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Rumsfeld: War may alienate Muslim nations
Jun 2 2006 11:51PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Saturday he is concerned that the war in Iraq could alienate people in Southeast Asia's Muslim nations, where he will travel next week.
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New violence breaks out in East Timor
Jun 2 2006 10:37PM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - Nobel Peace laureate Jose Ramos Horta said Friday he would take over East Timor's top security posts in a bid to end factional divisions that have plunged the country into chaos.
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Singapore PM urges U.S. to stay in Iraq
Jun 2 2006 3:23PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Friday the United States must not pull out of Iraq until it has stabilized, while U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld defended the training and conduct of U.S. troops amid an investigation into the massacre of Iraqi civilians.
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Suicide car bomber kills 3 in Afghanistan
Jun 2 2006 3:11PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide car bomber apparently targeting a Canadian military convoy detonated a vehicle packed with explosives Friday in southern Afghanistan, killing himself and three civilians, police said.
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Peruvian campaign ends on vitriolic note
Jun 2 2006 1:49PM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Peru's presidential campaign ended in a flurry of invectives, with former President Alan Garcia depicting his opponent as a would-be dictator with terrorist leanings and Ollanta Humala calling Garcia a corrupt vestige of a discredited political elite.
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Explosion at Turkish mine leaves 17 dead
Jun 2 2006 1:48PM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - The death toll from a methane gas explosion in a Turkish coal mine rose to 17 on Friday after firefighters, troops and miners worked through the night to recover the bodies.
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Haditha killings recall Vietnam's My Lai
Jun 2 2006 1:34PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - On a March morning in 1968, American troops swept into a village on South Vietnam's central coast in search of communist guerrillas. Instead, they found unarmed civilians _ and gunned them down, leaving bodies huddled in ditches.
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Indonesia faces huge rebuilding job
Jun 2 2006 1:23PM (CT)
TELAN, Indonesia (AP) - It is 7:30 a.m., and Soliman and his wife are hard at work, digging through the rubble of their quake-destroyed house and neatly stacking reusable bricks, tiles and wooden posts.
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U.N. says $100M needed now in Indonesia
Jun 2 2006 12:11PM (CT)
BANTUL, Indonesia (AP) - The United Nations said Friday $100 million was urgently needed to help Indonesia earthquake survivors as the injured and bereaved marked the Islamic day of prayer amid the rubble of their homes.
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Hiroshima memorial honors Chinese victims
Jun 2 2006 11:09AM (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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More violence breaks out in East Timor
Jun 2 2006 10:52AM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - Fresh fighting and looting broke out in East Timor's capital Friday, and a Nobel laureate said he was taking over the government's top security posts to try to heal divisions in the armed forces that have plunged the country into crisis.
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Witness testifies in trial of 4 Marines
Jun 2 2006 9:54AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A witness at a rape trial of four U.S. Marines testified Friday that he saw one of the servicemen carry a drunk Filipino woman from a bar to a van where the alleged sex crime occurred.
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U.S. says it'll cooperate in Afghan probe
Jun 2 2006 9:26AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - An Afghan investigation into a road crash involving a U.S. military vehicle that sparked Kabul's worst riots in years will start Saturday, and the U.S. military vowed to cooperate, officials said.
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Are Chinese students cheating by phone?
Jun 2 2006 7:18AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China will scramble mobile phone signals in some exam halls and have police stand guard in a bid to stop cheating as millions of students take the highly competitive college entrance exams this month, state media said Friday.
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Communist rebels rally in Nepal capital
Jun 2 2006 6:21AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Tens of thousands of communist rebels and their supporters held their first big rally Friday in the capital in recent years, waving red flags and yelling slogans against King Gyanendra.
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4 Pakistan troops killed in suicide attack
Jun 2 2006 6:04AM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Two suicide attackers detonated an explosives-laden car amid a military convoy on a strategic road in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing four soldiers and wounding seven, officials said.
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Pakistan police arrest militant
Jun 2 2006 5:16AM (CT)
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Police raided a militant hideout and arrested the alleged mastermind of sectarian attacks that killed more than 100 Shiite Muslims in southwestern Pakistan, police said Friday.
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Prejudices fuel conflict in East Timor
Jun 2 2006 4:06AM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - The violence that swept East Timor in 1999 was a clear-cut conflict between mostly unarmed civilians eager for independence and vengeful militias backed by Indonesia, the former occupier.
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Hundreds of Indonesian quake victims sick
Jun 2 2006 2:13AM (CT)
BANTUL, Indonesia (AP) - Hundreds of earthquake survivors in Indonesia suffered severe stomach pains and dizziness after eating donated food, police said Friday.
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U.S. sailor convicted of murder in Japan
Jun 2 2006 1:09AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese court on Friday convicted a U.S. sailor of killing a Japanese woman during a robbery near Tokyo and sentenced him to life in prison.
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