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Japan extends Afghan coalition support
Oct 5 2006 9:14PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved a one-year extension of the law that allows the country's support of coalition forces in Afghanistan, the government's top spokesman said.
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North Korea urged to cancel nuclear test
Oct 5 2006 8:32PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Security Council experts reached agreement late Thursday on a statement urging North Korea to cancel its planned nuclear test and return immediately to talks on scrapping its nuclear weapons program, but the text needs final approval from council members.
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2 candidates exit race for top U.N. post
Oct 5 2006 6:54PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Latvian and Thai candidates dropped out of the race to become the next U.N. chief on Thursday, leaving South Korea's foreign minister as the lone remaining contender and near-certain successor to Kofi Annan.
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NATO takes control of Afghan security
Oct 5 2006 2:31PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - NATO extended its security mission Thursday to all of Afghanistan nearly five years after the West began its war to defeat the Taliban, taking command of 12,000 U.S. troops in the war-battered country's east.
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Thai army, Muslim rebels to hold talks
Oct 5 2006 2:14PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The military has agreed to hold talks with Muslim rebels involved in a bloody insurgency in southern Thailand, the powerful army chief said Thursday, reversing a policy of the elected government deposed in a coup last month.
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Mongolia may regulate Genghis Khan name
Oct 5 2006 2:12PM (CT)
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia (AP) - Mongolia's legislature on Thursday began debating a law on regulating the use of Genghis Khan's name in a bid to prevent the memory of the legendary conqueror from being cheapened.
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1937 invasion hinders China-Japan ties
Oct 5 2006 2:04PM (CT)
NANJING, China (AP) - In his furniture shop across the road from a war memorial, in a city where the bad memories are kept alive and raw, Shen Tao doesn't mince words.
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Slow reconstruction hampers Pakistan
Oct 5 2006 1:13PM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - After a huge earthquake struck Pakistan and India a year ago, one of the biggest fears was for the more than 3 million newly homeless facing the onset of the Himalayan winter.
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Sri Lanka suggests date for rebel talks
Oct 5 2006 11:32AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - The Sri Lankan government said Thursday it was willing to attend talks with Tamil Tiger rebels at the end of the month, while a bombing blamed on rebels killed a soldier, and the air force raided areas in the north and east.
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S. Korea, Russia try to stop N. Korea
Oct 5 2006 9:35AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The president of South Korea reportedly ordered his government to send a "grave warning" to North Korea about the consequences of a nuclear test, and Russia said it was trying to dissuade Pyongyang from conducting it.
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Thai U.N. candidate dropping bid for job
Oct 5 2006 6:18AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's new interim prime minister said Thursday that the country's candidate for secretary-general of the United Nations is dropping his bid for the job.
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Child amputees in Pakistan carry scars
Oct 5 2006 4:40AM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Ten-year-old Saima Khursheed sobbed in a dusty office full of prosthetic limbs, upset about needing a plastic replacement for her leg.
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Japan, Iran discussing oil field project
Oct 5 2006 4:34AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A senior Japanese trade official said Thursday that Japanese and Iranian oil companies were still in discussions over a $2 billion project to develop Iran's Azadegan oil field.
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Militia abducting hundreds in Sri Lanka
Oct 5 2006 4:33AM (CT)
BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka (AP) - A feared militia on Sri Lanka's volatile eastern coast has abducted hundreds of men and boys _ some as young as 12 _ to fight in the country's civil war, with the government's consent, relatives and aid workers said.
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Thai coup leader to hold talks with rebels
Oct 5 2006 4:30AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The Thai army chief who staged last month's coup said Thursday that he has agreed to hold talks with rebel leaders in the restive south, an abrupt policy change from the administration of the ousted prime minister.
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