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Typhoon Damrey slams into southern China
Sep 26 2005 9:05PM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Typhoon Damrey slammed into southern China's resort island of Hainan on Monday, killing at least nine people, collapsing houses and sweeping away rice, rubber and banana crops.
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Hong Kong lawmakers badger Beijing envoy
Sep 26 2005 7:29PM (CT)
GUANGZHOU, China (AP) - Visiting Hong Kong lawmakers badgered a top Chinese official about Beijing's bloody crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, shouted pro-democracy slogans, complained about the pollution and went to church in an officially atheist state.
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Afghan rebels change tactics amid losses
Sep 26 2005 1:03PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Insurgents in Afghanistan are recruiting younger fighters and staging smaller attacks as they suffer losses at the hands of government and U.S.-led troops but are far from being "on the ropes," a U.S. military spokesman said Monday.
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Group calls for licensing Afghan opium
Sep 26 2005 12:08PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan could reduce its destabilizing heroin trade by licensing an opium crop to produce medical morphine for export, a drug policy group said Monday, but the United Nations dismissed the idea as unlikely to work and the government called it premature.
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Powerful earthquake rocks northern Peru
Sep 26 2005 11:58AM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - A powerful earthquake in northern Peru killed at least one person, destroyed about 100 homes and disrupted electricity and telephone service in much of the region, the civil defense chief said Monday.
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Afghan rebels change tactics amid losses
Sep 26 2005 9:44AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Heavy casualties inflicted by U.S.-led coalition forces have forced Afghan rebels to recruit younger fighters and change their tactics, but the insurgency is far from broken, a U.S. military spokesman said Monday.
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Reactor plan haunts N. Korean disarmament
Sep 26 2005 4:01AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - North Korea sees a tantalizing vision of its nuclear future rising from a coastal plain 125 miles from its fortified southern border: two light-water nuclear reactors bestowed upon the reclusive communist state and built by South Korea, Japan, America and Europe.
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