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Stampede at India relief camp kills 28
Dec 17 2005 11:46PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - A stampede at a relief center in southern India to aid victims of recent floods killed at least 28 and injured 40 early Sunday, a government minister said.
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Groups race to deliver aid in quake zone
Dec 17 2005 8:15PM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - NATO and UNICEF said Saturday that they are racing to get aid to earthquake survivors in the devastated areas of northwestern Pakistan and the disputed Kashmir region before harsh conditions worsen from heavy winter snow and rain.
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Bangladesh police find bomb materials
Dec 17 2005 4:30PM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Police said Saturday they seized two large caches of bomb-making materials and arrested five suspected members of a banned Islamic group that has been blamed for a wave of deadly bombings in this South Asian nation.
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Protesters try to storm WTO talks
Dec 17 2005 10:24AM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Hundreds of protesters wielding bamboo sticks broke through police lines Saturday and tried to storm the convention center hosting global trade talks, but security forces scattered the crowd with tear gas. Police said 41 people were injured and 900 were detained.
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China detains electrician after fire
Dec 17 2005 9:04AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese authorities detained an electrician blamed for a hospital fire in the northeast that killed 39 people, a local Communist Party leader said Saturday as he apologized for the disaster.
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Heavy rains claim 47 lives in Vietnam
Dec 17 2005 7:46AM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Floods and landslides have claimed at least 47 lives in central Vietnam in the past two weeks, disaster officials said Saturday.
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Afghans filled with hope, disillusionment
Dec 17 2005 4:50AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Not so long ago, Mohammad Tahir was a government official with a comfortable salary and a position in the Defense Ministry. Today, he sells bread from a wood shack on the side of a road. To Tahir, democracy is a distant dream.
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