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S. Korea to continue food aid to N. Korea
Sep 29 2005 2:57PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea will keep sending food aid to the rival North despite the communist regime's demand that international donors halt emergency food shipments and provide development aid instead, an official said Thursday.
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General: Indonesians in on Thai insurgency
Sep 29 2005 1:22PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A security adviser to the prime minister said Thursday that Indonesian fighters are involved in Thailand's Muslim insurgency, contradicting government insistence the bloody separatist movement is a homegrown affair unconnected to Southeast Asia's al-Qaida-linked terror network.
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38 bodies recovered after Vietnam typhoon
Sep 29 2005 1:19PM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Disaster relief officials said Thursday they have recovered at least 38 bodies from flash flooding and landslides spawned by Typhoon Damrey, and the death toll is expected to rise as the search goes on in northern Vietnam.
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Indian center handles Hurricane Rita calls
Sep 29 2005 1:12PM (CT)
GANDHINAGAR, India (AP) - Until last week, Madhavi Patel came to work each evening at a western India call center, put on her headset and American accent and spent the night taking calls from Americans about their credit cards. Then, Hurricane Rita happened.
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American appeals Hong Kong conviction
Sep 29 2005 12:34PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - An American found guilty of murdering her investment banker husband after a sensational trial that featured lurid testimony about drugs, wealth and sexual abuse has filed an appeal, an attorney said Thursday.
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Indians protest airport privatization
Sep 29 2005 12:31PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Thousands of airport workers backed by civil servants and state-run bank and insurance company employees held a one-day nationwide strike Thursday to protest government privatization plans they fear will affect their jobs.
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Pakistan says arrest prevented new attacks
Sep 29 2005 11:32AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani security officials said Thursday they have foiled new terrorist attacks with the arrest of the reputed head of an al-Qaida-linked extremist group accused of killing scores of minority Shiite Muslims.
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Suit over Koizumi's shrine visit rejected
Sep 29 2005 10:52AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The Tokyo High Court on Thursday rejected a suit against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's 2001 visit to a war shrine that was criticized in Asia for glorifying Japan's past militarism.
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$10M of Imelda Marcos' stuff may be sold
Sep 29 2005 8:43AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The Philippine government is considering auctioning off former first lady Imelda Marcos' vast collection of shoes and gowns, an official said Thursday.
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Chinese vice premier to visit North Korea
Sep 29 2005 5:03AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi will visit North Korea next week amid an ongoing international push to convince the reclusive regime to give up nuclear weapons development, Chinese officials said.
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Algerians vote on peace plan
Sep 29 2005 4:48AM (CT)
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Algerians voted Thursday on a peace plan the government says will help turn the page on a brutal Islamic insurgency that left an estimated 120,000 dead. Critics, however, say the plan will whitewash past crimes.
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Indonesians protest fuel price increases
Sep 29 2005 4:42AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Thousands of students, truck drivers and laborers rallied across Indonesia on Thursday to protest impending fuel price hikes, some blocking roads with burning tires and throwing stones outside a house belonging to the vice president.
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Experts examine body of Afghan bomber
Sep 29 2005 4:03AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Experts are trying to identify the body of a man who launched a suicide attack outside a military training center in Kabul, killing nine people and wounding 36, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.
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Pakistan backs nuke free Korean Peninsula
Sep 29 2005 12:32AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Pakistan's prime minister said Thursday his country supports a nuclear weapons-free Korean Peninsula and has shared what little information it had about North Korea's nuclear program with South Korea.
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