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WHO investigates bird flu in Pakistan
Dec 21 2007 11:24PM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Limited human-to-human bird flu transmission may have occurred in Pakistan, but no new infections have been reported for two weeks and there appears to be no threat of further spread, a top World Health Organization official said.
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Japan halts plan to kill humpback whales
Dec 21 2007 11:12PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Humpback whales are safe _ at least for now. Giving in to U.S. pressure and worldwide criticism, Japan's government on Friday announced a whaling fleet now in the Southern Ocean for its annual hunt will not kill the threatened species as originally planned. The fleet will, however, kill some 935 minke whales, a smaller, more plentiful species, and 50 fin whales.
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China raises 800-year-old sunken ship
Dec 21 2007 11:12PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - After 800 years at the bottom of the sea, a merchant ship loaded with porcelain and other rare antiques was raised to the surface Friday in a specially built basket, a state news agency reported.
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China raises 800-year-old sunken ship
Dec 21 2007 11:12PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - After 800 years at the bottom of the sea, a merchant ship loaded with porcelain and other rare antiques was raised to the surface Friday in a specially built basket, a state news agency reported.
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Pakistan bombing kills at least 50
Dec 21 2007 11:06PM (CT)
SHERPAO, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani police raided an Islamic school and arrested seven students Friday, hours after a suicide bomber killed at least 50 people inside a mosque packed with holiday worshippers at the home of the former interior minister.
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Pakistan bombing kills at least 50
Dec 21 2007 11:06PM (CT)
SHERPAO, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani police raided an Islamic school and arrested seven students Friday, hours after a suicide bomber killed at least 50 people inside a mosque packed with holiday worshippers at the home of the former interior minister.
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Pakistan bombing kills at least 50
Dec 21 2007 11:06PM (CT)
SHERPAO, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani police raided an Islamic school and arrested seven students Friday, hours after a suicide bomber killed at least 50 people inside a mosque packed with holiday worshippers at the home of the former interior minister.
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Pakistan bombing kills at least 50
Dec 21 2007 11:06PM (CT)
SHERPAO, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani police raided an Islamic school and arrested seven students Friday, hours after a suicide bomber killed at least 50 people inside a mosque packed with holiday worshippers at the home of the former interior minister.
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Taiwan minister rejects US criticism
Dec 21 2007 10:54PM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan's foreign minister on Saturday urged the United States to not "overreact" to the island's planned referendum on U.N. membership after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice objected to the move.
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Nepal court rules for gay rights
Dec 21 2007 7:17PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Nepal's top court ruled Friday that the government must create new laws to protect gay rights and change current ones that might be tantamount to discrimination, an official said.
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Thai ex-PM said to end exile Feb. 14
Dec 21 2007 7:13PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in a military coup last year, will return from exile Feb. 14, a political ally said Friday.
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Pentagon backs UK diplomat in Afghnistan
Dec 21 2007 6:00PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A top Pentagon official said Friday that he's hopeful the U.N. will name a veteran British diplomat as a top envoy in Afghanistan to coordinate international development efforts here.
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US: NKorea won't meet nuclear deadline
Dec 21 2007 3:59PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea may not be able to permanently shut down its nuclear facilities by the end of the year as initially promised, but it appears committed to the process and to declaring all its nuclear programs, the main U.S. envoy to South Korea said Friday.
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Turkmenistan remembers late leader
Dec 21 2007 3:44PM (CT)
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) - Tens of thousands of people on Friday marked the first anniversary of the death of longtime President Saparmurat Niyazov, laying flowers at monuments to the autocratic leader and streaming to his mausoleum.
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Protesters detained in Kyrgyzstan
Dec 21 2007 1:42PM (CT)
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) - Parliament held its first session Friday as police arrested several people protesting an election that strengthened Kyrgyzstan's president but opened the door for further turmoil.
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Uzbek dissident seized after protest
Dec 21 2007 12:42PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - Uzbek secret service agents have seized a prominent poet and dissident who had protested authoritarian leader Islam Karimov's participation in this weekend's presidential vote, one of the writer's sons said Friday.
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Indonesia tosses tourism campaign slogan
Dec 21 2007 7:54AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia's latest campaign to lure tourists got off to a rocky start after embarrassed officials acknowledged that a key slogan was ungrammatical and ordered it corrected.
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Report: Chinese protesters tear gassed
Dec 21 2007 7:04AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - About 1,000 riot police fired tear gas at protesters in southern China who were blocking an electricity pylon near a power station they felt was built on unfairly seized land, a radio station reported Friday.
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Bangladeshi writer seeks free movement
Dec 21 2007 6:51AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin, who fled death threats in her home country, complained Friday that the Indian government was not allowing her to meet friends or travel outside the Indian capital.
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Shanghai business boss' sentence suspended
Dec 21 2007 5:40AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - The former chairman of one of Shanghai's biggest industrial groups has been given a suspended death sentence for corruption, state media said Friday, in a corruption case that has ensnared the city's top communist boss.
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China inaugurates homegrown jet
Dec 21 2007 5:31AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - China's first fully homegrown commercial aircraft, the ARJ-21, rolled off the production line Friday, marking a major step in the country's aviation program.
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Thailand approves internal security law
Dec 21 2007 5:07AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's military-installed parliament approved a controversial internal security law that critics warned Friday will allow the military to maintain a grip on power even after this weekend's general election.
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UN: SKorea coast ecosystem should recover
Dec 21 2007 4:43AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The ecosystem on South Korea's oil-covered coast should recover in three to five years after this month's oil spill, a U.N. expert said Friday.
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Suicide attack kills 35 in Pakistan
Dec 21 2007 4:13AM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - A suicide attacker detonated a bomb early Friday at a mosque outside the home of Pakistan's former interior minister as he received visitors on an Islamic holiday, killing at least 35 people and wounding dozens more, authorities said.
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Suicide attack kills 35 in Pakistan
Dec 21 2007 4:13AM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - A suicide attacker detonated a bomb early Friday at a mosque outside the home of Pakistan's former interior minister as he received visitors on an Islamic holiday, killing at least 35 people and wounding dozens more, authorities said.
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