Tag: asia
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November 24, 2009 06:03 AM EST --
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:03 AM EST --
KABUL (AP) — A remote-controlled bomb hidden in a water truck exploded in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing three people including two children, the Interior Ministry said.
Another two children . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:03 AM EST --
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police official says 11 more massacre victims found in mass grave, death toll to 35.
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November 24, 2009 07:02 AM EST --
NEW DELHI (AP) — A government investigation released Tuesday reportedly implicated dozens of Hindu nationalist politicians — including a former prime minister — in the 1992 demolition . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:00 AM EST --
AMPATUAN, Philippines (AP) — A police official says 11 more bodies have been unearthed from a mass grave in the southern Philippines, bringing the death toll from a massacre of political supporters . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:00 AM EST --
AMPATUAN, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president placed two southern provinces under emergency rule Tuesday as security forces unearthed more bodies from one of the worst incidents of election . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:00 AM EST --
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani troops killed 18 militants in a fresh offensive Tuesday against insurgents blamed for a wave of recent bombings in the main northwestern city of Peshawar.
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November 24, 2009 01:02 AM EST --
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine authorities promised Tuesday to make arrests in the country's worst election massacre, which left at least 24 people dead and more than a dozen missing after . . .
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November 24, 2009 01:02 AM EST --
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's government took a key step toward passing legislation to curb greenhouse gas emissions by negotiating a compromise deal with the opposition Liberal Party, . . .
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November 24, 2009 01:02 AM EST --
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine president declares emergency in southern province where gunmen killed 24 people.
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November 24, 2009 01:01 AM EST --
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has declared a state of emergency in two southern provinces after gunmen killed at least 24 people in an attack on an election . . .
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November 24, 2009 12:02 AM EST --
BEIJING (AP) — Renowned Chinese literature translator Yang Xianyi has died at the age of 94, China's official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday.
Together with his British wife, Gladys Taylor, Yang . . .
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November 23, 2009 11:02 PM EST --
BEIJING (AP) — China will send two giant pandas to an Australian zoo this Friday as part of a joint research program.
Four-year-old male Wang Wang and 3-year-old female Fu Ni will be loaned to . . .
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November 23, 2009 11:02 PM EST --
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that groups of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, . . .
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November 23, 2009 06:01 PM EST --
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Gunmen ambushed a caravan of political supporters and journalists on their way to file election papers Monday, killing at least 21 people in a massacre considered shocking . . .
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November 23, 2009 08:01 PM EST --
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Gunmen ambushed a caravan of political supporters and journalists on their way to file election papers, killing at least 24 people in a massacre considered shocking even . . .
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November 23, 2009 11:02 PM EST --
BANGKOK (AP) — Samak Sundaravej, a firebrand politician who briefly served as Thailand's prime minister but was ousted for simultaneously getting income as host of a popular TV cooking show, died . . .
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November 23, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court on Monday sentenced to three years in prison a veteran dissident who had criticized the government's response to a 2008 earthquake that killed about 90,000 people. . . .
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November 23, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
KABUL (AP) — Four U.S. service members were killed in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan, NATO forces said Monday.
Three of the Americans died in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the statement said. . . .
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November 23, 2009 06:04 AM EST --
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A man who blames the Church of Scientology for his brother's suicide added his voice Monday to calls for an Australia Senate inquiry into the religion.
Belfast-born . . .
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