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China highlights plans for high-tech army
May 25 2006 11:40PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - China plans to accelerate efforts to modernize the world's largest army, state media reported Friday, a day after Beijing rejected a Pentagon report describing China as a potential military threat.
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9 unarmed police killed in East Timor
May 25 2006 9:28PM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - Soldiers fired on unarmed police in East Timor's capital Thursday, killing nine and wounding 27, as international troops landed to try to end the fighting that threatens to push the country closer to civil war.
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Soldiers search for Thai flood victims
May 25 2006 2:19PM (CT)
UTTARADIT, Thailand (AP) - Rescuers employed dogs, helicopters and their bare hands Thursday in the ongoing search for victims of devastating flash floods in northern Thailand that killed 50 people and left at least as many missing.
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Chinese archbishop Li Du'an dies at 79
May 25 2006 10:51AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Archbishop Anthony Li Du'an, an important figure in China's divided Catholic church, died Thursday after a two-year battle with liver cancer, an official with China's state-approved church said. Li was 79.
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Indian prime minister ends Kashmir talks
May 25 2006 10:38AM (CT)
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - India's prime minister was upbeat Thursday after talks in troubled Kashmir, making a rare acknowledgment of human rights violations and announcing measures aimed at ending 16 years of violence in the Himalayan region.
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U.S., Chinese officials discuss N. Korea
May 25 2006 10:32AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - U.S. and Chinese officials on Thursday discussed the possibility of negotiations with North Korea to formally end the Korean War.
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Seoul puzzled by North's train move
May 25 2006 6:30AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea on Thursday told North Korea its last-minute decision to cancel test runs of trains across the heavily armed inter-Korean border was inexplicable.
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3,000 have fled violence in Afghanistan
May 25 2006 6:22AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Militants killed three truck drivers hauling food for the U.S. military, and 3,000 people have fled their homes because of heavy fighting, officials in Afghanistan said Thursday.
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Karzai seeks to ensure civilian safety
May 25 2006 5:55AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai told the U.S. commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan that "every effort" should be made to ensure the safety of civilians while fighting militants, the president's office said Thursday.
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Koreas agree to new economic talks
May 25 2006 4:46AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea agreed Thursday to a new round of economic talks with South Korea, but declined to set a date for the negotiations, the South's Unification Ministry said.
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Child killed in China elementary school
May 25 2006 1:03AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - A man in central China hacked a neighbor to death, then took 19 elementary school students hostage and killed one before police subdued him, state media reported Thursday.
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Strike by Hindus shuts down Nepal town
May 25 2006 12:59AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - A peaceful strike called by Hindu groups to protest parliament's move to declare Nepal a secular state closed down a southern border town Thursday and threatened to block imports of goods from neighboring India.
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