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(AP) Sri Lankan forces battled rebel gunmen deep inside the nation's northern jungles Thursday, killing 25 guerrilla fighters and seizing new territory, the military said. Other battles killed 25 rebels and four soldiers, the military said.The fighting in the northern Mullaitivu district, a key part of the rebels' de facto state, ...

Call for IAEA to verify N. Korea nuclear programs

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(AP) The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency should play a leading role in verifying North Korea's declaration of its nuclear programs, according to a draft of a statement to be issued Thursday by Asia-Pacific nations.The call follows a meeting in Singapore on Wednesday of the foreign ministers of the six countries ...

Call for IAEA to verify NKorea nukes

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Thailand, Cambodia to meet over disputed land

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(AP) Cambodia has agreed to meet Monday with Thailand to discuss a stretch of disputed land near a historic temple, rather than take the matter to the U.N. officials from both countries said Thursday.Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said he talked to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and the two leaders ...

Aftershocks kill 1, injure 10 in China

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(AP) Three aftershocks jolted parts of China on Thursday, the official Xinhua News Agency said, killing one person and injuring more than 10.A 6 magnitude earthquake hit parts of Shaanxi and Sichuan province on Thursday afternoon, Xinhua said, following earlier shocks of 5.6 and 4.9 magnitude.Details of the death and injuries ...

Aftershocks kill 1, injury 10 in China

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Aftershock injures 5 in China

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(AP) A Chinese news agency says an aftershock has jolted parts of China, injuring at least five people.The official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday that the 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit parts of Shaanxi and Sichuan province. No other details were immediately known.Nearly 70,000 people died when a 7.9-magnitude quake hit Sichuan ...

Thailand, Cambodia disagree on border

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(AP) The Cambodian government said Thursday it will not back down from a demand that hundreds of Thai troops leave disputed land near a historic temple, contending that its Southeast Asian neighbor is trying to "permanently occupy" the site.But Cambodian Information Minister Khieu Kanharith also insisted that his country's military will ...

North Korea signs ASEAN nonaggression pact

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(AP) North Korea's reclusive communist regime, long seen as a nuclear threat to the region, signed a nonaggression pact Thursday with Southeast Asia, in a largely symbolic move.The move has no direct impact on the six-nation efforts to strip Pyongyang of its ability to produce nuclear weapons. However, it is a ...

Philippines: ex-US Marine's child freed

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(AP) Kidnappers have freed unharmed a retired U.S. Marine's 19-year-old daughter a day after snatching her, police said Thursday.Chief Superintendent Ricardo Padilla said it was unclear if Cristina Loyola's family paid the $68,000 ransom that her captors demanded.She was freed Monday not far from her home in the resort city of ...

Helicopter rescues 2 Italian climbers in Pakistan

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(AP) A Pakistani official says an army helicopter has saved two Italian climbers from one of the world's highest mountains.Walter Nones and Simon Kehrer had been struggling to descend from Nanga Parbat Mountain since July 16, when fellow climber Karl Unterkircher fell to his death.Shaukat Zaman, a senior official at Pakistan's ...

Former official: Afghan president hurting drug war

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(AP) A former top U.S. counter-narcotics official alleges that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is obstructing the fight against the country's narcotics trade.Thomas Schweich, who until June was one of State Department's top counter-narcotics officials, accuses Karzai of protecting drug lords for political reasons.Schweich writes in an article for Thursday's New York ...

NKorea signs ASEAN nonaggression pact

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Taiwan opposes Olympics name change

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(AP) Some Taiwanese lawmakers have called for boycotting the Beijing Olympics unless a dispute over the island's name is resolved.Several lawmakers of the ruling Nationalist Party say Thursday that China must not attempt to change the name under which the island will compete in next month's Olympics to suggest that Taiwan ...

Scientists find complete dinosaur fossil

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(AP) Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.The scientists uncovered a Tarbosaurus _ related to the giant carnivorous Tyrannosaurus _ from a chunk of sandstone they dug up in August, 2006 in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, said ...