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Earthquake shakes buildings in Tokyo
Aug 15 2005 11:26PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Tuesday, triggering a small tsunami, collapsing buildings, knocking out power and shaking skyscrapers nearly 200 miles away in Tokyo.
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Acehnese hopeful peace is at hand
Aug 15 2005 9:27PM (CT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - Thousands of people huddling around TV sets in a mosque courtyard clapped and cheered Monday while watching leaders halfway around the globe sign an accord to end three decades of war in tsunami-ravaged Aceh province.
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31 dead in four Guatemala prison riots
Aug 15 2005 9:20PM (CT)
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Gang members staged simultaneous riots in at least seven Guatemalan prisons on Monday, attacking rivals with grenades, guns and knives in coordinated chaos that left 31 inmates dead, officials said.
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Singapore hosts anti-WMD exercises
Aug 15 2005 9:03PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - The United States and a dozen other nations on Monday launched maritime exercises aimed at stopping shipments of weapons of mass destruction, with U.S. and Singaporean officials warning that such powerful arms are clearly attractive to terrorists.
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Soldier in Afghan case said ill-trained
Aug 15 2005 9:00PM (CT)
FORT BLISS, Texas (AP) - Lawyers for an Army reservist accused of mistreating two prisoners in Afghanistan who later died told jurors Monday that the soldier was ill-prepared to handle detainees and was simply following the direction of senior soldiers.
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Indonesia to prosecute companies over haze
Aug 15 2005 8:54PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia will prosecute 10 companies _ eight of them Malaysian _ for illegally lighting fires on Sumatra Island that have enveloped much of Malaysia with smoke.
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Koizumi sorry for Japan's WWII aggression
Aug 15 2005 2:13PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologized Monday for Japan's wartime colonization and invasions on the 60th anniversary of its surrender in World War II, and he stayed away from a shrine criticized for glorifying the aggression that provoked two atomic bombings.
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Afghan forces kill suspected insurgents
Aug 15 2005 1:20PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan security forces killed at least 28 suspected insurgents in a nationwide offensive against Taliban rebels and other militants intent on subverting crucial legislative elections next month, officials said Monday.
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Sri Lanka urges crackdown on Tamil rebels
Aug 15 2005 12:49PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lankans cremated their assassinated foreign minister Monday as the government urged the international community to clamp down on overseas supporters of Tamil rebels amid fears the killing could scuttle a three-year-old cease-fire.
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Indonesia, Aceh rebels sign peace treaty
Aug 15 2005 10:49AM (CT)
HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - Indonesia and Aceh rebels signed a peace treaty Monday to end nearly 30 years of fighting that killed 15,000 people, but rebel leaders voiced concern about government troops remaining in the region.
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Japan searches for missing WWII soldiers
Aug 15 2005 1:49AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Kokichi Morimoto knows his father only as a kimono-clad man in a black-and-white photograph dated Dec. 25, 1942 _ the day he joined Japan's imperialist war in Asia as a soldier, never to return.
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Minority Tamils fear being targeted
Aug 15 2005 1:47AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - With Sri Lanka's foreign minister dead and the country under emergency rule, there is growing fear among the island's minority Tamils that they may once again be targeted by the security forces fighting Tamil Tiger rebels.
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