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Japanese PM apologizes for past invasions
Aug 14 2005 10:59PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's leader apologized for Tokyo's wartime colonization and invasions on the 60th anniversary of the country's surrender on Monday, after other Asian nations marked event by honoring their dead and demanding compensation for their losses.
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Thai leader visits volatile south
Aug 14 2005 10:28PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's prime minister urged community leaders in the country's violence-plagued south to stand together against Islamic separatists.
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Pakistan's leaders vow to defeat terrorism
Aug 14 2005 5:54PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan celebrated national independence day Sunday as its leaders pledged to defeat terrorism, saying militancy and religious extremism were threatening both sovereignty and development.
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Sri Lankans worried cease-fire may falter
Aug 14 2005 4:41PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - One of Sri Lanka's best-known politicians is dead, roadblocks have gone up around the capital and government officials and Tamil Tiger rebels are trading increasingly harsh rhetoric. In a country savaged by two decades of violence, where all-out combat is staved off by an increasingly fragile cease-fire, the question looms: Will there be war?
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Indonesia, Aceh rebels set for peace pact
Aug 14 2005 4:14PM (CT)
HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - The Indonesian government and Aceh rebels met Sunday for last-minute talks before the signing of a peace treaty aimed at ending nearly 30 years of fighting in the oil- and gas-rich province that has killed 15,000 people.
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Cash said to drive Afghanistan's militia
Aug 14 2005 3:32PM (CT)
ASADABAD, Afghanistan (AP) - It doesn't take much money to set up a militia force in Afghanistan. A few dollars a day buys the loyalty of impoverished villagers, and weapons are cheap and available.
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Japan PM warned not to visit war shrine
Aug 14 2005 3:13PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A key ally of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi warned the leader Sunday not to visit a shrine that honors Japan's 2.4 million war dead, saying it would further undermine Japan's fragile ruling coalition as it heads into nationwide elections.
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AP: U.S. troops begin Afghan offensive
Aug 14 2005 12:37PM (CT)
KANDAGAL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. Marines and Afghan troops launched an offensive Saturday to take a remote mountain valley from insurgents tied to the deadliest blow on American forces since the Taliban regime was ousted nearly four years ago.
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12 Tamils arrested in Sri Lanka slaying
Aug 14 2005 12:36PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Security forces arrested 12 minority Tamils before dawn Sunday in connection with the assassination of Sri Lanka's foreign minister, and a Tamil lawmaker said only a peace deal could stop such killings in a country many fear is sliding back to war.
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N.Koreans travel south to honor war dead
Aug 14 2005 5:51AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A North Korean delegation paid a first-ever visit to a cemetery in the South where Korean War dead are buried, as the two countries launched celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the peninsula's liberation from Japanese colonial rule.
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