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Thais arrest Canadian child-sex suspect
Oct 19 2007 11:29PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A three-year global manhunt for a Canadian schoolteacher suspected of sexually abusing Asian boys ended Friday when police raided a house in northeastern Thailand _ off the usual tourist trail _ and arrested Christopher Paul Neil.
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Thais arrest Canadian child-sex suspect
Oct 19 2007 11:29PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A three-year global manhunt for a Canadian schoolteacher suspected of sexually abusing Asian boys ended Friday when police raided a house in northeastern Thailand _ off the usual tourist trail _ and arrested Christopher Paul Neil.
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Thais arrest Canadian child-sex suspect
Oct 19 2007 11:29PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A three-year global manhunt for a Canadian schoolteacher suspected of sexually abusing Asian boys ended Friday when police raided a house in northeastern Thailand _ off the usual tourist trail _ and arrested Christopher Paul Neil.
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Thais arrest Canadian child-sex suspect
Oct 19 2007 11:29PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A three-year global manhunt for a Canadian schoolteacher suspected of sexually abusing Asian boys ended Friday when police raided a house in northeastern Thailand _ off the usual tourist trail _ and arrested Christopher Paul Neil.
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Thais arrest Canadian child-sex suspect
Oct 19 2007 11:29PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A three-year global manhunt for a Canadian schoolteacher suspected of sexually abusing Asian boys ended Friday when police raided a house in northeastern Thailand _ off the usual tourist trail _ and arrested Christopher Paul Neil.
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Thais arrest Canadian child-sex suspect
Oct 19 2007 11:29PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A three-year global manhunt for a Canadian schoolteacher suspected of sexually abusing Asian boys ended Friday when police raided a house in northeastern Thailand _ off the usual tourist trail _ and arrested Christopher Paul Neil.
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Mall explosion in Manila kills 9
Oct 19 2007 11:03PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A powerful blast ripped through three floors of a shopping mall in the heart of Manila's financial district Friday, killing nine people and wounding more than 100, authorities said.
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Mall explosion in Manila kills 9
Oct 19 2007 11:03PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A powerful blast ripped through three floors of a shopping mall in the heart of Manila's financial district Friday, killing nine people and wounding more than 100, authorities said.
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Mall explosion in Manila kills 9
Oct 19 2007 11:03PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A powerful blast ripped through three floors of a shopping mall in the heart of Manila's financial district Friday, killing nine people and wounding more than 100, authorities said.
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Bhutto blames extremists for bomb attack
Oct 19 2007 9:53PM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Benazir Bhutto blamed al-Qaida and Taliban militants Friday for the assassination attempt against her that killed at least 136 people, and declared she would risk her life to restore democracy in Pakistan and prevent an extremist takeover.
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Bhutto blames extremists for bomb attack
Oct 19 2007 9:53PM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Benazir Bhutto blamed al-Qaida and Taliban militants Friday for the assassination attempt against her that killed at least 136 people, and declared she would risk her life to restore democracy in Pakistan and prevent an extremist takeover.
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Bhutto blames extremists for bomb attack
Oct 19 2007 9:53PM (CT)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Benazir Bhutto blamed al-Qaida and Taliban militants Friday for the assassination attempt against her that killed at least 136 people, and declared she would risk her life to restore democracy in Pakistan and prevent an extremist takeover.
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5 rare Asiatic lions killed in India
Oct 19 2007 4:30PM (CT)
AHMADABAD, India (AP) - Five rare Asiatic lions were found electrocuted Friday on the edge of western India's Gir National Park, authorities reported.
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Bhutto attack clouds Pakistan's future
Oct 19 2007 3:53PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The carnage wrought on Benazir Bhutto's homecoming illustrated the militant threat to Pakistan's stability before critical elections. But it also could propel her more firmly toward a Western-backed alliance with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
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China congress setting rumor mill alight
Oct 19 2007 1:41PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Always a staple of political life, China's rumor mill has shifted into overdrive as the end of a key Communist Party congress approaches. Internet sites, overseas media, diplomats and China's own chattering classes are spewing out endless scenarios on the secretive conclave's outcome.
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China congress setting rumor mill alight
Oct 19 2007 1:41PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Always a staple of political life, China's rumor mill has shifted into overdrive as the end of a key Communist Party congress approaches. Internet sites, overseas media, diplomats and China's own chattering classes are spewing out endless scenarios on the secretive conclave's outcome.
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China congress setting rumor mill alight
Oct 19 2007 1:41PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Always a staple of political life, China's rumor mill has shifted into overdrive as the end of a key Communist Party congress approaches. Internet sites, overseas media, diplomats and China's own chattering classes are spewing out endless scenarios on the secretive conclave's outcome.
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China congress setting rumor mill alight
Oct 19 2007 1:41PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Always a staple of political life, China's rumor mill has shifted into overdrive as the end of a key Communist Party congress approaches. Internet sites, overseas media, diplomats and China's own chattering classes are spewing out endless scenarios on the secretive conclave's outcome.
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Villages evacuated on Indonesian volcano
Oct 19 2007 1:19PM (CT)
MOUNT KELUD, Indonesia (AP) - Tens of thousands of people were ordered by police _ some at gunpoint _ to leave their homes on the slopes of one of Indonesia's deadliest volcanoes Friday after a series of underground tremors heightened fears of an imminent eruption.
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Villages evacuated on Indonesian volcano
Oct 19 2007 1:19PM (CT)
MOUNT KELUD, Indonesia (AP) - Tens of thousands of people were ordered by police _ some at gunpoint _ to leave their homes on the slopes of one of Indonesia's deadliest volcanoes Friday after a series of underground tremors heightened fears of an imminent eruption.
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Villages evacuated on Indonesian volcano
Oct 19 2007 1:19PM (CT)
MOUNT KELUD, Indonesia (AP) - Tens of thousands of people were ordered by police _ some at gunpoint _ to leave their homes on the slopes of one of Indonesia's deadliest volcanoes Friday after a series of underground tremors heightened fears of an imminent eruption.
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Villages evacuated on Indonesian volcano
Oct 19 2007 1:19PM (CT)
MOUNT KELUD, Indonesia (AP) - Tens of thousands of people were ordered by police _ some at gunpoint _ to leave their homes on the slopes of one of Indonesia's deadliest volcanoes Friday after a series of underground tremors heightened fears of an imminent eruption.
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China call for Taiwan accord a bypass
Oct 19 2007 10:13AM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - A call by Chinese President Hu Jintao for a peace treaty with Taiwan was not directed at the island's current leader, but at one of the two men who will replace him after next year's elections, Taiwanese analysts said Friday.
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Japan firm beset by poison gas scandal
Oct 19 2007 9:35AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Investigators launched raids this week on Japanese companies accused of corruption in projects to remove chemical weapons abandoned in China during World War II, officials said Friday, in an embarrassing scandal that threatened to further delay the decades-long cleanup.
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Japan firm beset by poison gas scandal
Oct 19 2007 9:35AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Investigators launched raids this week on Japanese companies accused of corruption in projects to remove chemical weapons abandoned in China during World War II, officials said Friday, in an embarrassing scandal that threatened to further delay the decades-long cleanup.
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S. Korea: North wants better US ties
Oct 19 2007 8:36AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea wants the standoff over its nuclear weapons program resolved in order to forge better ties with the United States, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said Friday.
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U.S. servicemen in Japan accused of rape
Oct 19 2007 4:22AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese authorities are investigating the alleged rape of a teenager by four U.S. Marines in southwestern Japan last weekend, officials and media said Friday.
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