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China says August trade surplus $24.97B
Sep 10 2007 11:55PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's trade surplus hit its second-highest monthly level on record in August, hitting $24.97 billion, according to customs data released Tuesday.
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US nuclear experts visit North Korea
Sep 10 2007 10:40PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A team of U.S. nuclear experts began a rare visit to North Korea on Tuesday to examine ways of disabling the country's main nuclear complex under an international accord.
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Ex-Pakistan premier goes back into exile
Sep 10 2007 9:32PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf ordered police commandos to the airport Monday and sent a bitter rival packing just hours after he returned from exile in hopes of making a political comeback and opposing the military leader.
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Ex-Pakistan premier goes back into exile
Sep 10 2007 9:32PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf ordered police commandos to the airport Monday and sent a bitter rival packing just hours after he returned from exile in hopes of making a political comeback and opposing the military leader.
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Ex-Pakistan premier goes back into exile
Sep 10 2007 9:32PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf ordered police commandos to the airport Monday and sent a bitter rival packing just hours after he returned from exile in hopes of making a political comeback and opposing the military leader.
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Ex-Pakistan premier goes back into exile
Sep 10 2007 9:32PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf ordered police commandos to the airport Monday and sent a bitter rival packing just hours after he returned from exile in hopes of making a political comeback and opposing the military leader.
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Doctors to try to remove woman's needles
Sep 10 2007 5:32PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese surgeons will try to remove 23 needles from a woman that doctors believe may have been imbedded under her skin by grandparents trying to kill her so that a baby boy might take her place.
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Myanmar junta watches monasteries
Sep 10 2007 2:12PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's military government on Monday put monasteries under close watch and cut off the cell phone service of known dissidents to clamp down on the most sustained anti-government protests in a decade.
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Afghan suicide blast kills 28, wounds 60
Sep 10 2007 2:10PM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber on a motorized rickshaw detonated explosives Monday in a marketplace in southern Afghanistan, killing 28 people in one of the deadliest bombings since the fall of the Taliban. Children selling chewing gum and cigarettes were among the victims of the blast.
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Pakistan: Militants still holding troops
Sep 10 2007 11:49AM (CT)
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) - Militants backtracked on a deal to free more than 260 abducted Pakistani troops Monday after an army raid on their hideout near the Afghan border left three rebels dead, a tribal elder said.
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Time magazine loses suit against Suharto
Sep 10 2007 10:14AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia's highest court ordered Time magazine to pay $106 million in damages for defaming former dictator Suharto by alleging his family amassed billions of dollars during his 32-year rule, officials said Monday.
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Confucius' family tree being compiled
Sep 10 2007 7:34AM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Millions of descendants of Confucius are being listed in an international updating of the Chinese philosopher's more than 2,500-year-old family tree, a Taiwanese newspaper reported Monday.
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Cops to hand over papers in McCann case
Sep 10 2007 6:30AM (CT)
LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Portuguese police expect to hand their case file on the disappearance of British 4-year-old Madeleine McCann to the public prosecutor's office on Monday, a spokesman said.
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Abe: Keep supporting Afghan mission
Sep 10 2007 5:17AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tried to rally the nation behind his administration's support of coalition forces in Afghanistan, vowing Monday to push an extension of the mission but brushing off growing calls he resign.
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Moderate temblors hit eastern Java town
Sep 10 2007 4:56AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A pair of moderate earthquakes rocked an eastern Indonesian town early Monday, damaging buildings and causing panicked residents to flee their homes, an official and witnesses said. Several people hurt themselves trying to run outdoors.
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SKorea starts sending aid to North
Sep 10 2007 3:31AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea sent 60 trucks to flood-ravaged North Korea on Monday, the first shipment of additional aid to help the North rebuild devastated regions, the Unification Ministry said.
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2 dead in India highway collapse
Sep 10 2007 3:18AM (CT)
HYDERABAD, India (AP) - Rescue workers recovered the bodies of two people killed when a highway overpass collapsed in southern India, crushing vehicles and injuring pedestrians taking shelter from a rainstorm, a city official said Monday.
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2 dead in India highway collapse
Sep 10 2007 3:18AM (CT)
HYDERABAD, India (AP) - Rescue workers recovered the bodies of two people killed when a highway overpass collapsed in southern India, crushing vehicles and injuring pedestrians taking shelter from a rainstorm, a city official said Monday.
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2 dead in India highway collapse
Sep 10 2007 3:18AM (CT)
HYDERABAD, India (AP) - Rescue workers recovered the bodies of two people killed when a highway overpass collapsed in southern India, crushing vehicles and injuring pedestrians taking shelter from a rainstorm, a city official said Monday.
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