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Pakistan troops find tribal chief's body
Aug 30 2006 11:57PM (CT)
TARTARI, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani soldiers searching a cave found the body of a fugitive tribal leader whose death in a military raid sparked large-scale unrest, but it was pinned under a boulder and will take days to retrieve, army officials said Thursday.
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Reporter sentenced to 5 years for spying
Aug 30 2006 11:28PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A Hong Kong reporter was sentenced Thursday by a Chinese court to five years in prison on spying charges in a case that prompted outcries by press freedom groups.
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Apartment building collapses in Pakistan
Aug 30 2006 10:57PM (CT)
MUREE, Pakistan (AP) - An earthquake-damaged apartment building collapsed in a mountain resort area near the Pakistani capital on Thursday, trapping at least five people, an official said.
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Philippine oil cleanup goes low-tech
Aug 30 2006 5:13PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Volunteers in the Philippines are getting shorn to save the shore. The cast-off clippings of human hair are going to be used to help mop up oil from a disastrous spill that has fouled beaches, coral reefs and mangrove swamps.
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Cleric, Afghan decapitated in Pakistan
Aug 30 2006 2:25PM (CT)
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan (AP) - Militants decapitated an Islamic cleric and an Afghan refugee accused of spying for U.S. and Afghan authorities in northwestern Pakistan, an intelligence official said Wednesday.
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Nearly 60 inmates escape East Timor jail
Aug 30 2006 6:41AM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - Nearly 60 inmates escaped from an East Timor jail on Wednesday, including scores of people arrested in recent violence that wracked the tiny nation and militiamen who opposed the country's break from Indonesian rule.
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Nepal boy claims to be shortest in world
Aug 30 2006 6:17AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Nepal's shortest boy is waiting for word from the Guinness World Records, where he has applied to be named the shortest in the world, his supporters said on Wednesday.
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Kidnapped journalist freed in Sri Lanka
Aug 30 2006 5:24AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Kidnappers on Wednesday released an ethnic Tamil radio journalist known for his reports on human rights violations in Sri Lanka's long-running civil conflict.
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Russia releases 2 Japanese fishermen
Aug 30 2006 4:42AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Russia on Wednesday released two Japanese fishermen held since their boat was seized for allegedly fishing in Russian waters in a confrontation in which a crewman was killed, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said.
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China atheist, U.S. preacher clash in book
Aug 30 2006 4:39AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - One is a former spokesman for Communist China's Cabinet, the other, an American evangelist known for his elaborate, two-day Christian festivals. The question they are both asking: Does God exist?
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Petronas disputes Chad expulsion order
Aug 30 2006 4:08AM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysian state oil company Petronas on Wednesday disputed the Chad government's claim it failed to pay millions of dollars in back taxes, but said it was attempting to resolve the issue with the African nation.
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