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Quake hits Pakistan, Afghanistan, India
Oct 7 2005 11:55PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A 7-6.-magnitude earthquake rocked parts of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan on Saturday, and part of a 19-story building collapsed in Islamabad.
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WTO proposes protest zones for summit
Oct 7 2005 8:34PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Organizers of a WTO summit in Hong Kong have proposed several zones to contain the 10,000 anti-globalization protesters expected to gather here in December for the conference.
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Coalition forces kill 4 Afghan officers
Oct 7 2005 4:31PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Coalition forces who were engaged in combat with militants opened fire on a vehicle carrying Afghan police, killing four and wounding one, the U.S. military said Friday.
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8 killed, 19 wounded at Pakistan mosque
Oct 7 2005 12:32PM (CT)
MONG, Pakistan (AP) - Armed assailants opened fire Friday inside a mosque belonging to a small sect that has been ostracized and banned from calling itself Muslim in Pakistan, killing eight people and wounding 19 others, police and a doctor said.
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FBI-Philippines link is downplayed
Oct 7 2005 11:33AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Information that an FBI intelligence analyst passed to opposition politicians in his native Philippines amounted to little more than news summaries and should not be considered espionage, a former president who received the information said Friday.
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Cops: Bali bombing mastermind escapes raid
Oct 7 2005 9:50AM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesian police raided a house Friday where one of the suspected masterminds of last week's Bali bombings was believed to be hiding out, but the Malaysian fugitive fled three hours earlier, officials said.
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Cabbie who ejected pregnant woman sought
Oct 7 2005 7:59AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Police in Shanghai were looking for a taxi driver who ordered a pregnant woman going into early labor out of his cab, local newspapers reported Friday.
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Floods kill 80 police officers in China
Oct 7 2005 7:28AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China said Friday that at least 80 paramilitary police officers were killed when their barracks were swept away by typhoon-fed floods earlier this week, dramatically raising earlier reported death tolls.
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Sri Lanka presidential candidates declared
Oct 7 2005 4:24AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka's prime minister and its top opposition leader filed past soldiers guarding the Election Commission office Friday to register as candidates for a vote that will determine the course of the country's peace process with Tamil rebels.
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