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'); document.write(''); document.write('MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo placed two southern provinces under a state of emergency Tuesday, giving security forces free hands to pursue gunmen who killed at least 24 people in one of the country\'s worst election massacres.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani troops killed 18 militants in a fresh offensive Tuesday against insurgents blamed for a wave of recent bombings in the main northwestern city of Peshawar.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('BEIJING (AP) — China executed two people Tuesday for their roles in a tainted milk powder scandal in which at least six children died and more than 300,000 became sick.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('BANGKOK (AP) — Samak Sundaravej, a firebrand right-wing politician and TV cooking show host who briefly served as Thailand\'s prime minister and considered himself a proxy of ousted leader Thaksin Shinawatra, died of cancer Tuesday. He was 74.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Prosecutors in the genocide trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief demanded a lengthy jail term Tuesday, calling him the personification of ruthless efficiency in the killing of thousands of Cambodian prisoners.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The bullet hit mother and son as they walked through Somalia\'s capital. She felt a sharp pain in her palm. Then she saw her 8-year-old: The bullet tore through his cheekbones, nose and mouth. Blood gushed down to his waist.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq\'s parliament failed Monday to produce an election law acceptable to minority Sunni Arabs, prompting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to say that nationwide balloting scheduled for January \"might slip\" to a later date.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('SAN\'A, Yemen (AP) — A Japanese engineer seized by Yemeni tribesmen seeking to swap him for a prisoner with al-Qaida links was released Monday after a week in captivity.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas leaders raced to Egypt on Monday amid signs of progress on a deal to swap hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for a captive Israeli soldier held by the Islamic militant group for more than three years.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('BRUSSELS (AP) — For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out.
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