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Rescuers try to reach 181 Chinese miners
Aug 18 2007 11:21PM (CT)
XINTAI, China (AP) - Rescuers raced Saturday to pump water out of two coal mines flooded by a collapsed dike in eastern China, where 181 miners were missing and feared dead.
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Rescuers try to reach 181 Chinese miners
Aug 18 2007 11:21PM (CT)
XINTAI, China (AP) - Rescuers raced Saturday to pump water out of two coal mines flooded by a collapsed dike in eastern China, where 181 miners were missing and feared dead.
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Rescuers try to reach 181 Chinese miners
Aug 18 2007 11:21PM (CT)
XINTAI, China (AP) - Rescuers raced Saturday to pump water out of two coal mines flooded by a collapsed dike in eastern China, where 181 miners were missing and feared dead.
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Typhoon hits China's coastline; 9 dead
Aug 18 2007 10:35PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A typhoon slammed into China's eastern coastline early Sunday, spawning a tornado that toppled more than 150 homes and killed at least nine people, state media reported.
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Typhoon hits China's coastline; 9 dead
Aug 18 2007 10:35PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A typhoon slammed into China's eastern coastline early Sunday, spawning a tornado that toppled more than 150 homes and killed at least nine people, state media reported.
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Typhoon hits China's coastline; 9 dead
Aug 18 2007 10:35PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A typhoon slammed into China's eastern coastline early Sunday, spawning a tornado that toppled more than 150 homes and killed at least nine people, state media reported.
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Maldivians vote in historic election
Aug 18 2007 8:53PM (CT)
MALE, Maldives (AP) - Thousands of Maldivians, many of them fed up with the president's nearly three-decade rule, voted Saturday at schools and makeshift gazebos in the crowded capital and on remote atolls in a poll seen as a referendum on their leader.
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Maldivians vote in historic election
Aug 18 2007 8:53PM (CT)
MALE, Maldives (AP) - Thousands of Maldivians, many of them fed up with the president's nearly three-decade rule, voted Saturday at schools and makeshift gazebos in the crowded capital and on remote atolls in a poll seen as a referendum on their leader.
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Maldivians vote in historic election
Aug 18 2007 8:53PM (CT)
MALE, Maldives (AP) - Thousands of Maldivians, many of them fed up with the president's nearly three-decade rule, voted Saturday at schools and makeshift gazebos in the crowded capital and on remote atolls in a poll seen as a referendum on their leader.
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Kazakhstan votes for parliament
Aug 18 2007 5:20PM (CT)
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) - Oil-rich Kazakhstan held parliamentary elections Saturday in an early vote widely considered an attempt by the long-ruling president to improve the ex-Soviet republic's democratic image while retaining his grip on power.
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Kazakhstan votes for parliament
Aug 18 2007 5:20PM (CT)
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) - Oil-rich Kazakhstan held parliamentary elections Saturday in an early vote widely considered an attempt by the long-ruling president to improve the ex-Soviet republic's democratic image while retaining his grip on power.
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German woman kidnapped in Kabul eatery
Aug 18 2007 1:03PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Four armed assailants kidnapped a German aid worker dining with her husband at a restaurant in Kabul in a bold midday attack, as the Taliban said negotiations for the release of 19 remaining South Korean hostages have failed.
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German woman kidnapped in Kabul eatery
Aug 18 2007 1:03PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Four armed assailants kidnapped a German aid worker dining with her husband at a restaurant in Kabul in a bold midday attack, as the Taliban said negotiations for the release of 19 remaining South Korean hostages have failed.
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Turkish plane hijacking ends peacefully
Aug 18 2007 7:57AM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Two men hijacked a Turkish passenger plane bound for Istanbul on Saturday, holding several people hostage for more than four hours before surrendering, officials said.
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Turkish plane hijacking ends peacefully
Aug 18 2007 7:57AM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Two men hijacked a Turkish passenger plane bound for Istanbul on Saturday, holding several people hostage for more than four hours before surrendering, officials said.
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Turkish plane hijacking ends peacefully
Aug 18 2007 7:57AM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Two men hijacked a Turkish passenger plane bound for Istanbul on Saturday, holding several people hostage for more than four hours before surrendering, officials said.
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Turkish plane hijacking ends peacefully
Aug 18 2007 7:57AM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Two men hijacked a Turkish passenger plane bound for Istanbul on Saturday, holding several people hostage for more than four hours before surrendering, officials said.
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Koreas postpone summit to October
Aug 18 2007 4:31AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North and South Korea agreed Saturday to postpone the second-ever summit between leaders on the divided peninsula to early October due to recent floods that devastated the impoverished communist North.
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Moderate quakes rattle Tokyo area
Aug 18 2007 3:53AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A series of moderate earthquakes rattled the Tokyo area Saturday, with one temblor registering a preliminary magnitude of 5.1, Japan's weather agency said. No tsunami warnings were issued.
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China begins building new nuclear plant
Aug 18 2007 1:37AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese power companies began construction of a new nuclear plant on Saturday, the first in the country's northeast, a state news agency reported.
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Car bomb kills 15 in Afghanistan
Aug 18 2007 1:18AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide car bomber detonated near a convoy of private security forces Saturday in southern Afghanistan, killing four Afghan guards and 11 civilians, including three women and two children, police said.
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Thais to vote on draft constitution
Aug 18 2007 12:12AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Moving back toward democracy after last year's coup, Thailand will hold its first-ever national referendum Sunday to choose a new constitution. But the choice is limited to voting yes or no on a charter designed to curb the power of politicians.
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Thais to vote on draft constitution
Aug 18 2007 12:12AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Moving back toward democracy after last year's coup, Thailand will hold its first-ever national referendum Sunday to choose a new constitution. But the choice is limited to voting yes or no on a charter designed to curb the power of politicians.
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