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Indonesians protest looming fuel cost hike
Sep 28 2005 10:30PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Workers and truck drivers at Jakarta's main commercial port rallied Thursday against looming fuel price hikes as security forces elsewhere in the capital prepared for a day of demonstrations against the increases.
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Nine Afghan soldiers killed in bombing
Sep 28 2005 9:37PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide attacker on a motorbike detonated a bomb Wednesday outside an Afghan military training center in Kabul, killing nine soldiers and wounding 28 other people, the Defense Ministry said.
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Kelly commands U.S. Naval Forces in Japan
Sep 28 2005 9:21PM (CT)
ABOARD THE USS KITTY HAWK (AP) - With a 17-gun salute, Rear Adm. James D. Kelly assumed command of the U.S. Naval Forces in Japan on Thursday, replacing Rear Adm. Frederic Ruehe.
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U.N. probes Myanmar political prisoners
Sep 28 2005 8:48PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Myanmar's military junta is holding more than 1,100 political prisoners and allegedly uses torture on a routine basis and continues to harass pro-democracy activists, a U.N. human rights investigator said Wednesday.
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'Endless' gripes expected in Afghan vote
Sep 28 2005 5:31PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The chief electoral officer in Afghanistan's election last week said Wednesday he expects "an endless stream" of complaints from losing candidates, and he urged them to respect the results.
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Head of al-Qaida-linked group arrested
Sep 28 2005 2:17PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani security agents raided a home near the capital of Islamabad and arrested the head of an al-Qaida-linked militant group accused of killing hundreds of minority Shiites, a security official said Wednesday.
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Afghan: Rid gov't of those with drug ties
Sep 28 2005 11:07AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's government must be purged of officials involved in the drug trafficking that accounts for a huge chunk of the war-shattered nation's economy, the outgoing interior minister said Wednesday.
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China warns against U.S.-Taiwan arms deal
Sep 28 2005 11:05AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A planned American weapons sale to Taiwan will damage relations between Washington and Beijing, a Chinese official said, ahead of next month's visit to China by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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Iran angry at India's vote for U.N. action
Sep 28 2005 8:54AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Iran expressed disappointment at India's support for the U.N. atomic agency's putting Tehran on notice over its nuclear program, officials said Wednesday, amid reports that a lucrative natural gas deal between the two countries could be in doubt.
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China releases Protestant church activist
Sep 28 2005 8:08AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - A prominent activist in China's underground Protestant church has been released from a labor camp after serving a two-year sentence, a U.S.-based monitoring group reported Wednesday.
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Kidnap suspect arrested in Afghanistan
Sep 28 2005 4:50AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan authorities have arrested a man suspected in the kidnapping of Italian aid worker Clementina Cantoni, who was freed after three weeks in captivity earlier this year, the interior minister said Wednesday.
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Volunteers burying tsunami victims
Sep 28 2005 3:20AM (CT)
LEUPUNG, Indonesia (AP) - Every morning Yahya leaves home with a hoe in hand. But he is not tending his coffee crops as he did before the tsunami slammed into Aceh's coastlines, killing 131,000 people: He is digging for bodies.
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Pakistani president seeks U.S. help
Sep 28 2005 1:31AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's president has asked Washington for help resolving his country's longstanding territorial dispute with India over the Kashmir region.
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