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Enriched uranium missing from Japan plant
Jun 24 2005 9:21PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A small amount of enriched uranium _ not enough to make a bomb _ has gone missing from a nuclear power plant in central Japan, the Science Ministry said Friday.
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Bomb blast kills nine soldiers in Kashmir
Jun 24 2005 8:25PM (CT)
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - Islamic militants triggered a car bomb by remote control as an army convoy drove past a popular park in India's portion of Kashmir on Friday, killing nine soldiers and wounding 22 other people, an army official said.
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Death toll from China floods surpasses 500
Jun 24 2005 7:51PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Record-high floodwaters rushed through southern China's industrial heart Friday, putting factories and railway lines in the path of torrents that have killed at least 536 people nationwide in the past two weeks.
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Report says tsunami hit the poor harder
Jun 24 2005 7:42PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Last year's Asian tsunami hit poor people far harder than the middle class and wealthy, and the aid effort could worsen the income gap between the rich and the poor in affected regions, a major aid group warned Saturday.
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U.S. raises Myanmar's detentions at U.N.
Jun 24 2005 7:22PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States raised the plight of Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and 1,300 other political prisoners on Friday, but Russia and China blocked U.N. Security Council discussion of actions by the country's ruling military junta.
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Vietnam's leader wraps up trip to U.S.
Jun 24 2005 6:22PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai strolled through Harvard Yard and received a champagne toast from political and business leaders Friday as he wrapped up a weeklong goodwill trip to the United States.
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Sri Lanka, rebels to share tsunami aid
Jun 24 2005 5:28PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka's government signed an agreement Friday with separatist rebels to share international tsunami aid, saying the move could help end the country's two-decade civil war. Opponents warned it threatened national security.
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Rebel death toll at 102 in Afghan fighting
Jun 24 2005 2:17PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Fighting in the high mountains of southern Afghanistan waned Friday, but Afghan troops kept up their pursuit of rebels fleeing one of the deadliest barrages since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, officials said.
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Philippines rebuffed over hostage request
Jun 24 2005 2:04PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Philippine officials were rebuffed when they asked Iraqi abductors to free an American held along with a Filipino hostage who was released this week, a senior diplomat said Friday.
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Japan's whaling negotiator draws raves
Jun 24 2005 12:46PM (CT)
ULSAN, South Korea (AP) - Japan won few battles at this year's International Whaling Commission meeting. Most of its proposals aimed at eroding a moratorium on commercial whale hunts were voted down.
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15 gamblers caned in Muslim Indonesia
Jun 24 2005 11:52AM (CT)
BIREUN, Indonesia (AP) - Fifteen convicted gamblers were flogged Friday for illegal gaming in Indonesia _ the first time caning was used as punishment in the world's most populous Muslim country.
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Two Thai rubber workers' throats slashed
Jun 24 2005 10:16AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Attackers in southern Thailand slashed the necks of a couple, almost severing their heads in the latest killings attributed to Islamic separatists in the region, police said Friday.
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N. Korea rebuffs date for nuclear talks
Jun 24 2005 10:08AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Top North Korean envoys declined to set a date for returning to international nuclear disarmament talks but returned home Friday with a pledge of food aid from Seoul and accords on resuming family reunions and other cooperation across their tense border.
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U.N., aid agencies cease Indonesia travel
Jun 24 2005 6:15AM (CT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - The United Nations and aid agencies suspended road travel in parts of tsunami-ravaged Aceh province after gunmen opened fire on a Red Cross vehicle, seriously wounding a Chinese aid worker.
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Forgotten tsunami victims rebuild resorts
Jun 24 2005 2:44AM (CT)
TAKUA PA, Thailand (AP) - Migrant workers from Myanmar were the cheap labor that built Thai resorts where 2,000 foreign tourists died in the tsunami. Now, they're rebuilding bungalows and hotels on this splendid beach to lure back tourists.
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China: Death toll in flooding over 500
Jun 24 2005 2:38AM (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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