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U.S. ran Afghan torture prison, group says
Dec 18 2005 11:20PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The United States operated a secret prison in Afghanistan as recently as last year, torturing detainees with sleep deprivation, chaining them to the walls and forcing them to listen to loud music in total darkness for days, a human rights group alleged Monday.
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Experts weigh damage by tsunami, humans
Dec 18 2005 10:30PM (CT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - There's enough tsunami trash in this Indonesian city to make a three-story-high pile covering 30 football fields. In Sri Lanka, the volume of waste dumped in lagoons and waterways is more than twice what was generated by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, by U.N. estimate.
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Parliament to convene in Afghanistan
Dec 18 2005 8:49PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Sayyad Mohammad Muhsin, a former militia fighter, came ready for his new role in parliament with his goals handwritten on both sides of a small sheet of paper.
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Stampede kills 42 India flood survivors
Dec 18 2005 12:37PM (CT)
MADRAS, India (AP) - Thousands of flood victims waiting in line for relief vouchers Sunday stampeded into a government-run distribution center in southern India, killing at least 42 people and injuring 37, police said.
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Signs of devastation linger in tsunami zone
Dec 18 2005 12:18PM (CT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - There's enough tsunami trash in this Indonesian city to make a three-story-high pile covering 30 football fields. In Sri Lanka, the volume of waste dumped in lagoons and waterways is more than twice what was generated by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, by U.N. estimate.
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Victims still being identified, a year later
Dec 18 2005 12:17PM (CT)
KHAO LAK, Thailand (AP) - One year after the Indian Ocean tsunami, the world's ID sleuths press on with their grisly task. In a DNA lab in Sarajevo, the experience drawn from Bosnia's mass graves is helping to put names to bodies in a morgue at a Thai holiday resort 5,000 miles away.
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Baby boom predicted among grieving parents
Dec 18 2005 12:17PM (CT)
JANTHO, Indonesia (AP) - Giggling women swarm outside a little gray tent in Block D of a sprawling refugee camp. The attraction is one tiny miracle _ 2-month-old Asmaul Tzuchina, swaying peacefully in a cloth hammock.
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Chinese media print slain villagers' names
Dec 18 2005 6:40AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese state media on Sunday published the names of three villagers killed by police during a protest over the seizure of land for a power plant and provided a rare and vivid account of the small-town politics that led to the bloody confrontation.
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Report: Bhutan's king to step down in 2008
Dec 18 2005 6:39AM (CT)
GAUHATI, India (AP) - The king of the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan has said he will step down as ruler in 2008 and hold the country's first national elections for a parliamentary democracy, state media reported Sunday.
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Groups seek end of Thai militant blacklist
Dec 18 2005 3:55AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand should end its policy of blacklisting suspected militants in the restive south because it could lead to arbitrary detention and torture, a U.S.-based human rights group said.
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