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Afghanistan: Bomber targets US troops
Oct 5 2007 11:54PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide car bomber attacked an American military convoy Saturday on Kabul's most dangerous road, killing at least one civilian and wounding seven others, an Afghan official said.
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UN urges Myanmar to start democracy push
Oct 5 2007 11:05PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The chief U.N. envoy to Myanmar urged the country's military rulers on Friday to strive toward democracy and quickly start talks with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The U.S. warned it will press for sanctions if the junta does not act.
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Myanmar seeks alleged monk 'ringleaders'
Oct 5 2007 10:59PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's junta said Friday that hundreds of Buddhist monks were detained during its crackdown on pro-democracy activists and that it was hunting for four more clerics it described as ringleaders of the uprising.
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Myanmar seeks alleged monk 'ringleaders'
Oct 5 2007 10:59PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's junta said Friday that hundreds of Buddhist monks were detained during its crackdown on pro-democracy activists and that it was hunting for four more clerics it described as ringleaders of the uprising.
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Myanmar seeks alleged monk 'ringleaders'
Oct 5 2007 10:59PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's junta said Friday that hundreds of Buddhist monks were detained during its crackdown on pro-democracy activists and that it was hunting for four more clerics it described as ringleaders of the uprising.
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Myanmar seeks alleged monk 'ringleaders'
Oct 5 2007 10:59PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's junta said Friday that hundreds of Buddhist monks were detained during its crackdown on pro-democracy activists and that it was hunting for four more clerics it described as ringleaders of the uprising.
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Pakistan court muddies election waters
Oct 5 2007 10:59PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan can go ahead with its presidential election, but the winner can't be declared _ at least not for a while, the country's Supreme Court said Friday.
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Pakistan court muddies election waters
Oct 5 2007 10:59PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan can go ahead with its presidential election, but the winner can't be declared _ at least not for a while, the country's Supreme Court said Friday.
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Pakistan court muddies election waters
Oct 5 2007 10:59PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan can go ahead with its presidential election, but the winner can't be declared _ at least not for a while, the country's Supreme Court said Friday.
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Pakistan court muddies election waters
Oct 5 2007 10:59PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan can go ahead with its presidential election, but the winner can't be declared _ at least not for a while, the country's Supreme Court said Friday.
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Flooding from Vietnam typhoon kills 23
Oct 5 2007 10:31PM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Floods and landslides triggered by a typhoon that struck Vietnam's central coast earlier this week have claimed 23 lives and left nine others missing, disaster officials said Saturday.
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Flooding from Vietnam typhoon kills 23
Oct 5 2007 10:31PM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Floods and landslides triggered by a typhoon that struck Vietnam's central coast earlier this week have claimed 23 lives and left nine others missing, disaster officials said Saturday.
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Ex-Myanmar prisoners describe torture
Oct 5 2007 2:14PM (CT)
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Thet Oo says his military interrogators in Myanmar kicked him in the head until he blacked out, shackled his polio-ridden legs, and then threw him in a tiny, dark cell where he spent much of the next 12 years.
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China agrees not to take inmates' organs
Oct 5 2007 1:11PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Chinese medical officials agreed Friday not to transplant organs from prisoners or others in custody, except into members of their immediate families.
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S. Korea sends envoys to US, neighbors
Oct 5 2007 8:06AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea sent special envoys to the United States and other countries Friday to brief them on a new deal with North Korea calling for multinational talks to formally end the Korean War.
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S. Korea sends envoys to US, neighbors
Oct 5 2007 8:06AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea sent special envoys to the United States and other countries Friday to brief them on a new deal with North Korea calling for multinational talks to formally end the Korean War.
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S. Korea sends envoys to US, neighbors
Oct 5 2007 8:06AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea sent special envoys to the United States and other countries Friday to brief them on a new deal with North Korea calling for multinational talks to formally end the Korean War.
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S. Korea sends envoys to US, neighbors
Oct 5 2007 8:06AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea sent special envoys to the United States and other countries Friday to brief them on a new deal with North Korea calling for multinational talks to formally end the Korean War.
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China calls for less smoking on TV shows
Oct 5 2007 7:52AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's government urged television and film producers to avoid "unnecessary and lengthy" smoking scenes, following public complaints about rampant cigarette smoking in a popular miniseries, a state-run newspaper said Friday.
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Kim Jong Il calls self 'Internet expert'
Oct 5 2007 7:31AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il called himself an "Internet expert" during summit talks with South Korea's president this week, a news report said Friday.
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Nepali leaders agree to postpone vote
Oct 5 2007 6:47AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Nepal's ruling parties reluctantly agreed Friday to Maoist demands to postpone upcoming elections, ending one political crisis in the Himalayan nation but still leaving the two sides deadlocked over other issues.
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Indonesia aims to plant 79 million trees
Oct 5 2007 4:31AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia, which is losing its forests faster than any other country, hopes to plant 79 million trees in a single day ahead of a major U.N. climate change meeting this year, a forestry ministry spokesman said Friday.
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Chinese farmers protest cotton prices
Oct 5 2007 4:08AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Cotton farmers in China's far west clashed with police and paramilitary guards over alleged price-fixing by local authorities, leaving 40 people injured, witnesses and a Hong Kong media report said Friday.
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Japan officials warned over Wikipedia
Oct 5 2007 3:13AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese bureaucrat has been reprimanded for shirking his duties to make hundreds of Wikipedia contributions about toy robots, officials said Friday.
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