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Afghans outraged over alleged desecration
Oct 20 2005 10:51PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Islamic clerics expressed outrage Thursday at television footage that purportedly shows U.S. soldiers burning the bodies of two dead Taliban fighters to taunt other militants and warned of a possible violent anti-American backlash.
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U.N.: Berlin-type airlift needed in Asia
Oct 20 2005 10:21PM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The top U.N. relief coordinator warned Thursday that bold initiatives like the Berlin Airlift are needed to save as many as 3 million people left homeless by the South Asian earthquake as winter approaches in the Himalayas.
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N.M. gov. sees N. Korea as more flexible
Oct 20 2005 10:21PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, returning from several days of talks in North Korea, said Friday the government in Pyongyang displayed new openness about its nuclear activities and was committed to returning to six-party disarmament talks next month.
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NATO commander decries Afghan opium crops
Oct 20 2005 3:27PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - NATO countries want to better tackle the biggest threat in Afghanistan _ rampant drug trafficking and an economy dependent on opium farming _ but many lack the money to do it, the organization's supreme allied commander in Europe said Thursday.
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Quake survivors search for loved ones
Oct 20 2005 1:43PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Rashida Bibi studied the snapshots of bruised, bandaged faces, looking for her lost sister. "Not her, not her," she whispered, as she scanned pictures taped to a board on a wall outside the capital's main hospital Thursday. "I thought she would be here."
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2002 Bali bombers won't request pardon
Oct 20 2005 11:48AM (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 in a decision that will likely speed their executions.
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Hospital roof collapses in Nepal; 10 dead
Oct 20 2005 8:37AM (CT)
KATMANDU, India (AP) - The roof of a hospital in central Nepal collapsed Thursday, killing at least 10 people and injuring nine others, an official said.
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Pentagon seek access to China POW records
Oct 20 2005 4:53AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - U.S. officials on Thursday renewed a request for Chinese permission to search military archives that could yield clues to the fate of missing American servicemen who may have been held by China during and after the Korean War.
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Search for shelter in Pakistan frantic
Oct 20 2005 3:33AM (CT)
BALAKOT, Pakistan (AP) - The cold begins to set in quickly after the sun goes down, and for some the search for shelter becomes frantic.
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