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Bangladesh is asked to probe killings
May 12 2005 10:24PM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - A senior U.S. official asked the Bangladeshi government Thursday to fully investigation the January grenade attack on a political rally that killed five opposition members and wounded 100 people.
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Japan: Talks possible without N. Korea
May 12 2005 9:28PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan is considering five-party nuclear talks without North Korea if the communist nation continues its boycott of negotiations, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said Friday.
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3 more die in Afghan protest over Quran
May 12 2005 9:16PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghans enraged by the alleged desecration of Islam's holy book at a U.S. prison staged a third day of violent protests Thursday, burning an American flag in the capital and ransacking relief group offices to the south as demonstrations spread to neighboring Pakistan.
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Report: Talks possible without N. Korea
May 12 2005 8:46PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan is considering five-party nuclear talks without North Korea if Pyongyang continues its boycott of negotiations, Kyodo News agency quoted Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura as saying Friday.
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Thai envoy says Asian should head U.N.
May 12 2005 8:05PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - After more than three decades, it's Asia's turn again to provide the United Nations with a secretary-general, Thailand's foreign minister said Thursday.
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Climber reaches Mount Annapurna summit
May 12 2005 3:35PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Climber Ed Viesturs reached the summit of Nepal's towering Mount Annapurna on Thursday, becoming the first American to scale all the world's tallest peaks, reports from the mountain said.
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Kashmir grenade blast kills 2, wounds 57
May 12 2005 3:24PM (CT)
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - A grenade thrown by suspected Islamic rebels exploded outside a school in India's portion of Kashmir on Thursday, killing two women and wounding at least 57 people, many of them schoolchildren and their parents, police said.
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Taiwan nixes 'two sides, one China' pitch
May 12 2005 12:39PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China opened a new front Thursday in efforts to draw rival Taiwan into talks on their future, offering a fresh definition of their relationship _ "two sides, one China" _ but the initiative was quickly rejected by the Taiwanese president.
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Japan, China to try to mend relations
May 12 2005 8:27AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan and China agreed Thursday to hold high-level talks to improve relations that plunged to a three-decade low last month following violent anti-Japan protests in China over Tokyo's handling of its wartime atrocities.
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Accused Indonesian cleric preaches jihad
May 12 2005 5:57AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Dressed in flowing brown robe and turban, Abu Jibril raised his fist and promised worshippers in a packed suburban mosque that every coin they donate to overthrow Indonesia's secular government will be repaid hundreds of times over in heaven.
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Al-Qaida suspect to face trial in Pakistan
May 12 2005 5:55AM (CT)
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - An alleged terrorist reputed to be al-Qaida's No. 3 will face trial in Pakistan before Islamabad considers handing him to the United States, Pakistan's foreign minister said Thursday.
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Iran says it will resume nuclear activity
May 12 2005 4:36AM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran vowed Thursday it would "definitely" resume some uranium reprocessing activities, refuting suggestions that Tehran, under European pressure, was considering backing away from its threat to immediately end its freeze of uranium conversion.
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Indonesia politicians visit ailing Suharto
May 12 2005 3:27AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - During ex-Indonesian dictator Suharto's weeklong hospital stay, the country's political elite stumbled over one another to visit the ailing strongman. Emerging from the elite Pertamina Hospital, they described him as a great leader and "father of the country."
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Strong wind delays Mount Everest climbers
May 12 2005 2:37AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Strong wind was pounding the snowy slopes of Mount Everest, forcing dozens of mountaineers to delay their attempt to scale the world's highest peak, mountaineering officials said Thursday.
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Anti-U.S. riot turns deadly in Afghanistan
May 12 2005 12:09AM (CT)
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) - Shouting "Death to America!" more than 1,000 demonstrators rioted and threw stones at a U.S. military convoy Wednesday, as protests spread to four Afghan provinces over a report that interrogators desecrated Islam's holy book at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.
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