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70 students taken hostage in Cambodia
Jun 15 2005 11:29PM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Six masked men have taken 70 students hostage at an international school in northwestern Cambodia, police said Thursday.
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Sri Lanka's governing coalition breaks up
Jun 15 2005 10:26PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A government plan to share tsunami relief aid with Sri Lanka's separatist rebels drove a Marxist party from the government Thursday, a move that could threaten the ruling party's hold on power.
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Pakistan lifts ban on rape victim
Jun 15 2005 7:25PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan on Wednesday lifted a travel ban on a well-known rape victim, a government spokesman said, days after her name was placed on a list of people barred from leaving the country.
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Taliban chief: Bin Laden alive and well
Jun 15 2005 5:26PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Osama bin Laden and fugitive Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar are alive and well, a purported Taliban commander said in a TV interview broadcast Wednesday, adding that he still receives orders from Omar.
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Fighting in Afghanistan leaves 15 dead
Jun 15 2005 4:05PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Suspected Taliban rebels broke into a medical clinic near the Pakistan border and killed a doctor and six of his assistants, while seven gunmen were killed when hundreds of insurgents clashed with Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces, officials said Wednesday.
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Three killed in Afghan well accident
Jun 15 2005 4:03PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Two members of a family died and a police officer was injured while trying to rescue a boy who had fallen into a well that was filled with gas in northern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday
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S. Korea urges North to end their Cold War
Jun 15 2005 1:56PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea urged North Korea to help end their Cold War as the two sides glossed over an international nuclear dispute Wednesday to celebrate a landmark 2000 summit that warmed ties but failed to bring them much closer to reunification.
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After tsunami, mothers want more children
Jun 15 2005 1:54PM (CT)
MATARA, Sri Lanka (AP) - It was Oct. 11, 2004, and the world looked beautiful to K.M.G. Prinsika. She had given birth to her third child, a wide-eyed girl she and her husband named Pushmi Moonesha. The happy parents told the gynecologist that they'd had enough children, and it was time for Prinsika to be sterilized. On Dec. 26, 2004, the world became a horror.
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Original 'Babylift' children visit Vietnam
Jun 15 2005 1:49PM (CT)
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) - Thirty years ago, they left as children aboard a desperate flight from war-torn Vietnam. On Wednesday, they returned as 21 grown men and women, visiting their now-peaceful homeland to commemorate the first of the "Operation Babylift" flights that eventually brought 3,000 Vietnamese children to the United States.
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Four giant catfish released into Mekong
Jun 15 2005 10:27AM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Four endangered giant catfish were released Wednesday into the Mekong River after seven years of captivity in hopes of boosting the population of the species, which has fallen sharply in the last two decades.
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Donald Tsang wins Hong Kong leadership
Jun 15 2005 5:51AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Veteran civil servant Donald Tsang effectively won Hong Kong's leadership race on Wednesday, filing papers that showed he had the solid backing of an election committee that picks the Chinese territory's leaders.
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Priceless carpets stolen in Afghanistan
Jun 15 2005 2:52AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Three large carpets were stolen from an ancient Afghan mosque by thieves who came in the middle of the night and replaced them with cheap imitations, a local police chief said Wednesday.
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Group: AIDS activists harassed in China
Jun 15 2005 2:45AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China should stop harassing AIDS activists, a U.S.-based human rights group said Wednesday as it warned that Beijing's heavy-handed methods of controlling information about the disease could hinder efforts to stop its spread.
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