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Rescuers pull out 31 Chinese miners
Jul 31 2007 11:51PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese workers on Wednesday pulled out nearly half of 69 coal miners who had been trapped in a flooded shaft for more than three days, state media said, an unusual rescue in the world's deadliest mines.
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Embattled Japanese official resigns
Jul 31 2007 10:31PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's scandal-embroiled agriculture minister stepped down Wednesday, taking responsibility for a shattering election defeat for the ruling party.
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Japan minister resigns
Jul 31 2007 9:57PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's scandal-embroiled agriculture minister stepped down Wednesday to take responsibility for a shattering election defeat for the ruling party.
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Study: Sex trafficking spreading HIV
Jul 31 2007 8:01PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - The international trafficking of women to work as prostitutes is likely a key factor in the spread of HIV across South Asia, according to a study released Wednesday that found high rates of the virus in Nepali girls and woman who worked in Indian brothels.
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U.S. team in China for food safety talks
Jul 31 2007 5:59PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A team of U.S. health officials came to Beijing on Tuesday for talks on tightening controls over food and drug trade, amid tensions triggered by U.S. restrictions on questionable _ and sometimes dangerous _ Chinese products.
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Afghans say they won't free prisoners
Jul 31 2007 3:21PM (CT)
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) - South Korea and relatives of 21 kidnapped Koreans appealed for U.S. help Tuesday, but Afghanistan said for the first time it will not release insurgent prisoners _ the Taliban's key demand to free the captives.
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Afghans say they won't free prisoners
Jul 31 2007 3:21PM (CT)
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) - South Korea and relatives of 21 kidnapped Koreans appealed for U.S. help Tuesday, but Afghanistan said for the first time it will not release insurgent prisoners _ the Taliban's key demand to free the captives.
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Afghans say they won't free prisoners
Jul 31 2007 3:21PM (CT)
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) - South Korea and relatives of 21 kidnapped Koreans appealed for U.S. help Tuesday, but Afghanistan said for the first time it will not release insurgent prisoners _ the Taliban's key demand to free the captives.
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Khmer Rouge prison chief is charged
Jul 31 2007 2:29PM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - A former schoolteacher who presided over a torture center was charged Tuesday with crimes against humanity, becoming the first top figure of Cambodia's notorious Khmer Rouge to be indicted for atrocities that led to an estimated 1.7 million deaths.
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Khmer Rouge prison chief is charged
Jul 31 2007 2:29PM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - A former schoolteacher who presided over a torture center was charged Tuesday with crimes against humanity, becoming the first top figure of Cambodia's notorious Khmer Rouge to be indicted for atrocities that led to an estimated 1.7 million deaths.
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More fighting in Pakistan's northwest
Jul 31 2007 12:33PM (CT)
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan (AP) - Army helicopter gunships and troops repelled a guerrilla raid on a military checkpoint Tuesday, killing at least 15 Islamic militants amid escalated fighting in Pakistan's tribal belt.
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More fighting in Pakistan's northwest
Jul 31 2007 12:33PM (CT)
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan (AP) - Army helicopter gunships and troops repelled a guerrilla raid on a military checkpoint Tuesday, killing at least 15 Islamic militants amid escalated fighting in Pakistan's tribal belt.
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More fighting in Pakistan's northwest
Jul 31 2007 12:33PM (CT)
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan (AP) - Army helicopter gunships and troops repelled a guerrilla raid on a military checkpoint Tuesday, killing at least 15 Islamic militants amid escalated fighting in Pakistan's tribal belt.
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How not to eat the world's hottest chili
Jul 31 2007 11:24AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - I know people who regularly eat bhut jolokias _ the "ghost chili" now rated as the world's hottest pepper. They're nice people. I like them. They don't seem crazy.
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Indian region sees hope in hot chili
Jul 31 2007 11:24AM (CT)
CHANGPOOL, India (AP) - The farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chili pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred them into sauces. His wife puts them out for dinner raw, blood-red morsels of pain to be nibbled _ carefully, very carefully _ with whatever she's serving.
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Indian region sees hope in hot chili
Jul 31 2007 11:24AM (CT)
CHANGPOOL, India (AP) - The farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chili pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred them into sauces. His wife puts them out for dinner raw, blood-red morsels of pain to be nibbled _ carefully, very carefully _ with whatever she's serving.
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Indian region sees hope in hot chili
Jul 31 2007 11:24AM (CT)
CHANGPOOL, India (AP) - The farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chili pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred them into sauces. His wife puts them out for dinner raw, blood-red morsels of pain to be nibbled _ carefully, very carefully _ with whatever she's serving.
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Indian region sees hope in hot chili
Jul 31 2007 11:24AM (CT)
CHANGPOOL, India (AP) - The farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chili pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred them into sauces. His wife puts them out for dinner raw, blood-red morsels of pain to be nibbled _ carefully, very carefully _ with whatever she's serving.
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Indian region sees hope in hot chili
Jul 31 2007 11:24AM (CT)
CHANGPOOL, India (AP) - The farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chili pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred them into sauces. His wife puts them out for dinner raw, blood-red morsels of pain to be nibbled _ carefully, very carefully _ with whatever she's serving.
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Indian region sees hope in hot chili
Jul 31 2007 11:24AM (CT)
CHANGPOOL, India (AP) - The farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chili pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred them into sauces. His wife puts them out for dinner raw, blood-red morsels of pain to be nibbled _ carefully, very carefully _ with whatever she's serving.
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Indian region sees hope in hot chili
Jul 31 2007 11:24AM (CT)
CHANGPOOL, India (AP) - The farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chili pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred them into sauces. His wife puts them out for dinner raw, blood-red morsels of pain to be nibbled _ carefully, very carefully _ with whatever she's serving.
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Indian region sees hope in hot chili
Jul 31 2007 11:24AM (CT)
CHANGPOOL, India (AP) - The farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chili pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred them into sauces. His wife puts them out for dinner raw, blood-red morsels of pain to be nibbled _ carefully, very carefully _ with whatever she's serving.
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Indian region sees hope in hot chili
Jul 31 2007 11:24AM (CT)
CHANGPOOL, India (AP) - The farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chili pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred them into sauces. His wife puts them out for dinner raw, blood-red morsels of pain to be nibbled _ carefully, very carefully _ with whatever she's serving.
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Indian region sees hope in hot chili
Jul 31 2007 11:24AM (CT)
CHANGPOOL, India (AP) - The farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chili pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred them into sauces. His wife puts them out for dinner raw, blood-red morsels of pain to be nibbled _ carefully, very carefully _ with whatever she's serving.
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Indian region sees hope in hot chili
Jul 31 2007 11:24AM (CT)
CHANGPOOL, India (AP) - The farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chili pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred them into sauces. His wife puts them out for dinner raw, blood-red morsels of pain to be nibbled _ carefully, very carefully _ with whatever she's serving.
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1 joint equals up to 5 cigarettes
Jul 31 2007 10:33AM (CT)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A single joint of marijuana obstructs the flow of air as much as smoking up to five tobacco cigarettes, but long-term pot use does not increase the risk of developing emphysema, new research suggests.
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Japan PM: US sex slave vote regrettable
Jul 31 2007 10:12AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's prime minister said Tuesday that a U.S. resolution demanding Japan's formal apology for forcing thousands of Asian women into sex slavery during World War II was regrettable because Japan has already made amends.
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Japan PM: US sex slave vote regrettable
Jul 31 2007 10:12AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's prime minister said Tuesday that a U.S. resolution demanding Japan's formal apology for forcing thousands of Asian women into sex slavery during World War II was regrettable because Japan has already made amends.
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Japan PM: US sex slave vote regrettable
Jul 31 2007 10:12AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's prime minister said Tuesday that a U.S. resolution demanding Japan's formal apology for forcing thousands of Asian women into sex slavery during World War II was regrettable because Japan has already made amends.
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Villagers flee fearing Tamil attacks
Jul 31 2007 9:04AM (CT)
VAVUNIYA, Sri Lanka (AP) - Hundreds of ethnic Sinhalese civilians fled three villages in northern Sri Lanka on Tuesday, claiming the government had failed to protect them from attacks by Tamil Tiger rebels, locals said.
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Australia still suspects Indian doctor
Jul 31 2007 8:05AM (CT)
CANBERRA, India (AP) - Australian police continue to suspect that an Indian doctor was part of the failed British bombing conspiracy last month, even though a terror charge against him was dropped for lack of evidence, a minister said Tuesday.
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Australia still suspects Indian doctor
Jul 31 2007 8:05AM (CT)
CANBERRA, India (AP) - Australian police continue to suspect that an Indian doctor was part of the failed British bombing conspiracy last month, even though a terror charge against him was dropped for lack of evidence, a minister said Tuesday.
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Australia still suspects Indian doctor
Jul 31 2007 8:05AM (CT)
CANBERRA, India (AP) - Australian police continue to suspect that an Indian doctor was part of the failed British bombing conspiracy last month, even though a terror charge against him was dropped for lack of evidence, a minister said Tuesday.
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Taiwan TB patients forced to leave China
Jul 31 2007 7:25AM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Two Taiwanese tuberculosis patients who sparked a health scare by defying a travel ban to fly to China have been brought back, an official said Tuesday.
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Minister investigated in dowry case
Jul 31 2007 6:37AM (CT)
LUCKNOW, India (AP) - Indian police are investigating allegations that a federal minister and his family beat up his grandson's wife in an attempt to extract a Mercedes and an apartment as part of the woman's wedding dowry, police said Tuesday.
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Suicide bomber hits US-led Afghan convoy
Jul 31 2007 5:39AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide car bomber blew himself up near a convoy of U.S. troops on the outskirts of Kabul Tuesday, leaving up to seven civilians and three soldiers wounded, officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
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U.N. nuke team says N. Korea cooperative
Jul 31 2007 5:31AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - North Korea has cooperated fully with a team U.N. nuclear experts who were monitoring the shutdown and sealing of the country's sole plutonium-producing reactor, the leader of the team said Tuesday.
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China's energy efficiency improving
Jul 31 2007 4:44AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The energy efficiency of China's fuel-guzzling economy is improving but the country _ the world's No. 2 oil consumer _ is still struggling to meet self-imposed conservation targets, the government said Tuesday.
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Malaysia PM's Web site accused of racism
Jul 31 2007 4:11AM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A Malaysian opposition party said Tuesday it has filed a police report accusing the prime minister of allowing a seditious and racist article to run on his official Web site.
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