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China rebuffs Japan's demand for apology
Apr 17 2005 11:04PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China rebuffed demands for an apology on Sunday after rioters damaged Japanese diplomatic missions in protests over Japan's wartime aggression and its bid for a U.N. Security Council seat, instead saying Tokyo had "hurt the feelings" of the Chinese people.
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Bangladesh factory collapse toll hits 69
Apr 17 2005 8:37PM (CT)
SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) - The number of people killed in the collapse of a Bangladeshi garment factory climbed to 69 Sunday as rescuers recovered nine more bodies, a rescue official said, adding there is scant hope of finding anyone else alive.
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Afghan boy dies after return from U.S.
Apr 17 2005 8:16PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - An Afghan toddler taken to the United States for surgery to fix a life-threatening heart ailment died Friday, two days after returning home to a muddy refugee camp from the trip arranged with the help of U.S. soldiers.
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India, Pakistan leaders push peace process
Apr 17 2005 2:33PM (CT)
NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Showing a flexibility that moves their peace process several steps ahead, the leaders of India and Pakistan agreed Sunday on measures to increase business ties and cross-border travel and roll back some of their military deployment along the frontier.
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Indonesians hold anti-Israel protests
Apr 17 2005 10:44AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - More than 100,000 people held anti-Israel protests Sunday in the Indonesian capital and several other cities, calling for protection of Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site _ the disputed Al Aqsa Mosque compound.
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Khmer Rouge soldiers rue revolution
Apr 17 2005 9:02AM (CT)
CHAMKAR TA NGET, Cambodia (AP) - Nai Oeurn had reason to celebrate. Cambodia's civil war was over, and as the 14-year-old Khmer Rouge guerrilla marched into the capital, Phnom Penh, he truly believed his country's rural poor had triumphed.
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Communist rebels in Nepal execute 10 men
Apr 17 2005 8:18AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Communist rebels in southern Nepal dragged at least 10 males from their homes, including a 14-year-old boy, and gunned them down for refusing to take up arms with the guerrilla movement, officials and human rights activists said Sunday.
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Suspected Taliban rebels blow up tankers
Apr 17 2005 4:47AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Suspected Taliban rebels set off a bomb next to a fuel tanker parked outside the main U.S. military base in southern Afghanistan Sunday, setting off a chain of large explosions that destroyed five tankers and injured three drivers, officials said.
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