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Myanmar junta names liaison to Suu Kyi
Oct 8 2007 11:27PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - The ruling junta appointed a Cabinet official Monday to coordinate contacts with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a move that comes with Myanmar under intense international pressure to enter talks with the democracy movement.
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Myanmar junta names liaison to Suu Kyi
Oct 8 2007 11:27PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - The ruling junta appointed a Cabinet official Monday to coordinate contacts with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a move that comes with Myanmar under intense international pressure to enter talks with the democracy movement.
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Myanmar junta names liaison to Suu Kyi
Oct 8 2007 11:27PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - The ruling junta appointed a Cabinet official Monday to coordinate contacts with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a move that comes with Myanmar under intense international pressure to enter talks with the democracy movement.
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Japan extends sanctions on North Korea
Oct 8 2007 9:51PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's Cabinet approved plans Tuesday to extend economic sanctions against North Korea, despite the communist state's agreement to disable its main nuclear complex by year's end, the Foreign Ministry said.
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Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan
Oct 8 2007 5:08PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A roadside bomb exploded next to an Australian armored vehicle in south-central Afghanistan on Monday, the first combat death suffered by Australia's military contingent, the country's government said. A second soldier suffered serious wounds.
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German held by Taliban pleads for help
Oct 8 2007 3:23PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A German engineer held by Taliban insurgents since July pleaded in a new videotape Monday for the Afghan and German governments to make a deal with the militants for his release before winter.
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15 executions break Afghan moratorium
Oct 8 2007 2:35PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Ending a three-year moratorium on the death penalty, Afghanistan executed 15 prisoners by gunfire, including a man convicted of killing three foreign journalists during the U.S.-led invasion, the prisons chief announced Monday.
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Helicopter escorting Musharraf crashes
Oct 8 2007 12:40PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A helicopter carrying aides to President Gen. Pervez Musharraf crashed Monday as the Pakistani leader flew to Kashmir. Though blamed on a technical fault, the accident revived concern for Musharraf's safety as his war with Islamic militants intensifies.
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Helicopter escorting Musharraf crashes
Oct 8 2007 12:40PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A helicopter carrying aides to President Gen. Pervez Musharraf crashed Monday as the Pakistani leader flew to Kashmir. Though blamed on a technical fault, the accident revived concern for Musharraf's safety as his war with Islamic militants intensifies.
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China land activist tortured in prison
Oct 8 2007 8:23AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese land rights activist imprisoned after circulating a petition opposing the Beijing Olympics has been chained for days in the same position and forced to clean up the waste of other inmates, his sister and a rights group said Monday.
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Nuclear watchdog chief arriving in India
Oct 8 2007 6:07AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - The head of the United Nation's nuclear watchdog arrives in India on Monday amid a heated political feud over the future of India's landmark civilian nuclear cooperation deal with the United States.
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S.Korea sure of early nuclear settlement
Oct 8 2007 5:56AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The South Korean president said Monday the global standoff over North Korea's nuclear weapons programs will soon be resolved, as U.S. experts prepared to travel to Pyongyang to form a plan for disabling the country's reactors.
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Official: 80 dead in Pakistan fighting
Oct 8 2007 3:07AM (CT)
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan (AP) - Two suspected al-Qaida fighters and a dozen villagers were among about 80 people killed in fierce fighting between soldiers and militants in northwest Pakistan, an official said Monday.
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Afghanistan: 16 militants killed
Oct 8 2007 12:21AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Sixteen militants fighting under a wanted Uzbek warlord with a $200,000 bounty on his head were killed in airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan, an official said Monday.
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