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Japan's ruling party choosing new leader
Sep 22 2007 11:50PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's year in office has been a disaster for the ruling party: Scandals sapped voter faith in the government and the opposition won elections for the parliament's upper house, while unattended economic and social problems festered.
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Japan's ruling party choosing new leader
Sep 22 2007 11:50PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's year in office has been a disaster for the ruling party: Scandals sapped voter faith in the government and the opposition won elections for the parliament's upper house, while unattended economic and social problems festered.
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Japan's ruling party choosing new leader
Sep 22 2007 11:50PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's year in office has been a disaster for the ruling party: Scandals sapped voter faith in the government and the opposition won elections for the parliament's upper house, while unattended economic and social problems festered.
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Australian follows path of Khan on horse
Sep 22 2007 4:37PM (CT)
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - He scared off wolves with firecrackers in Mongolia and rescued his dog from hungry miners in Kazakhstan. But after three years on horseback, Tim Cope has retraced the route of Genghis Khan and other Asian nomads who crossed into Europe over the centuries.
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Australian follows path of Khan on horse
Sep 22 2007 4:37PM (CT)
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - He scared off wolves with firecrackers in Mongolia and rescued his dog from hungry miners in Kazakhstan. But after three years on horseback, Tim Cope has retraced the route of Genghis Khan and other Asian nomads who crossed into Europe over the centuries.
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Australian follows path of Khan on horse
Sep 22 2007 4:37PM (CT)
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - He scared off wolves with firecrackers in Mongolia and rescued his dog from hungry miners in Kazakhstan. But after three years on horseback, Tim Cope has retraced the route of Genghis Khan and other Asian nomads who crossed into Europe over the centuries.
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Australian follows path of Khan on horse
Sep 22 2007 4:37PM (CT)
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - He scared off wolves with firecrackers in Mongolia and rescued his dog from hungry miners in Kazakhstan. But after three years on horseback, Tim Cope has retraced the route of Genghis Khan and other Asian nomads who crossed into Europe over the centuries.
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Australian follows path of Khan on horse
Sep 22 2007 4:37PM (CT)
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - He scared off wolves with firecrackers in Mongolia and rescued his dog from hungry miners in Kazakhstan. But after three years on horseback, Tim Cope has retraced the route of Genghis Khan and other Asian nomads who crossed into Europe over the centuries.
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Pakistani opposition leaders arrested
Sep 22 2007 4:04PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Police swept the Pakistani capital on Saturday to arrest the leaders of opposition parties vowing to obstruct President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's re-election bid, officials said.
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Pakistani opposition leaders arrested
Sep 22 2007 4:04PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Police swept the Pakistani capital on Saturday to arrest the leaders of opposition parties vowing to obstruct President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's re-election bid, officials said.
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Pakistani opposition leaders arrested
Sep 22 2007 4:04PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Police swept the Pakistani capital on Saturday to arrest the leaders of opposition parties vowing to obstruct President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's re-election bid, officials said.
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Monks meet with Myanmar's Suu Kyi
Sep 22 2007 3:01PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Hundreds of demonstrating Buddhist monks marched past barricades to the home of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, raising pressure on the junta by symbolically uniting their growing protest movement with the icon of Myanmar's long struggle for democracy.
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Monks meet with Myanmar's Suu Kyi
Sep 22 2007 3:01PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Hundreds of demonstrating Buddhist monks marched past barricades to the home of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, raising pressure on the junta by symbolically uniting their growing protest movement with the icon of Myanmar's long struggle for democracy.
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Monks meet with Myanmar's Suu Kyi
Sep 22 2007 3:01PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Hundreds of demonstrating Buddhist monks marched past barricades to the home of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, raising pressure on the junta by symbolically uniting their growing protest movement with the icon of Myanmar's long struggle for democracy.
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Monks meet with Myanmar's Suu Kyi
Sep 22 2007 3:01PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Hundreds of demonstrating Buddhist monks marched past barricades to the home of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, raising pressure on the junta by symbolically uniting their growing protest movement with the icon of Myanmar's long struggle for democracy.
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NATO sees hope for Afghan peace talks
Sep 22 2007 2:10PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Six years after the fall of the Taliban, the fighting in Afghanistan is growing more intense _ but so is talk of peace.
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N.Korea's Kim meets Syrian delegation
Sep 22 2007 6:04AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea's No. 2 leader met with a Syrian delegation in Pyongyang on Saturday, the North's media reported, amid suspicions of a secret nuclear connection between the two countries.
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UN vaccinates polio in S. Afghanistan
Sep 22 2007 5:52AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan elders have given safe passage to thousands of volunteer vaccinators immunizing children against polio in Afghanistan's violent south, a region health workers haven't worked in for months, UNICEF said Saturday.
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Pakistan toxic liquor deaths jump to 40
Sep 22 2007 1:37AM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Another 13 people have died after drinking toxic liquor, taking the death toll from bad booze to 40, Pakistan police said Saturday.
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Taiwan's ruling party chairman resigns
Sep 22 2007 12:56AM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - The chairman of Taiwan's ruling party resigned Saturday after prosecutors indicted him on graft charges, while the island's vice president, facing similar charges, said she would fight the allegations.
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Taiwan's ruling party chairman resigns
Sep 22 2007 12:56AM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - The chairman of Taiwan's ruling party resigned Saturday after prosecutors indicted him on graft charges, while the island's vice president, facing similar charges, said she would fight the allegations.
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