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Japanese court upholds death sentence
Aug 17 2006 9:32PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese court on Friday upheld the death sentence of a chemist convicted for leading a doomsday group's efforts to develop nerve gas used in a 1995 attack on the Tokyo subways that killed 12 people, a court official said.
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Lax laws in parts of Asia aid pedophiles
Aug 17 2006 8:49PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - One pedophile had plastic surgery and jumped bail to elude authorities. Another paid thousands of dollars to the families of his victims after they agreed to ask that charges be dropped.
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Chinese envoy tells U.S. to 'shut up'
Aug 17 2006 8:07PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - The United States should "shut up" with its concerns about China's growing military spending because the increase is no threat, a Chinese ambassador said Thursday.
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Pakistan: al-Qaida approved bomb plot
Aug 17 2006 3:46PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Detained terror suspects told interrogators that al-Qaida's top leaders approved a plot to blow up planes from Britain to the United States, a senior Pakistani intelligence agent said Thursday.
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Afghan president condemns U.S. airstrike
Aug 17 2006 3:17PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai condemned a U.S. airstrike Thursday that Afghan officials said killed 10 border policemen. Sixteen other people died in violence around the country, including an American soldier slain by a Soviet-era land mine.
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India: No changes to U.S. nuclear deal
Aug 17 2006 2:24PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - India will not agree to any changes to a landmark civilian nuclear cooperation deal reached with the U.S. last year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday. Singh made a detailed presentation to parliament on the deal after opposition parties accused the government of succumbing to U.S. pressures to limit India's nuclear program.
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Fighting escalates in northern Sri Lanka
Aug 17 2006 1:48PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Tamil Tiger rebels launched fresh attacks on key targets in northern Sri Lanka, where a week of fierce fighting has killed more than 800 rebels and security forces, the military said Thursday.
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Karr says he loved JonBenet 'very much'
Aug 17 2006 1:46PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - From inside his dingy hotel, the American suspect in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Thursday that he loved the 6-year-old and is "very sorry for what happened" in the basement of her Colorado home nearly a decade ago.
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Ex-teacher: JonBenet's death an accident
Aug 17 2006 1:21PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - An American expatriate school teacher said publicly Thursday he was with JonBenet Ramsey when she died in what he called "an accident," a stunning admission after a decade without answers in the 6-year-old's murder.
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North Korea agrees to South's flood aid
Aug 17 2006 8:53AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea has accepted aid from South Korea to help recover from floods that an aid group claims left tens of thousands dead and more than 2 million homeless, a South Korean official said Thursday.
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Japan, Russia negotiate over fishermen
Aug 17 2006 7:56AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan dispatched diplomats Thursday to negotiate the release of three fishermen detained by Russia after a high-seas shooting that killed a fellow crew member. Tokyo said the incident could affect ties with Moscow.
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Karr a globe-trotting teacher in resumes
Aug 17 2006 6:42AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The American school teacher arrested for the killing of JonBenet Ramsey apparently claimed to have a globe-trotting history of teaching assignments in online resumes he purportedly posted to seek work abroad giving English lessons.
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Gunmen abduct at least 15 in Afghanistan
Aug 17 2006 5:26AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Gunmen abducted at least 15 people, including a doctor and nurses, as they traveled to a refugee camp in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said.
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Suspect says Ramsey death 'an accident'
Aug 17 2006 5:20AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A former American school teacher said publicly Thursday he was with JonBenet Ramsey when she was killed and called the 6-year-old's death "an accident," a stunning admission that should help answer 10 years of questions in the unsolved murder case.
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Pakistan seeks 3 suspects in London plot
Aug 17 2006 3:38AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Authorities in Pakistan were searching for three more suspects they believe may be linked to the foiled London terror plot, an intelligence official said Thursday.
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Men in Bali blast get sentences reduced
Aug 17 2006 12:56AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - An Islamic militant convicted in the 2002 Bali bombings was released from prison Thursday and 11 others jailed for minor roles had their sentences reduced to mark Indonesia's independence day, officials said.
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