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3 New Delhi explosions kill at least 58
Oct 29 2005 11:47PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Near-simultaneous explosions rocked the Indian capital Saturday evening, tearing through a bus and two markets crowded with people shopping for gifts for a Hindu festival. At least 58 people were killed and dozens wounded in the blasts, which the government blamed on terrorists.
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Three school girls beheaded in Indonesia
Oct 29 2005 10:54PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Unidentified assailants attacked a group of high school girls on Saturday in Indonesia's tense province of Central Sulawesi, beheading three and seriously wounding another, police said.
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A-bomb victims stage rally in Hiroshima
Oct 29 2005 9:34PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan joined a sit-in rally in Hiroshima on Saturday to protest plans to base a nuclear-powered American warship in the country, an activist said.
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N. Korea says U.S. pressure hurts talks
Oct 29 2005 7:31PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea said Saturday that U.S. pressure over human rights and other issues threatens the future of international talks on an agreement to end the communist regime's nuclear arms program.
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Pakistan, India to open Kashmir border
Oct 29 2005 6:51PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - India and Pakistan agreed early Sunday to open the heavily militarized frontier in the disputed Kashmir region to speed help for victims of the devastating South Asia earthquake, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said.
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Man held in Pakistan says he's American
Oct 29 2005 6:42PM (CT)
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani border guards have arrested a man who claimed to be an American citizen for entering Pakistan illegally from neighboring Iran, an official said Saturday.
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U.S. paratrooper killed in Afghanistan
Oct 29 2005 5:19PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A U.S. paratrooper and a British soldier died in attacks Saturday as Afghan officials prepared to announce final results from last month's historic legislative elections amid some of the worst bloodshed since the polls.
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U.S. moves to aid quake victims, win favor
Oct 29 2005 4:27PM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The U.S. military has sent helicopters, a field hospital and a construction battalion to earthquake-stricken Pakistan _ a gesture that has irked Islamic hard-liners but may help improve Washington's image in the Muslim world after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Train derails in India; at least 100 dead
Oct 29 2005 3:40PM (CT)
VELIGONDA, India (AP) - A passenger train derailed on flooded tracks in southern India on Saturday and plunged into a rain-swollen river, killing at least 100 people and trapping scores inside submerged cars, officials said.
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North Koreans yet to benefit from reforms
Oct 29 2005 3:28PM (CT)
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - Kim Chol Min and his wife are browsing in the furniture section of the cavernous, deserted Taesong Department Store as music blares from a 43-inch Toshiba TV set priced at $3,500.
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3 high school girls beheaded in Indonesia
Oct 29 2005 6:52AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Unidentified assailants attacked a group of high school girls on Saturday in Indonesia's tense province of Central Sulawesi, beheading three and seriously wounding a fourth, police said.
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Kim praises China's efforts in nuke talks
Oct 29 2005 4:00AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - North Korea's leader praised Beijing's effort to ensure peace on the Korean Peninsula after he promised the Chinese president that Pyongyang will take part in the next round of nuclear talks, news reports said Saturday.
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