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U.S. probes possible 'friendly fire' death
Jul 1 2006 11:34PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The U.S. military on Saturday said it was investigating the death of a soldier in eastern Afghanistan as a possible "friendly fire incident."
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China opens world's highest railway
Jul 1 2006 12:07PM (CT)
ABOARD THE BEIJING-LHASA EXPRESS, China (AP) - China's first train from Beijing to Tibet set out Saturday carrying business travelers and thrill-seekers on the world's highest railway, which critics fear could devastate the Himalayan region's unique Buddhist culture.
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Japan faces aging, declining population
Jul 1 2006 10:45AM (CT)
KAMIKATSU, Japan (AP) - Tsuneko Hariki is 84 years old, and she looks it. Her fingers are thick and crooked from years of hard farming; bent low, she shuffles around her rural home on stiff, bowed legs.
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India sentences 3 to die in temple attack
Jul 1 2006 8:34AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - A court Saturday convicted three men of involvement in a 2002 terrorist attack on a Hindu shrine in western India that killed 33 people, and it sentenced them to death, a news report said.
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Japan's former PM Hashimoto dies at 68
Jul 1 2006 8:16AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, who stood up to the United States in trade negotiations and helped diffuse tensions over U.S. military bases in Japan, has died. He was 68.
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Thousands march for democracy in Hong Kong
Jul 1 2006 7:03AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Thousands chanted slogans and marched through Hong Kong's streets in a pro-democracy protest Saturday, while a pro-Beijing parade also drew a big crowd to mark the ninth anniversary of the former British colony's return to Chinese rule.
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Protesters clash with police in Kashmir
Jul 1 2006 6:54AM (CT)
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - Hundreds of angry residents clashed with police during demonstrations Saturday in this Kashmir city to protest the killing of a civilian by paramilitary police a day earlier.
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Sri Lankan navy averts poss. harbor attack
Jul 1 2006 6:51AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lankan forces sank a Tamil rebel boat as it approached a strategic harbor in the island's north, rebuffed an attack on an army patrol, and killed a suspected guerrilla in the east, the military said Saturday.
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Rocket attack wounds 10 in Afghanistan
Jul 1 2006 4:08AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Two rockets fired by insurgents slammed into the main coalition military base in southern Afghanistan, wounding seven foreign soldiers and three civilian contract workers, military officials said Saturday.
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Navy ships dock in Vietnam for July 4th
Jul 1 2006 3:47AM (CT)
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) - U.S. Navy sailors stood at attention on deck in their white uniforms Saturday in what looked like a patriotic postcard made for the Fourth of July. But a closer look revealed a snapshot of reconciliation: The American flag rippled in the breeze alongside Vietnam's banner atop the two U.S. warships docked on the Saigon River, more than three decades after the Vietnam War ended.
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Sunni legislator kidnapped in Baghdad
Jul 1 2006 3:44AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Gunmen kidnapped a Sunni female member of Iraq's parliament in Baghdad on Saturday along with her guards, officials said.
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Afghan rocket attack wounds 2 Canadian GIs
Jul 1 2006 1:18AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Two rockets fired by insurgents slammed into a coalition base in southern Afghanistan, wounding two Canadian soldiers and several others, a coalition spokesman said Saturday.
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N.Korea ready to counter U.S. aggression
Jul 1 2006 12:14AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea accused the United States of driving tensions on the Korean Peninsula "to the brink of war," and said it is fully prepared to counter any U.S. aggression.
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