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Bali bombings militants won't seek pardon
Oct 19 2005 10:36PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Three Islamic militants on death row for their roles in the 2002 Bali bombings will not request a pardon, a prosecutor said Thursday, a decision that will likely speed up the date of their executions.
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Malaysian prime minister's wife dies
Oct 19 2005 8:58PM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Endon Mahmood, the wife of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, died Thursday after a four-year battle with breast cancer. She was 64.
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Hong Kong proposes political reforms
Oct 19 2005 8:43PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong's government proposed political reforms Wednesday that fell far short of full democracy, but called for expanding the legislature and adding more people to a committee that picks the Chinese territory's leader.
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Indian Kashmir allowed to call Pakistan
Oct 19 2005 5:18PM (CT)
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - One man shared a tearful telephone reunion with a faraway uncle. Another tried desperately to dial his sister. And dozens of others struggled to get through to family across the militarized frontier separating the Indian and Pakistani parts of Kashmir.
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Death toll in Asian quake soars to 79,000
Oct 19 2005 3:32PM (CT)
BALAKOT, Pakistan (AP) - The death toll soared to 79,000 Wednesday from South Asia's mammoth earthquake, following a survey of one of the two hardest-hit Pakistani regions _ making it one of the deadliest quakes in modern times.
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Kashmir's militants out of the shadows
Oct 19 2005 12:35PM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - On a boulder-strewn flood plain at the edge of this Kashmiri city, along the steel-gray water of the Jhelum River, men wearing military camouflage sit in a circle, listening to the preaching of an older man.
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Richardson tours N. Korean nuke facility
Oct 19 2005 11:53AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Bill Richardson, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, toured a North Korean nuclear facility Wednesday and held a second day of talks with government officials as part of his efforts to encourage Pyongyang to dismantle its atomic weapons program.
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Strong earthquake hits northeastern Japan
Oct 19 2005 11:17AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A strong earthquake rocked northeastern Japan late Wednesday, shaking buildings in Tokyo and nearby areas and briefly shutting down train lines. Two people were reportedly injured.
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South Asia quake death toll over 79,000
Oct 19 2005 5:32AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - New figures released by regional officials on Wednesday pushed the death toll in South Asia's earthquake to more than 79,000, about half each in Pakistani-held Kashmir and the country's North West Frontier Province.
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Despite crisis Indian village perserves
Oct 19 2005 4:39AM (CT)
SULTANDAKI, India (AP) - The school principal in this Himalayan mountainside community has buried students cut down by artillery, seen families impoverished by drought and now endured the destruction of all but one of the village's 374 buildings in a savage earthquake.
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Indonesia's president weathers tough year
Oct 19 2005 3:51AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia's president had a tough first year: The Asian tsunami killed more than 131,000 people. Polio and bird flu outbreaks strained the country's health system. Soaring oil costs threatened a budding economic recovery.
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