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India bombings kill 31, injure 100
Sep 8 2006 11:00PM (CT)
MALEGAON, India (AP) - Two bombs rigged to bicycles exploded in throngs of Muslims as they left Friday prayers at a mosque in this western Indian city, killing 31 people and wounding 100.
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Major reported she had been kidnapped
Sep 8 2006 9:51PM (CT)
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) - A U.S. Air Force officer who disappeared earlier this week in Kyrgyzstan was found alive late Friday, reportedly telling people who helped her that she had been kidnapped, officials said.
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Suicide bomber kills 16 in Afghanistan
Sep 8 2006 9:47PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - In the most brazen attack yet on Kabul's heavily guarded center, a car bomber rammed into an American Humvee outside the U.S. Embassy on Friday, killing 16 other people, including two U.S. soldiers. It was the Afghan capital's deadliest suicide attack since the 2001 toppling of the Taliban.
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Panda accidentally crushes cub in China
Sep 8 2006 5:58PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A new panda mother who gave birth to twins this week accidentally crushed one of her newborns in her sleep, state media said Friday.
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Japan PM hopeful wants stronger military
Sep 8 2006 4:29PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Shinzo Abe, the front-runner to become Japan's new prime minister, called Friday for his country to build a stronger military as a deterrent and to push ahead with economic reforms as candidates launched their campaigns to lead the governing party.
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Commander has hard sell on Afghan troops
Sep 8 2006 2:41PM (CT)
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Calls by NATO's top commander for 2,000 more troops in Afghanistan could be running up against donor fatigue from key members of the alliance.
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Afghan attack worst since Taliban's fall
Sep 8 2006 1:36PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide car bomber struck a convoy of U.S. military vehicles Friday in downtown Kabul, killing at least 16 people, including two American soldiers, and wounding 29 others. It was the Afghan capital's deadliest suicide attack since the Taliban's 2001 ouster.
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Gas prompts Seoul subway evacuation
Sep 8 2006 11:39AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A ventilation system breakdown Friday caused a buildup of carbon monoxide in a subway station and nearby underground shopping area, and 30 people were sent to hospitals with headaches and other ailments, police said.
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Rescuers retrieve bodies from India mine
Sep 8 2006 10:43AM (CT)
PATNA, India (AP) - Rescuers working through the night retrieved the bodies of 43 of the 50 miners killed in an explosion in a coal mine in eastern India, an official said Friday.
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Indonesia wants access to U.S. detainee
Sep 8 2006 10:16AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia demanded access to alleged Asian terror chief Hambali after receiving confirmation from Washington that he was alive and being transferred to the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for trial, a Foreign Ministry official said Friday.
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Bombing in Pakistan kills 5, wounds 21
Sep 8 2006 8:19AM (CT)
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - A bomb killed at least five people Friday in Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province, police said, blaming supporters of a tribal leader who was recently killed in a government raid.
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