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North Korea lashes out at Rice
Jul 24 2006 11:48PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea lashed out Monday at Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for saying the communist nation was irresponsible because it had not given advance warning of its recent missile tests.
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Typhoon shuts classes, offices in Taiwan
Jul 24 2006 10:10PM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Typhoon Kaemi lashed Taiwan with heavy rains and strong winds Tuesday, disrupting traffic and causing power outages before churning across the Taiwan Strait toward storm-battered China.
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S. Korean, Indian U.N. candidates get help
Jul 24 2006 7:51PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The South Korean and Indian candidates for the next U.N. secretary-general got a boost Monday when most members of the Security Council encouraged them to stay in the race.
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4th suspect in Bombay train bombings jailed
Jul 24 2006 4:41PM (CT)
BOMBAY, India (AP) - Indian police have arrested a fourth suspect in the Bombay train blasts that killed more than 200 people, a top police investigator said Monday.
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Taliban militants kill 3 police officers
Jul 24 2006 4:15PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Heavily armed Taliban militants in pickup trucks attacked a district police headquarters Monday and killed three officers Monday, while authorities killed four suspected suicide bombers as the violence that has ravaged southern Afghanistan crept into the west.
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U.S. urges Pakistan to not expand nukes
Jul 24 2006 3:20PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The Bush administration urged Pakistan not to expand its nuclear weapons program Monday after a U.S. think tank said Islamabad was building a reactor that could generate plutonium for up to 50 atomic bombs a year.
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Report: Former Beijing mayor paroled
Jul 24 2006 2:46PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Former Beijing Mayor Chen Xitong, the highest-ranking Communist Party figure to be jailed for corruption, has been released on medical parole after serving eight years of his sentence, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Monday.
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U.N.: N. Korea crop losses pose danger
Jul 24 2006 11:59AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Heavy rains in North Korea have destroyed tens of thousands of acres of crops, threatening to worsen the impoverished country's food shortage, a U.N. agency said Monday.
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Nepalese rebels set to extend cease-fire
Jul 24 2006 9:40AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Nepal's communist rebels plan to renew an April cease-fire with the government that is due to expire later this week, a rebel spokesman said Monday.
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Chinese toll in tropical storm hits 612
Jul 24 2006 8:46AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's death toll from tropical storm Bilis rose to 612 on Monday, the official Xinhua News Agency said, as the country braced for the arrival of Typhoon Kaemi.
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Schools reopen in tsunami-shattered town
Jul 24 2006 7:47AM (CT)
PANGANDARAN, Indonesia (AP) - Children and teachers cleaned up debris swept into classrooms by last week's tsunami as schools reopened Monday in the resort town hardest hit by the killer waves.
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Alleged Indonesian militant gets jail term
Jul 24 2006 3:43AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - An alleged Islamic militant was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison on Monday for letting the reputed head of the al-Qaida-linked terror group Jemaah Islamiyah hide in his home.
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Ex-Khmer Rouge chieftain Ta Mok buried
Jul 24 2006 1:18AM (CT)
ANLONG VENG, Cambodia (AP) - The former Khmer Rouge commander Ta Mok was laid to rest in a Buddhist temple on Monday, concluding an elaborate three-day funeral for a man once known as "The Butcher."
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