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Report: Explosion kills 30 miners in China
Nov 27 2005 9:44PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - An explosion tore through a coal mine in northeast China, leaving at least 30 miners dead and more than 100 missing, state media reported Monday.
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Top Sri Lanka rebel issues ultimatum
Nov 27 2005 7:42PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka's top rebel leader issued an ultimatum to the country's new government on Sunday: address the grievances of the Tamil minority or face a renewed struggle for independence.
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Running water restored to Chinese city
Nov 27 2005 5:56PM (CT)
HARBIN, China (AP) - Running water returned to this northeast city of 3.8 million people Sunday, ending a five-day shutdown blamed on a chemical spill that embarrassed the government and highlighted China's mounting environmental problems.
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Chinese trying to recover from quake
Nov 27 2005 5:39PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Zhang Xuping and his family dashed out of their home as soon as they felt the ground shaking. Minutes later, their neighbor was killed and buildings near them collapsed as a strong earthquake rolled through their village in central China.
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Conspirator in Gandhi's assassination dies
Nov 27 2005 4:50PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Gopal Vinayak Godse, the last surviving conspirator in the assassination of the Indian independence leader and pacifist icon Mohandas Gandhi, has died. He was 86.
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Authorities find unexploded bomb in Tokyo
Nov 27 2005 7:27AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Thousands of residents were evacuated in Tokyo on Sunday while authorities dug up an unexploded 550-pound bomb, believed to have been dropped by the United States during World War II, a local official said.
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Troops who burned Taliban face discipline
Nov 27 2005 3:58AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Four U.S. soldiers face disciplinary action for burning the bodies of two Taliban rebels _ a videotaped incident that sparked outrage in Afghanistan _ but they will not be prosecuted because their actions were motivated by hygienic concerns, the military said Saturday.
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Vietnam stages mock bird flu drill
Nov 27 2005 3:53AM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - The mock scenario was deadly serious: a Vietnamese laboratory had confirmed the bird flu virus had mutated and was spreading from person to person. Wailing ambulances carried a team of doctors to the affected Hanoi neighborhood. Clad from head to toe in green biohazard suits, boots, goggles and masks, they were ready to battle the start of a pandemic.
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Rain, snow halt relief efforts in Kashmir
Nov 27 2005 2:53AM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Heavy rains and overnight light snow added to the misery of earthquake survivors and shut down relief deliveries by helicopter on Sunday. But officials said they were still able to use roads to get food and other supplies to people in remote areas.
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