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Fire forces evacuation at Malaysia towers
Nov 4 2005 11:15PM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Hundreds of screaming and coughing moviegoers fled a cinema complex in the Petronas Twin Towers Friday night after a fire filled a shopping mall attached to the Malaysian landmark with thick, acrid smoke. No serious injuries were reported.
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Former Indonesian dictator hospitalized
Nov 4 2005 10:54PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Former Indonesian dictator Suharto has been admitted to a hospital in the Indonesian capital for anemia due to intestinal bleeding, local media reported Saturday.
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Pakistan: Quake victims come before jets
Nov 4 2005 10:33PM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf suspended a major purchase of U.S. fighter planes, saying Friday during a tour of this devastated city that funds are needed first and foremost for earthquake recovery.
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Japan won't ease U.S. beef ban terms
Nov 4 2005 8:10PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan on Friday rebuffed Washington's demands that Tokyo ease its terms for lifting a ban on U.S. beef imports, imposed two years ago because of fears of mad cow disease.
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Filipino activists want U.S. military out
Nov 4 2005 12:57PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Activists called Friday for the scrapping of an agreement allowing joint exercises between Philippine and U.S. troops after a Filipino woman claimed she was raped by six Marines.
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North Korea urges women to wear dresses
Nov 4 2005 12:20PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea's communist government is urging women in the country to wear traditional Korean clothes instead of pants, according to a North Korean monthly magazine.
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Japan, North Korea fail to reach agreement
Nov 4 2005 11:48AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Two days of talks between Japanese and North Korean officials ended Friday without agreement on the North's demands for compensation for colonial-era oppression or answers to Tokyo's questions about the abduction of its citizens by Pyongyang's spies.
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Ferry capsizes off Pakistan, killing 60
Nov 4 2005 9:15AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A ferry overloaded with people heading to a memorial for three drowned boaters capsized on Friday in the Arabian Sea off southern Pakistan, killing about 60 people, officials said.
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Little joy at Pakistan's quake zone
Nov 4 2005 6:01AM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Quake survivors gathered on straw mats in debris-strewn fields to pray and somberly mark a normally joyous Muslim festival on Friday, as Pakistan's president deferred a key purchase of U.S. fighter jets to focus on rebuilding from the devastation.
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Suicide-tourism Web sites shut down
Nov 4 2005 5:04AM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - An American expatriate who set up Web sites offering to help people make arrangements to kill themselves in Cambodia has shut the sites down, saying Friday he hoped to avoid problems with the authorities.
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Taiwan mulls expansion of charter flights
Nov 4 2005 1:14AM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan is considering expanding charter flights to rival China for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, an official said Friday, in the latest sign of improved commercial relations between the longtime adversaries.
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