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US says 80 Taliban killed in battle
Oct 27 2007 9:09PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S.-led coalition forces killed about 80 Taliban fighters during a six-hour battle outside a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the latest in a series of increasingly bloody engagements in the region, officials said.
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Burmese desperate for health care
Oct 27 2007 2:24PM (CT)
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - They travel for days though checkpoints, across dangerous roads and past Myanmar's bribe-hungry soldiers to make it to the Thai border. They're not refugees fleeing the junta _ they simply want to see a doctor.
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'Child of Krakatoa' volcano spews ash
Oct 27 2007 2:00PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - The Indonesian volcano known as the "Child of Krakatoa" spewed ash and smoke, prompting warnings of a possible eruption, a government volcanologist said Saturday.
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Inside rebel Pakistan cleric's domain
Oct 27 2007 1:18PM (CT)
SWAT, Pakistan (AP) - Long-haired militants with assault rifles and walkie-talkies guard the approach to the stronghold of Maulana Fazlullah, the radical cleric whose mission to spread fundamentalist Islam has provoked a bloody showdown with Pakistan's government.
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Inside rebel Pakistan cleric's domain
Oct 27 2007 1:18PM (CT)
SWAT, Pakistan (AP) - Long-haired militants with assault rifles and walkie-talkies guard the approach to the stronghold of Maulana Fazlullah, the radical cleric whose mission to spread fundamentalist Islam has provoked a bloody showdown with Pakistan's government.
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Pakistan's Bhutto visits ancestral home
Oct 27 2007 12:40PM (CT)
GARHI KHUDA BAKSH, Pakistan (AP) - Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto went to her ancestral village Saturday amid tight security and sprinkled flower petals on her father's tomb on her first trip to provincial Pakistan since the bloody assassination attempt against her nine days ago.
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Pakistan's Bhutto visits ancestral home
Oct 27 2007 12:40PM (CT)
GARHI KHUDA BAKSH, Pakistan (AP) - Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto went to her ancestral village Saturday amid tight security and sprinkled flower petals on her father's tomb on her first trip to provincial Pakistan since the bloody assassination attempt against her nine days ago.
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Maoist rebels fire on festival in India
Oct 27 2007 7:31AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Communist rebels opened fire on a crowd of revelers at a festival in eastern India on Saturday, killing a politician's son and 17 other people, police said.
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China announces $14 billion lake cleanup
Oct 27 2007 3:02AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China has announced a multibillion-dollar plan to clean up a severely polluted lake where an algae bloom forced the suspension of water supplies to millions of people this summer.
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Suicide bomber attacks US base entrance
Oct 27 2007 1:33AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber attacked the entrance to a U.S. base Saturday, killing at least four Afghans, a U.S. military official said.
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2 Americans dead in Hong Kong hotel
Oct 27 2007 12:24AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Authorities are investigating the deaths of two Americans whose bodies were found at one of Hong Kong's most luxurious hotels, police and reports said Saturday.
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