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New Hong Kong leader sworn in in Beijing
Jun 23 2005 11:52PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Veteran civil servant Donald Tsang was sworn in as Hong Kong's new leader Friday, completing the first leadership change in the former British colony since it returned to Chinese rule eight years ago.
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China says death toll in flood over 500
Jun 23 2005 11:47PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Flooding and mudslides have killed more than 500 people across China in the past two weeks, making this one of the country's deadliest summer rainy seasons in a decade, the government said Friday.
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Death toll in China floods reaches 536
Jun 23 2005 10:31PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Flooding and landslides in areas throughout China have killed 536 people over the past two weeks, forcing the evacuation of 1.4 million and making this one of the deadliest summer rainy seasons in a decade, the government said Friday.
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Taliban, rebels fight Afghan, U.S. forces
Jun 23 2005 7:51PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Radio intercepts indicate two top Taliban commanders are with dozens of rebels battling in the southern mountains against a blistering barrage from Afghan and U.S. forces, senior government officials said Thursday.
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Shanghai bishop seeks to heal division
Jun 23 2005 2:31PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - He's been called a counterfeit cleric, a usurper who betrayed the Catholic Church while others languished due to their loyalty to the pope.
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Koreas make no progress on resuming talks
Jun 23 2005 12:49PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea failed Thursday to persuade North Korea to return to international talks on dismantling its nuclear arms program, and Pyongyang dealt another blow to the disarmament effort by lashing out at President Bush for meeting a prominent defector.
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Armed men set Afghan girls' school on fire
Jun 23 2005 12:41PM (CT)
PADKHWAI RAGHANI, Afghanistan (AP) - Armed men broke into a girls' school south of the Afghan capital and set it on fire, the latest attack on education for girls in the conservative country, officials said Thursday.
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Secret data from Japan nuke plants on Web
Jun 23 2005 11:42AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Confidential data from Japanese nuclear plants was posted on the Internet when a worker's computer software was attacked by a virus, a company said Thursday.
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Whale burger goes on sale in Japan
Jun 23 2005 5:35AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A fast food chain in northern Japan began offering a whale burger on Thursday, even as anti-whaling nations urged Japan to cut back on its catch at an international conference on whaling.
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Temporary schools open in Aceh
Jun 23 2005 4:20AM (CT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - Dozens of students filed into classrooms Thursday as the first of scores of temporary schools being built opened its doors in tsunami-ravaged Aceh province, another sign the region is slowly recovering six months after the disaster.
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Japan marks anniversary of WWII battle
Jun 23 2005 4:15AM (CT)
ITOMAN, Japan (AP) - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi led a somber ceremony Thursday marking the 60th anniversary of Japan's last-stand battle on Okinawa, which left more than 200,000 dead and sped the collapse of the country's World War II defenses.
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Death toll hits 390 in Asia heat wave
Jun 23 2005 3:29AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - A blistering heat wave has been blamed for at least 390 deaths across India and Pakistan, but officials said Thursday that monsoon rains could bring relief next week.
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Red Cross worker shot in Indonesia's Aceh
Jun 23 2005 1:14AM (CT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - Shots were fired at a Red Cross vehicle in Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged Aceh province, wounding a female Chinese delegate in the neck, a spokesman for the federation said Thursday.
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