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Train derails in western Japan, killing 37
Apr 24 2005 11:51PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A crowded commuter train derailed and plowed into an apartment building in western Japan on Monday, turning passenger cars into twisted clumps of metal. At least 37 people were killed and some 200 injured, officials said.
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Kidnapped Pakistan official freed in Iraq
Apr 24 2005 3:55PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistan embassy official who was kidnapped in Iraq two weeks ago was freed Sunday, the chief Pakistani government spokesman said.
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Japan criticizes China history textbooks
Apr 24 2005 12:34PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan opened a new front in its dispute with China on Sunday by sharply criticizing Beijing's history textbooks, signaling continued friction between the Asian powers despite high-profile diplomatic moves to quell tensions.
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5 killed in border clashes in Afghanistan
Apr 24 2005 11:06AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. and Afghan soldiers backed by warplanes and artillery battled suspected insurgents in clashes near the border with Pakistan, and four fighters and one Afghan soldier were killed, the U.S. military said Sunday.
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Afghan woman killed for alleged adultery
Apr 24 2005 6:00AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - An Afghan man killed his daughter for allegedly committing adultery, officials said Sunday, but denied reports that she was stoned to death.
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Superpowers inspired Asia-Africa summit
Apr 24 2005 5:16AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - While the Western and Soviet blocs were staring down nuclear gun barrels at each other, the first summit of newly independent Asian and African nations launched a movement that hoped to be the political buffer between the two.
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Asia, Africa vow to improve economic ties
Apr 24 2005 5:15AM (CT)
BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) - Gathering at the birthplace of the Non-Aligned Movement, a grouping of poor nations trying to stay neutral in the Cold War, representatives of more than 100 African and Asian countries closed out a summit Sunday with promises to boost economic relations and counter the threat of globalization.
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China coal mine flood traps 69 miners
Apr 24 2005 4:14AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Rescuers in northeast China worked Sunday to free 69 coal miners trapped in a flooded mine, the government said.
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Japan envoy criticizes Chinese textbooks
Apr 24 2005 4:06AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Chinese textbooks are "extreme" in their interpretation of history, Japan's foreign minister said Sunday, a day after China's president demanded Tokyo do more to improve relations damaged by new Japanese school textbooks that allegedly whitewash Japan's wartime atrocities.
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Bomb blast kills 2 in southern Thailand
Apr 24 2005 3:19AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Suspected Islamic separatists detonated a bomb in southern Thailand on Sunday, killing two police officers and wounding three other people, just hours after the country's queen appealed to the nation to condemn such attacks.
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Korean leaders agree to restart talks
Apr 24 2005 12:52AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - South Korea and North Korea agreed Saturday to resume talks that broke down last summer and to discuss the standoff over the North's suspected development of nuclear weapons, an Indonesian official said.
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