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Chavez: China to expand oil cooperation
Aug 22 2006 10:14PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Visiting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said China will expand its cooperation in oil exploration and help his country build a fiber-optic communications network under agreements to be signed in Beijing this week.
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Father of Pakistani A-bomb has cancer
Aug 22 2006 3:16PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, who developed the Muslim world's first nuclear bomb and later confessed to leaking weapons technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya, is battling prostate cancer, the government said Tuesday.
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Philippines getting help with oil spill
Aug 22 2006 1:55PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Japanese and U.S. experts will help the central Philippines clean up an oil spill that has wreaked havoc on fishing communities and a sprawling marine reserve, officials said Tuesday.
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Police defuse bomb in Sri Lankan capital
Aug 22 2006 12:28PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Police acting on a tip discovered and defused a powerful bomb planted in a box of vegetables on a bicycle in a busy shopping district in the Sri Lankan capital Tuesday, an official said.
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6 Canadian troops wounded in Afghanistan
Aug 22 2006 9:17AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber drove his explosives-laden car into a Canadian military patrol in southern Afghanistan Tuesday, wounding four soldiers. Two Canadian soldiers were wounded in a separate attack in the same province. And insurgents ambushed a police vehicle near the Pakistan border, killing five officers.
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Indian police say they've foiled attack
Aug 22 2006 7:37AM (CT)
BOMBAY, India (AP) - Police killed a Pakistani and arrested another in a shootout Tuesday that authorities said foiled a terrorist attack in India's financial capital a month after a series of train bombings that left more than 200 people dead.
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Indonesia to hold Aceh elections Dec. 11
Aug 22 2006 6:45AM (CT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - Officials said Tuesday that Indonesia will hold landmark elections in Aceh province on Dec. 11, paving the way for former rebels to take part in the political process.
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Police: Bomb found, defused in Sri Lanka
Aug 22 2006 6:01AM (CT)
110 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Police acting on a tip discovered and defused a powerful bomb planted in a box of vegetables on a bicycle in a busy shopping district in the Sri Lankan capital Tuesday, an official said.
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Dalai Lama begins visits in Mongolia
Aug 22 2006 5:40AM (CT)
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia (AP) - The Dalai Lama met with worshippers in Mongolia on Tuesday, and the Chinese Embassy said it had no plans to protest his visit following assurances he wouldn't take part in political activities.
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North Korea protests military exercises
Aug 22 2006 4:37AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea lashed out Tuesday at ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills and warned that it could take retaliatory action amid renewed concern that the communist nation may be preparing to test a nuclear bomb.
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North Korea protests military exercises
Aug 22 2006 1:55AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea lashed out Tuesday after the start of joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises, saying they nullified the armistice in the 1950-53 Korean War and warning that it may take retaliatory action.
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