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Nepal provides time frame for elections
Sep 21 2005 9:34PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Seven months after Nepal's king seized absolute power, its government announced Wednesday that the country will hold municipal elections by April 2006 and national elections within two years.
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Japan's trade surplus shrinks in August
Sep 21 2005 7:36PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's trade surplus contracted 79.7 percent in August from a year earlier, marking the fifth straight month of declines, amid rising oil prices, the government said Thursday.
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N. Korea accuses U.S. of plotting attack
Sep 21 2005 2:09PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - In a second day of bluster after its disarmament accord, North Korea accused the United States on Wednesday of planning a nuclear attack and warned it could retaliate.
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Torrential rains, floods kill 56 in India
Sep 21 2005 12:10PM (CT)
HYDERABAD, India (AP) - Heavy downpours sent rivers over their embankments, killing at least 56 people and forcing the evacuation of thousands in southwest India, officials said Wednesday.
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Competition to decide tsunami memorial
Sep 21 2005 11:53AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand on Wednesday announced an international competition to design a memorial to victims of last year's tsunami, which left more than 200,000 dead or missing in the dozen Indian Ocean countries hit by its giant waves.
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Pakistan fireworks blaze leaves five dead
Sep 21 2005 10:23AM (CT)
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) - A fireworks explosion triggered a fire at a roadside restaurant in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, leaving five people dead and fifteen injured, police said.
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Parliament re-elects Koizumi Japan's PM
Sep 21 2005 9:23AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's Parliament re-elected Junichiro Koizumi as prime minister on Wednesday following the ruling coalition's landslide electoral victory last week, and he pledged to plow ahead with privatization of the postal service and other reforms.
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Indian ruins show signs of ancient tsunami
Sep 21 2005 9:05AM (CT)
BANGALORE, India (AP) - The ruins of an ancient temple built by a long-vanished kingdom in southern India are being excavated by archaeologists who said Wednesday the Hindu sanctum may have been destroyed centuries ago by a tsunami.
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Philippine security adviser ordered held
Sep 21 2005 7:48AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Philippine senators on Wednesday ordered the national security adviser detained for contempt after he failed to clearly answer questions over a deal he signed for the government with a U.S. lobbying firm.
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Deaths cause bird-flu fear in Indonesia
Sep 21 2005 7:42AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia scrambled to calm public fears of a possible bird flu epidemic on Wednesday after two more children suspected of having the disease died in the capital of Jakarta.
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N. Korean nuclear accord a coup for China
Sep 21 2005 2:43AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's success in orchestrating a landmark six-nation accord on ending North Korea's nuclear program has clinched its role as a major peacemaker in the region _ regardless of the challenges ahead for the deal, analysts say.
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