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Pro-democracy candidate wins HK election
Dec 2 2007 10:58PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Pro-democracy candidate Anson Chan, a hugely popular former government official, won a seat in Hong Kong's legislature Monday, a win she hailed as a victory for democracy in the southern Chinese territory.
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Pro-democracy candidate wins HK election
Dec 2 2007 10:58PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Pro-democracy candidate Anson Chan, a hugely popular former government official, won a seat in Hong Kong's legislature Monday, a win she hailed as a victory for democracy in the southern Chinese territory.
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Pro-democracy candidate wins HK election
Dec 2 2007 10:58PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Pro-democracy candidate Anson Chan, a hugely popular former government official, won a seat in Hong Kong's legislature Monday, a win she hailed as a victory for democracy in the southern Chinese territory.
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UN kicks off Bali climate conference
Dec 2 2007 10:55PM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - Delegates and scientists from around the world opened the biggest-ever climate change conference Monday, urging rapid progress in building a new international pact by 2009 to combat global warming _ or risk economic and environmental disaster.
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UN kicks off Bali climate conference
Dec 2 2007 10:55PM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - Delegates and scientists from around the world opened the biggest-ever climate change conference Monday, urging rapid progress in building a new international pact by 2009 to combat global warming _ or risk economic and environmental disaster.
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US envoy heads to NKorea
Dec 2 2007 9:35PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The top U.S. envoy on North Korea departed for the communist country Monday to inspect work to disable its main nuclear reactor, the U.S. Embassy in Seoul said.
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Bhutto warns of rising Islamic militancy
Dec 2 2007 5:01PM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Sunday she would use economic as well as military means to defuse Pakistan's pro-Taliban insurgency, warning "foreign forces" could invade unless the government curbs spreading militancy.
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Bhutto warns of rising Islamic militancy
Dec 2 2007 5:01PM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Sunday she would use economic as well as military means to defuse Pakistan's pro-Taliban insurgency, warning "foreign forces" could invade unless the government curbs spreading militancy.
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Bhutto warns of rising Islamic militancy
Dec 2 2007 5:01PM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Sunday she would use economic as well as military means to defuse Pakistan's pro-Taliban insurgency, warning "foreign forces" could invade unless the government curbs spreading militancy.
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Carbon storage gains support
Dec 2 2007 4:20PM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - In western Japan, researchers fuss over tubes that look like coiled strands of linguini. But this is no cooking class: the scientists are trying to pull carbon dioxide _ the leading cause of global warming _ from power plant exhaust.
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Pakistan's Sharif says he's no extremist
Dec 2 2007 3:59PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Soon after he returned from eight years in exile, Nawaz Sharif reminded his followers that he was the prime minister who made Pakistan a nuclear power.
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Pakistan's Sharif says he's no extremist
Dec 2 2007 3:59PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Soon after he returned from eight years in exile, Nawaz Sharif reminded his followers that he was the prime minister who made Pakistan a nuclear power.
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Pakistan's Sharif says he's no extremist
Dec 2 2007 3:59PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Soon after he returned from eight years in exile, Nawaz Sharif reminded his followers that he was the prime minister who made Pakistan a nuclear power.
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Quake jolts northern Pakistan
Dec 2 2007 7:53AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A moderate earthquake jolted Pakistan's capital and the northwest Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injury.
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China, Japan pledge economic cooperation
Dec 2 2007 6:38AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China and Japan amicably wrapped up their first high-level trade and economic talks on Sunday by pledging greater overall cooperation _ but left the touchy issue of gas exploration in the East China Sea unresolved.
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40 Taliban killed in Afghan clashes
Dec 2 2007 4:52AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan and NATO-led troops battled with Taliban militants and called in airstrikes in a series of clashes in the country's south that left 40 insurgents dead, an official said Sunday.
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Filipino protesters storm US Embassy
Dec 2 2007 2:45AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - About two dozen protesters angry over a rape case involving a Marine stormed the American Embassy on Sunday, hitting a U.S. government seal on the gate with fists and a brick before surprised policemen pushed them away, police and witnesses said.
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Filipino protesters storm US Embassy
Dec 2 2007 2:45AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - About two dozen protesters angry over a rape case involving a Marine stormed the American Embassy on Sunday, hitting a U.S. government seal on the gate with fists and a brick before surprised policemen pushed them away, police and witnesses said.
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