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Powerful typhoon hits southern Japan
Jul 12 2007 11:59PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A powerful typhoon pounded Japan's southern Okinawa island chain Friday, cutting power to tens of thousands of households and grounding hundreds of flights.
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NKorea military wants talks with U.S.
Jul 12 2007 10:57PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea's military proposed Friday holding direct talks with U.S. forces, an unusual plea amid recent progress on the nuclear standoff between the two countries.
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Red Mosque complex battered after battle
Jul 12 2007 10:40PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Chunks of concrete are missing from the mosque's minarets. The walls of a religious school painted with Islamic verses are peppered with bullet holes. Black flies swarm over a makeshift bunker, blasted apart under a stairwell.
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Red Mosque complex battered after battle
Jul 12 2007 10:40PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Chunks of concrete are missing from the mosque's minarets. The walls of a religious school painted with Islamic verses are peppered with bullet holes. Black flies swarm over a makeshift bunker, blasted apart under a stairwell.
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Red Mosque complex battered after battle
Jul 12 2007 10:40PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Chunks of concrete are missing from the mosque's minarets. The walls of a religious school painted with Islamic verses are peppered with bullet holes. Black flies swarm over a makeshift bunker, blasted apart under a stairwell.
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Red Mosque complex battered after battle
Jul 12 2007 10:40PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Chunks of concrete are missing from the mosque's minarets. The walls of a religious school painted with Islamic verses are peppered with bullet holes. Black flies swarm over a makeshift bunker, blasted apart under a stairwell.
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Red Mosque complex battered after battle
Jul 12 2007 10:40PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Chunks of concrete are missing from the mosque's minarets. The walls of a religious school painted with Islamic verses are peppered with bullet holes. Black flies swarm over a makeshift bunker, blasted apart under a stairwell.
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Papal dungeon opens to visitors
Jul 12 2007 7:27PM (CT)
ROME (AP) - The dungeon beneath the papal fortress of Castel Sant'Angelo, where popes of old locked up criminals and enemies, will temporarily reopen to the public on Friday after a 10-year closure for restoration work.
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Papal dungeon opens to visitors
Jul 12 2007 7:27PM (CT)
ROME (AP) - The dungeon beneath the papal fortress of Castel Sant'Angelo, where popes of old locked up criminals and enemies, will temporarily reopen to the public on Friday after a 10-year closure for restoration work.
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36 Taliban killed in Afghan clashes
Jul 12 2007 7:10PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces killed 36 suspected Taliban rebels in a series of clashes and air strikes Thursday in southern Afghanistan, officials said. A NATO soldier was killed and two others were wounded in another operation.
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Tamil rebels vow retaliation
Jul 12 2007 6:13PM (CT)
KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka (AP) - Separatist rebels vowed Thursday to hit military and economic targets across the country in retaliation for the army's capture of eastern Sri Lanka, even as government leaders planned a party to celebrate that victory.
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Tamil rebels vow retaliation
Jul 12 2007 6:13PM (CT)
KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka (AP) - Separatist rebels vowed Thursday to hit military and economic targets across the country in retaliation for the army's capture of eastern Sri Lanka, even as government leaders planned a party to celebrate that victory.
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Red Mosque cleric predicts revolution
Jul 12 2007 5:18PM (CT)
BASTI ABDULLAH, Pakistan (AP) - Officials let a jailed cleric attend the burial of his slain brother Thursday, and he turned the funeral oration into a fiery denunciation of the government for the bloody siege at Islamabad's Red Mosque and called for an "Islamic revolution."
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Red Mosque cleric predicts revolution
Jul 12 2007 5:18PM (CT)
BASTI ABDULLAH, Pakistan (AP) - Officials let a jailed cleric attend the burial of his slain brother Thursday, and he turned the funeral oration into a fiery denunciation of the government for the bloody siege at Islamabad's Red Mosque and called for an "Islamic revolution."
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Red Mosque cleric predicts revolution
Jul 12 2007 5:18PM (CT)
BASTI ABDULLAH, Pakistan (AP) - Officials let a jailed cleric attend the burial of his slain brother Thursday, and he turned the funeral oration into a fiery denunciation of the government for the bloody siege at Islamabad's Red Mosque and called for an "Islamic revolution."
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Red Mosque cleric predicts revolution
Jul 12 2007 5:18PM (CT)
BASTI ABDULLAH, Pakistan (AP) - Officials let a jailed cleric attend the burial of his slain brother Thursday, and he turned the funeral oration into a fiery denunciation of the government for the bloody siege at Islamabad's Red Mosque and called for an "Islamic revolution."
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Red Mosque cleric predicts revolution
Jul 12 2007 5:18PM (CT)
BASTI ABDULLAH, Pakistan (AP) - Officials let a jailed cleric attend the burial of his slain brother Thursday, and he turned the funeral oration into a fiery denunciation of the government for the bloody siege at Islamabad's Red Mosque and called for an "Islamic revolution."
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Red Mosque cleric predicts revolution
Jul 12 2007 5:18PM (CT)
BASTI ABDULLAH, Pakistan (AP) - Officials let a jailed cleric attend the burial of his slain brother Thursday, and he turned the funeral oration into a fiery denunciation of the government for the bloody siege at Islamabad's Red Mosque and called for an "Islamic revolution."
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UN refugee agency doubles Iraq appeal
Jul 12 2007 5:01PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - The U.N. refugee agency is doubling its annual appeal for funds to help Iraqis fleeing their homes to $123 million from $60 million, officials said Thursday.
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U.N. nuclear team heads to North Korea
Jul 12 2007 4:38PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - A United Nations team left for North Korea on Thursday to supervise the shutdown of the plutonium-producing nuclear reactor that is the key component of the reclusive communist nation's atomic weapons program.
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U.N. nuclear team heads to North Korea
Jul 12 2007 4:38PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - A United Nations team left for North Korea on Thursday to supervise the shutdown of the plutonium-producing nuclear reactor that is the key component of the reclusive communist nation's atomic weapons program.
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U.N. nuclear team heads to North Korea
Jul 12 2007 4:38PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - A United Nations team left for North Korea on Thursday to supervise the shutdown of the plutonium-producing nuclear reactor that is the key component of the reclusive communist nation's atomic weapons program.
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China to begin Olympic food checks
Jul 12 2007 2:13PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A system to monitor food safety will go into effect during test events for the 2008 Beijing Olympics next month, a government watchdog announced Thursday, even as a TV station aired an undercover investigation showing how shredded cardboard was used as a filling in steamed buns.
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China to begin Olympic food checks
Jul 12 2007 2:13PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A system to monitor food safety will go into effect during test events for the 2008 Beijing Olympics next month, a government watchdog announced Thursday, even as a TV station aired an undercover investigation showing how shredded cardboard was used as a filling in steamed buns.
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Half a million Chinese flee flood zone
Jul 12 2007 1:42PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Nearly a half-million people fled a flood zone surrounding central China's swollen Huai River, while high waters in the south unleashed a plague of an estimated 2 billion field mice that were ravaging crops, state media reported Thursday.
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Half a million Chinese flee flood zone
Jul 12 2007 1:42PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Nearly a half-million people fled a flood zone surrounding central China's swollen Huai River, while high waters in the south unleashed a plague of an estimated 2 billion field mice that were ravaging crops, state media reported Thursday.
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Half a million Chinese flee flood zone
Jul 12 2007 1:42PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Nearly a half-million people fled a flood zone surrounding central China's swollen Huai River, while high waters in the south unleashed a plague of an estimated 2 billion field mice that were ravaging crops, state media reported Thursday.
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Half a million Chinese flee flood zone
Jul 12 2007 1:42PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Nearly a half-million people fled a flood zone surrounding central China's swollen Huai River, while high waters in the south unleashed a plague of an estimated 2 billion field mice that were ravaging crops, state media reported Thursday.
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Half a million Chinese flee flood zone
Jul 12 2007 1:42PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Nearly a half-million people fled a flood zone surrounding central China's swollen Huai River, while high waters in the south unleashed a plague of an estimated 2 billion field mice that were ravaging crops, state media reported Thursday.
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Worms in Asian fish tied to liver cancer
Jul 12 2007 1:38PM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Worms found in freshwater fish in Southeast Asia can lead to a rare type of liver cancer in people who eat raw fish, with one province in Thailand logging the world's highest rate of new cases, a study found.
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Beijing steamed buns include cardboard
Jul 12 2007 11:00AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical and flavored with fatty pork and powdered seasoning, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in one Beijing neighborhood, state television said.
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Many missing as Indonesia ship capsizes
Jul 12 2007 10:43AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Rescue workers scoured Indonesian waters after a ship carrying 59 people capsized in stormy weather, killing at least two children and leaving more than 20 missing, a port official said Thursday.
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Reports: Money found in men's rooms
Jul 12 2007 9:29AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Envelopes containing 10,000 yen _ about $82 _ and notes wishing the finder well have been discovered in municipal toilets across Japan, media reports said, baffling civil servants and triggering a nationwide hunt.
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China falls short on energy-saving goals
Jul 12 2007 6:19AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China is falling short of its goals in a campaign to boost energy efficiency in its fuel-guzzling economy _ the world's No. 2 oil consumer _ but is starting to make progress, the government said Thursday.
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Japanese PM on defensive in elections
Jul 12 2007 6:07AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's scandal-plagued prime minister and his opponents launched their campaigns Thursday for a parliamentary election that could herald a period of political instability in the world's second-largest economy.
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Japanese PM on defensive in elections
Jul 12 2007 6:07AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's scandal-plagued prime minister and his opponents launched their campaigns Thursday for a parliamentary election that could herald a period of political instability in the world's second-largest economy.
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Japanese PM on defensive in elections
Jul 12 2007 6:07AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's scandal-plagued prime minister and his opponents launched their campaigns Thursday for a parliamentary election that could herald a period of political instability in the world's second-largest economy.
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U.S. tempts Japan with new F-22 jets
Jul 12 2007 3:26AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - For thousands of workers in Georgia, Texas and California, the question of what aircraft Japan chooses to replace its aging fighter jet fleet could mean their jobs.
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Philippine ferry sinks, 12 killed
Jul 12 2007 1:30AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A Philippine ferry sank southeast of Manila early Thursday, killing at least 12 people, officials said.
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