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Singapore hangs Australian drug smuggler
Dec 1 2005 11:33PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - Singapore executed a 25-year-old Australian on Friday for drug trafficking, after he had a "beautiful last visit" with his family. Australia's leader protested the sentence, saying it would damage ties.
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Nations promote awareness on AIDS Day
Dec 1 2005 11:00PM (CT)
FATICK, Senegal (AP) - Schoolchildren in Senegal pledged to abstain from sex and village women in India cast off a veil of shame about their HIV status as World AIDS Day was marked Thursday around the globe.
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Annan cancels Asia trip for budget debate
Dec 1 2005 10:54PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan canceled a two-week trip to Asia which was scheduled to start Saturday because of the debate over the U.N. budget and other "urgent political issues," the U.N. announced late Thursday.
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Death toll in China mine blast reaches 166
Dec 1 2005 10:50PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The death toll from a coal mine explosion in northeastern China rose to 166 Friday with the discovery of two more bodies, the government said.
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Quake survivors ask aid for flu, pneumonia
Dec 1 2005 3:56PM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Hundreds of survivors of Pakistan's huge earthquake filled hospitals Thursday for treatment of pneumonia and flu as temperatures plunged below freezing with the arrival of the brutal Himalayan winter.
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Laotian regime's grip is as tight as ever
Dec 1 2005 2:25PM (CT)
VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) - As the aging revolutionaries of Laos celebrate 30 years in power, their country looks less communist, and speech is a little more free. It is open to tourists and is warming up to an old enemy _ the United States. But when it comes to real change in one of the five one-party communist states left in the world, the regime's grip is as tight as ever.
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Australian to be executed in Singapore
Dec 1 2005 2:24PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - The family of an Australian man convicted of drug trafficking visited him Thursday, hours before his scheduled execution, and Singapore's prime minister ruled out a reprieve. Nguyen Tuong Van is scheduled to hang early Friday morning (5 p.m. EST) at the maximum-security Changi Prison.
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S. Korean workers defy warning with strike
Dec 1 2005 1:40PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - About 60,000 South Korean workers defied a government warning by going on strike Thursday to demand better protection for part-time workers.
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Bad liquor kills 9 at Bangladesh wedding
Dec 1 2005 12:05PM (CT)
SYLHET, Bangladesh (AP) - Nine wedding guests died Thursday of suspected alcohol poisoning from drinking toxic home-brewed liquor in a northeastern village, a doctor said.
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One person killed in Bangladesh bombing
Dec 1 2005 10:39AM (CT)
GAZIPUR, Bangladesh (AP) - A bomb thrown by an Islamic militant disguised as a tea vendor exploded outside a government building Thursday in a town near the Bangladeshi capital, killing one person and wounding at least 29, authorities said.
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U.S.-Afghan aid expected to reach $5.5B
Dec 1 2005 9:03AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. development assistance to Afghanistan is expected to reach $5.5 billion in the next five years, the Afghan finance minister said Thursday as the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding on aid agreements.
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Singapore leader: Execution to go ahead
Dec 1 2005 8:51AM (CT)
BERLIN (AP) - Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Thursday there would be no clemency for an Australian drug smuggler who is to be executed at dawn on Friday. "We take a very serious view of drug trafficking _ the penalty is death," Lee said in answer to a question after meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "The law will have to take its course."
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India erecting a tsunami memorial
Dec 1 2005 8:31AM (CT)
BANGALORE, India (AP) - India is building a tsunami memorial at the southern tip of its mainland, where three seas meet, as a tribute to human courage and resilience following the disaster, an official said Thursday.
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Peruvian man admits killing Japanese girl
Dec 1 2005 8:09AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A Peruvian man of Japanese descent has told lawyers he killed a 7-year-old schoolgirl whose body was found in a cardboard box in western Japan last month, a report said Thursday.
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Chinese river town shuts down water supply
Dec 1 2005 5:23AM (CT)
DALIANHE, China (AP) - Residents of a town along a poisoned river in northern China lined up with jugs and buckets to get water from trucks Thursday after officials shut down running water to 26,000 people.
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Japan to submit female succession bill
Dec 1 2005 1:11AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The Japanese government will submit a bill to allow women to assume the imperial throne in the parliamentary session starting in January, a top official said Thursday.
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