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Karzai makes parliamentary appointments
Dec 9 2005 11:40PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai has made his appointments to the upper house of Afghanistan's parliament, set to convene this month for the first time in over 30 years, officials said Friday.
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China town sealed after police shootings
Dec 9 2005 10:46PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Armed with guns and shields, hundreds of riot police sealed off a southern Chinese village after fatally shooting as many as 10 demonstrators and were searching for the protest organizers, villagers said Friday.
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Japan edgy after spate of child-killings
Dec 9 2005 10:28PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Armed policemen patrol streets on the way to school, education officials draw up safety maps and young students carry alarms to call for help in an emergency.
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Bangladesh holds eight after bombing
Dec 9 2005 9:42PM (CT)
NETROKONA, Bangladesh (AP) - Police detained eight suspects Friday after a suicide bomber blew himself up on a crowded Bangladesh street, killing himself and seven others in an attack blamed on extremists seeking an Islamic state.
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ASEAN nations demand Myanmar speed reforms
Dec 9 2005 5:09PM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Southeast Asian nations on Friday demanded that military-ruled Myanmar speed democratic reforms and free the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, in the strongest display yet of their growing frustration with the junta.
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Bangladesh attack brings fear of militancy
Dec 9 2005 3:29PM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - The plan was as simple as it was deadly: set off a small bomb to attract attention, then send a suicide attacker to kill those drawn in by the first explosion. The suicide bomber killed eight people _ and shook more than just the narrow street where it detonated in a provincial town north of Bangladesh's capital.
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Photo of girl gives Thai parents hope
Dec 9 2005 1:18PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A small, grainy photograph on a Web site has fueled a couple's hopes that their 5-year-old daughter may be alive nearly a year after the Asian tsunami carried her out to sea.
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Doctor suspected of raping quake survivor
Dec 9 2005 8:16AM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - A doctor in charge of a hospital ward for victims of the South Asian earthquake has been arrested on suspicion of raping an 18-year-old survivor, police said. The woman alleged that Dr. Maqsood Ahmed, 43, sexually assaulted her when he treated her for leg injuries at Lahore's Mayo Hospital last Saturday.
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Envoy to China: Treat defectors better
Dec 9 2005 6:43AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The U.S. envoy for human rights in North Korea on Friday urged China to improve its treatment of North Korean defectors and expressed hope the United States could also become an accessible haven for some refugees.
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Rebuilding Kashmir a huge job after quake
Dec 9 2005 12:50AM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Shakeela Yousef was one of the lucky few. When the earthquake flattened much of the rugged city of Muzaffarabad high in the mountains of Kashmir, no one in her family was injured.
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