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Pakistani militants agree to cease-fire
Oct 28 2007 11:43PM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Militants who follow a pro-Taliban cleric in troubled northwestern Pakistan agreed to a cease-fire Monday, a day after security forces backed by helicopter gunships targeted their hide-outs, killing at least 10 suspected insurgents, officials said.
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Battles near Taliban-held town intensify
Oct 28 2007 10:58PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Days after Taliban fighters overran Musa Qala a U.S. commander pledged that Western troops would take it back. Nine months later, the town is still Taliban territory, a symbol of the West's struggles to control the poppy-growing south.
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Bhutto visits family of bombing victim
Oct 28 2007 10:54PM (CT)
LARKANA, Pakistan (AP) - Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto visited the families of people killed in a suicide bombing attempt on her life, touring a poor neighborhood Sunday in a visit kept secret until the last minute to protect her from another assassination bid.
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Bhutto visits family of bombing victim
Oct 28 2007 10:54PM (CT)
LARKANA, Pakistan (AP) - Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto visited the families of people killed in a suicide bombing attempt on her life, touring a poor neighborhood Sunday in a visit kept secret until the last minute to protect her from another assassination bid.
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Bhutto visits family of bombing victim
Oct 28 2007 10:54PM (CT)
LARKANA, Pakistan (AP) - Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto visited the families of people killed in a suicide bombing attempt on her life, touring a poor neighborhood Sunday in a visit kept secret until the last minute to protect her from another assassination bid.
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Bhutto visits family of bombing victim
Oct 28 2007 10:54PM (CT)
LARKANA, Pakistan (AP) - Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto visited the families of people killed in a suicide bombing attempt on her life, touring a poor neighborhood Sunday in a visit kept secret until the last minute to protect her from another assassination bid.
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Thousands protest land seizure in India
Oct 28 2007 6:53PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Tens of thousands of impoverished Indians arrived in the national capital on Sunday ending a monthlong march to draw attention to the plight of those dispossessed of their land by recent economic development.
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Coal use grows despite warming worries
Oct 28 2007 6:12PM (CT)
JUNGAR QI, China (AP) - Almost nonstop, gargantuan 145-ton trucks rumble through China's biggest open-pit coal mine, sending up clouds of soot as they dump their loads into mechanized sorters.
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Coal use grows despite warming worries
Oct 28 2007 6:12PM (CT)
JUNGAR QI, China (AP) - Almost nonstop, gargantuan 145-ton trucks rumble through China's biggest open-pit coal mine, sending up clouds of soot as they dump their loads into mechanized sorters.
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Coal use grows despite warming worries
Oct 28 2007 6:12PM (CT)
JUNGAR QI, China (AP) - Almost nonstop, gargantuan 145-ton trucks rumble through China's biggest open-pit coal mine, sending up clouds of soot as they dump their loads into mechanized sorters.
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Coal use grows despite warming worries
Oct 28 2007 6:12PM (CT)
JUNGAR QI, China (AP) - Almost nonstop, gargantuan 145-ton trucks rumble through China's biggest open-pit coal mine, sending up clouds of soot as they dump their loads into mechanized sorters.
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Coal use grows despite warming worries
Oct 28 2007 6:12PM (CT)
JUNGAR QI, China (AP) - Almost nonstop, gargantuan 145-ton trucks rumble through China's biggest open-pit coal mine, sending up clouds of soot as they dump their loads into mechanized sorters.
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Coal use grows despite warming worries
Oct 28 2007 6:12PM (CT)
JUNGAR QI, China (AP) - Almost nonstop, gargantuan 145-ton trucks rumble through China's biggest open-pit coal mine, sending up clouds of soot as they dump their loads into mechanized sorters.
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Coal use grows despite warming worries
Oct 28 2007 6:12PM (CT)
JUNGAR QI, China (AP) - Almost nonstop, gargantuan 145-ton trucks rumble through China's biggest open-pit coal mine, sending up clouds of soot as they dump their loads into mechanized sorters.
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Coal use grows despite warming worries
Oct 28 2007 6:12PM (CT)
JUNGAR QI, China (AP) - Almost nonstop, gargantuan 145-ton trucks rumble through China's biggest open-pit coal mine, sending up clouds of soot as they dump their loads into mechanized sorters.
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Coal use grows despite warming worries
Oct 28 2007 6:12PM (CT)
JUNGAR QI, China (AP) - Almost nonstop, gargantuan 145-ton trucks rumble through China's biggest open-pit coal mine, sending up clouds of soot as they dump their loads into mechanized sorters.
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Myanmar junta denounces US as 'bully'
Oct 28 2007 12:43PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's military government stepped up its propaganda campaign against the United States on Sunday, accusing Washington of inciting last month's pro-democracy demonstrations in hopes of installing a puppet government.
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Japan, Chinese protesters clash at sea
Oct 28 2007 11:14AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Japanese patrol vessels fired water cannon Sunday at a boat carrying Chinese activists who were protesting Japanese claims to territory in the East China Sea, the activist group said.
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Paulson pushes India on nuclear deal
Oct 28 2007 6:51AM (CT)
CALCUTTA, India (AP) - Visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged India on Sunday to quickly implement a landmark civilian nuclear energy deal with the United States.
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Paulson pushes India on nuclear deal
Oct 28 2007 6:51AM (CT)
CALCUTTA, India (AP) - Visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged India on Sunday to quickly implement a landmark civilian nuclear energy deal with the United States.
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Paulson pushes India on nuclear deal
Oct 28 2007 6:51AM (CT)
CALCUTTA, India (AP) - Visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged India on Sunday to quickly implement a landmark civilian nuclear energy deal with the United States.
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Burmese desperate for health care
Oct 28 2007 3:37AM (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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Inside rebel Pakistan cleric's domain
Oct 28 2007 3:28AM (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 28 2007 3:28AM (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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