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Suicide bombing in Pakistan kills 15
Sep 30 2007 11:56PM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - A suicide bomber set off a blast that killed at least 15 people Monday at a crowded police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, police said.
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China writer faces subversion charge
Sep 30 2007 11:11PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese dissident writer has been arrested for allegedly subverting state power, a watchdog organization said Monday.
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UN envoy meets Myanmar democracy leader
Sep 30 2007 10:13PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A U.N. envoy was unable to meet with Myanmar's top two junta leaders in his effort to persuade them to ease a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters, but was allowed a highly orchestrated session Sunday with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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UN envoy meets Myanmar democracy leader
Sep 30 2007 10:13PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A U.N. envoy was unable to meet with Myanmar's top two junta leaders in his effort to persuade them to ease a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters, but was allowed a highly orchestrated session Sunday with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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UN envoy meets Myanmar democracy leader
Sep 30 2007 10:13PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A U.N. envoy was unable to meet with Myanmar's top two junta leaders in his effort to persuade them to ease a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters, but was allowed a highly orchestrated session Sunday with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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UN envoy meets Myanmar democracy leader
Sep 30 2007 10:13PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A U.N. envoy was unable to meet with Myanmar's top two junta leaders in his effort to persuade them to ease a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters, but was allowed a highly orchestrated session Sunday with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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'Nazi' bedding provokes outrage in India
Sep 30 2007 6:16PM (CT)
MUMBAI, India (AP) - Leaders of India's Jewish community expressed outrage Sunday over a new line of bedspreads called "The Nazi Collection" from a Mumbai-based home furnishing company that used swastikas in its promotional material.
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7 men arrested in Maldives bomb blast
Sep 30 2007 6:02PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Seven local men have been arrested in a home-made bomb explosion that wounded 12 foreign tourists in the Maldives, an official said Sunday. Some were detained at the airport allegedly trying to flee the country.
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Crackdown hurts Pakistan leader image
Sep 30 2007 1:58PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's crackdown on critics is undercutting his claim as a pro-democracy reformer.
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Crackdown hurts Pakistan leader image
Sep 30 2007 1:58PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's crackdown on critics is undercutting his claim as a pro-democracy reformer.
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Crackdown hurts Pakistan leader image
Sep 30 2007 1:58PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's crackdown on critics is undercutting his claim as a pro-democracy reformer.
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Crackdown hurts Pakistan leader image
Sep 30 2007 1:58PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's crackdown on critics is undercutting his claim as a pro-democracy reformer.
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Crackdown hurts Pakistan leader image
Sep 30 2007 1:58PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's crackdown on critics is undercutting his claim as a pro-democracy reformer.
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NKorea sees summit as message to US
Sep 30 2007 1:14PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - When North Korean leader Kim Jong Il sits face-to-face with his South Korean counterpart this week, the communist dictator may have someone else in the back of his mind, whom he fears and wants to make friends with the most: President Bush.
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NKorea sees summit as message to US
Sep 30 2007 1:14PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - When North Korean leader Kim Jong Il sits face-to-face with his South Korean counterpart this week, the communist dictator may have someone else in the back of his mind, whom he fears and wants to make friends with the most: President Bush.
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NKorea sees summit as message to US
Sep 30 2007 1:14PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - When North Korean leader Kim Jong Il sits face-to-face with his South Korean counterpart this week, the communist dictator may have someone else in the back of his mind, whom he fears and wants to make friends with the most: President Bush.
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Myanmar military unlikely to compromise
Sep 30 2007 1:06PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Hunkered down in their war rooms hundreds of miles from mass protests, the aging, hard-line generals in Myanmar are known as a suspicious lot who view the West with disdain and depend on browbeaten advisers and astrologers to guide them.
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Myanmar military unlikely to compromise
Sep 30 2007 1:06PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Hunkered down in their war rooms hundreds of miles from mass protests, the aging, hard-line generals in Myanmar are known as a suspicious lot who view the West with disdain and depend on browbeaten advisers and astrologers to guide them.
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Myanmar military unlikely to compromise
Sep 30 2007 1:06PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Hunkered down in their war rooms hundreds of miles from mass protests, the aging, hard-line generals in Myanmar are known as a suspicious lot who view the West with disdain and depend on browbeaten advisers and astrologers to guide them.
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Myanmar military unlikely to compromise
Sep 30 2007 1:06PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Hunkered down in their war rooms hundreds of miles from mass protests, the aging, hard-line generals in Myanmar are known as a suspicious lot who view the West with disdain and depend on browbeaten advisers and astrologers to guide them.
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Myanmar military unlikely to compromise
Sep 30 2007 1:06PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Hunkered down in their war rooms hundreds of miles from mass protests, the aging, hard-line generals in Myanmar are known as a suspicious lot who view the West with disdain and depend on browbeaten advisers and astrologers to guide them.
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Taliban debating peace, Karzai says
Sep 30 2007 11:09AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai's office said Sunday that there is "serious debate" among some Taliban fighters about laying down arms, while a spokesman for the militants said they will "never" negotiate with Afghan authorities until foreign troops leave.
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Taliban debating peace, Karzai says
Sep 30 2007 11:09AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai's office said Sunday that there is "serious debate" among some Taliban fighters about laying down arms, while a spokesman for the militants said they will "never" negotiate with Afghan authorities until foreign troops leave.
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Taliban debating peace, Karzai says
Sep 30 2007 11:09AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai's office said Sunday that there is "serious debate" among some Taliban fighters about laying down arms, while a spokesman for the militants said they will "never" negotiate with Afghan authorities until foreign troops leave.
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Taiwan party asserts separate identity
Sep 30 2007 11:05AM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan's ruling party passed a resolution Sunday asserting the island's separate identity and calling for a referendum on its sovereignty, but failed to put any real force behind it, apparently out of fear of provoking rival China.
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Taiwan party asserts separate identity
Sep 30 2007 11:05AM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan's ruling party passed a resolution Sunday asserting the island's separate identity and calling for a referendum on its sovereignty, but failed to put any real force behind it, apparently out of fear of provoking rival China.
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North Korean nuclear talks reach deal
Sep 30 2007 9:31AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Negotiators at North Korea's disarmament talks tentatively agreed to a draft plan Sunday on disabling the country's nuclear facilities by year's end, though they said the detailed blueprint required further consideration by their governments.
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North Korean nuclear talks reach deal
Sep 30 2007 9:31AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Negotiators at North Korea's disarmament talks tentatively agreed to a draft plan Sunday on disabling the country's nuclear facilities by year's end, though they said the detailed blueprint required further consideration by their governments.
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China bans bra, underwear, sex toy ads
Sep 30 2007 7:33AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China has banned television and radio ads for push-up bras, figure-enhancing underwear and sex toys in the communist government's latest move to purge the nation's airwaves of what it calls social pollution.
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China probing claims of steroid enabling
Sep 30 2007 4:21AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China says it is investigating charges that makers of illegal steroids in the United States obtained raw ingredients from Chinese factories, state media said.
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Japan's Minamata Disease still lingers
Sep 30 2007 2:43AM (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 30 2007 2:43AM (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 30 2007 2:43AM (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 30 2007 2:43AM (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 30 2007 2:43AM (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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Quakes rattle Auckland Islands, Guam
Sep 30 2007 2:27AM (CT)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 occurred near the Auckland Islands, uninhabited territory belonging to New Zealand, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Sunday.
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Magnitude 6.8 quake occurs near Guam
Sep 30 2007 1:11AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A strong earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean and was felt in Guam on Sunday morning, officials and various agencies said. No injuries, damage or tsunamis were immediately reported.
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Storied Indian tea industry ailing
Sep 30 2007 1:08AM (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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Storied Indian tea industry ailing
Sep 30 2007 1:08AM (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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Storied Indian tea industry ailing
Sep 30 2007 1:08AM (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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