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Snow hampers Everest climbers' evacuation
May 6 2005 2:59PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Trapped on Mount Everest by treacherous weather, four American and Canadian climbers and two Sherpa guides were being treated Friday for various injuries in a makeshift tent hospital at base camp following an avalanche earlier this week.
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Pakistan arrests more terror suspects
May 6 2005 2:21PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan has arrested at least seven more suspected terrorists since this week's capture of a senior al-Qaida figure wanted for two bombings against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, top officials said Friday.
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Japan may ease mad cow testing standards
May 6 2005 11:52AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Tokyo's food safety commission on Friday said it would recommend the government waive mad cow disease tests for cattle younger than 21 months, a move toward lifting the ban on American beef imports to Japan.
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Japan threatens U.N. action on N. Korea
May 6 2005 9:11AM (CT)
KYOTO, Japan (AP) - Japan threatened on Friday to put the issue of North Korea's nuclear weapons program before the U.N. Security Council next month unless six-nation talks on the dispute show progress.
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Taiwan opposition leader visits monument
May 6 2005 8:08AM (CT)
XI'AN, China (AP) - A Taiwanese opposition leader made a pilgrimage Friday to a monument honoring China's legendary founder, calling for reconciliation between Taipei and Beijing based on their common cultural roots.
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North Korea may test nuclear device
May 6 2005 7:41AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan has information that North Korea may be preparing for a nuclear test, a Defense Agency official said Friday, less than a week after Pyongyang is believed to have tested a short-range missile off its eastern coast.
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Prominent Hindu religious leader slain
May 6 2005 3:58AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Unidentified gunmen fatally shot a prominent Hindu religious leader on Friday while he was touring villages in southwestern Nepal, police said.
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Being 'No. 3' in al-Qaida a risky job
May 6 2005 3:57AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A Libyan seized in Pakistan this week was the fourth purported No. 3 leader of al-Qaida killed or captured since the Sept. 11 attacks, but the global dragnet has yet to reach up the terror group's hierarchy to the main prizes _ Osama bin Laden and his right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahri.
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