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2008-05-17 08:07
Taiwan's defeated party to elect new leader
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan's outgoing ruling party made final preparations Saturday for a leadership election it ..
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2008-05-17 07:58
China invites head of Taiwan's Nationalist party to visit the mainland as ties improve
BEIJING (AP) - In a sign of warming relations, China has invited the head of Taiwan's incoming ruling ..
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2008-05-17 07:57
Polls open for Kuwait's parliamentary elections
KUWAIT CITY (AP) - Polling stations in Kuwait have opened as voters go and choose a new legislature ..
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2008-05-17 07:51
Latin America-Europe summit pledges to fight poverty, food prices despite political feud
LIMA, Peru (AP) - European and Latin American leaders have pledged to fight poverty, global warming and high ..
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2008-05-17 07:43
China nuclear safety agency orders staff to be prepared for emergency following quake
BEIJING (AP) - China's nuclear safety agency ordered staffers to be prepared for an environmental emergency the ..
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2008-05-17 07:33
Tibet's holiest Buddhist temple reopens 2 months after violent uprising
BEIJING (AP) - Tibet's holiest Buddhist temple reopened Friday, state-run media reported, two months after a violent ..
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2008-05-17 07:27
Fairgoers attending 'jumping frog' fair in Northern California hurt in carnival ride collapse
ANGELS CAMP, California (AP) - A carnival ride at the annual fair celebrating the popular Calaveras County ..
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2008-05-17 07:19
North Korea welcomes US food aid
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea welcomed a U.S. offer of food aid, saying Saturday the assistance ..
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2008-05-17 07:18
Dominican Republic President declares re-election victory with 53 percent of vote
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - President Leonel Fernandez declared victory early Saturday in the Dominican Republic's ..
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2008-05-17 07:13
Chinese rescuers entering remotest quake zone find devastation, stunned survivors
BEICHUAN, China (AP) - Piles of broken concrete rose seven stories high and a few buildings stood askew, ..
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2008-05-17 07:07
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WASHINGTON _ Democrat Barack Obama lumps Republican John McCain in with the unpopular Bush administration for advancing ..
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2008-05-17 06:53
German tourist saved after being buried for nearly five days in Sichuan earthquake
BEICHUAN, China (AP) - A German tourist was rescued Saturday nearly five days after being buried by a ..
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2008-05-17 06:49
Dominican president declares re-election victory
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - Incumbent Leonel Fernandez has declared victory in the Dominican Republic's presidential ..
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2008-05-17 06:44
French navy ship nears Myanmar, still awating permission to land 1,500 tons of aid
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A French navy ship approached Myanmar's cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy delta Saturday, but was still ..
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2008-05-17 06:43
Western Sahara refugees' stories highlight hardships and propaganda war between rebels and Morocco
NEW YORK (AP) - One man describes a harrowing dash through a mine field, his pregnant wife in ..
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2008-05-17 06:39
Bush, after visit to Israel, focuses on Arab side of Mideast stalemate
RIYADH, Saudia Arabia (AP) - U.S. President George W. Bush is pivoting to the Arab side of the ..
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2008-05-17 06:27
French PM: Andean political spat must not hamper efforts to rescue hostage Betancourt
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Tensions over documents allegedly linking Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to a Colombian guerrilla ..
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2008-05-17 06:25
Australian drug suspect fugitive returns home to face prison sentence, murder charges
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Australian fugitive Tony Mokbel arrived in his home country Saturday after being extradited ..
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2008-05-17 06:15
New leaders unlikely to ease US-Russian tensions
WASHINGTON (AP) - Russia's new president has promised the kind of democratic change that Washington advocated during ..
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2008-05-17 06:13
Chinese rescuers entering remotest quake zone find devastation, stunned survivors
BEICHUAN, China (AP) - Stunned survivors huddled in makeshift shelters lining the mountain road into one of the ..
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2008-05-17 06:05
Chinese news agency says German saved after being buried for 114 hours following quake
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese state news agency says that a German tourist has been rescued after being ..
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