| Blast near aid office wounds 1 in NW Pakistan |
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| PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- An explosion struck the office of an aid organization in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Saturday, wounding a security guard, police said.... |
| 6 world powers press Iran on nuclear issue |
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| China says 31 dead, 82 trapped in mine explosion |
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| BEIJING (AP) -- A gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 31 people and trapping 82 others nearly a third of a mile under ground, government authorities said.... |
| Buddhists from 2 Koreas to hold joint ceremony |
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| SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean Buddhist monks headed to North Korea on Saturday for a joint ceremony with monks there, showing the countries continue civil exchange despite a bloody naval skirmish earlier this month.... |
| Bangladeshi mom want twins to stay in Australia |
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| DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- The mother who gave up conjoined Bangladeshi newborn twins for adoption said Saturday she is overjoyed the toddlers have been successfully separated and wants them to grow up in Australia.... |
| Chavez praises Carlos the Jackal |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Hugo Chavez is defending alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was a "revolutionary fighter" rather than a terrorist.... |
| Campaigner against hate crimes killed in Moscow |
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| MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian prosecutors say an anti-hate crimes campaigner has been shot and killed in Moscow.... |
| Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin |
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| ROME (AP) -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery.... |
| Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found |
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| ROME (AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.... |
| Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA |
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| BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago - even when they don't want to know their birth parents.... |