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Australian PM hails natural gas contract
Jun 27 2006 10:19PM (CT)
SHENZHEN, China (AP) - Australia's prime minister hailed his country's record liquid natural gas export contract with China as a symbol of blossoming trade between the countries during an inaugural ceremony Wednesday at the Chinese gas terminal.
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20 Houses set ablaze in East Timor
Jun 27 2006 9:11PM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - Mobs burned more than 20 houses in East Timor's capital early Wednesday in a sign that weeks of crisis in the tiny nation may be far from easing.
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Koizumi defends embattled bank chief
Jun 27 2006 8:34PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Wednesday that the Bank of Japan's embattled chief should stay on despite calls for his resignation amid an investment scandal, Kyodo News agency reported.
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China urged to dissuade N. Korea from test
Jun 27 2006 7:08PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - South Korea's foreign minister urged China to use its influence to dissuade North Korea from testing a long-range missile, but Western diplomats on Tuesday questioned Beijing's influence over the reclusive communist state.
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Pakistan asks Afghanistan to ID hideouts
Jun 27 2006 3:02PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's military government challenged neighboring Afghanistan on Tuesday to identify the terror hideouts that Afghanistan claims exist in Pakistan, using a meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to make its argument.
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Reformers chosen to as Vietnam's leaders
Jun 27 2006 2:00PM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Three decades after the communist north reunited the country with its victory in the Vietnam War, reformers from the business-oriented south were named prime minister and president Tuesday.
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Afghan violence kills 2 British troops
Jun 27 2006 1:56PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Fierce fighting across southern Afghanistan killed 29 suspected militants, two British soldiers and two Afghan troops, officials said Tuesday. A suicide car bomber killed two civilians in the north.
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Rice pushes Pakistan on 2007 elections
Jun 27 2006 1:53PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice praised two key Muslim allies who are sometimes at odds, calling Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai stalwart fighters in the fight against terrorism.
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Koizumi to make farewell White House visit
Jun 27 2006 1:49PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Crooning an Elvis Presley song to President Bush, or waltzing with Richard Gere for the cameras, Junichiro Koizumi has been a Japanese prime minister like no other. Yet image-conscious though he may be, this is no lightweight.
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Vatican seeks to renew China relations
Jun 27 2006 1:47PM (CT)
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Two senior Vatican officials have traveled to China to sound out possibilities of re-establishing diplomatic relations, seeking to overcome a major dispute over the Vatican's tradition that the pope names his bishops.
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Tiger apologizes for Rajiv Gandhi's death
Jun 27 2006 11:18AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - A senior Tamil Tiger leader apologized to India for the 1991 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, according to an interview to be aired Tuesday.
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4 Tamil Tiger rebels killed in Sri Lanka
Jun 27 2006 8:38AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Renegade Tamil militants killed at least four members of the Tamil Tiger rebel group in eastern Sri Lanka on Tuesday, police said, a day after one of the country's top generals was assassinated.
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Iranian minister: WMD outlawed in Islam
Jun 27 2006 8:17AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - An Iranian minister told Indonesia's vice president Tuesday that his country has no plans to develop nuclear weapons because Islamic law outlaws the development of weapons of mass destruction.
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Reports of child abuse surge in Japan
Jun 27 2006 8:02AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese authorities got a record 33,408 reports of child abuse in 2004, up 26 percent from last year and more than 17 times the number a decade ago, a government study said Tuesday.
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Report: Vatican delegation in Beijing
Jun 27 2006 6:34AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Two senior Vatican officials were in Beijing Tuesday for talks on re-establishing diplomatic relations with China that were severed more than five decades ago, a Hong Kong newspaper said.
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Snake on Borneo island can change color
Jun 27 2006 6:11AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Researchers scouring swamps in the heart of Borneo island have discovered a venomous species of snake that can change its skin color, the conservation group WWF announced Tuesday.
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Thai panel suggest dissolving ruling party
Jun 27 2006 3:55AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - An investigative committee has recommended dissolving Thailand's ruling party and its main opponent for election law violations, a spokesman for the attorney general said Tuesday.
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Former Nepal ministers questioned
Jun 27 2006 2:57AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - A judicial commission on Tuesday questioned top members of Nepal's former royal government over alleged human rights abuses during crackdowns on protesters at pro-democracy rallies.
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