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Official: Major oil spill off SKorea
Dec 6 2007 11:55PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A Hong Kong-registered oil tanker collided with another vessel in seas off South Korea's west coast Friday and leaked about 15,000 tons of crude oil, an official with the Maritime and Fisheries Ministry said.
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Deaths rise to 105 in China mine blast
Dec 6 2007 11:13PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The death toll in a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China rose to 105 Friday after 26 more bodies were recovered, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
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Deaths rise to 105 in China mine blast
Dec 6 2007 11:13PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The death toll in a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China rose to 105 Friday after 26 more bodies were recovered, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
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Pakistan troops take militant-held towns
Dec 6 2007 3:35PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Security forces blew up the home of a fugitive pro-Taliban cleric Thursday after capturing two militant-held towns in northern Pakistan, the army said.
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March to deposed judge's home blocked
Dec 6 2007 3:32PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Thousands of lawyers boycotted courts across Pakistan on Thursday, hoisting black flags and staging rallies to demand an end to emergency rule, and police blocked former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from marching to the heavily guarded home of the deposed Supreme Court chief justice.
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March to deposed judge's home blocked
Dec 6 2007 3:32PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Thousands of lawyers boycotted courts across Pakistan on Thursday, hoisting black flags and staging rallies to demand an end to emergency rule, and police blocked former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from marching to the heavily guarded home of the deposed Supreme Court chief justice.
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March to deposed judge's home blocked
Dec 6 2007 3:32PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Thousands of lawyers boycotted courts across Pakistan on Thursday, hoisting black flags and staging rallies to demand an end to emergency rule, and police blocked former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from marching to the heavily guarded home of the deposed Supreme Court chief justice.
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March to deposed judge's home blocked
Dec 6 2007 3:32PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Thousands of lawyers boycotted courts across Pakistan on Thursday, hoisting black flags and staging rallies to demand an end to emergency rule, and police blocked former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from marching to the heavily guarded home of the deposed Supreme Court chief justice.
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March to deposed judge's home blocked
Dec 6 2007 3:32PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Thousands of lawyers boycotted courts across Pakistan on Thursday, hoisting black flags and staging rallies to demand an end to emergency rule, and police blocked former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from marching to the heavily guarded home of the deposed Supreme Court chief justice.
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Philippine court convicts 14 militants
Dec 6 2007 3:11PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Fourteen al-Qaida-linked Muslim militants were sentenced to life in prison Thursday for kidnapping a U.S. missionary couple and 18 others, beginning a yearlong jungle ordeal that prompted U.S.-backed offensives against the guerrillas.
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Philippine court convicts 14 militants
Dec 6 2007 3:11PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Fourteen al-Qaida-linked Muslim militants were sentenced to life in prison Thursday for kidnapping a U.S. missionary couple and 18 others, beginning a yearlong jungle ordeal that prompted U.S.-backed offensives against the guerrillas.
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Global warming puts Amazon at risk
Dec 6 2007 2:47PM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - The impact of climate change plus deforestation could wipe out or severely damage nearly 60 percent of the Amazon forest by 2030 _ making it impossible to keep global temperatures from reaching catastrophic levels, an environmental group said Thursday.
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US on defensive at climate conference
Dec 6 2007 2:24PM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - First Australia won international applause for abandoning the United States and signing a global warming pact Washington has long opposed. Then a U.S. Senate committee voted for deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
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US on defensive at climate conference
Dec 6 2007 2:24PM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - First Australia won international applause for abandoning the United States and signing a global warming pact Washington has long opposed. Then a U.S. Senate committee voted for deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
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Cracks in F-15s at US base in Japan
Dec 6 2007 9:59AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Cracks were found in two F-15s deployed in Japan during an investigation that followed the crash of the fighter jet in the United States last month, the U.S. military said Thursday.
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Bush sends letter to North Korean leader
Dec 6 2007 9:06AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - President Bush sent a "personal letter" to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the Communist country's official news agency said Thursday, although it did not reveal its contents.
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Bush sends letter to North Korean leader
Dec 6 2007 9:06AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - President Bush sent a "personal letter" to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the Communist country's official news agency said Thursday, although it did not reveal its contents.
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S. Korea to send more food aid to North
Dec 6 2007 8:15AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea will send North Korea 50,000 tons of corn to help ease its chronic food shortages, an official said Thursday, as North Korean defectors claimed that Seoul's aid rarely reaches those who need it the most.
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India police break up tiger poaching ring
Dec 6 2007 5:53AM (CT)
LUCKNOW, India (AP) - Police broke up a major tiger poaching ring in northern India, arresting an alleged kingpin and 15 others, police and wildlife officials said Thursday.
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China studying US intel report on Iran
Dec 6 2007 5:41AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's government is studying a U.S. intelligence review that concludes Iran stopped developing nuclear weapons in 2003, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
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Terror warning in Indian capital
Dec 6 2007 5:01AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Indian authorities warned that six Islamic militants were driving around the capital looking for potential bombing targets Thursday, the 15th anniversary of the destruction of a famed mosque by Hindu extremists in northern India.
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Terror warning in Indian capital
Dec 6 2007 5:01AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Indian authorities warned that six Islamic militants were driving around the capital looking for potential bombing targets Thursday, the 15th anniversary of the destruction of a famed mosque by Hindu extremists in northern India.
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Terror warning in Indian capital
Dec 6 2007 5:01AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Indian authorities warned that six Islamic militants were driving around the capital looking for potential bombing targets Thursday, the 15th anniversary of the destruction of a famed mosque by Hindu extremists in northern India.
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Sri Lanka bus attack kills at least 16
Dec 6 2007 2:59AM (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 16 people and wounding 22 others, the military said.
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Sri Lanka bus attack kills at least 16
Dec 6 2007 2:59AM (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 16 people and wounding 22 others, the military said.
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Sri Lanka bus attack kills at least 16
Dec 6 2007 2:59AM (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 16 people and wounding 22 others, the military said.
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Juvenile crime on rise in China
Dec 6 2007 2:13AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The number of underage criminals in China has more than doubled in the last decade, and experts blame the rise on broken families, loosened social controls and the Internet's negative influence, an official newspaper reported.
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Pakistani judges bear brunt of emergency
Dec 6 2007 2:04AM (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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