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Governments pledge more for quake relief
Oct 26 2005 8:08PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - Governments and other donors told the United Nations on Wednesday they were pledging an additional $580 million for Pakistani earthquake victims, but U.N. officials said it was unclear how much would be earmarked for immediate relief efforts with the bitter Himalayan winter looming.
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Scarred generation emerges in quake zone
Oct 26 2005 1:26PM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - What remains will be the scars. Some will be in plain sight, a rough line running down a stomach or across a forehead. Others will be what's missing _ arms, legs. But most may be harder to spot: nightmares, depression and the loss of parents and siblings.
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U.S., Japan strike deal on Okinawa base
Oct 26 2005 12:53PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The United States on Wednesday averted a possibly damaging battle over the large American military presence in Japan, striking a deal with its top ally in Asia over the relocation of a Marine base in Okinawa and paving the way for broader realignment talks this weekend.
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U.N. warns of another crisis in Pakistan
Oct 26 2005 12:30PM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Quake-ravaged Pakistan is facing a second catastrophe and a new wave of deaths if the world does not come forward to help survivors of the Oct. 8 earthquake before winter sets in, aid officials said Wednesday.
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Suspected militants caught in Philippines
Oct 26 2005 8:38AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Philippine troops captured seven suspected Muslim militants Wednesday, including the leader of a group of Islamic converts linked to the kidnappings of foreigners and an alleged plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy, officials said.
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U.S. says attacks kill Taliban rebels
Oct 26 2005 6:26AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - American and British warplanes pounded a southern Afghan mountain, killing suspected Taliban rebels, the U.S. military said Wednesday. A provincial governor said at least six rebels were killed and four wounded.
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Convicted killer of arrested in Cambodia
Oct 26 2005 4:08AM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - A former Khmer Rouge field commander, convicted in absentia in the murder of three Western backpackers in 1994, has been caught in northwestern Cambodia, the government said Wednesday.
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Japan, N. Korea to hold talks next week
Oct 26 2005 4:06AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan and North Korea will hold talks on the communist state's nuclear weapons program and other bilateral issues starting Nov. 3 in Beijing, Japan's foreign minister said Wednesday.
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Quake sets everything back for Kashmir
Oct 26 2005 3:18AM (CT)
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - Longingly, Gulam Butt looks back on the days when his lakeside houseboats lodged Beatle George Harrison, moon-conqueror Neil Armstrong and others drawn to one of Asia's most enchanting destinations.
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Pakistan family waits to bury daughter
Oct 26 2005 3:05AM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - For 17 days, university student Rashida Salim's lifeless body poked out from the rubble of her family's ruined home in an old quarter of Muzaffarabad.
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