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By Kurt Achin Seoul22 May 2006South Korean police say they may file attempted murder charges against a man who seriously slashed the chairwoman of South Korea's main opposition party. The knife attack took place Saturday as campaigning for local elections enters its peak period. Outrage and sympathy over the attack ...
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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill26 June 2007An influential U.S. Senate Republican says President Bush's Iraq policy is not working, and he is calling for a downsizing of U.S. forces in Iraq. The comments by Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana has sparked renewed debate about the war, and prompted a second ...
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By Daniel Schearf Beijing06 June 2006China has strongly condemned a Spanish court that has decided to hear a case involving allegations China has carried out genocide in Tibet. The court is considering charges of crimes against humanity, state terrorism, and torture against seven high-ranking Chinese officials, including a former president. ...
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By VOA News 22 July 2006China says at least 18 people have been killed after moderate earthquake hit a mountainous area in southwest China's Yunnan province.The official Xinhua news agency says the 5.1-magnitude earthquake shook Yunnan's Yanjin county Saturday morning. The epicenter of the quake was about 90 kilometers from ...
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By Marianne Kearney Jakarta13 May 2006 Indonesia has raised the alert level for the Merapi volcano in central Java to the highest level. And the government has started evacuating the 34,000 people living on the slopes of the volcano, which is about 400 kilometers east of Jakarta. Asnawarin Nasution, a ...
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By Subel Bhandari New Delhi23 May 2006Nepal's deputy prime minister says the government is ready for peace talks with Maoist rebels, but rebel violence must cease before a constituent assembly to decide the future of the monarchy can be elected. The remarks came as Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala expanded ...
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By VOA News 25 May 2006U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan says he will send an envoy to East Timor where violence has escalated between government forces and disgruntled former East Timorese soldiers.A spokesman for the secretary general says he has been in contact with leaders in the region Thursday to ...
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By VOA News 13 May 2006Confessed September 11th conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui has been taken to a super-maximum security prison in Colorado to serve his life sentence.U.S. officials say Moussaoui was moved late Friday from Alexandria, Virginia, and arrived early Saturday at the prison in Florence, Colorado.The Colorado prison houses domestic ...
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By Steve Herman Tokyo14 July 2006Japan is pushing the United Nations Security Council to time a vote on a resolution about North Korea's missile tests to coincide with the start of the Group of Eight summit of leading industrialized countries.Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso says it is time for the ...
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By VOA News 03 June 2006Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has fired at least 24 top police officials days after anti-U.S. riots in Kabul.Officials said Saturday the shake-up includes Kabul's police chief, whose forces failed to prevent rioters from looting stores and setting fire to offices and cars in the capital.The ...
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Deep-steeped in tradition, Asian wedding favors adds the beauty of Asian customs, illustrated with Japanese calligraphy and Chinese characters. Asian-themed wedding favors are perfect for a bridal shower or Asian wedding. Both trendy and classic, Asian wedding favors are a distinctive finishing touch for your wedding. Here ...
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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad24 May 2006U.S. Military officials in Afghanistan say 24 Taleban rebels have been killed in a clash with government and coalition forces in southern Afghanistan. U.S. officials have also apologized for an air strike earlier this week that reportedly killed 16 civilians.Officials say the rebels were killed ...
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By VOA News 13 May 2006The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved a one-month extension of the U.N. mission in East Timor following deadly riots in the capital, Dili.The council agreed Friday to keep the mission going until June 20. It had been scheduled to shut down on May 20. ...
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You think of a great holiday? Asia could be the perfect destination. Asia offers a great holiday experience to the knowledge of different cultures and attraction especially now that you can hire a private tour guide who offers custom tours. Over the past few decades, travel ...
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By VOA News 15 June 2006Chinese health officials have confirmed a new case of bird flu in a man hospitalized in critical condition in Guangdong province, near Hong Kong. The case has caused Hong Kong to declare a three-week ban on live poultry from the mainland. Chinese state media say ...
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By Patricia Nunan Trincomalee28 June 2006Hundreds of people have died in Sri Lanka this year as the government and rebels of the Tamil Tiger guerrilla group slip back into what some are calling an undeclared civil war. Leaders from both sides say they want to resume peace talks and save ...
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By VOA News 04 July 2006A South Korean court handed Microsoft a setback Tuesday in the software giant's appeal of an order to change its business practices and pay a $34 million fine.The court rejected Microsoft's request to set aside an order from the country's Fair Trade Commission. Regulators had ...
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By Ayaz Gul Islamabad27 June 2006Pakistan says it is sending up to 10,000 more troops to strengthen security along the porous border with Afghanistan and check militant infiltration. The move was announced after a meeting between President Pervez Musharraf and U.S Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Islamabad Tuesday. Secretary ...
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By Claudia Blume Hong Kong20 June 2006Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced the withdrawal of the country's troops from the southern Iraqi city of Samawah on Tuesday. Mr. Koizumi says the government has decided to withdraw Ground Self Defense Forces troops from Samawah because the troops have achieved their humanitarian ...
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By David Lewis Kinshasa27 June 2006Two Nepali U.N. peacekeepers held hostage by militia in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been freed. The United Nations says it is continuing to maintain contact with gunmen who are holding other blue helmets. Congolese militiamen released two of the seven Nepali U.N. peacekeepers ...
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By VOA News 13 July 2006Authorities in southern Afghanistan say U.S.-led coalition forces and Afghan troops have repelled a major Taleban attack, killing 19 militants.Officials in Helmand province say the militants were apparently trying to overrun a district police headquarters in Nawzad late Wednesday, but that government forces counterattacked, killing ...
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By VOA News 13 June 2006Chinese health officials are reporting a suspected case of avian flu in a man hospitalized in critical condition in Guangdong province. The Hong Kong Department of Health reports Tuesday that the 31-year-old patient is being treated at a hospital in Shenzhen near Hong Kong. They ...
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By Steve Herman Tokyo29 July 2006Japan is celebrating the return home of troops after two-and-a-half years in Iraq without a single casualty. The controversial mission was seen as a test of Japan's long policy of pacifism.Japanese leaders gathered Saturday to formally welcome home the country's first troops deployed to a ...
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By VOA News 25 May 2006Separatist rebels are enforcing a general strike in Indian Kashmir, leaving the streets of the summer capital largely deserted on the last day of peace talks led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.Shops, businesses and schools in Srinagar were closed for a second day Thursday as ...
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By David McAlary Washington15 June 2006All birds, even ones that perch in trees, may have descended from waterfowl. That is the conclusion of a study of well preserved 110-million-year-old fossils of the earliest known modern bird. The specimens were found in northwestern China.U.S. and Chinese geologists dug up several nearly ...
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