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Truck accident kills 85 in India
Sep 7 2007 10:52PM (CT)
JAIPUR, India (AP) - A large truck crammed with Hindu pilgrims crashed into a gorge in northwestern India on Friday night, killing at least 85 people and injuring 46 more, police said.
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Afghan police seek kidnapped de-miners
Sep 7 2007 9:40PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Police and villagers hunted on Friday for 13 mine-clearing workers kidnapped in a restive part of Afghanistan less than a week after Taliban militants vowed to step up an abduction campaign.
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Militants behead 2 women in Pakistan
Sep 7 2007 7:52PM (CT)
BANNU, Pakistan (AP) - Suspected Islamic militants beheaded two women in northwest Pakistan after accusing them of being prostitutes, police said Friday.
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Countries reach deal on climate change
Sep 7 2007 6:11PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Pacific Rim nations reached tentative agreement on the need "to slow, stop and then reverse" climate change, setting nonbinding goals to improve energy use, according to a draft statement Saturday.
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Countries reach deal on climate change
Sep 7 2007 6:11PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Pacific Rim nations reached tentative agreement on the need "to slow, stop and then reverse" climate change, setting nonbinding goals to improve energy use, according to a draft statement Saturday.
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Countries reach deal on climate change
Sep 7 2007 6:11PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Pacific Rim nations reached tentative agreement on the need "to slow, stop and then reverse" climate change, setting nonbinding goals to improve energy use, according to a draft statement Saturday.
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Hu's up, Bush down at Pacific Rim summit
Sep 7 2007 1:23PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - President Bush used an address before an audience of Pacific Rim business elite to discuss the war on terror. Chinese President Hu Jintao talked about the business opportunities that China's growth is producing.
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Pakistan to arrest Sharif's brother
Sep 7 2007 12:56PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A court on Friday ordered the arrest of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's brother, three days before the siblings are to return to Pakistan to challenge President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, a lawyer said.
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UN: North Korea needs immediate food aid
Sep 7 2007 12:19PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thousands of people in North Korea require immediate and continued humanitarian food aid after devastating floods last month, the U.N. World Food Program said Friday.
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China police break baby trafficking ring
Sep 7 2007 12:14PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Police in eastern China have broken up a baby trafficking ring, arresting 47 people and rescuing 40 infants, state media said Friday.
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NKorea invites 3 nations for nuke survey
Sep 7 2007 6:16AM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - North Korea has invited nuclear experts from the United States, China and Russia into the country to survey and recommend ways of disabling all of its atomic facilities by the end of the year, the chief U.S. envoy to the communist regime announced Friday.
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China sends 2 giant pandas to Spain
Sep 7 2007 2:18AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Two giant pandas from China are headed for Spain in a goodwill gesture promised during the Spanish king's visit to Beijing earlier this year, state media reported Friday.
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Snake in hospital gurney kills Thai man
Sep 7 2007 1:08AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A cancer patient lying on a gurney waiting to be treated was fatally bitten by a snake, a hospital in western Thailand said Friday.
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1 killed as storm drenches Tokyo
Sep 7 2007 12:20AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Heavy rains and strong winds lashed Tokyo on Friday as a typhoon-turned-tropical storm headed north after killing one person, injuring more than 40, and cutting power to tens of thousands of homes. At least three people were missing.
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1 killed as storm drenches Tokyo
Sep 7 2007 12:20AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Heavy rains and strong winds lashed Tokyo on Friday as a typhoon-turned-tropical storm headed north after killing one person, injuring more than 40, and cutting power to tens of thousands of homes. At least three people were missing.
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1 killed as storm drenches Tokyo
Sep 7 2007 12:20AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Heavy rains and strong winds lashed Tokyo on Friday as a typhoon-turned-tropical storm headed north after killing one person, injuring more than 40, and cutting power to tens of thousands of homes. At least three people were missing.
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SKorean defense minister to visit NKorea
Sep 7 2007 12:07AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's defense minister will visit North Korea next month as part of a rare summit with the communist nation, the first time a defense chief from the South will journey to the North, an official said Friday.
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