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Musharraf's comments rattle Pakistanis
Sep 22 2006 10:01PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A report that the United States purportedly threatened military action against Pakistan shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks drew a sharp response and some protest in Pakistan Friday.
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Thailand, ASEAN still backing Surakiart
Sep 22 2006 9:39PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Southeast Asia will not drop its support of Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai as the next U.N. secretary-general despite the military coup in his country, officials said Friday.
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Protesters: Thailand coup undemocratic
Sep 22 2006 2:27PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's new military rulers got their first taste of popular dissent Friday when about 100 protesters defied a ban on public gatherings to denounce the army's coup this week as undemocratic.
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Executions spark violence in Indonesia
Sep 22 2006 1:49PM (CT)
PALU, Indonesia (AP) - Christians angered by Friday's executions of three Roman Catholic militants in the world's most populous Muslim country torched cars and government buildings, looted shops and attacked a jail, freeing hundreds of inmates.
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Militants kill 19 workers in Afghanistan
Sep 22 2006 1:41PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Militants ambushed a bus carrying construction workers in the country's volatile south Friday, killing 19 of the laborers, while Afghan and NATO forces said they killed 35 Taliban militants in two separate firefights.
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Protesters gather to denounce Thai coup
Sep 22 2006 10:31AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - More than 100 protesters Friday defied a ban on public gatherings and denounced the military overthrow of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, in the first anti-coup rally since he was deposed three days ago.
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