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New Japan leader maps out robust policy
Sep 28 2006 11:20PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Newly elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday pledged to start debate on revising Japan's pacifist constitution, study a collective defense system with the United States and reverse the country's fiscal troubles.
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Singapore bans economic magazine
Sep 28 2006 10:57PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - Singapore has banned the Far Eastern Economic Review magazine after it failed to comply with media regulations, the government said.
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Deaths from typhoon in Philippines rises
Sep 28 2006 10:37PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The death toll from a powerful typhoon that cut across the northern Philippines rose to at least 28 with dozens of people missing in floods and landslides as schools and offices in Manila remained closed for a second day Friday.
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Thailand names interim prime minister
Sep 28 2006 10:00PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Surayud Chulanont, a former army commander and a close adviser to Thailand's powerful monarch, has been chosen as the country's interim prime minister, the auditor general said Thursday night.
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Indonesia's mud volcano wreaking havoc
Sep 28 2006 6:58PM (CT)
PORONG, Indonesia (AP) - Factories that once produced watches and shoes lie under a sea of thick, stinking mud. Villagers stand on hastily constructed dams and gaze at the thousands of homes swallowed by brown sludge.
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U.S. unit focuses on Afghan construction
Sep 28 2006 6:54PM (CT)
GAYAN, Afghanistan (AP) - The Black Hawk helicopter carrying a top U.S. general swooped down into the jagged mountains along the Pakistani frontier and into the heart of the U.S. military's latest offensive in Afghanistan.
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South Korean favored for Annan's post
Sep 28 2006 6:47PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - South Korea's foreign minister kept his spot as the favorite in the race to succeed U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in an informal poll Thursday, the only one among the seven candidates to get the needed majority of votes.
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Foreign command to direct U.S. troops
Sep 28 2006 5:01PM (CT)
PORTOROZ, Slovenia (AP) - A plan approved Thursday to extend NATO's military control across all of Afghanistan would put as many as 12,000 American troops under foreign battlefield command, a number that U.S. officials said could be the most since World War II.
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South Korean favored for Annan's post
Sep 28 2006 4:48PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - South Korea's foreign minister was the only candidate for U.N. secretary-general to receive the required majority of votes from the U.N. Security Council in an informal ballot conducted Thursday, diplomats said.
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Bangladeshis riot after power outages
Sep 28 2006 12:53PM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas Thursday at demonstrators violently protesting two days of near-constant power outages in Bangladesh's capital, witnesses said.
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U.N. front-runner denies label as 'weak'
Sep 28 2006 8:57AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The South Korean front-runner to replace Kofi Annan as U.N. secretary-general rejected criticism that he is too weak for the job, insisting he has the "inner strength" needed to lead the world body.
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Monitors list civilian toll in Sri Lanka
Sep 28 2006 7:32AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - At least 200 civilians have been killed in two months of fighting between Sri Lankan soldiers and separatist Tamil rebels, and both sides are to blame, European cease-fire monitors said Thursday.
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U.S. activates missile radar in Japan
Sep 28 2006 6:46AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The U.S. military has activated a high-powered radar outpost in northern Japan that will enable it to track ballistic missiles in the region amid concerns about North Korea.
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N.Korea receives nuclear talk proposal
Sep 28 2006 6:12AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said Thursday that his country has informed North Korea of a South Korea-U.S. joint approach aimed at jump-starting the stalled talks on the North's nuclear weapons program, but that Pyongyang hasn't yet given a response.
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