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Hope wanes among protesters in Myanmar
Sep 29 2007 11:40PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Die-hard protesters waved the peacock flag of the crushed pro-democracy movement on a solitary march Saturday through the eerily quiet streets of Myanmar's largest city, where many dissidents said they were resigned to defeat without international intervention.
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Hope wanes among protesters in Myanmar
Sep 29 2007 11:40PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Die-hard protesters waved the peacock flag of the crushed pro-democracy movement on a solitary march Saturday through the eerily quiet streets of Myanmar's largest city, where many dissidents said they were resigned to defeat without international intervention.
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Hope wanes among protesters in Myanmar
Sep 29 2007 11:40PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Die-hard protesters waved the peacock flag of the crushed pro-democracy movement on a solitary march Saturday through the eerily quiet streets of Myanmar's largest city, where many dissidents said they were resigned to defeat without international intervention.
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Magnitude 7.1 quake occurs near Guam
Sep 29 2007 11:31PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A powerful earthquake with preliminary magnitude of 7.1 occurred in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
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Talks push for NKorea deal
Sep 29 2007 10:13PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A top U.S. diplomat said Sunday he was optimistic about reaching an agreement on specific steps to shut down North Korea's nuclear programs.
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100,000 protest over Japan textbook
Sep 29 2007 9:31PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - More than 100,000 people protested Saturday in southern Japan against the central government's order to modify school textbooks which say the country's army forced civilians to commit mass suicide at the end of World War II.
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60 injured in 'Indian Idol' protests
Sep 29 2007 8:22PM (CT)
CALCUTTA, India (AP) - An angry mob set dozens of vehicles ablaze in riots after a radio host made derogatory comments about the winner of the popular television show "Indian Idol," officials said Saturday. More than 60 people were injured.
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Karzai offers to meet Taliban leader
Sep 29 2007 4:20PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai on Saturday offered to meet with the Taliban leader and give militants a government position only hours after a suicide bomber in army disguise attacked a military bus, killing 30 people _ nearly all of them Afghan soldiers.
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Karzai offers to meet Taliban leader
Sep 29 2007 4:20PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai on Saturday offered to meet with the Taliban leader and give militants a government position only hours after a suicide bomber in army disguise attacked a military bus, killing 30 people _ nearly all of them Afghan soldiers.
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Karzai offers to meet Taliban leader
Sep 29 2007 4:20PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai on Saturday offered to meet with the Taliban leader and give militants a government position only hours after a suicide bomber in army disguise attacked a military bus, killing 30 people _ nearly all of them Afghan soldiers.
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Karzai offers to meet Taliban leader
Sep 29 2007 4:20PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai on Saturday offered to meet with the Taliban leader and give militants a government position only hours after a suicide bomber in army disguise attacked a military bus, killing 30 people _ nearly all of them Afghan soldiers.
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Pakistan cracks down on protesters
Sep 29 2007 3:52PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Police used tear gas and batons to disperse lawyers protesting Saturday against legal rulings clearing the way for President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to run for another five-year term.
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Maldives bomb wounds 12 foreign tourists
Sep 29 2007 11:32AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A homemade bomb exploded Saturday outside a crowded city park in the Maldives, wounding at least 12 people, all of them foreign tourists, a government official said.
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Japan's Minamata Disease still lingers
Sep 29 2007 11:21AM (CT)
SHIRANUI SEA, Japan (AP) - The dawn is still only a faint glow beyond distant mountains, but fisherman Akinori Mori and his wife, Itsuko, are already hard at work on their boat, reeling in nets of squid, fish and crabs.
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Japan's Minamata Disease still lingers
Sep 29 2007 11:21AM (CT)
SHIRANUI SEA, Japan (AP) - The dawn is still only a faint glow beyond distant mountains, but fisherman Akinori Mori and his wife, Itsuko, are already hard at work on their boat, reeling in nets of squid, fish and crabs.
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Japan's Minamata Disease still lingers
Sep 29 2007 11:21AM (CT)
SHIRANUI SEA, Japan (AP) - The dawn is still only a faint glow beyond distant mountains, but fisherman Akinori Mori and his wife, Itsuko, are already hard at work on their boat, reeling in nets of squid, fish and crabs.
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Japan's Minamata Disease still lingers
Sep 29 2007 11:21AM (CT)
SHIRANUI SEA, Japan (AP) - The dawn is still only a faint glow beyond distant mountains, but fisherman Akinori Mori and his wife, Itsuko, are already hard at work on their boat, reeling in nets of squid, fish and crabs.
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Japan's Minamata Disease still lingers
Sep 29 2007 11:21AM (CT)
SHIRANUI SEA, Japan (AP) - The dawn is still only a faint glow beyond distant mountains, but fisherman Akinori Mori and his wife, Itsuko, are already hard at work on their boat, reeling in nets of squid, fish and crabs.
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Myanmar's economic decline fuels unrest
Sep 29 2007 10:48AM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myint Myint makes little more than a dollar a day as a construction worker. When the ruling junta doubled fuel prices last month in one of the world's poorest countries, she and her children fell further into poverty.
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A storied industry falls on hard times
Sep 29 2007 9:49AM (CT)
DIBRUGAR, India (AP) - He's a genteel man, with a sprawling plantation house, courtly manners and an estate of carefully trimmed tea bushes that stretches across the gentle hills of Assam, blanketing the land as far as you can see.
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4 Red Cross hostages free in Afghanistan
Sep 29 2007 7:48AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Four Red Cross employees who had been kidnapped earlier this week were freed in good health Saturday, Afghan officials said.
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US official notes China's military gains
Sep 29 2007 7:05AM (CT)
KADENA AIR BASE, Japan (AP) - While the U.S. has been tied up in Iraq, China is modernizing its military and its air defenses are now nearly impenetrable to all but the newest of American fighters, the senior U.S. military official in Japan said.
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China abandons search for bodies in mine
Sep 29 2007 5:46AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Officials have abandoned efforts to retrieve the bodies of 172 coal miners from a flooded mine in eastern China, family members said Saturday, deepening their anger at what they see as callous treatment by the government and mining company.
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Taiwan develops missile targeting China
Sep 29 2007 3:10AM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan's program to develop missiles capable of hitting Chinese cities could be hampered because of U.S. objections, an analyst said on Saturday.
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1 climber dies, 100 stranded in India
Sep 29 2007 1:32AM (CT)
LUCKNOW, India (AP) - At least one mountain climber has died and more than 100 people, including several from Russia, Australia and Germany, were stranded in northern India's Himalayas after heavy snowfall, an official said Saturday.
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