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Taiwan's president faces test in vote
May 13 2005 10:00PM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan's president faced a test of his independence-minded policies toward China on Saturday, as voters cast ballots to elect a National Assembly charged with amending Taiwan's constitution.
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Kashmir grenade blast kills 2, wounds 57
May 13 2005 9:40PM (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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Indonesia confirms two more polio cases
May 13 2005 9:36PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia Saturday confirmed two more cases of polio, including the first in the country's teeming capital, as it struggled to contain the first outbreak of the disease in 10 years.
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Bomb in southern Thailand kills 2 soldiers
May 13 2005 3:36PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A roadside bomb exploded near a passing military truck on Friday, killing two Thai marines and seriously wounding eight others in an area of southern Thailand troubled by sectarian violence, police said.
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Hundreds of children marry in India
May 13 2005 3:34PM (CT)
RAJGARH, India (AP) - Ignoring laws that ban child marriages, hundreds of children, some as young as seven years old, were married this week in a centuries-old custom across central and western India.
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Protests spread in Afghanistan; 8 killed
May 13 2005 2:28PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Protesters threw rocks and police shot back Friday as violent anti-U.S. protests spread to more Afghan cities, leaving at least eight people dead and threatening a security crisis for the government.
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Bureaucracy wracks survivors of Tsunami
May 13 2005 7:44AM (CT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - One man seeks a letter allowing him to access his dead brother's bank account. Another needs official confirmation of what he has known for weeks _ that his family perished in last winter's tsunami.
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U.S. envoy to discuss N. Korea standoff
May 13 2005 7:04AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Efforts to get North Korea back into six-party nuclear disarmament talks approached a breaking point Friday when Japan suggested forging ahead with the talks without the North, as a U.S. envoy arrived in South Korea for stepped-up diplomacy.
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