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Taiwan opposition leader seeks cooperation
Apr 28 2005 10:48PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Taiwan's opposition leader called for closer cooperation between Beijing and Taipei Friday as he prepared to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao, capping a historic reconciliation between his party and mainland communists whose civil war split China in 1949.
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U.S., S. Korea discuss N. Korea's nukes
Apr 28 2005 9:43PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - U.S. and South Korean officials focused on ways to convince North Korea to end its nuclear program Friday as an American intelligence official warned that the communist state could now arm a missile with a nuclear weapon.
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9 die in Philippines helicopter crash
Apr 28 2005 8:24PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A military helicopter crashed into a wooded ravine on a northern Philippine mountain Thursday, killing all nine people on board, officials said.
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Number of lions rising in western India
Apr 28 2005 7:54PM (CT)
GANDHINAGAR, India (AP) - A campaign against wildlife poaching in the western Indian Gujarat state appears to have paid off with the number of Asiatic lions rising by 32 over the last four years, officials reported Thursday.
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Former Bangladeshi foreign minister dies
Apr 28 2005 5:16PM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Abdus Samad Azad, a former foreign minister and Bangladeshi independence hero, has died. He was 83. About 10,000 mourners attended his funeral Thursday.
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Top Cuban official meets Vietnam general
Apr 28 2005 11:08AM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Two old communist revolutionaries from different sides of the globe embraced in Hanoi and reminisced about their struggles for independence Thursday, nearly 30 years to the day after Vietnam ousted the Americans and reunified the country.
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Report: China detains seven priests
Apr 28 2005 4:26AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Seven priests of China's underground Roman Catholic Church have been detained for attending an unauthorized retreat following the election of the new pope, a U.S.-based monitoring group said Thursday.
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fall of Saigon remembered anew
Apr 28 2005 2:32AM (CT)
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) - A modern sculpture of a mother holding her child lies in a small park in Ho Chi Minh City's Central Square today, symbolic of unity, not war.
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