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Bangladeshis flee homes submerged by tides
Aug 22 2005 8:53PM (CT)
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (AP) - Unusually high tides partially submerged two offshore islands Monday in southeastern Bangladesh, forcing nearly 20,000 residents to flee their flooded homes, a relief official said. No one was hurt or missing.
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Koizumi will step down at end of term
Aug 22 2005 7:15PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Monday that he will step down in September 2006 at the end of his term as head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party even if his coalition wins upcoming elections.
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Sri Lanka appoints foreign minister
Aug 22 2005 4:46PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka President Chandrika Kumaratunga on Monday appointed her younger brother as successor to the country's assassinated foreign minister, a Cabinet official said.
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40 suspected rebels killed in Afghanistan
Aug 22 2005 3:21PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. and Afghan troops killed at least 40 suspected rebels in an offensive targeting militants who ambushed Navy SEAL commandos and shot down a special-forces helicopter _ the deadliest attacks on American forces in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Monday.
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Suspected militants killed in Afghanistan
Aug 22 2005 10:45AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. Marines and Afghan forces killed more than 40 suspected militants in an operation against insurgents who had inflicted the deadliest blow to American forces since the Taliban's ouster, a military spokesman said Monday.
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Land mine blast kills 4 officers in Nepal
Aug 22 2005 8:56AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - A land mine planted by suspected communist rebels killed at least four police officers and injured three others in southern Nepal on Monday, authorities said.
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Pakistan workers kidnapped in Iraq freed
Aug 22 2005 8:00AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Eleven Pakistani workers who were kidnapped in Iraq earlier this month have been freed, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday.
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U.S., S. Korea start military exercises
Aug 22 2005 3:24AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - U.S. and South Korean forces kicked off annual computer-simulated military exercises Monday that North Korea routinely criticizes as a rehearsal for an imminent invasion of the communist state.
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