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Top Chinese official to visit North Korea
Aug 26 2005 9:48PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese vice foreign minister was to arrive in North Korea on Saturday to discuss resuming six-party talks on disarming Pyongyang's nuclear program, the government said.
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Court: Sri Lanka must hold 2005 elections
Aug 26 2005 1:58PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka must hold presidential elections this year, the Supreme Court ruled Friday, ending President Chandrika Kumaratunga's final term a year earlier than she had hoped.
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S. Korea tourists visit N. Korea city
Aug 26 2005 12:50PM (CT)
KAESONG, North Korea (AP) - The first South Korean tourists visited historic sites Friday in this North Korean city, set to become only the second destination in the communist nation that can be visited by ordinary citizens of its southern neighbor.
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5,000 rally for convicted spy's clemency
Aug 26 2005 7:35AM (CT)
AMRITSAR, India (AP) - Nearly 5,000 people held a rally as shops and businesses shut down in the hometown of an Indian facing death by hanging in Pakistan for allegedly spying. They demanded clemency and his immediate return home.
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5 sentenced to death for Musharraf plot
Aug 26 2005 7:14AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistani military court on Friday sentenced five men to death for their roles in a 2003 suicide plot to kill President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, an army spokesman said.
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Survivors of Peru crash recall struggle
Aug 26 2005 5:42AM (CT)
PUCALLPA, Peru (AP) - An eerie silence fell over the people inside a Peruvian airliner when it suddenly lost altitude as if "something was pushing it down by force from above," a doctor aboard the flight recalls.
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