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Sri Lanka's foreign minister assassinated
Aug 12 2005 11:57PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka's president declared a state of emergency Saturday after her foreign minister was assassinated at his home. The military blamed the Tamil Tiger rebel group, which the slain official worked to ostracize internationally as a terrorist organization.
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Tokyo ward approves disputed history texts
Aug 12 2005 10:22PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A history textbook that critics say glorifies Japan's militaristic past was approved Friday for use in 23 Tokyo junior high schools beginning next year, officials said.
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Sri Lanka's Lakshman Kadirgamar dies at 73
Aug 12 2005 9:03PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Lakshman Kadirgamar, the Sri Lanka's foreign minister slain Friday by assassins, had campaigned against the country's separatist rebels but also supported the peace process. He was 73.
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Japan marks 20th anniversary of JAL crash
Aug 12 2005 7:40PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan Airlines' president climbed up to the remote, mountainous site of history's worst single airplane disaster on Friday in a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of a JAL Boeing jumbo jet crash that killed 520 people.
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Bomb blast wounds four at Afghan market
Aug 12 2005 3:43PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A bomb exploded in a market in southern Afghanistan on Friday, injuring four civilians, police said. Elsewhere in the region, a gunfight between police and suspected Taliban rebels left two officers and three militants dead.
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Sri Lanka's foreign minister killed
Aug 12 2005 2:42PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka's foreign minister, an ethnic Tamil who opposed rebels seeking a separatist state for the minority, was shot to death Friday as he was returning home after a swim.
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3 killed in suspected Tamil rebel attacks
Aug 12 2005 11:54AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed a couple believed linked to a rival group Friday, hours after several people were wounded by a rebel attack on security forces at a tsunami survivors camp, officials said.
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Haze from fires spreads in Malaysia
Aug 12 2005 11:51AM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Shifting winds carried smoke from Indonesian forest fires to more areas of Malaysia on Friday, as millions prayed for rains to wash away the yellow noxious haze choking cities. Indonesia came under criticism for not doing enough to control the fires.
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Peru's prime minister quits unexpectedly
Aug 12 2005 4:43AM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Peru's prime minister quit unexpectedly in an apparent protest against President Alejandro Toledo's appointment of an unpopular political ally as foreign minister.
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Security situation worsens in Nepal
Aug 12 2005 3:12AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - The rebel victory appears to have been as unexpected as it was complete _ a battlefield win that has exposed the military weakness of Nepal's army and the political vulnerability of King Gyanendra's royal dictatorship.
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American trys to feed needy in N. Korea
Aug 12 2005 3:11AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The only U.S. citizen living permanently in North Korea uses a simple test to gauge how much has changed in the communist country in recent years: He waves at trucks loaded with soldiers that he passes while driving through the countryside.
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