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1 killed, 5 hurt in East Timor clashes
Sep 13 2006 10:33PM (CT)
DILI, East Timor (AP) - A battle between rival gangs armed with machetes killed one fighter and injured five others in East Timor's capital, police and hospital officials said Thursday.
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Chinese coal mine flood traps 7 workers
Sep 13 2006 9:13PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Rescuers were rushing to save seven miners trapped after a coal mine flood in northeastern China, state media reported Thursday.
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50 killed in widespread Afghan violence
Sep 13 2006 3:53PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - NATO nations failed to agree on calls by military commanders for 2,500 extra troops to help crush the growing Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan, where at least 50 people were killed Wednesday in widespread violence.
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U.S. military investigates leaked photo
Sep 13 2006 2:29PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The U.S. military said Wednesday it is looking into the unauthorized release of a photo purportedly taken by an American drone aircraft showing scores of Taliban militants at a funeral in Afghanistan.
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No new commitments for NATO Afghan force
Sep 13 2006 2:18PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - NATO failed Wednesday to win new troop commitments urgently needed for its Afghanistan campaign, but the alliance said a 10-day offensive to dislodge Taliban fighters from their southern strongholds was achieving its goals despite the shortage of troops.
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Some see Pakistan's truce as a defeat
Sep 13 2006 1:52PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan has a new strategy for fighting al-Qaida and Taliban militancy on its lawless border with Afghanistan: peace. After three years of battles, the army has reached a truce with militants in North Waziristan. But that's only stoked fears that Islamic extremists will have a freer run than ever along the rugged frontier where Osama bin Laden could be hiding.
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S. Korean homes bulldozed for U.S. base
Sep 13 2006 1:28PM (CT)
PYEONGTAEK, South Korea (AP) - Hundreds of workers bulldozed homes in a South Korean village Wednesday to make way for the expansion of a U.S. military base set to become the Americans' new headquarters, despite strong objections from protesters.
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North Korea rebuffs U.S. offer to talk
Sep 13 2006 11:29AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's vice foreign minister said Wednesday he understood the United States had offered one-on-one talks with North Korea on the communist nation's nuclear program, but was rejected. However, a U.S. official said in Washington that no new offer of direct talks had been made to Pyongyang.
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Thai leader won't seek re-election
Sep 13 2006 9:57AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Embattled Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will not seek another term after the upcoming general election, a senior member of his party said Wednesday.
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Taliban figure arrested in Pakistan
Sep 13 2006 8:42AM (CT)
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - A suspected Taliban group commander and five other militants were arrested Wednesday in a raid on a private hospital in southwestern Pakistan where they were being treated for injuries suffered in fighting in Afghanistan, officials said.
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1 dead, 23 trapped in China mine mishap
Sep 13 2006 8:42AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A coal mine accident in northern China killed one worker and left another 23 trapped on Wednesday, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
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U.S. envoy assures Turkey on Kurd fight
Sep 13 2006 8:36AM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A special U.S. envoy assured skeptical Turks on Wednesday that the United States was determined to help counter Iraq-based Kurdish guerrillas waging an escalating battle for an autonomous homeland.
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N. Korea pushes rabbit breeding for food
Sep 13 2006 5:30AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea is encouraging its people to breed rabbits for food, the regime's official media reported Wednesday.
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Japan imperial family still faces crisis
Sep 13 2006 4:44AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The birth of the first male heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne in four decades does not resolve the imperial family's looming succession crisis, Japan's palace chief said through a spokesman Wednesday.
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