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2 S.Korean captains arrested over spill
Dec 24 2007 11:27PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The captains of a barge and its tugboat have been arrested on charges of causing the accident that led to South Korea's worst-ever oil spill, a coast guard official said Tuesday.
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Top Thai parties jockey for power
Dec 24 2007 10:04PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's leading parties wooed possible partners for a coalition government on Monday, a day after allies of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra came out on top in the country's first election since he was ousted in a September 2006 military coup.
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Top Thai parties jockey for power
Dec 24 2007 10:04PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's leading parties wooed possible partners for a coalition government on Monday, a day after allies of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra came out on top in the country's first election since he was ousted in a September 2006 military coup.
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Top Thai parties jockey for power
Dec 24 2007 10:04PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's leading parties wooed possible partners for a coalition government on Monday, a day after allies of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra came out on top in the country's first election since he was ousted in a September 2006 military coup.
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Top Thai parties jockey for power
Dec 24 2007 10:04PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's leading parties wooed possible partners for a coalition government on Monday, a day after allies of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra came out on top in the country's first election since he was ousted in a September 2006 military coup.
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Top Thai parties jockey for power
Dec 24 2007 10:04PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's leading parties wooed possible partners for a coalition government on Monday, a day after allies of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra came out on top in the country's first election since he was ousted in a September 2006 military coup.
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Uzbek leader wins new term
Dec 24 2007 3:23PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - Uzbekistan's authoritarian President Islam Karimov, who has ruled the Central Asian nation for nearly two decades, has won another seven-year term with 88.1 percent of the votes, according to early returns released by Central Election Commission on Monday _ an election critics dismissed as a sham.
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Nepal to abolish monarchy
Dec 24 2007 2:26PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - The world's last Hindu monarchy is to be swept aside under an agreement between Nepal's former communist rebels and its major political parties that sets the stage for the country once idealized as a Himalayan Shangri La to become a republic.
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Nepal to abolish monarchy
Dec 24 2007 2:26PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - The world's last Hindu monarchy is to be swept aside under an agreement between Nepal's former communist rebels and its major political parties that sets the stage for the country once idealized as a Himalayan Shangri La to become a republic.
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Nepal to abolish monarchy
Dec 24 2007 2:26PM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - The world's last Hindu monarchy is to be swept aside under an agreement between Nepal's former communist rebels and its major political parties that sets the stage for the country once idealized as a Himalayan Shangri La to become a republic.
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Pakistani election campaign intensifies
Dec 24 2007 12:02PM (CT)
SUKKUR, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's opposition leaders fanned out across the country Monday, lashing out at President Pervez Musharraf and telling thousands of people at raucous political rallies to vote for change.
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Pakistani election campaign intensifies
Dec 24 2007 12:02PM (CT)
SUKKUR, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's opposition leaders fanned out across the country Monday, lashing out at President Pervez Musharraf and telling thousands of people at raucous political rallies to vote for change.
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Pakistani election campaign intensifies
Dec 24 2007 12:02PM (CT)
SUKKUR, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's opposition leaders fanned out across the country Monday, lashing out at President Pervez Musharraf and telling thousands of people at raucous political rallies to vote for change.
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Afghan agents detain woman with bomb
Dec 24 2007 10:25AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan intelligence agents detained a 50-year-old foreign woman carrying a suicide vest in eastern Afghanistan, while a roadside explosion killed one policeman and wounded three others, officials said Monday.
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Thailand could host 2,000 wild tigers
Dec 24 2007 8:12AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's parks and wildlife reserves could hold up to 2,000 wild tigers, about three times their current level, but only if the government steps up efforts to control poaching, researchers said Monday.
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Kyrgyzstan selects new prime minister
Dec 24 2007 7:22AM (CT)
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) - A former energy and industry minister was named Kyrgyzstan's prime minister on Monday, the president's office said.
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Taiwan closes Chiang Kai-shek mausoleum
Dec 24 2007 3:45AM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Authorities closed the mausoleum of Taiwan's late dictator Chiang Kai-shek on Monday as part of the ruling party's vigorous campaign to diminish the legacy of the late leader.
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Beijing clamps down on text messages
Dec 24 2007 3:42AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A Beijing city regulation clamping down on people who send text messages that "spread rumors" or "endanger public security" is a threat to freedom of expression, a watchdog group said Monday.
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Malaysia to protect Hindu temples
Dec 24 2007 3:16AM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysia's government unveiled Monday a major initiative to protect Hindu temples, hoping to pacify ethnic Indians who complain that hundreds of their places of worship have been demolished in this Muslim-majority country.
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Italian prime minister in Kabul
Dec 24 2007 3:14AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Echoing pledges by the leaders of France and Australia, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi emphasized his county's long-term commitment to Afghanistan in a meeting with President Hamid Karzai on Sunday, the presidential palace said.
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Italian prime minister in Kabul
Dec 24 2007 3:14AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Echoing pledges by the leaders of France and Australia, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi emphasized his county's long-term commitment to Afghanistan in a meeting with President Hamid Karzai on Sunday, the presidential palace said.
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Italian prime minister in Kabul
Dec 24 2007 3:14AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Echoing pledges by the leaders of France and Australia, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi emphasized his county's long-term commitment to Afghanistan in a meeting with President Hamid Karzai on Sunday, the presidential palace said.
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Italian prime minister in Kabul
Dec 24 2007 3:14AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Echoing pledges by the leaders of France and Australia, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi emphasized his county's long-term commitment to Afghanistan in a meeting with President Hamid Karzai on Sunday, the presidential palace said.
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Italian prime minister in Kabul
Dec 24 2007 3:14AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Echoing pledges by the leaders of France and Australia, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi emphasized his county's long-term commitment to Afghanistan in a meeting with President Hamid Karzai on Sunday, the presidential palace said.
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Old bullet removed from Vietnamese man
Dec 24 2007 1:52AM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Doctors have safely removed a bullet that had been painlessly lodged in a Vietnamese man's lung for nearly three decades, his surgeon said Monday.
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