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U.S. says Taliban waning in Afghanistan
May 21 2005 10:01PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - American commanders say the Taliban is a viable resistance force in Afghanistan even three years after the Islamic radicals fell, but the U.S. military's fight to undermine their influence and bring stability is showing signs of progress.
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Ex-Taliban official seeks Afghan votes
May 21 2005 7:40PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A second former top Taliban official said Saturday that he will be a candidate in Afghan legislative elections, while the country's president urged more women to take part in the polls.
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China orders emergency bird flu measures
May 21 2005 5:36PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China ordered emergency measures Saturday to prevent an outbreak of avian flu after investigators said migratory birds found dead in a western province this month were killed by the virus.
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Missing aid worker sought in Afghanistan
May 21 2005 5:16PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Aid agencies on Saturday plastered the Afghan capital with posters seeking information about a kidnapped Italian relief worker.
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Many in Mongolia nostalgic for communism
May 21 2005 4:24PM (CT)
GACHUURT, Mongolia (AP) - For most of her 53 years, she has lived as a nomadic herder under Mongolia's wide blue skies, raising nine children, surviving snowstorms and drought, and hauling the family's white felt tent to a new site each season in search of grass for their sheep. But never did Tsahiriin Daariimaa think life would be as hard as it is now, on the eve of Sunday's presidential elections.
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Fall of dictator remembered in Indonesia
May 21 2005 2:48PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Thousands of protesters across Indonesia marked the seventh anniversary of the fall of former dictator Suharto on Saturday by burning his portrait and demanding his prosecution on corruption charges.
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U.S. soldier killed in Afghan blast
May 21 2005 10:19AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A bomb exploded near a U.S. military patrol in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing one American soldier and wounding three others, the military said.
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U.S. considers sending N. Korea food aid
May 21 2005 8:03AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is weighing North Korea's needs against hunger in other countries as it decides whether to provide food assistance this year to the economically lagging communist nation, the State Department said Friday.
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