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KATMANDU, Nepal - Nepal's lawmakers abolished the monarchy and declared the country a republic Wednesday, ending 239 years of royal rule in the Himalayan nation.
June 12, 2008
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By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon's new president on Wednesday asked outgoing Prime Minister Fuad Saniora to form a new Cabinet despite reservations by the Hezbollah-led opposition.
June 12, 2008
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By HUSSEIN DAKROUB
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
JERUSALEM - Israel's powerful defense minister on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to step down amid a burgeoning corruption scandal and threatened to bring down the government if the Israeli leader does not comply.
June 12, 2008
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By JOSEF FEDERMAN
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
MADRID, Spain - Spanish twins who were separated at birth through a hospital error and reunited as adult women through a fluke are suing for millions in damages, a lawyer said Tuesday.
June 11, 2008
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By DANIEL WOOLLS
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's military junta extended opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's detention by one year Tuesday, ignoring worldwide appeals to free the Nobel laureate who has been detained for more than 12 of the past 18 years.
June 11, 2008
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The Associated Press
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Associated Press
BAGHDAD - Militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Tuesday for followers to hold weekly protests against a U.S.-Iraqi security deal under negotiation that could lead to a long-term American troop presence.
June 11, 2008
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By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
BERLIN - Germany unveiled a memorial Tuesday to the Nazis' long-ignored gay victims, a monument that also aims to address ongoing discrimination by confronting visitors with an image of a same-sex couple kissing.
June 11, 2008
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By GEIR MOULSON
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
TOKYO - Japanese youngsters are getting so addicted to Internet-linking cell phones that the government is starting a program warning parents and schools to limit their use among children.
June 11, 2008
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By YURI KAGEYAMA
AP Business Writer
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Associated Press
KATMANDU - Nepal stood on the brink of becoming the world's newest republic Tuesday as an assembly charged with ending 239 years of royal rule was sworn in amid tight security.
June 11, 2008
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By MATTHEW ROSENBERG
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
LAHORE, Pakistan - When Mohammad Imran was planning the dinner for his cousin's wedding reception, he had no excuse to trim the pricey menu down from six entrees. Then the government came to his rescue.
June 11, 2008
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By NAHAL TOOSI and ASIF SHAHZAD
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed ''deep concern'' Tuesday after a leading children's charity said it uncovered evidence of widespread sexual abuse of children at the hands of U.N. peacekeepers and international aid workers.
June 11, 2008
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By EDITH LEDERER
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
MIANYANG, China - About 80,000 people were evacuated Tuesday from downstream of an unstable earthquake-created dam that is threatening to collapse, and troops rushed to carve a trench to drain the water before it floods the valley.
June 11, 2008
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By AUDRA ANG
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch shipping company negotiated with Somali pirates Tuesday, seeking the release of nine crew members on a freighter that was hijacked in the latest attack on merchant shipping off the coast of Somalia.
June 11, 2008
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By ARTHUR MAX
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
VIENNA, Austria - Iran may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make nuclear arms, the International Atomic Energy said Monday in an unusually strongly worded report.
June 10, 2008
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By GEORGE JAHN
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi military on Monday displayed a group of weeping teenagers who said they had been forced into training for suicide bombings by a Saudi militant in the last urban stronghold of al-Qaida in Iraq.
June 10, 2008
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By KIM GAMEL
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
