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Japanese PM visits Tokyo war shrine
Oct 16 2005 11:12PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi prayed at a Tokyo shrine honoring the country's war dead Monday, defying critics who say the visits glorify militarism and risking a further deterioration in relations with China and South Korea.
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Pakistan predicts sharp jump in quake toll
Oct 16 2005 9:51PM (CT)
BALAKOT, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani officials predicted Sunday that many more thousands of dead would be found in earthquake-ravaged Kashmir as heavy rains in the Himalayan region drenched homeless survivors in mud and misery.
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Pakistan predicts sharp jump in quake toll
Oct 16 2005 9:51PM (CT)
BALAKOT, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani officials predicted Sunday that many more thousands of dead would be found in earthquake-ravaged Kashmir as heavy rains in the Himalayan region drenched homeless survivors in mud and misery.
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Official says Aceh rebuilding too slow
Oct 16 2005 6:57PM (CT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - Reconstruction in tsunami-ravaged Aceh province is moving too slowly and aid groups must work together more closely to get survivors out of tents and into permanent housing, a top U.N. official said Sunday.
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Scenes from Pakistan's quake zone
Oct 16 2005 6:30PM (CT)
BAGH, Pakistan (AP) - A small cigarette shop opened its shutters Sunday, one of the first stores in Bagh to open since last week's earthquake. Nearby a couple of fruit sellers carefully perched crates of bananas and apples on the rubble.
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Divided Kashmir village mourns tragedy
Oct 16 2005 3:23PM (CT)
TEETHWAL, India (AP) - The other half of this Kashmiri village is a mere 100 feet across roaring whitewater, but it is enough to keep families from finding out if their relatives survived the earthquake that devastated South Asia a week ago.
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Kids big part of Pakistan quake death toll
Oct 16 2005 3:16PM (CT)
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) - There's the student whose teacher dug him out of the rubble of his classroom. The boy who slept late while hundreds of his classmates died. Those are the lucky ones, the ones who can tell their story.
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Suspected insurgents kill 11 in Thailand
Oct 16 2005 1:00PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - About 20 suspected Muslim separatists stormed a monastery, hacked an elderly Buddhist monk to death and fatally shot two temple boys Sunday in southern Thailand, police said.
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Afghan election staffers fired for fraud
Oct 16 2005 12:53PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Election authorities said Sunday that they have fired about 50 employees for suspected fraud in last month's legislative polls, while human rights advocates warned that about half of the winning candidates are believed to have links to armed groups.
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Death toll in Pakistan quake up to 54,000
Oct 16 2005 12:42PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - At least 40,000 people in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir died in last week's earthquake, a Pakistani official said Sunday. That would raise the overall death toll in the disaster to more than 54,000.
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Afghan election staffers fired for fraud
Oct 16 2005 8:36AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Election authorities have fired about 50 employees for suspected fraud in last month's legislative polls, officials said Sunday, casting a shadow on Afghanistan's latest step toward democracy.
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Report: Japan, U.S. OK base relocations
Oct 16 2005 8:30AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The United States and Japan have reached a basic agreement on relocating two U.S. military bases on the southern island of Okinawa, where the U.S. presence has frequently provoked protests, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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Stewardess calls in threat to get day off
Oct 16 2005 4:39AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A SriLankan Airlines stewardess called in a bomb threat because she wanted a day off, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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Earthquake shakes tall buildings in Tokyo
Oct 16 2005 4:24AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A moderate shook eastern Japan on Sunday, swaying tall buildings in the capital Tokyo. But there were no immediate reports of damage, injuries or risk of tsunamis.
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