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Suharto Said to Be in 'Serious Condition'
May 18 2006 11:05PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia's president said after visiting ailing ex-dictator Suharto in the hospital early Friday that he was in "serious condition."
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Suharto said to be in 'serious condition'
May 18 2006 10:22PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia's president said after visiting ailing ex-dictator Suharto in the hosptial early Friday that he was in "serious condition."
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Typhoon Chanchu kills 21 in China
May 18 2006 9:03PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - A powerful typhoon pummeled southern China on Thursday, killing at least 21 people and leaving 27 Vietnamese fishermen missing after their boats sank in Chinese waters.
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Report: N. Korea preparing to fire missile
May 18 2006 8:08PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - North Korea could be preparing to fire a missile in the latest of several launchings in recent years, according to news reports Friday.
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Renewed Afghan battles kill more than 100
May 18 2006 5:51PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Islamic militants, some armed with machine guns, battled Afghan, U.S. and Canadian forces and exploded two suicide car bombs Thursday, some of the deadliest violence in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban.
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Japanese boy in elementary school as girl
May 18 2006 2:32PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A young boy who believes he was born the wrong sex was allowed to enroll as a girl at an elementary school in southwestern Japan, a school official said Thursday.
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42 climbers reach summit of Mount Everest
May 18 2006 11:58AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Forty-two climbers took advantage of improved weather Thursday to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, from its Nepalese side, mountaineering officials said.
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Convict in Pearl death moved to new prison
May 18 2006 11:32AM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - An Islamic militant sentenced to death in the killing of journalist Daniel Pearl was transferred Thursday to a new prison for security reasons, a police official said.
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Indonesians ignore warnings about volcano
May 18 2006 11:16AM (CT)
MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia (AP) - Thousands of villagers fed up with crowded camps have returned to their homes on the slopes of Indonesia's erupting Mount Merapi, ignoring warnings that the peak remains highly dangerous, an official said Thursday.
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Nepal lawmakers move to limit king's powers
May 18 2006 10:50AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Lawmakers moved Thursday to dramatically reduce the powers of Nepal's king, calling for him to be stripped of his legal immunity, authority over the army and exemption from paying taxes.
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South Korea seeks progress on nuke issue
May 18 2006 5:14AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Negotiations on a peace treaty to formally end the state of war on the Korean Peninsula are likely only after substantial progress is made on ending North Korea's nuclear program, a senior South Korean official said Thursday.
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China church to boycott 'Da Vinci'
May 18 2006 4:45AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's official Catholic church on Thursday called on its followers to boycott the film "The Da Vinci Code" as immoral and an offense to the faithful, the government's main news agency reported.
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American killed in bombing in Afghanistan
May 18 2006 1:53AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide car bomber rammed into two vehicles carrying foreigners in western Afghanistan on Thursday, killing an American working on a counter-narcotics project and wounding two other people, officials said.
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Afghan attacks kill about a dozen police
May 18 2006 12:26AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Heavy fighting involving several hundred Taliban fighters and Afghan and coalition forces broke out in two provinces of volatile southern Afghanistan, killing about a dozen police, a Canadian soldier and more than 30 militants, officials said Thursday.
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