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US: NKorea starts disabling nuke program
Nov 5 2007 11:05PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A team of U.S. experts has begun disabling North Korea's nuclear weapons-making facilities, a U.S. official said, the first time Pyongyang has ever moved to scale back its development of atomic bombs.
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Thousands arrested in Pakistan protests
Nov 5 2007 9:57PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Police fired tear gas and clubbed lawyers protesting Monday against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule. The U.S. and other nations called for elections to be held on schedule and said they were reviewing aid to Pakistan.
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Thousands arrested in Pakistan protests
Nov 5 2007 9:57PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Police fired tear gas and clubbed lawyers protesting Monday against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule. The U.S. and other nations called for elections to be held on schedule and said they were reviewing aid to Pakistan.
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Thousands arrested in Pakistan protests
Nov 5 2007 9:57PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Police fired tear gas and clubbed lawyers protesting Monday against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule. The U.S. and other nations called for elections to be held on schedule and said they were reviewing aid to Pakistan.
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Thousands arrested in Pakistan protests
Nov 5 2007 9:57PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Police fired tear gas and clubbed lawyers protesting Monday against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule. The U.S. and other nations called for elections to be held on schedule and said they were reviewing aid to Pakistan.
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Thousands arrested in Pakistan protests
Nov 5 2007 9:57PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Police fired tear gas and clubbed lawyers protesting Monday against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule. The U.S. and other nations called for elections to be held on schedule and said they were reviewing aid to Pakistan.
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Thousands arrested in Pakistan protests
Nov 5 2007 9:57PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Police fired tear gas and clubbed lawyers protesting Monday against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule. The U.S. and other nations called for elections to be held on schedule and said they were reviewing aid to Pakistan.
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Thousands arrested in Pakistan protests
Nov 5 2007 9:57PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Police fired tear gas and clubbed lawyers protesting Monday against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule. The U.S. and other nations called for elections to be held on schedule and said they were reviewing aid to Pakistan.
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Thousands arrested in Pakistan protests
Nov 5 2007 9:57PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Police fired tear gas and clubbed lawyers protesting Monday against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule. The U.S. and other nations called for elections to be held on schedule and said they were reviewing aid to Pakistan.
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UN condemns violence in Afghanistan
Nov 5 2007 9:49PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. General Assembly on Monday strongly condemned the increasing violence and terrorist activity by the Taliban, al-Qaida and other extremist groups in Afghanistan and called for stepped up efforts to help the nation build a stable future after two decades of war.
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China reports major decline in accidents
Nov 5 2007 9:22PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A five-year campaign to improve China's notoriously deadly industrial safety record is seeing results, with accidental deaths falling by 13.9 percent in the first ten months of this year, the country's top safety official said Monday.
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Musharraf's democracy promise fell short
Nov 5 2007 6:24PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pervez Musharraf seized power in a coup eight years ago, promising to bring true democracy _ a move welcomed by many Pakistanis, who were increasingly frustrated by a corrupt civilian government.
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Pakistan silences media in emergency
Nov 5 2007 4:12PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf cites freeing Pakistan's media as one of his proudest achievements, but under emergency rule his regime is stripping those liberties away for fear independent news reports will further fan opposition.
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Western nations reconsider Pakistan aid
Nov 5 2007 4:06PM (CT)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - The Dutch government froze millions of dollars in environmental and educational assistance for Pakistan on Monday, as Western countries reviewed their aid to the nation in response to President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's decision to impose emergency rule.
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Sri Lanka rebel arms-buying goes global
Nov 5 2007 2:40PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - He's known only as KP, and he runs a shadowy smuggling network that stretches from the skyscrapers of New York to the suicide bomber training camps of Sri Lanka.
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Administration weighs Pakistan options
Nov 5 2007 2:07PM (CT)
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - President Bush's top national security aides say U.S. financial backing for Pakistan's counterterrorism efforts likely will go uninterrupted despite the administration's unhappiness with President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of a state of emergency.
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Indonesian volcanos spit lava, dark ash
Nov 5 2007 1:14PM (CT)
MOUNT KELUD, Indonesia (AP) - Several Indonesian volcanos spewed hot ash, molten rock and clouds of dark smoke Monday, and scientists warned a violent eruption could come at any moment.
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Indonesian volcanos spit lava, dark ash
Nov 5 2007 1:14PM (CT)
MOUNT KELUD, Indonesia (AP) - Several Indonesian volcanos spewed hot ash, molten rock and clouds of dark smoke Monday, and scientists warned a violent eruption could come at any moment.
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Indonesian volcanos spit lava, dark ash
Nov 5 2007 1:14PM (CT)
MOUNT KELUD, Indonesia (AP) - Several Indonesian volcanos spewed hot ash, molten rock and clouds of dark smoke Monday, and scientists warned a violent eruption could come at any moment.
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Indonesian volcanos spit lava, dark ash
Nov 5 2007 1:14PM (CT)
MOUNT KELUD, Indonesia (AP) - Several Indonesian volcanos spewed hot ash, molten rock and clouds of dark smoke Monday, and scientists warned a violent eruption could come at any moment.
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Indonesian volcanos spit lava, dark ash
Nov 5 2007 1:14PM (CT)
MOUNT KELUD, Indonesia (AP) - Several Indonesian volcanos spewed hot ash, molten rock and clouds of dark smoke Monday, and scientists warned a violent eruption could come at any moment.
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UN envoy meets with Red Cross in Myanmar
Nov 5 2007 9:43AM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - The U.N.'s special envoy to Myanmar held talks Monday with the foreign minister, representatives of the International Red Cross and some of the country's ethnic minority groups, but has so far failed to meet the leader of the ruling junta, officials said.
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UN envoy meets with Red Cross in Myanmar
Nov 5 2007 9:43AM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - The U.N.'s special envoy to Myanmar held talks Monday with the foreign minister, representatives of the International Red Cross and some of the country's ethnic minority groups, but has so far failed to meet the leader of the ruling junta, officials said.
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Talks with China yield few answers
Nov 5 2007 7:29AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - U.S. defense officials came away Monday with few answers to their many questions about China's military build-up, but the two countries agreed to work together on efforts to steer Iran away from its nuclear ambitions.
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Talks with China yield few answers
Nov 5 2007 7:29AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - U.S. defense officials came away Monday with few answers to their many questions about China's military build-up, but the two countries agreed to work together on efforts to steer Iran away from its nuclear ambitions.
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Talks with China yield few answers
Nov 5 2007 7:29AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - U.S. defense officials came away Monday with few answers to their many questions about China's military build-up, but the two countries agreed to work together on efforts to steer Iran away from its nuclear ambitions.
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SKorea promotes bicycles to ease traffic
Nov 5 2007 7:17AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea is turning to an old-fashioned solution for dealing with its always-clogged roads: encouraging people to ride bicycles.
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Royal barge procession honors Thai king
Nov 5 2007 6:22AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Trumpets and rhythmic chants echoed across the Chao Praya River on Monday in a rare procession of gilded boats honoring Thailand's 79-year-old king, who has been hospitalized for three weeks and was unable to attend the tribute.
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Group fears for Myanmar activists' safety
Nov 5 2007 6:21AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Pro-democracy activists fleeing Myanmar in the wake of a military crackdown have no legal protection and are targets of exploitation once they reach Thailand, a U.S. advocacy group said Monday.
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Floods kill at least 24 in Vietnam
Nov 5 2007 5:53AM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Floods triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 24 people in central Vietnam as residents braced Monday for a tropical storm expected to make landfall later this week.
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China environmentalist's appeal rejected
Nov 5 2007 5:39AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A court has upheld a three-year jail sentence for a Chinese environmental activist who was convicted of blackmailing polluting businesses, a court official said Monday.
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Former top Macau official goes on trial
Nov 5 2007 5:33AM (CT)
MACAU (AP) - A former senior official went on trial Monday charged with taking $100 million in kickbacks in Macau, the freewheeling Chinese gambling resort that has attracted some of Las Vegas' top casino operators.
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