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Chinese city rushes to ensure water supply
Dec 21 2005 11:42PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's southern business capital of Guangzhou, just north of Hong Kong, rushed Thursday to ensure water supplies as a toxic spill from a smelter flowed toward the city of 7 million.
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Rumsfeld warns against early withdrawal
Dec 21 2005 11:14PM (CT)
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AP) - In a holiday season pep talk to U.S. troops, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said an early withdrawal from Afghanistan or Iraq would lead to new terrorist attacks on Americans at home.
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Japan's population drops for first time
Dec 21 2005 9:33PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's population dropped this year for the first time on record, the government said Thursday, signaling a demographic turnaround for one of the world's fastest-aging societies.
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Japan's population drops for first time
Dec 21 2005 9:33PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's population dropped this year for the first time on record, the government said Thursday, signaling a demographic turnaround for one of the world's fastest-aging societies.
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Hong Kong lawmakers veto gov't reform plan
Dec 21 2005 9:25PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - The Chinese government on Thursday criticized a vote by pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong rejecting a reform plan that lacked a timetable for the territory to become fully democratic.
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Police raid firms in building probe
Dec 21 2005 2:17PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Police raided the offices of construction and architecture firms Wednesday as part of a widening investigation of buildings erected using falsified earthquake safety data.
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Human damage outweighs environmental toll
Dec 21 2005 1:47PM (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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Philippines: Suspects had planned attacks
Dec 21 2005 1:36PM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Two captured terror suspects had planned bomb attacks on tourists in the Philippine capital and at the recently concluded Southeast Asian Games, the military said Wednesday.
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Artists try to capture scope of disaster
Dec 21 2005 1:28PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A comic book tells the tale of a young Thai boy swept away by last year's tsunami who ends up being saved by the spirit of his dead father. An animated film shares the story of a grieving husband who lost his wife in the waves and continues having visions of her.
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Artists try to capture scope of disaster
Dec 21 2005 1:28PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A comic book tells the tale of a young Thai boy swept away by last year's tsunami who ends up being saved by the spirit of his dead father. An animated film shares the story of a grieving husband who lost his wife in the waves and continues having visions of her.
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Effort to ID tsumami victims grinds on
Dec 21 2005 12:58PM (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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An American's ordeal in tsunami area
Dec 21 2005 12:57PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Searching for his brother following the Dec. 26 Indian Ocean tsunami, David Abels grew so frustrated with unhelpful Web trails and downed phone lines that he hopped a plane from Chicago to Thailand.
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Baby boom predicted after tsunami
Dec 21 2005 12:56PM (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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American help to Muslims scores points
Dec 21 2005 12:56PM (CT)
LAMPUUK, Indonesia (AP) - There aren't many places in the Islamic world these days where they name streets after American presidents, past or present. But through the tsunami-devastated heart of this village, embedded in a highly conservative Muslim society, runs George Bush and Bill Clinton Road.
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U.S. takes on key project in tsunami area
Dec 21 2005 12:54PM (CT)
ON THE BANDA ACEH-MEULABOH ROAD, Indonesia (AP) - Concrete bridges weighing hundreds of tons were swept away like bathtub toys. The roadbed vanished or was chopped up into islands of asphalt to which homeless, hungry and injured survivors retreated, waiting for U.S. helicopters to spot them and deliver aid.
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Karzai rival elected head of lower house
Dec 21 2005 12:22PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - One of President Hamid Karzai's main rivals was elected to head of the lower house of Afghanistan's new parliament in a close vote Wednesday. Former Education Minister Yunus Qanooni defeated six other candidates, winning 122 votes, while his closest challenger, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, received 117.
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Pakistanis attack suspected insurgents
Dec 21 2005 11:06AM (CT)
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani army helicopters attacked two suspected training camps for tribal insurgents in a restive southwestern province Wednesday.
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Indonesian activist's widow seeks probe
Dec 21 2005 8:54AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - The widow of a murdered Indonesian rights activist called Wednesday for a stepped-up probe into allegations that the man convicted in his poisoning death had links to the state intelligence agency.
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Rebel weapons destroyed in Indonesia
Dec 21 2005 1:18AM (CT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - Rebels in Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged Aceh province watched Wednesday as international peace monitors fed a final batch of the insurgents' weapons into a circular saw _ the symbolic end to a nearly three-decade civil war.
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