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Boat capsizes in Indian river; 6 dead
Aug 6 2006 4:50PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - A boat capsized in a rain-swollen river near the Indian capital Sunday, leaving at least six people dead and 16 others missing, as monsoon rains triggered fresh floods across western India and forced thousands to evacuate.
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Blast on Chinese bus kills 8, injures 19
Aug 6 2006 4:31PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - An explosion aboard a bus in southern China killed eight people on Sunday, a government news agency reported, just days after a similar explosion killed 11.
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Sri Lanka military launches new attacks
Aug 6 2006 3:34PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Government forces launched fresh artillery attacks Sunday at a Tamil rebel-held reservoir that has been the focus of days of fighting.
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Nepal set to seize land owned by king
Aug 6 2006 1:17PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Nepal's government will likely seize land owned by King Gyanendra, who recently lost most of his power and his command over the army, a Cabinet minister said Sunday.
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Afghans pin hopes on resurrected Buddha
Aug 6 2006 11:29AM (CT)
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan (AP) - Five years after the Taliban blew them up, Afghan laborers are picking up the pieces of two once-towering Buddha statues, hoping they will rise again and breathe new life into this dirt-poor province.
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Grenade attack in Indian Kashmir kills 1
Aug 6 2006 11:07AM (CT)
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - Suspected Islamic militants hurled a grenade at a security patrol in Indian-administered Kashmir on Sunday, killing one woman and wounding eight other people, police said.
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Bomb wounds U.S. soldier in Afghanistan
Aug 6 2006 8:49AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan and NATO forces aided by air strikes killed 17 Taliban in southern Afghanistan, and in a neighboring province a U.S. soldier received minor injuries when a small truck exploded near a military convoy, officials and eyewitnesses said Sunday.
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Blast hits convoy in south Afghanistan
Aug 6 2006 3:22AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A suspected suicide bomber in a small truck hit a military convoy outside a southern Afghan city Sunday, wounding at least one foreign soldier, officials and witnesses said.
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6 of 7 N.Korean missile tests successful
Aug 6 2006 2:36AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - An analysis by Japan and the United States has concluded that six of the seven missiles tested by North Korea last month fell within their targets, a major Japanese newspaper reported Sunday.
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