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Indian boy rescued after 2-day ordeal
Jul 23 2006 12:34PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - All of India rejoiced on Sunday as the prayers offered by Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and Muslims were answered: Soldiers rescued a young boy from a deep irrigation shaft after a 50-hour ordeal.
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Afghan forces kill 19 suspected Taliban
Jul 23 2006 10:51AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan forces killed 19 suspected Taliban rebels as they traded rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire Sunday with insurgents in volatile southern Afghanistan.
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Suspected communist rebels killed in India
Jul 23 2006 10:28AM (CT)
HYDERABAD, India (AP) - Police raided a forest hideout for communist rebels in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh state Sunday, killing a guerrilla chief and at least seven other people, the state's police chief said.
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Patrols called off along Indonesian coast
Jul 23 2006 7:01AM (CT)
PANGANDARAN, Indonesia (AP) - Rough seas halted search efforts Sunday for hundreds of people still missing in Indonesia's latest tsunami, and a powerful quake raised fears of another killer wave.
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Venezuelan climber buried on Pakistan peak
Jul 23 2006 7:01AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Search teams found the body of a top Latin American mountaineer and buried him on a snowcapped Pakistani peak Saturday, nearly a week after he went missing while scaling the world's ninth highest mountain, officials said.
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Indonesian quake triggers tsunami fears
Jul 23 2006 5:58AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 struck off Indonesia's Sulawesi island on Sunday, causing residents to flee coastal areas in fear of a tsunami.
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Mudslides, floods kill 4 in southern Japan
Jul 23 2006 1:34AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Heavy rains caused mudslides and flooding Saturday that killed four people in southern Japan, officials said. About 100,000 people were urged to flee their homes.
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