaign in the country's capital last week.
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