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More than 100 die in Pakistan train crash
Jul 12 2005 11:51PM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Three passenger trains crashed in a chain-reaction pileup in a southern Pakistan station early Wednesday, killing more than 100 people and injuring hundreds of others, officials said.
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Rice praises energy aid to N. Korea
Jul 12 2005 10:42PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday praised a South Korean energy aid proposal that enticed North Korea to end its 13-month boycott of nuclear disarmament talks, and she renewed calls for Pyongyang to abandon its atomic programs.
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Australia to send troops to Afghanistan
Jul 12 2005 10:38PM (CT)
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australia will send 150 elite troops to Afghanistan by September to fight a growing tide of insurgent-led violence, the prime minister said Wednesday.
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Singapore weighs in on U.S. war on terror
Jul 12 2005 10:25PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States must overcome the distrust of the vast numbers of mainstream Muslims who are indispensable to ending terrorism, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Tuesday.
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U.S. searches for at-large terror suspects
Jul 12 2005 2:27PM (CT)
BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. combat helicopters zigzagged over dusty plains and troops stopped cars at roadblocks Tuesday in a search for four suspected Arab fighters who escaped from the main U.S. military base here.
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U.S. woman feared dead after avalanche
Jul 12 2005 12:49PM (CT)
GILGIT, Pakistan (AP) - Army helicopters were searching on Tuesday for an American woman who was missing and feared dead after being caught in an avalanche while attempting to scale the world's second-highest mountain.
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Death toll in China mine explosion at 76
Jul 12 2005 10:00AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The death toll in a coal mine explosion in China's far west has reached 76, and rescuers were searching for seven others, the government said Tuesday.
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Rice supports food aid to North Korea
Jul 12 2005 6:48AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brushed aside suggestions Tuesday that a South Korean offer of substantial food aid to North Korea could stiffen that country's resistance to U.S. demands that the country dismantle its nuclear weapons program.
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Old Philippine presidents don't fade away
Jul 12 2005 3:37AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - In many democratic countries, retired leaders quietly fade away. They might play a little golf, scribble away at their memoirs and generally avoid wading back into the messy world of politics.
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