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JAL chairman to quit over safety concerns
May 8 2005 10:36PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan Airlines said Monday its chairman was resigning, a day after a drop in cabin pressure forced a JAL flight from New York to Tokyo with 355 people aboard to make an emergency landing.
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U.N. worker, 2 others die in Afghan blast
May 8 2005 9:35PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A U.N. engineer from Myanmar was among three people killed when a suicide attacker walked into a Kabul Internet cafe and blew himself up, officials said Sunday, in the first fatal attack on a U.N. staffer in the capital since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
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Bangladesh collapsed factory owner jailed
May 8 2005 8:06PM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - The owner and a director of a garment factory that collapsed, killing 73 workers and injuring dozens of others, were jailed Sunday without bail, a court source said.
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Japan's Koizumi to visit war shrine
May 8 2005 7:38PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will again pay respects this year at a Tokyo war shrine honoring the country's war dead, a senior ruling party lawmaker said Sunday.
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Transvestites glitter at Thailand pageant
May 8 2005 6:09PM (CT)
PATTAYA, Thailand (AP) - At the Miss Tiffany Universe pageant _ which boasts dozens of gorgeous, lithe, smooth-skinned contestants _ one thing is undeniable: Thailand turns out some of the most beautiful transvestites and transsexuals in the world.
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Avalanche survivor recounts Everest horror
May 8 2005 4:40PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Pierre Bourdeau was tucked into his sleeping bag on Mount Everest when the avalanche struck. It plowed through his tent with chunks of ice, threw him 100 yards down the slope and buried him beneath a mound of snow.
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Indonesia won't squander tsunami funds
May 8 2005 12:45PM (CT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesian officials have assured the United States that they will not allow billions of dollars pledged for tsunami relief to be squandered through corruption, a senior U.S. diplomat said Sunday.
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Envoy wants to resume Korea nuke talks
May 8 2005 12:29PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A Russian diplomat called for resuming six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program in remarks published Sunday in a North Korean newspaper, a message certain to be viewed favorably by President Bush who met Russian President Vladimir Putin near Moscow.
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Tougher stance on China currency adopted
May 8 2005 11:44AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two years of quiet diplomacy by the Bush administration did not persuade China to change its currency system. So the United States now is turning up the volume, even enlisting the help of financial heavyweights such as Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan.
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M yanmar dissidents deny role in bombings
May 8 2005 10:40AM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Opposition groups on Sunday denied involvement in three explosions in Myanmar's capital that killed at least 11 people and wounded 162, the worst bombings to shake Yangon in decades.
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Two Pakistanis killed in bombing
May 8 2005 8:23AM (CT)
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan (AP) - A bomb ripped through a car in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region on Sunday, killing two tribesmen, an official said.
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Taiwan politician opposes independence
May 8 2005 7:10AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Ahead of a meeting with China's president, Taiwanese politician James Soong said Sunday he was opposed to moves by his island toward formal independence from China in comments sure to please the Beijing leadership.
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Nepal's political parties demand democracy
May 8 2005 4:33AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - More than three months after Nepal's king declared himself the absolute ruler of this Himalayan nation, the country's seven political parties announced a common platform that demands a return to democracy and a constitutional limit on the monarchy's power.
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Year 2062 proving tough for Nepalese
May 8 2005 1:26AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - In mid-April, tens of thousands of people across the Katmandu Valley converged on Hindu temples to celebrate the Nepalese new year by hauling juggernauts _ huge wheeled platforms two or three stories tall that represent the chariots of the gods. According to Nepal's lunar calendar, it is now 2062 _ a year that is continuing one of the most painful periods in Nepal's modern history.
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