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Hundreds loot warehouses in East Timor
Jun 1 2006 10:26PM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - Lawlessness raged in parts of East Timor's capital Friday as mobs looted government warehouses, stealing computers, office chairs and file cabinets. Foreign troops deployed to restore order were nowhere to be seen.
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Japan's 2005 birth rate hits record low
Jun 1 2006 5:42PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's birth rate in 2005 dropped to a record low of 1.25 babies per woman, the Health Ministry reported Thursday, adding to concerns over the country's aging population and its economy.
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89 Gitmo detainees on hunger strike
Jun 1 2006 2:55PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - More Guantanamo Bay detainees have joined a hunger strike, raising the total to 89, and six of them were being force-fed, the U.S. military said Thursday.
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Karzai condemns gunfire by U.S. troops
Jun 1 2006 2:19PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai on Thursday condemned the use of gunfire by U.S. troops to suppress Afghans angered by a traffic accident involving a military truck that sparked the worst riots in the capital since the fall of the Taliban.
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Some Indonesian survivors waiting for food
Jun 1 2006 2:15PM (CT)
TOPRIATAN, Indonesia (AP) - Survivors just a few miles from aid centers said Thursday they're still waiting for food, five days after a killer earthquake shattered their homes.
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Stares, glares for Afghan female drivers
Jun 1 2006 2:06PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Everyone she passes _ each taxi driver, every man and burqa-clad woman _ is looking at Sofia. The stares and glares are no surprise: She's female, she's driving, and she's just 14 years old.
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Thousands of East Timorese seek refuge
Jun 1 2006 1:17PM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - Angelita Gonzales, heading into the ninth month of her seventh pregnancy, has been sleeping on the floor of a basketball court for weeks. When the labor pains come, "I don't know where I'll go," said the distraught housewife, one of tens of thousands who fled their homes in East Timor's capital when violence began last month.
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Violence hurts East Timor coffee industry
Jun 1 2006 11:58AM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - East Timor's resurgent coffee industry, which supplies high-quality organic beans to companies such as Starbucks, has been badly hurt by a wave of violence in the capital, officials said Thursday.
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Land mine kills 12 Indian paramilitary
Jun 1 2006 11:33AM (CT)
PATNA, India (AP) - A land mine believed planted by communist rebels killed 12 officers from a paramilitary police force Thursday in eastern India, an official said.
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Copter believed found in Afghan mountains
Jun 1 2006 9:39AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The wreckage of a helicopter that had been chartered by the Red Cross and disappeared over Afghanistan in January is believed to have been found atop a snowcapped mountain, a senior official said Thursday.
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North Korea invites U.S. nuclear envoy
Jun 1 2006 9:08AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Thursday invited the chief U.S. nuclear envoy to visit the communist nation to prove Washington is committed to an agreement last year in which the North pledged to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
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Contaminated water kills 9 in Pakistan
Jun 1 2006 7:55AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Sewage contamination in a Pakistani city's water system has caused an outbreak of gastroenteritis, sickening more than 19,000 people and killing nine, officials said Thursday.
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Bomber in Afghanistan kills only self
Jun 1 2006 6:22AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide car bomb blew up near a convoy of Afghan and U.S.-led coalition troops in western Afghanistan on Thursday, killing the attacker but hurting no one else, police said.
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Peru party buzzing with campaign activity
Jun 1 2006 4:35AM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Days before Peru's presidential runoff, the headquarters of the country's oldest and most disciplined political party is buzzing with furious campaign activity. Come election day, its old-fashioned get-out-the-vote drive could return Alan Garcia to the presidency.
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Paper: N. Korea preparing for missile test
Jun 1 2006 4:31AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The United States and Japan have detected signs that North Korea is almost ready to test-fire a long-range ballistic missile, a Japanese newspaper reported Thursday.
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U.S. nuclear envoy invited to North Korea
Jun 1 2006 2:02AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Thursday invited the chief U.S. nuclear envoy to visit the communist nation if Washington proves its commitment to an agreement last year in which the North pledged to abandon its atomic weapons program.
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South Korea's ruling party chief resigns
Jun 1 2006 1:25AM (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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