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Rumsfeld: Al-Jazeera promotes terrorism
Jun 4 2005 10:18PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said Saturday the Al-Jazeera television network promoted terrorism by airing beheadings and other attacks.
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Rumsfeld explains U.S. pressure on China
Jun 4 2005 10:18PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - Pentagon chief Donald H. Rumsfeld said Saturday that U.S. pressure for political and economic change in China is not intended to undermine the Beijing government.
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N.Korea again faults U.S. nuclear policy
Jun 4 2005 10:15PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Sunday repeated its demand that the United States drop what the communist nation calls a hostile policy toward resolving the nuclear standoff, two days after it struck what appeared to be a conciliatory tone with the Bush administration.
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China tightens security around Tiananmen
Jun 4 2005 8:49PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China tightened security around Tiananmen Square on Saturday to prevent memorials on the anniversary of the bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. But in Hong Kong, tens of thousands of protesters staged a candlelight rally.
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Japan struggles with surge in AIDS cases
Jun 4 2005 8:47PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A rapid spread of AIDS over the past decade has reached a level that has confounded and alarmed the health establishment in Japan, a country that has long felt protected by a first-rate health system and widespread condom use.
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Tokyo shrine has war criminals' remains
Jun 4 2005 7:08PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The operators of a Tokyo war shrine have refused to remove the remains of war criminals, despite suggestions that doing so could calm other countries' anger over the prime minister's visits to the shrine, a news report said on Saturday.
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Hmong tribespeople surrender in Laos
Jun 4 2005 6:09PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - After decades on the run, 170 women, children and old men of the Hmong ethnic minority _ once part of a U.S.-backed secret army fighting communists in Laos _ emerged from their jungle hideouts on Saturday to surrender to the government.
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Correction: Lost-Soldiers story
Jun 4 2005 11:36AM (CT)
GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines (AP) - In stories May 27-June 1 about Japanese soldiers who may have been hiding in the jungle for six decades, The Associated Press reported erroneously that hundreds of thousands of U.S. and Filipino soldiers died in the Philippines during World War II.
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Van crash kills nine India wedding guests
Jun 4 2005 9:52AM (CT)
BHUBANESWAR, India (AP) - A van carrying wedding guests plunged into a canal in eastern India after the driver apparently fell asleep, killing nine people, police said.
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Arroyo upbeat about cooperation with U.S.
Jun 4 2005 6:11AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said her government has become effective in isolating terrorist elements from an Islamic separatist movement amid concerns that the southern Philippine islands could turn into a terrorist breeding ground.
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