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Myanmar's Suu Kyi released from hospital
Jun 9 2006 11:41PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was taken to a hospital Friday with a stomach ailment but her condition has improved and she has returned home, a spokesman for her party said Saturday.
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Villagers return after Indonesia volcano
Jun 9 2006 10:27PM (CT)
MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia (AP) - Hundreds of poor farmers concerned about their crops and livestock returned to the slopes of Indonesia's ash-spewing Mount Merapi on Friday, a day after fleeing the biggest eruption yet.
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Market blast kills 5 in India's northeast
Jun 9 2006 7:40PM (CT)
GAUHATI, India (AP) - A bomb exploded Friday afternoon in a crowded vegetable market in the violence-torn state of Assam, killing at least five people, police said.
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Millions of Thai honor king
Jun 9 2006 5:26PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Millions of Thais wore their king's royal color Friday, turning Bangkok into a sea of yellow to honor the world's longest-serving monarch as he marked 60 years on the throne with a plea for political unity.
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Working Japanese moms may spur birthrate
Jun 9 2006 4:24PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan should help mothers stay in the work force to encourage career-minded women to have children and reverse a decline in the country's birthrate, a government report said Friday.
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Suspected Taliban violence kills 26
Jun 9 2006 4:08PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Suspected Taliban militants attacked an Afghan army convoy, sparking hours of fighting that killed 13 rebels during an unrelenting wave of violence that claimed at least 26 lives, officials said Friday.
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Osama bin Laden keeping a low profile
Jun 9 2006 2:29PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Tracking down Osama bin Laden has proven tougher than getting to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi because the top al-Qaida leader keeps a lower profile, surrounds himself with far more faithful followers and has more places to hide, intelligence experts say.
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Indian delivers rare identical quadruplets
Jun 9 2006 2:14PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - A 26-year-old Indian woman has given birth to rare identical quadruplets and the girls are healthy after their first six weeks of life, an Indian news agency reported Friday.
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U.S. group: 28 Chinese Christians held
Jun 9 2006 1:33PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Chinese authorities detained 28 Christians in a raid on an unauthorized church service at a private home, an overseas monitoring group said Friday.
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Extremists mourn al-Zarqawi's death
Jun 9 2006 11:03AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The Taliban's fugitive supreme leader mourned the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and vowed Friday to keep fighting in Afghanistan, according to a statement.
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U.S. warns Americans in China of threats
Jun 9 2006 8:01AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The U.S. government warned Friday of possible terrorist threats to American interests and places where Americans gather in China, particularly in major cities.
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2 Afghan aid workers, 7 others killed
Jun 9 2006 2:38AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Violence killed nine people around Afghanistan, including a regional security director and two Afghan aid workers, officials said Friday.
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Police in Manila disperse left-wing rally
Jun 9 2006 1:18AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Police in the Philippine capital used batons and water cannons Friday to disperse about 1,000 government foes who attempted to march on the presidential palace.
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