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North Korea planning nuclear test
Oct 3 2006 11:18PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea triggered global alarm on Tuesday by saying it will conduct a nuclear test, a key step in the manufacture of atomic bombs that it views as a deterrent against any U.S. attack. But the North also said it was committed to nuclear disarmament, suggesting a willingness to negotiate.
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China appeals to N. Korea to `keep calm'
Oct 3 2006 11:16PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China appealed to North Korea on Wednesday to stay calm and show restraint in its plan for a nuclear test, in Beijing's first comment since its ally's announcement of the plan.
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Vietnam death toll from typhoon up to 59
Oct 3 2006 10:26PM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Vietnam's death toll from Typhoon Xangsane has risen to 59 as floods triggered by heavy rains submerged tens of thousands of homes, disaster officials said Wednesday.
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Rice: Nuclear test a 'provocative act'
Oct 3 2006 7:57PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday a North Korean nuclear test would be "a very provocative act," and she prodded Asian nations to rethink their relationships with the North Koreans.
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2 U.S. soldiers die in Afghan gunbattles
Oct 3 2006 6:19PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Gunbattles in Afghanistan left two U.S. troops and at least one NATO soldier dead, officials said Tuesday, as the Western alliance prepared to assume military command over the country from the U.S.-led coalition.
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Ousted Thai prime minister quits party
Oct 3 2006 5:13PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's deposed premier resigned from his once all-powerful party in a letter faxed from London Tuesday after more than 200 colleagues quit the organization in the wake of a military coup.
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Ban vows to reform U.N. if given top job
Oct 3 2006 4:10PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's foreign minister, the clear favorite to become the next U.N. secretary-general, vowed Tuesday to pursue crucial reforms of the world body if elected and to seek a peaceful resolution to North Korea's nuclear standoff.
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North Korea to conduct nuclear test
Oct 3 2006 1:04PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea triggered global alarm on Tuesday by saying it will conduct a nuclear test, a key step in the manufacture of atomic bombs that it views as a deterrent against any U.S. attack. But the North also said it was committed to nuclear disarmament, suggesting a willingness to negotiate.
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NATO soldier is killed in Afghanistan
Oct 3 2006 12:57PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Insurgents attacked a NATO patrol in southern Afghanistan Tuesday, and the alliance said one soldier was killed and another was presumed dead.
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Tamil Tigers OK talks with Sri Lanka
Oct 3 2006 9:19AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels agreed Tuesday to unconditional talks with the government but warned they will pull out of a 2002 cease-fire if the government persists with its military campaign, a spokesman for the insurgents said.
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Afghan bomber targets NATO convoy
Oct 3 2006 5:44AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber attacked a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a police officer at the scene said. There was no immediate word on casualties.
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Foreign scholars protest China policies
Oct 3 2006 4:24AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - More than 50 leading scholars and rights campaigners from the United States, Europe, and Australia have issued a rare public protest of Chinese policies, sending an open letter to President Hu Jintao asking him to stop the harassment of human rights activists.
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Abe: War not aim for revised constitution
Oct 3 2006 3:24AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's new prime minister denied on Tuesday that he wants to change the country's pacifist constitution to permit its military to wage war overseas.
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Plane skids into swamp land in Indonesia
Oct 3 2006 1:35AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A domestic passenger jet skidded off the runway into swampland on landing Tuesday at an airport in central Indonesia, an airport employee said. There were no reports of deaths or major injuries.
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2 U.S. troops killed in Afghan fighting
Oct 3 2006 12:07AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Two U.S. and one Afghan soldiers were killed in fighting in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
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