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UN envoy in Myanmar after 4-year ban
Nov 12 2007 11:33PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A U.N. envoy who returned to Myanmar after a four-year ban visited a notorious prison for political prisoners Monday as he began investigating how many people were killed and detained in a crackdown on demonstrators.
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UN envoy in Myanmar after 4-year ban
Nov 12 2007 11:33PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A U.N. envoy who returned to Myanmar after a four-year ban visited a notorious prison for political prisoners Monday as he began investigating how many people were killed and detained in a crackdown on demonstrators.
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UN envoy in Myanmar after 4-year ban
Nov 12 2007 11:33PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A U.N. envoy who returned to Myanmar after a four-year ban visited a notorious prison for political prisoners Monday as he began investigating how many people were killed and detained in a crackdown on demonstrators.
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Bhutto placed under house arrest again
Nov 12 2007 11:03PM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest for the second time in a week to prevent her staging a march on Tuesday to protest emergency rule, police said. A close aide to the former prime minister said she would try to lead the 185-mile procession anyway.
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Bhutto placed under house arrest again
Nov 12 2007 11:03PM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest for the second time in a week to prevent her staging a march on Tuesday to protest emergency rule, police said. A close aide to the former prime minister said she would try to lead the 185-mile procession anyway.
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Bhutto placed under house arrest again
Nov 12 2007 11:03PM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest for the second time in a week to prevent her staging a march on Tuesday to protest emergency rule, police said. A close aide to the former prime minister said she would try to lead the 185-mile procession anyway.
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Bhutto placed under house arrest again
Nov 12 2007 11:03PM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest for the second time in a week to prevent her staging a march on Tuesday to protest emergency rule, police said. A close aide to the former prime minister said she would try to lead the 185-mile procession anyway.
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Bhutto placed under house arrest again
Nov 12 2007 11:03PM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest for the second time in a week to prevent her staging a march on Tuesday to protest emergency rule, police said. A close aide to the former prime minister said she would try to lead the 185-mile procession anyway.
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Bhutto placed under house arrest again
Nov 12 2007 11:03PM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest for the second time in a week to prevent her staging a march on Tuesday to protest emergency rule, police said. A close aide to the former prime minister said she would try to lead the 185-mile procession anyway.
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Bhutto placed under house arrest again
Nov 12 2007 11:03PM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest for the second time in a week to prevent her staging a march on Tuesday to protest emergency rule, police said. A close aide to the former prime minister said she would try to lead the 185-mile procession anyway.
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Funds for North Korean refugees tied up
Nov 12 2007 9:12PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Millions of dollars earmarked by the U.S. government to help North Koreans fleeing their impoverished homeland are still tied up by red tape three years after the money was authorized, a U.S. official said Monday.
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Khmer Rouge ex-foreign minister arrested
Nov 12 2007 2:18PM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Ieng Sary, who served as foreign minister in Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime, was brought before the country's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal with his wife Monday to face charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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Khmer Rouge ex-foreign minister arrested
Nov 12 2007 2:18PM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Ieng Sary, who served as foreign minister in Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime, was brought before the country's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal with his wife Monday to face charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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China tracks Summer Olympics journalists
Nov 12 2007 2:07PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The Chinese government has created profiles on thousands of foreign journalists coming to report on next summer's Beijing Olympics and is gathering information on thousands more to put into a database, a top official said in comments published Monday.
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Troops made US citizens in Afghanistan
Nov 12 2007 11:11AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Sixty U.S. service members from countries including Cuba, Ethiopia, the Philippines and Vietnam became American citizens on Monday during a ceremony in Afghanistan.
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Troops made US citizens in Afghanistan
Nov 12 2007 11:11AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Sixty U.S. service members from countries including Cuba, Ethiopia, the Philippines and Vietnam became American citizens on Monday during a ceremony in Afghanistan.
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China pandas forced to migrate for food
Nov 12 2007 11:11AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Giant pandas are being forced to move from a remote mountainous area in southwestern China due to food shortages as their staple bamboo withers, an animal expert said Monday.
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China pandas forced to migrate for food
Nov 12 2007 11:11AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Giant pandas are being forced to move from a remote mountainous area in southwestern China due to food shortages as their staple bamboo withers, an animal expert said Monday.
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China pandas forced to migrate for food
Nov 12 2007 11:11AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Giant pandas are being forced to move from a remote mountainous area in southwestern China due to food shortages as their staple bamboo withers, an animal expert said Monday.
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US-led troops kill 18 in Afghanistan
Nov 12 2007 6:31AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S.-led coalition troops battling suspected militants in southern Afghanistan lobbed a grenade that destroyed a house and killed 15 militants as well as a woman and two children, the coalition said Monday.
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Japan Diet committee OKs new naval bill
Nov 12 2007 2:54AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese parliamentary committee on Monday approved renewing a limited version of a naval mission in the Indian Ocean that had directly aided the U.S. effort in Afghanistan but was halted by an impasse in the legislature.
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Pakistan: Nuclear arms well guarded
Nov 12 2007 2:45AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan said Monday its nuclear weapons were secure and that there was no risk they would be seized by Taliban or al-Qaida-linked militants who have expanded their control beyond northwestern border regions.
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