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India names 3 suspects in train attacks
Jul 13 2006 11:34PM (CT)
BOMBAY, India (AP) - Indian authorities named three suspects in this week's train bombings, an apparent breakthrough in the frenetic investigations into the well-coordinated attacks that killed at least 200 people.
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Karzai orders probe into airstrike deaths
Jul 13 2006 2:03PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation Thursday into reported civilian casualties during a coalition airstrike this week in which U.S. forces claimed more than 40 Taliban were killed.
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India returns to work after train bombings
Jul 13 2006 1:46PM (CT)
BOMBAY, India (AP) - Even for crowded, chaotic Bombay, where troubles can descend like plagues, the disaster was shocking: a series of train cars ripped apart by bombs, with 200 people dead and more than 700 wounded.
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U.N. grapples with Iran, North Korea
Jul 13 2006 12:38PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Security Council finds itself having to grapple simultaneously with two threats to the spread of weapons of mass destruction _ Iran's refusal to stop enriching uranium and North Korea's nuclear arms program and missile tests.
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Karzai orders probe into Afghan killings
Jul 13 2006 11:14AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation Thursday into reported civilian casualties from a U.S.-led coalition airstrike in a southern town this week, a senior official said.
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Japan wants quick U.N. vote on N. Korea
Jul 13 2006 10:00AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan on Thursday urged a prompt U.N. Security Council vote on sanctions against North Korea, rebuffing a milder Chinese- and Russian-sponsored resolution on the North's missile tests.
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Alleged rape victim wants to kill soldiers
Jul 13 2006 9:48AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A Filipino woman who said she was raped by a U.S. Marine sobbed as she testified Thursday that she wants to kill him and the three servicemen who allegedly encouraged him.
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Ailing elephant rescued but can't stand
Jul 13 2006 8:51AM (CT)
KHUN SONG, Thailand (AP) - An animal medical rescue team succeeded Thursday in hauling a partially lame elephant out of a mud hole in which he was stuck, but the five-ton beast was unable to stand up or be moved further.
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China jails reporter over essays on graft
Jul 13 2006 7:59AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese reporter who posted essays on foreign Web sites criticizing the ruling Communist Party was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison on subversion charges, his lawyer said.
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Thailand faces electoral fraud trial
Jul 13 2006 7:47AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A top court decided Thursday to accept a case that accuses Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's ruling party and its main rival of electoral fraud _ a move that could lead to their dissolution.
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350 detained over Bombay train bombings
Jul 13 2006 5:03AM (CT)
BOMBAY, India (AP) - Indian police have detained about 350 people for questioning in connection with the Bombay train bombings, officials said Thursday, amid suspicion that Kashmiri militants could be linked to the attacks that killed at least 200 people.
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Hundreds riot in China over beating
Jul 13 2006 5:01AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Hundreds of protesters overturned police vehicles and threw bricks after a migrant worker was beaten up for refusing to pay for a resident's permit, a newspaper said. It said several people were hospitalized with injuries.
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al-Qaida claims it has Kashmir network
Jul 13 2006 4:59AM (CT)
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - A man claiming to represent al-Qaida in Kashmir said the terror network had set up a wing in Kashmir and appealed to Indian Muslims to take up jihad, an Indian news agency reported Thursday. An official said the government said it was taking the claim "very seriously."
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Chinese police detain activist lawyer
Jul 13 2006 3:57AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Police have detained a Chinese activist lawyer one month after he was released from three years in prison for allegedly revealing state secrets, a rights group said Thursday.
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Coalition, Afghan forces kill 19 militants
Jul 13 2006 1:18AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Coalition and Afghan forces killed at least 19 Taliban militants during an insurgent attack on a police headquarters in southern Afghanistan, the governor's spokesman said Thursday.
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