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Indonesia won't drop Suharto charges
May 11 2006 8:28PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia's president said Friday he won't drop corruption charges against ailing former dictator Suharto, citing public anger over the proposal.
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Civil war looms after Sri Lanka sea battle
May 11 2006 4:46PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - At least 50 rebels were killed and 17 Sri Lankan sailors missing after a sea battle Thursday instigated by the Tamil Tigers left the country on the brink of civil war.
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Karen minority flee Myanmar junta
May 11 2006 1:50PM (CT)
EI HTU HTA, Myanmar (AP) - His village was burned to the ground and four of his relatives executed but Saw Ta Khay stayed in his native area for 31 years, living with malaria and hiding in jungle enclaves.
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9/11 widows help Afghanistan war widows
May 11 2006 1:20PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The two American women walk down a fly-infested alley where sewage from mud huts drains onto the dirt walkway. In a tiny backyard, they find two dozen chickens, five children and one Afghan war widow.
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End of U.N. program concerns ex-fighters
May 11 2006 12:30PM (CT)
HERAT, Afghanistan (AP) - Mohammed Gul went from fighting to making flat bread with the help of a U.N.-funded project. But the program is ending, and aid workers fear ex-combatants may return to violence.
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Annan to push U.N. reforms on Asia trip
May 11 2006 12:27PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan will promote U.N. reforms during his upcoming trip to five Asian nations, seeking support for a hotly debated management overhaul.
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Aid reduction in North Korea worries WFP
May 11 2006 12:10PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Millions of needy North Koreans will continue to face a "very difficult situation" under a scaled-back resumption of World Food Program deliveries of food to the hunger-stricken nation, the U.N. agency said Thursday.
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Chinese coal mine blast kills 11
May 11 2006 8:09AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A gas blast at a coal mine in southern China killed 11 people and injured nine, the government said Thursday.
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6 anti-terrorism police killed in Pakistan
May 11 2006 6:10AM (CT)
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Five bombs ripped through a firing range at a police training school in southwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing six members of an anti-terrorism unit and wounding nine, police and a doctor said.
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