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Wildlife Fund chooper missing in Nepal
Sep 23 2006 10:21PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - A helicopter chartered by conservation group World Wildlife Fund with 24 people aboard including an American aid worker, a Finnish diplomat and a Nepalese minister went missing Saturday in Nepal's mountainous east, officials said.
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Indonesian defends Christian executions
Sep 23 2006 5:58PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Indonesia's foreign minister said Saturday that the execution a day earlier of three Roman Catholic militants for bloody attacks on Muslims six years ago was a matter of justice not religion.
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Ex-Thai leader won support via handouts
Sep 23 2006 3:57PM (CT)
AT SAMAT, Thailand (AP) - After a meeting with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra early this year, Yao Chongthep got a government-built house and raised her earnings tenfold by starting an organic mushroom business with a government loan.
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Muslim families flee homes in Sri Lanka
Sep 23 2006 2:43PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Hundreds of Muslim families are fleeing their homes in eastern Sri Lanka amid fears of a Tamil Tiger rebel assault to reclaim territory taken by government forces in recent fighting, a local government leader said Saturday.
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U.S. expert: N.Korea to remove fuel rods
Sep 23 2006 1:14PM (CT)
BEIJING, (AP) - North Korea is planning to remove fuel rods at a nuclear reactor within the next three months in what would be a significant boost to its nuclear weapons capability, an American expert said Saturday.
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Corruption, fraud haunt tsunami efforts
Sep 23 2006 11:13AM (CT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - Oxfam International's staff in Indonesia's Aceh province knew something was amiss last March when they started seeing inflated bills for construction supplies.
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Coup reporting irks Thai military rulers
Sep 23 2006 11:06AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's new military rulers complained Saturday about what they consider inaccurate foreign news reports on the coup that ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Agencies under fire for tsunami failures
Sep 23 2006 10:57AM (CT)
KAMPUNG JAWA, Indonesia (AP) - The tsunami of 2004 triggered the biggest humanitarian response in history, feeding the hungry, heading off epidemics and engendering the hope that out of a calamity that took 216,000 lives, a better Indian Ocean rim would emerge.
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Expert: N.Korea to unload fuel rods soon
Sep 23 2006 4:07AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - North Korea is planning to unload fuel rods at its Yongbyon reactor within the next three months in what would be a significant boost to its nuclear weapons capability, an American scholar said Saturday.
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