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Taiwan premier takes control of government
May 31 2006 10:52PM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan's president has handed over day-to-day control of the island's government to the premier in the wake of a series of scandals, a presidential spokesman said Thursday.
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Machete-wielding youths fight in E. Timor
May 31 2006 10:08PM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - Machete-wielding youths battled in East Timor's capital Wednesday amid burning and looting as more foreign troops bolstered a force struggling to stop the unrest that has destabilized the country.
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South Korea's ruling party chief resigns
May 31 2006 9:13PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The leader of South Korea's ruling party resigned Thursday, one day after the conservative opposition won 12 of 16 key regional posts in local elections.
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Plan for nuke plants in N. Korea killed
May 31 2006 8:11PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A multinational project to build two nuclear power plants for North Korea in exchange for U.N. inspections of the communist country's atomic sites was formally killed off Wednesday by the United States, Japan, South Korea and European Union.
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U.S.: GIs in Afghanistan defended selves
May 31 2006 6:14PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday that American soldiers used their guns in self-defense after rioting Afghans opened fire during a melee that broke out after a deadly road crash.
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Hiroshima memorial honors Chinese victims
May 31 2006 3:23PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A national memorial for Hiroshima atomic bomb victims honored Chinese casualties for the first time Wednesday _ three men who were brought to Japan as slave laborers during World War II and exposed to searing radiation in the blast.
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Main hospital in Indonesia overwhelmed
May 31 2006 1:40PM (CT)
BANTUL, Indonesia (AP) - The main hospital in the district hardest hit by Indonesia's killer earthquake is running short of blood and splints. Victims cram corridors and the parking lot, sleeping on scraps of cardboard, some waiting an entire day for care.
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East Timor becomes a symbol of upheaval
May 31 2006 1:13PM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - East Timor was supposed to be a showcase for U.N. nation-building, a rousing symbol of how a downtrodden land could stand on its own with help from the world.
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Court orders India doctors to end strike
May 31 2006 11:21AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Government doctors Wednesday ended a 19-day strike against affirmative action for India's lower castes, hours after the Supreme Court ordered them back to work.
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Aid slowly gets to Indonesia disaster zone
May 31 2006 10:57AM (CT)
BANTUL, Indonesia (AP) - Medicines, rice, water and tarps were delivered to Indonesia's earthquake disaster zone Wednesday to help about 650,000 displaced people, but many said the international aid was taking too long to get there.
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Indonesians see disasters as God's will
May 31 2006 8:55AM (CT)
BANTUL, Indonesia (AP) - Battered by one calamity after another, Indonesians have found a resilience that has amazed even foreign aid workers. It's rooted in a widely held belief that the troubles were sent by God, either as a test of their love for him or as punishment for straying from his teachings.
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South Korea seeks details on 1950 letter
May 31 2006 7:50AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea has requested more information from the U.S. government about a 1950 letter in which the U.S. ambassador to Seoul told the State Department that American soldiers would shoot refugees approaching their lines.
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Afghan lawmakers speak out on U.S. crash
May 31 2006 7:23AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's parliament has approved a motion calling for the government to prosecute the U.S. soldiers responsible for a deadly road crash that sparked the worst riots in Kabul in years, officials said Wednesday.
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Suspected Taliban attack Afghan town
May 31 2006 5:52AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Hundreds of suspected Taliban fighters attacked a remote central Afghan town Wednesday and briefly occupied its police headquarters after driving out security forces, officials said.
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Peru's Humala accused of being manipulated
May 31 2006 4:28AM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Jumping into Peru's election fray, jailed former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos has alleged in a booklet apparently written in prison that presidential candidate Ollanta Humala is a pawn of Cuban and Venezuelan intelligence.
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