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Taiwanese first lady passes out at trial
Dec 15 2006 11:58PM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan's first lady passed out during the opening session of her embezzlement and forgery trial Friday, throwing into chaos the court proceedings that could force her husband from office.
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Celebrities seek action against Myanmar
Dec 15 2006 11:47PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Actors and musicians including Tim Robbins and Peter Gabriel called on the U.N. Security Council Friday to approve its first resolution on Myanmar, whose military regime has waged a brutal offensive against ethnic minorities.
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Nepal, rebels OK deal on constitution
Dec 15 2006 11:18PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Nepal's ruling parties and communist rebels reached an agreement on an interim constitution Saturday, a crucial development in the country's peace process.
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Richardson optimistic for N. Korea talks
Dec 15 2006 9:40PM (CT)
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - North Korean officials said "everything's on the table" as the reclusive communist country heads back to six-nation talks about its nuclear program, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Friday after a meeting with two North Korean diplomats.
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Experts: Asia slow to act on pollution
Dec 15 2006 2:29PM (CT)
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Japan says soot from Chinese power stations is poisoning its lakes. Coal emissions from India and China are polluting the air in Bangladesh. Land-clearing forest fires in Indonesia routinely send a choking haze across Singapore and Malaysia.
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India hunting for killer elephant
Dec 15 2006 11:23AM (CT)
GAUHATI, India (AP) - Hunters in India's remote northeast are tracking a rogue elephant blamed for 14 deaths in the region and named after Osama bin Laden by fearful villagers.
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Japan enacts bill to teach patriotism
Dec 15 2006 10:01AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's conservative government revised the country's central education law Friday to require schools to encourage patriotism in the classroom and upgraded the Defense Agency to a full ministry for the first time since World War II.
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Politician says Pakistan backing Taliban
Dec 15 2006 9:59AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan must subject its intelligence agencies to parliamentary and legal controls to address suspicions they are supporting the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, an opposition politician said.
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Ban Ki-moon lays out U.N. agenda
Dec 15 2006 5:48AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - South Korea's Ban Ki-moon laid out an ambitious agenda as the next U.N. secretary-general, promising to become personally engaged in efforts to bring peace to the Mideast and Darfur and to clean up the world body.
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