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Pakistan army helicopter crashes in dam
Jun 20 2006 11:32PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistan army helicopter crashed into a dam early Wednesday near a tribal region in the northwest, leaving four people missing and feared dead while three others were rescued, police said.
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Major Beijing developer in wider probe
Jun 20 2006 11:09PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The head of a major property developer in China's capital is being questioned by authorities amid a widening investigation into alleged corruption involving a recently dismissed vice mayor, a company official said Tuesday.
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Japan agrees to lift ban on U.S. beef
Jun 20 2006 11:05PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan agreed Wednesday to lift its ban on U.S. beef imports, pending planned inspections of U.S. meat processing plants, the agriculture ministry said. The Asian nation imposed the ban over concerns about mad cow disease.
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Japan agrees to lift ban on U.S. beef
Jun 20 2006 10:42PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan has agreed Wednesday to lift its ban on U.S. beef imports _ imposed early this year amid concerns over mad cow disease, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday.
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N. Korea declares right to test missiles
Jun 20 2006 8:56PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - North Korea declared Tuesday it has a right to carry out long-range missile tests, despite international calls for the communist state to refrain from launching a rocket believed capable of reaching the United States.
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U.S. conducts military exercises in Guam
Jun 20 2006 7:33PM (CT)
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) - As tensions with North Korea rise, three U.S. aircraft carriers filled the skies with fighters Tuesday for one of the largest U.S. military exercises in decades off this small island in the Pacific.
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U.S. troops fight off Taliban attack
Jun 20 2006 4:19PM (CT)
BAGHRAN VALLEY, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. troops carrying out an anti-militant offensive fought off a Taliban attack on their mountaintop camp Tuesday, while a roadside blast in the same part of southern Afghanistan left a Romanian soldier dead.
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Chinese observers watch U.S. wargames
Jun 20 2006 3:02PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - For the first time, Chinese military officers are observing American war games in the Pacific, where the two countries have potential conflicts over Taiwan and Beijing's territorial claims.
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Sri Lankan rebels set to defend territory
Jun 20 2006 2:03PM (CT)
KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka (AP) - Every map in Sri Lanka is about one of two fantasies. The official one in the south shows an undivided nation, the picture-postcard tropical paradise of white-sand beaches and Buddhist shrines.
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Japan pulling its 600 troops from Iraq
Jun 20 2006 1:40PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's announcement Tuesday that it would immediately start pulling its ground troops from Iraq brought to a close a mission that symbolized the country's push to take a more assertive role in world affairs.
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Rain might worsen Indonesia volcano slides
Jun 20 2006 1:31PM (CT)
MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia's most active volcano spewed burning ash and gas clouds Tuesday as scientists expressed fears that rain could send deadly flows of volcanic debris to villages below.
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Volcano in Philippines spews ash again
Jun 20 2006 12:09PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Mount Bulusan spewed ash in a fresh explosion late Tuesday, prompting Philippine officials to hastily evacuate a nearby village during a rainstorm. The minor ash explosion, Bulusan's ninth since it started acting up in March, was accompanied by mild earth tremors for several minutes before the volcano calmed down again.
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Taiwan's president strikes back at critics
Jun 20 2006 8:54AM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan's president struck back at the opposition's campaign to recall him, saying in a television address Tuesday night that his rivals were falsely accusing his wife of corruption and that their bid to oust him had no merit.
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Pakistani confesses, then is shot dead
Jun 20 2006 8:31AM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistan man killed his three young daughters Tuesday before confessing to police, prompting one officer to shoot him dead, an investigator said. Mohammed Ashraf, 38, used a knife to cut the throats of his daughters aged 3, 5 and 9 before dawn in the eastern city of Lahore, said senior police investigator Amir Zulifquar.
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Disgraced cloning scientist goes on trial
Jun 20 2006 7:18AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk went on trial Tuesday on charges of fraud and embezzlement in a scandal over faked stem cell research that undermined global hopes of dramatic new treatments for incurable diseases.
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Sri Lankan military repulses rebel attack
Jun 20 2006 4:26AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - The Sri Lankan military said it repulsed an attack by Tamil Tiger rebels on a navy base on Tuesday, amid increasingly bloody violence between government forces and the Tiger militants.
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Rice warns North Korea on missile test
Jun 20 2006 4:07AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned North Korea on Monday it will face consequences if it test-fires a missile thought to be powerful enough to reach the West Coast of the United States.
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