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U.S. helicopter crashes in Afghanistan
Jun 28 2005 11:40PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A U.S. CH-47 Chinook transport helicopter, which a military official said may have been carrying 15 to 20 people, crashed Tuesday while ferrying reinforcements to fight insurgents in a mountainous region in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed to have shot down the aircraft.
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Re-arrests ordered in Pakistan rape case
Jun 28 2005 1:48PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the re-arrest of 13 men acquitted in the gang rape of a villager whose plight has cast a glaring light on the treatment of women in this conservative Muslim nation.
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Afghan elections still on despite violence
Jun 28 2005 1:28PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Landmark legislative elections in Afghanistan will be held as planned in September despite an upsurge in rebel violence that has raised fears the polls could be threatened, the president's spokesman said Tuesday.
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WHO appeals to China to test for bird flu
Jun 28 2005 1:09PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The World Health Organization urged China on Tuesday to step up testing of wild geese and gulls, as well as humans who've come in contact with them near a remote saltwater lake where 5,000 birds have died. The birds might spread avian flu when they fly south this summer, the WHO warned.
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N. Korea defector presses human rights
Jun 28 2005 12:58PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - His story of a decade in a North Korean prison camp moved President Bush to seek his advice on how to deal with the communist country _ a meeting that incited the Pyongyang regime to condemn Kang Chol Hwan as "human scum."
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Exhibit highlights Hiroshige's influence
Jun 28 2005 12:50PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The beauty and humor that he pictured on the road between two great cities brought fame to Utagawa Hiroshige, one of the greatest Japanese artists of the 1800s, and influenced French and American painters from Paul Cezanne to James McNeill Whistler.
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China's new bishop may mend ties with Rome
Jun 28 2005 10:08AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Hundreds of Catholics packed Shanghai's cathedral Tuesday for the consecration of a new bishop who church leaders hope will help ease a rift with Rome.
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N. Korea reportedly cuts int'l phone lines
Jun 28 2005 9:28AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea has cut most of its international phone lines since late March over concerns that sensitive information about its society will flow out of the isolated country, South Korea's spy agency reportedly said Tuesday.
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Beijing seizes Japan textbooks for content
Jun 28 2005 9:25AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Textbooks headed for a Japanese school in China were seized by customs officials who objected to the way maps in the books depicted the Chinese mainland and rival Taiwan, an official said Tuesday.
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Ex-Gitmo inmates: Quran was desecrated
Jun 28 2005 6:29AM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistanis freed from Guantanamo Bay claimed they saw American interrogators throw, tear and stand on copies of Islam's holy book, and one former detainee said naked women sat on prisoners' chests during questioning.
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Filipinos bid farewell to Cardinal Sin
Jun 28 2005 5:50AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Thousands of Filipinos bid farewell Tuesday to the late Roman Catholic Cardinal Jaime Sin, a beloved spiritual leader who helped rally this nation to hold massive pro-democracy protests that ousted two presidents.
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Japan's emperor prays for WWII dead
Jun 28 2005 5:48AM (CT)
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) - Japan's Emperor Akihito visited a cliff where his countrymen plunged to their deaths to avoid capture by U.S. troops. He also, for the first time, paid his respects Tuesday to the Koreans who died while fighting for the Japanese in World War II.
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Filipino who killed U.S. colonel freed
Jun 28 2005 12:06AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - An alleged communist assassin convicted of killing a U.S. Army colonel in the Philippines was released Tuesday after serving a 14-year prison term, officials said. U.S. officials called the sentence "too short" but grudgingly accepted the release.
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