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Moderate quake shakes western China
Sep 11 2006 10:17PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A magnitude-5.4 earthquake shook northwestern China early Tuesday, but there were no deaths or damage in the remote, thinly populated area, the government said.
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Official: U.S. moves to sanction N.Korea
Sep 11 2006 10:14PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The United States is moving to impose sanctions on North Korea in accordance with a U.N. Security Council resolution adopted following the North's missile launches in July, a senior South Korean official said Tuesday.
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25 trapped in China tunnel collapse
Sep 11 2006 9:29PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Firefighters and construction workers rushed Tuesday to dig out 25 road workers trapped after a tunnel collapsed in southwest China, local officials and media said.
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Pakistan makes compromise on rape law
Sep 11 2006 8:39PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's government agreed to a compromise deal with hardline Islamic lawmakers Monday over proposed changes to a law that has long made punishing rapists almost impossible in the country.
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Kyrgyz police say major was 'confused'
Sep 11 2006 5:47PM (CT)
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) - A U.S. servicewoman who reappeared as mysteriously as she vanished gave confused accounts of her three-day absence and refused to make further statements after consulting with the U.S. Embassy, a Kyrgyz police official said Monday.
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148 killed in 5 days of Sri Lanka combat
Sep 11 2006 3:41PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels exchanged mortar and artillery fire across their northern front lines Monday, as the military said the death toll from five days of heavy fighting rose to 148.
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Afghan governor's funeral bombed; 6 dead
Sep 11 2006 1:57PM (CT)
TANI, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber struck Monday at a funeral for a provincial governor assassinated by the Taliban a day earlier, and four senior members of the government at the service escaped unhurt, officials and witnesses said. At least six people were killed and dozens were wounded.
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Japan launches intelligence satellite
Sep 11 2006 1:44PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan launched its third intelligence-gathering satellite Monday amid concerns about neighboring North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile programs.
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Media clampdown boosts China's Xinhua
Sep 11 2006 1:41PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Xinhua News Agency, the official mouthpiece for China's Communist Party, is getting a boost from the Beijing government in its quest to become an international media power.
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India commemorates Gandhi's legacy
Sep 11 2006 1:26PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - As much of the world marked Sept. 11 by remembering the 2001 attacks on the United States, India celebrated it as a day of peace _ the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mohandas K. Gandhi's philosophy of peaceful resistance.
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Chinese riot following teacher's death
Sep 11 2006 12:44PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Crowds angered by alleged police mishandling of a school teacher's death attacked government offices in a southern Chinese city last week, sparking arrests and beatings by riot troops, newspapers and a local hospital said Monday.
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9/11 spurs U.S. troops in Afghanistan
Sep 11 2006 11:53AM (CT)
KORANGAL VALLEY, Afghanistan (AP) - William Parsons was in high school when the twin towers fell. Now, the 19-year-old Army private sits atop an Afghan hill, eyes alert for al-Qaida and machine gun at the ready.
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Musharraf to meet with Karzai in U.S.
Sep 11 2006 11:07AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Monday he will hold talks with his Afghan counterpart while they're in the United States, and hopes that President Bush might help smooth recently strained Afghan-Pakistan ties.
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Divided world remembers Sept. 11 attacks
Sep 11 2006 5:59AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A divided world remembered the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks Monday, with allies promising to fight fanaticism, critics saying U.S. policies had fanned more violence and a militant leader promising "new events."
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NATO: 92 Taliban killed in Afghanistan
Sep 11 2006 5:41AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - NATO airstrikes and artillery have killed a further 92 suspected Taliban fighters, the alliance reported Monday, pushing its toll of militant dead in a 10-day offensive past 500.
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