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Indian PM welcomes Pakistan peace plans
Dec 20 2006 11:46PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday welcomed recent peace proposals from Pakistan in the latest sign the rivals may be ready to start hashing out a deal over divided Kashmir.
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North Korea not budging on sanctions
Dec 20 2006 11:06PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - North Korea has refused to scrap its demand that the U.S. lift financial restrictions against the communist country, but talks resumed Thursday to resolve the broader issue of persuading the North to renounce its nuclear efforts.
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Rebels accused of kidnapping children
Dec 20 2006 9:04PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka's government accused Tamil Tiger rebels on Wednesday of abducting more than 400 underage boys and girls from government-controlled areas this year to be trained as combatants and asked the insurgents to stop the practice.
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Investors flee Thailand stock market
Dec 20 2006 3:02PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - "The 820 Billion Baht Blunder." The headline in Bangkok's The Nation newspaper on Wednesday reflected the damage wrought as investors fled the southeast Asian nation's market on Tuesday after its military government imposed restrictions on foreign investment.
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French pulls troops from Afghanistan
Dec 20 2006 2:15PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - As violence mounts in Afghanistan, France is pulling 200 of its best soldiers out. But military officials here insist France remains fully committed, with 1,100 troops still based in Kabul.
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Distraction blamed in Japan train crash
Dec 20 2006 1:34PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A government panel investigating Japan's worst train wreck in decades said Wednesday the driver may have failed to use the brakes in time because he was distracted by a radio conversation.
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26,000 evacuated from Malaysia floods
Dec 20 2006 11:49AM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains has forced more than 20,000 people to flee their homes in the southern Malaysian state of Johor, officials said Wednesday.
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Bomb injures 7 people in Pakistan
Dec 20 2006 10:25AM (CT)
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - A bomb rigged to a bicycle exploded Wednesday in the southwestern Pakistan city of Quetta, wounding seven people, police said.
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Indian court sentences politician's son
Dec 20 2006 9:50AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sentenced a wealthy Indian politician's son to life in prison for the 1999 killing of a former model.
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Jailed Chinese journalist is freed early
Dec 20 2006 9:23AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - A journalist serving a 13-year jail term for reporting about a bogus irrigation project has been released five years early to unusually vocal official acclaim for his determination to fight corruption.
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Teen pleads guilty to Internet charge
Dec 20 2006 2:36AM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - A Singapore teenager has pleaded guilty to tapping into a neighbor's wireless Internet network and will be sentenced next month, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
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U.S. nuke envoy hopes Japan-N.Korea meet
Dec 20 2006 2:00AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The top U.S. envoy to the North Korean nuclear talks expressed hope Wednesday that Japan and North Korea would meet on the sidelines of the six-nation negotiations to discuss normalizing their relations.
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