Guilty plea could buy less jail time in Australia
(AP)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010, 21 mins agoAP - Criminals who plead guilty within six weeks of their arrest could get a 40 percent reduction in their prison sentence under a proposal aimed at reducing the backlog at courts in one Australian state.
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Sharp series of aftershocks strike New Zealand
(AP)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010, 27 mins agoAP - A sharp series of about 20 aftershocks rattled New Zealand's earthquake-hit city of Christchurch overnight, and earthquake experts warned Tuesday that another powerful tremblor might hammer the region in coming days.
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U.S. Afghanistan commanders condemn Koran-burning plan
(Reuters)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 1 hour agoReuters - U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan warned on Monday that a small Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks could endanger the lives of American troops.
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Suicide car bomber kills 19 in northwest Pakistan
(AFP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 3 hours agoAFP - At least 19 people were killed and 45 wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday, destroying the building, police said.
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Suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 17 people
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 4 hours agoAP - A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically important town in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17 police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes.
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Indonesian volcano erupts again
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 4 hours agoAP - An Indonesian volcano has shot black ash three miles (5,000 meters) into the air early — its most powerful eruption since springing back to life after four centuries of dormancy.
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Pakistanis suspect landowners of diverting floods
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 5 hours agoAP - As the disastrous floods recede in Pakistan, something new is rising: suspicions and rumors that powerful officials and landowners used their influence to divert water away from their property and inundate the villages and fields of millions of poor Pakistanis.
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Japan detects its first case of NDM-1 superbug
(AFP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 5 hours agoAFP - Japan on Monday said it has detected its first case of an antibiotic-resistant "superbug" that surfaced in South Asia and has triggered a global health alert.
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Afridi says Pakistan players aware of 'fix' dangers
(AFP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 5 hours agoAFP - Pakistan one-day captain Shahid Afridi insisted Monday his players had been educated by officials over the dangers of corruption as the 'spot-fixing' row engulfing his side rumbled on.
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U.S. commander seeks 2,000 new troops for Afghanistan
(Reuters)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 5 hours agoReuters - The U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan has requested another 2,000 troops for the foreign force fighting the Taliban insurgency, despite waning support for the war in troop-contributing nations, NATO officials said.
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Kandahar boardwalk is a world away from war
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 7 hours agoAP - It was a broiling fall evening in this southern Afghan battlezone, and U.S. Army Sgt. Charles Reed wanted to celebrate his birthday in style — at T.G.I. Friday's on the boardwalk.
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NKorea prepares for biggest convention in 30 years
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 8 hours agoAP - Huge posters plastered across the North Korean capital hailed the nation's biggest political convention in 30 years as a historic event as the world watched Monday for signs that the country's next leader was making his public debut.
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NATO asks for more troops for Afghanistan
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 9 hours agoAP - The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan is asking for 2,000 more soldiers to join the 140,000-strong international force here, NATO officials said Monday. It was unclear how many would be Americans.
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Abducted Japanese reporter returns home
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 10 hours agoAP - A Japanese journalist returned home Monday after militants in Afghanistan released him from five months in captivity.
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Well known Afghan journalist murdered outside home
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 10 hours agoAP - Police are investigating the murder of a well known Afghan journalist who was found outside his Kabul home this weekend covered in stab wounds.
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Troops fire on protesters in Kashmir, 3 killed
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 11 hours agoAP - Government forces fired on protesters hurling stones at them in Indian Kashmir on Monday, killing three people and wounding at least 17 other demonstrators, police said.
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China, US meet amid tensions over trade, military
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 12 hours agoAP - Senior U.S. and Chinese officials met Monday to steady relations upset by disputes over currency, trade and military affairs despite calls for a tougher line on Chinese economic policies that some say are contributing to American unemployment.
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UN needs far more money for Pakistan floods
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 12 hours agoAP - The United Nations says it needs hundreds of millions of dollars in new donations to get food, water, medicine and shelter to Pakistanis hit by flooding.
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Philippines asks court to outlaw Abu Sayyaf
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 15 hours agoAP - The Philippine government has asked a court to outlaw the Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist group and blacklist more than 200 of its Islamic fighters blamed for two decades of bombings, kidnappings and beheadings, officials said Monday.
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'The Cove' star: Dolphin activists need to ease up
(AP)
Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 17 hours agoAP - The star of an Oscar-winning documentary about a Japanese village's infamous dolphin hunt said Monday that activists trying to stop the killing might need to back off and allow the Japanese people to tackle the issue themselves.
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