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Pro-rebel legislator killed in Sri Lanka
Dec 24 2005 10:12PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Gunmen shot and killed a pro-rebel legislator during midnight Christmas Mass, the government said Sunday, as escalating violence continued to threaten a shaky cease-fire.
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Mourners remember 216,000 tsunami victims
Dec 24 2005 10:09PM (CT)
PHUKET, Thailand (AP) - Amid Christmas lights strung along the beachfront, a cluster of mourners bowed their heads toward the ocean at dusk Saturday and offered prayers for the hundreds of thousands killed a year ago in the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Kids in quake-hit Pakistan receive gifts
Dec 24 2005 6:42PM (CT)
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - High in the mountains of Kashmir, where few have heard of Christmas, an American admiral on Saturday surprised hundreds of child survivors of the massive South Asian quake with gifts of stuffed toys and candies.
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Azerbaijanis cite control system in crash
Dec 24 2005 4:53PM (CT)
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) - The failure of an Azerbaijani airliner's control system likely caused it to crash, killing all 23 people on board, an airline official said Saturday.
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China, N. Korea ink oil-exploration pact
Dec 24 2005 4:43PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China and North Korea signed an agreement Saturday to jointly develop offshore oil reserves, the Chinese government said, amid efforts to prod the North to speed up economic reforms.
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Tsunami warning system a work in progress
Dec 24 2005 4:18PM (CT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - It doesn't look much like an escape route yet. The path between two plots of property on Indonesia's tsunami-wrecked coastline is strewn with smashed masonry and is blocked by a pond. The planned escape route in the Indonesian town of Banda Aceh represents the low-tech end of a sophisticated network of seismic monitoring, satellite communications and underwater sensors that is meant to give early warning in case of another tsunami.
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Bomb squads sweep churches in Indonesia
Dec 24 2005 3:15PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Bomb squads checked churches Saturday and hotel security guards in Santa Claus suits searched cars after police warned that al-Qaida-linked militants might be plotting Christmas terror attacks in this predominantly Muslim nation.
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Tsunami failed to bring peace in Sri Lanka
Dec 24 2005 2:37PM (CT)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - Last year's tsunami, which devastated Indonesia's Aceh province and killed 131,000 people there, served as a catalyst for the government and separatist rebels to end one of the longest wars in modern history. In Sri Lanka, however, the giant waves that left 31,000 dead there had the opposite effect.
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Equipment failure possible cause of crash
Dec 24 2005 12:05PM (CT)
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) - Equipment failure may have caused a plane crash that killed 23 people on the Caspian Sea coast, an airline official said Saturday. All 18 passengers and five crew on the Azerbaijani Airlines An-140 twin-engine turboprop died in the crash late Friday, said Rustam Usubov, Azerbaijan's first deputy prosecutor general.
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Pakistani man kills daughter for marrying
Dec 24 2005 11:19AM (CT)
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) - A father angry that his eldest daughter married for love slit her throat as she slept, then killed three other daughters in a remote village in eastern Pakistan, police said Saturday.
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Swedish boy mourns mother lost in tsunami
Dec 24 2005 9:37AM (CT)
PHUKET, Thailand (AP) - Gunlog Sanner Norling and her husband had never been to Thailand before. But instead of spending Christmas alone in Sweden, they decided to join their son-in-law and grandsons in the country where their daughter perished in last year's tsunami.
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Tsunami survivors mark first anniversary
Dec 24 2005 8:54AM (CT)
PHUKET, Thailand (AP) - Survivors launched a boat laden with flowers, candles and incense in the first ceremony Saturday to mark one year since the Indian Ocean tsunami swept away at least 216,000 lives in one of the world's worst natural disasters in memory.
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Swedish boy mourns mother lost in tsunami
Dec 24 2005 7:18AM (CT)
PHUKET, Thailand (AP) - Gunlog Sanner Norling and her husband had never been to Thailand before. But instead of spending Christmas alone in Sweden, they decided to join their son-in-law and grandsons in the country where their daughter perished in last year's tsunami.
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Tsunami victims return to Thai resorts
Dec 24 2005 6:28AM (CT)
KHAO LAK, Thailand (AP) - The tsunami robbed Karen Ballhausen of her husband of 43 years and so traumatized her that the veteran diver can no longer even enter a swimming pool.
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Japan to proceed with joint missile program
Dec 24 2005 1:38AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The Japanese government has decided to move forward with a ballistic missile defense program with the United States, a government official said Saturday.
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