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China opens 1st train service to Tibet
Jun 30 2006 11:32PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China on Saturday opened the first train service to Tibet across what it called the world's highest railway, a controversial engineering feat meant to bind the restive Himalayan region to China.
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Report: Rocket wounds 10 at Afghan base
Jun 30 2006 9:29PM (CT)
TORONTO (AP) - A Taliban rocket exploded Friday inside the main coalition base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, wounding 10 people, including soldiers and civilians, the Canadian Press news agency reported.
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Taliban following lead of militant Iraqis
Jun 30 2006 1:59PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Toyota Corolla careened toward a military convoy and exploded into a huge ball of fire. This time, the bomb detonated too soon and the two attackers only killed themselves.
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India pledges help for struggling farmers
Jun 30 2006 11:05AM (CT)
KOLEGHARI, India (AP) - India's prime minister said Friday that the government will build infrastructure and try to ease debt for farmers in an area where hundreds have killed themselves over financial strains from crop failure in the last year.
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East Timor official: New gov't within days
Jun 30 2006 10:28AM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - East Timor's Nobel laureate foreign minister said Friday that he would control the government until a new administration was named, which he predicted would happen within days.
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China's Hu to communists: Stop corruption
Jun 30 2006 8:53AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's ruling party must stamp out the rampant corruption that led to the convictions of thousands of officials last year, President Hu Jintao said Friday as the Communist Party commemorated the 85th anniversary of its founding.
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14 Afghan militants die in coalition raid
Jun 30 2006 7:52AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Coalition soldiers tracked a group of militants to an eastern Afghanistan safe house and killed 14 in an attack on the compound, the military said.
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Japan passes Italy as most elderly nation
Jun 30 2006 7:24AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan said Friday it had surpassed Italy as the world's most elderly nation, fueling concerns over the effects of a rapidly aging population on the world's second-largest economy.
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Thousands of Turks protest Israeli actions
Jun 30 2006 6:26AM (CT)
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Thousands of angry Turks burned an Israeli flag Friday and chanted "Murderer Israel, Get out of Palestine!" to protest Israel's offensive into the Gaza Strip.
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8 suspected militants killed in Kashmir
Jun 30 2006 1:06AM (CT)
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - At least eight suspected Islamic militants trying to cross into India's portion of disputed Kashmir from the Pakistani side were killed during a gunbattle early Friday, army and police officials said.
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