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Blast kills 40 in China mine; 74 missing
Dec 5 2007 11:29PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A gas blast at mine in northern China killed at least 40 people Thursday, with another 74 missing, state television reported.
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Philippine court convicts 14 militants
Dec 5 2007 10:37PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A Philippine court convicted 14 Muslim militants Thursday and sentenced them to life in prison for abducting a U.S. missionary couple and 18 others in a 2001 kidnapping spree that left one of the missionaries and another American dead.
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Thailand celebrates king's 80th birthday
Dec 5 2007 4:14PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thais celebrated their revered king's 80th birthday Wednesday, honoring the world's longest-reigning monarch with festivities and prayers amid concerns about his declining health and potentially divisive elections.
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Thailand celebrates king's 80th birthday
Dec 5 2007 4:14PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thais celebrated their revered king's 80th birthday Wednesday, honoring the world's longest-reigning monarch with festivities and prayers amid concerns about his declining health and potentially divisive elections.
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Thailand celebrates king's 80th birthday
Dec 5 2007 4:14PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thais celebrated their revered king's 80th birthday Wednesday, honoring the world's longest-reigning monarch with festivities and prayers amid concerns about his declining health and potentially divisive elections.
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Thailand celebrates king's 80th birthday
Dec 5 2007 4:14PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thais celebrated their revered king's 80th birthday Wednesday, honoring the world's longest-reigning monarch with festivities and prayers amid concerns about his declining health and potentially divisive elections.
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Tibetan quits pageant over China title
Dec 5 2007 3:44PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - A Tibetan woman said Wednesday that she pulled out of a beauty pageant in Malaysia after organizers, reacting to pressure from Beijing, told her halfway through the event that she could only participate if she added "China" to her "Miss Tibet" title.
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US envoy: NKorea efforts on schedule
Dec 5 2007 3:03PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - North Korea's efforts to disable its plutonium-producing reactor by year's end are going as scheduled, the top U.S. nuclear envoy said Wednesday, but differences remain over the nuclear programs the regime will declare.
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US envoy: NKorea efforts on schedule
Dec 5 2007 3:03PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - North Korea's efforts to disable its plutonium-producing reactor by year's end are going as scheduled, the top U.S. nuclear envoy said Wednesday, but differences remain over the nuclear programs the regime will declare.
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US envoy: NKorea efforts on schedule
Dec 5 2007 3:03PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - North Korea's efforts to disable its plutonium-producing reactor by year's end are going as scheduled, the top U.S. nuclear envoy said Wednesday, but differences remain over the nuclear programs the regime will declare.
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US envoy: NKorea efforts on schedule
Dec 5 2007 3:03PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - North Korea's efforts to disable its plutonium-producing reactor by year's end are going as scheduled, the top U.S. nuclear envoy said Wednesday, but differences remain over the nuclear programs the regime will declare.
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World mulls paying for forest protection
Dec 5 2007 2:58PM (CT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - For years Irwandi Yusuf fought for the independence of Aceh province. But now he's at the forefront of another struggle: trying to persuade wealthy nations and companies to offset their carbon emissions by saving his homeland's forests.
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Hong Kong activist sworn in as lawmaker
Dec 5 2007 2:29PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - An outspoken advocate of democracy elected to Hong Kong's legislature this week was sworn in Wednesday, six years after she resigned as the Chinese territory's No. 2 official in dismay over the slow pace of political reform.
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Pakistani judges bear brunt of emergency
Dec 5 2007 2:19PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A month after emergency rule was imposed, the gate to deposed Supreme Court Judge Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday's house remains locked. Five officers stand sentry outside, allowing him to leave only on Fridays to pray at a mosque under police escort.
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Global warming wreaks havoc with nature
Dec 5 2007 2:04PM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - More than 3,000 flying foxes dropped dead, falling from trees in Australia. Giant squid migrated north to commercial fishing grounds off California, gobbling anchovy and hake. Butterflies have gone extinct in the Alps.
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Global warming wreaks havoc with nature
Dec 5 2007 2:04PM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - More than 3,000 flying foxes dropped dead, falling from trees in Australia. Giant squid migrated north to commercial fishing grounds off California, gobbling anchovy and hake. Butterflies have gone extinct in the Alps.
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Global warming wreaks havoc with nature
Dec 5 2007 2:04PM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - More than 3,000 flying foxes dropped dead, falling from trees in Australia. Giant squid migrated north to commercial fishing grounds off California, gobbling anchovy and hake. Butterflies have gone extinct in the Alps.
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Suicide bomber attacks Afghan soldiers
Dec 5 2007 1:59PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a minibus carrying Afghan soldiers in a crowded market south of Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 20, officials said.
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Suicide bomber attacks Afghan soldiers
Dec 5 2007 1:59PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a minibus carrying Afghan soldiers in a crowded market south of Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 20, officials said.
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Suicide bomber attacks Afghan soldiers
Dec 5 2007 1:59PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a minibus carrying Afghan soldiers in a crowded market south of Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 20, officials said.
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Sri Lanka bus attack kills at least 15
Dec 5 2007 1:52PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A land mine explosion blamed on Tamil separatists tore through a passenger bus crowded with civilians in northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday night, killing at least 15 people and wounding 23 others, the military said.
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Sri Lanka bus attack kills at least 15
Dec 5 2007 1:52PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A land mine explosion blamed on Tamil separatists tore through a passenger bus crowded with civilians in northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday night, killing at least 15 people and wounding 23 others, the military said.
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Sri Lanka bus attack kills at least 15
Dec 5 2007 1:52PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A land mine explosion blamed on Tamil separatists tore through a passenger bus crowded with civilians in northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday night, killing at least 15 people and wounding 23 others, the military said.
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Poor nations demand climate technology
Dec 5 2007 1:46PM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - Developing nations at the U.N. Climate Change Conference demanded rapid transfers of technology Wednesday to help them combat global warming, while a report warned that some of Asia's biggest cities could be threatened by rising sea levels.
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Poor nations demand climate technology
Dec 5 2007 1:46PM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - Developing nations at the U.N. Climate Change Conference demanded rapid transfers of technology Wednesday to help them combat global warming, while a report warned that some of Asia's biggest cities could be threatened by rising sea levels.
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Poor nations demand climate technology
Dec 5 2007 1:46PM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - Developing nations at the U.N. Climate Change Conference demanded rapid transfers of technology Wednesday to help them combat global warming, while a report warned that some of Asia's biggest cities could be threatened by rising sea levels.
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Japan climate proposal worries activists
Dec 5 2007 1:46PM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - In an opening gambit, Japan has proposed that the Bali climate conference pursue a broad "least common denominator" approach to negotiating new controls on global-warming gases. Environmentalists couldn't think less of it.
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Sharif, Bhutto near Pakistan poll terms
Dec 5 2007 11:25AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's opposition parties neared agreement Wednesday on a list of demands of President Pervez Musharraf in return for calling off a boycott that could spoil the legitimacy of January parliamentary elections, an official said.
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Sharif, Bhutto near Pakistan poll terms
Dec 5 2007 11:25AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's opposition parties neared agreement Wednesday on a list of demands of President Pervez Musharraf in return for calling off a boycott that could spoil the legitimacy of January parliamentary elections, an official said.
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Suicide bomber kills 13 in Afghanistan
Dec 5 2007 6:32AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a minibus full of Afghan soldiers south of Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 20, officials and witnesses said.
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China tourists, police scuffle in Macau
Dec 5 2007 6:23AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Police armed with riot shields and batons were called in to subdue angry tourists from mainland China who clashed with tour guides in the tiny gambling enclave of Macau, police said Wednesday.
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NKorea opens new tour of historic sites
Dec 5 2007 4:58AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - More than 300 South Koreans crossed the heavily fortified border with North Korea on Wednesday on a new tour of historic sites around the North's western border city of Kaesong, a South Korean tour operator said.
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Piece of jet found on Indonesia runway
Dec 5 2007 4:57AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Workers found a piece of a wing from a passenger jet on the runway at Indonesia's main airport and investigators are trying to determine which plane it fell from, officials said Wednesday.
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Vietnam hold 2 US citizens for petitions
Dec 5 2007 1:10AM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Vietnam has arrested two American citizens for investigation of terrorism for distributing pro-democracy petitions and is holding two others on unspecified charges, the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday.
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Suspect in foiled Philippine coup caught
Dec 5 2007 12:26AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Police arrested an army soldier who allegedly took part in last week's botched coup attempt as he tried to board a flight to the U.S. on Wednesday, officials said.
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