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N. Korea may have moved second missile
Aug 3 2006 11:52PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea may have removed a long-range missile from a launch site, lowering the possibility of the communist regime immediately carrying out further tests, a South Korean official said Friday.
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Thailand's king recovers from surgery
Aug 3 2006 10:48PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's 78-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej has recovered faster than expected from spinal surgery and was to be discharged from a hospital Friday, the palace said.
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Church members detained in China
Aug 3 2006 8:26PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Police scuffled with members of an underground Catholic church in northern China who were protesting the detention of two clergymen, seriously injuring at least two people, a U.S. group said Thursday.
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4 Canadian troops killed in Afghanistan
Aug 3 2006 4:12PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Militant attacks killed four Canadian soldiers and wounded 10 Thursday while 21 Afghan civilians died from a suicide car bombing _ the latest barrage of violence that has accompanied NATO's new security mission in southern Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan deports Christian Koreans
Aug 3 2006 3:31PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan ordered hundreds of South Korean Christians to leave the country, accusing them Thursday of seeking to undermine its Islamic culture.
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Afghanistan deports Christian Koreans
Aug 3 2006 1:49PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan on Thursday ordered hundreds of South Korean Christians to leave the country, accusing them of seeking to undermine Islamic culture.
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Typhoon Prapiroon slams into south China
Aug 3 2006 12:55PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated as Typhoon Prapiroon slammed into southern China Thursday, pounding an already battered area with more heavy rains and winds.
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3 NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Aug 3 2006 11:20AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban fighters killed three NATO soldiers in an attack in southern Afghanistan Thursday, a NATO spokesman said. The insurgents attacked the soldiers with rocket-propelled grenades near a school on the outskirts of the city of Kandahar, a NATO statement said.
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Japanese official brings loan to Baghdad
Aug 3 2006 8:32AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso arrived in Baghdad on a surprise visit Thursday, bringing with him a loan of 3.3 billion yen ($29 million) to jump-start Iraq's economic development.
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Shells hit Sri Lanka schools; 18 killed
Aug 3 2006 8:12AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Artillery fire hit three schools being used as shelters from fighting raging Thursday between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels, killing 18 people in a northeastern town, the military said.
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