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Japan's Abe set to cash in on popularity
Aug 31 2006 9:32PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Soft-spoken lawmaker Shinzo Abe suddenly shot to national prominence in 2002 by pressuring North Korea into allowing five kidnapped Japanese citizens to return home for a brief visit.
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Taliban attack town in south Afghanistan
Aug 31 2006 6:06PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban militants attacked a southern town Thursday in the latest violence to shake war-battered Afghanistan, sparking intense fighting with government troops that left two insurgents dead, the defense ministry said.
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Slain tribal chief's body retrieved
Aug 31 2006 4:18PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani soldiers retrieved the body of a renegade tribal chief Thursday whose death in a military raid provoked widespread rioting in a restive province on the volatile border with Afghanistan.
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4 dead in Pakistan building collapse
Aug 31 2006 1:00PM (CT)
MURREE, Pakistan (AP) - An earthquake-damaged apartment building collapsed in a mountain resort near Pakistan's capital Thursday, killing four people, including the building's owner, his wife and their son, authorities said.
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22 bombs explode in Thailand, killing 1
Aug 31 2006 10:12AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Nearly two dozen bombs exploded almost simultaneously Thursday inside commercial banks in southern Thailand, killing one person in a region bloodied by a Muslim insurgency, police said.
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Philippines soldiers discover mass grave
Aug 31 2006 8:55AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Soldiers found mass graves believed to hold the remains of up to 300 people allegedly killed by communist guerrillas in the 1980s during a purge of suspected spies in the Philippines' remote east, officials said Thursday.
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U.N. keeping aid workers in Sri Lanka
Aug 31 2006 8:13AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - The U.N. said Thursday that it will keep its aid workers in Sri Lanka despite the accusation by European truce monitors that Sri Lankan security forces were behind the killings of 17 private relief agency employees this month.
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China gives reporter 5-year sentence
Aug 31 2006 6:19AM (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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Boat capsizes in India; at least 30 dead
Aug 31 2006 6:17AM (CT)
PATNA, India (AP) - At least 30 people drowned Thursday when a crowded boat capsized in the rain-swollen Ganges River in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, the state's top elected official said.
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Myanmar refugees prepare for life in U.S.
Aug 31 2006 5:44AM (CT)
THAM HIN REFUGEE CAMP, Thailand (AP) - As he prepared for a new life in the United States, A Ngar Nyunt was a little disappointed to learn he would have to give up chewing betel nuts, a traditional habit in his native Myanmar.
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Moderate quake rattles Tokyo area
Aug 31 2006 3:40AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A 4.8-magnitude earthquake jolted the Tokyo region on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, the Meteorological Agency reported.
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