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Security boosted at Indonesian churches
Dec 18 2006 11:46PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Thousands of police will guard Christian churches across the world's most populous Muslim country over the Christmas holidays, officials said Monday, as the U.S. Embassy warned that terrorists could carry out strikes targeting Westerners.
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U.S. says no progress at nuclear talks
Dec 18 2006 11:28PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The chief U.S. negotiator said Tuesday there had been no progress yet at renewed six-nation talks aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear arms program in exchange for economic aid and security guarantees.
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Study: 10M fewer girls born in India
Dec 18 2006 1:44PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Lawmakers and women's rights activists raised an alarm Monday over new evidence indicating about 7,000 fewer girls than expected are born each day in India, where women routinely suffer discrimination and parents often abort female fetuses.
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Afghanistan government fires governor
Dec 18 2006 1:30PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Afghan government has fired the governor of its biggest drug-producing province, a center of Taliban resistance that has seen some of the country's heaviest fighting this year, officials said Monday.
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Scientist says he cloned female dog
Dec 18 2006 10:47AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A former collaborator of disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk claimed Monday that he succeeded in cloning a female dog after last year's breakthrough of creating the world's first cloned dog, which was male.
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Bomber wounds 2 troops in Afghanistan
Dec 18 2006 9:19AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a coalition convoy Monday, wounding two troops of the U.S.-led coalition, the military said.
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Quake in Indonesia kills 7, injures 100
Dec 18 2006 4:15AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A moderate earthquake killed at least seven people and injured 100 early Monday, spreading panic across a large swath of the Indonesian island worst hit by the 2004 Asian tsunami, witnesses and officials said.
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