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Turkey pledges $150 million in quake aid
Oct 21 2005 11:42PM (CT)
GHANOOL, Pakistan (AP) - Turkey announced a $150 million aid pledge Friday for survivors of South Asia's massive earthquake, as NATO agreed to deploy hundreds of military engineers and medics to bolster relief efforts weeks before the bitter winter begins.
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China's president to visit North Korea
Oct 21 2005 9:57PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - President Hu Jintao will visit North Korea next week amid U.S. pressure for Beijing to do more to convince its communist ally to stop developing nuclear weapons, China said Friday.
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Hong Kong bishop sees breakthrough
Oct 21 2005 3:36PM (CT)
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Hong Kong's bishop hailed the recent appointments of Chinese bishops approved by the Vatican as a breakthrough, saying Friday that Beijing should realize it is losing its tight control over Roman Catholics in China.
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Argentina's first couple seeks new clout
Oct 21 2005 2:36PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - President Nestor Kirchner's wife is running against a former first lady in midterm elections Sunday that pit two rival factions of Argentina's governing Peronist party.
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Police raid Nepal private radio station
Oct 21 2005 2:18PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Police raided a major private radio broadcaster Friday, seizing key studio and transmitting components after the station defied a government order to halt newscasts, an official said.
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Kashmiri capital becomes city of migrants
Oct 21 2005 12:47PM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The ruined capital of Pakistan's part of Kashmir has become a city of migrants. People from stricken mountain villages have flooded into the city, often on foot. They stay in tent camps set up just about anywhere there's a flat patch of ground.
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Afghan clerics warn of anti-U.S. backlash
Oct 21 2005 12:03PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The United States has gone to great lengths to win over Afghans, sending billions in aid and using its troops for humanitarian work. But TV footage purportedly showing U.S. soldiers burning the bodies of Taliban rebels threatens to fray that goodwill.
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Rumsfeld praises South Korean stability
Oct 21 2005 12:02PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's talks here on the future shape of the U.S.-South Korean defense alliance made two things clear: The Koreans want more control over their own defense, and Washington wants to give it.
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Car bomb kills Afghanistan police deputy
Oct 21 2005 11:53AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Suspected Taliban rebels detonated a car bomb near a mosque in southern Afghanistan, killing a deputy provincial police chief and one of his bodyguards, while an aid worker and an intelligence agent were slain in other violence, officials said Friday.
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U.S. diplmomat defends Iraq war
Oct 21 2005 11:50AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Karen Hughes, who has faced a rocky road since being named Washington's public relations chief, answered tough questions Friday about the invasion of Iraq, and wrongly stated that Saddam Hussein gassed to death "hundreds of thousands" of his people.
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NATO to send engineers, medics to Pakistan
Oct 21 2005 10:43AM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - NATO allies agreed Friday to dispatch hundreds of military engineers, medics and other troops to reinforce the earthquake relief effort in Pakistan.
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Mule train brings aid to Pakistani town
Oct 21 2005 9:54AM (CT)
GHANOOL, Pakistan (AP) - About 200 desperate people pushed and fought each other for milk, bread and other food brought in Friday by mule train _ the first aid to reach their remote mountain village since Pakistan's earthquake left them homeless two weeks ago.
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Nine more bodies are found in India
Oct 21 2005 9:33AM (CT)
GAUHATI, India (AP) - The bodies of nine men in olive green uniforms were recovered Friday in an area of northeastern India wracked by clashes between rival ethnic militants, police said.
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Karzai condemns alleged body desecration
Oct 21 2005 7:28AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai on Friday condemned the alleged desecration of the bodies of two dead Taliban fighters by U.S. troops, but he said mistakes happen in war and Afghans shouldn't let it mar their impression of the United States.
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Indonesia nabs 4 in smuggling case
Oct 21 2005 6:38AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesian police said Friday they had arrested four people allegedly involved in smuggling hundreds of pounds of explosive materials from Malaysia into Indonesia.
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North Korea could return to nuclear talks
Oct 21 2005 6:07AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - North Korea is committed to unconditionally resuming talks on its atomic weapons program and returning to the international nuclear nonproliferation pact, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Friday after days of talks in Pyongyang.
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Cheap shelter offers hope in quake zones
Oct 21 2005 5:12AM (CT)
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - Tested in cold storage and wind tunnels, successfully used in the Kosovo crisis, a cheap shelter quickly assembled from local materials offers hope for some of the more than 2 million homeless facing a bitter winter in wake of South Asia's earthquake, aid workers say.
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Chinese police detain Protestant leaders
Oct 21 2005 12:34AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Police raided a religious retreat in northern China and detained more than 50 leaders of the country's independent Protestant church movement, a U.S.-based support group said Friday.
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