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Pakistan team to visit India for Mumbai probe

By AP News Wed, Mar 14, 2012 3:10PM UTC View Comments

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials say a commission is leaving for India on Wednesday to gather evidence for use in the prosecution of seven Islamist militants on trial in Pakistan over the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Government prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfikar Ali said he and a Federal Investigation Agency official are part of the team,...

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Bangladesh military says it foiled coup plot

By AP News Thu, Jan 19, 2012 11:15AM UTC View Comments

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The Bangladesh military says it has foiled a bid by mutinous officers to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Brig. Gen. Muhammad Masud Razzaq told reporters at a news briefing Thursday that the military has specific evidence that a group of up to 16 hardline Islamic military officers –...

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Thai police say insurgent bomb kills 6 in south

By AP News Thu, Nov 03, 2011 11:09AM UTC View Comments

PATTANI, Thailand (AP) — Police say suspected Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand killed six civilians in a bomb attack on their vehicle in the south. Police investigator Heraman Chedi says the explosion occurred Wednesday in Narathiwat’s Ra-ngae district, and attackers raked the vehicle with machine-gunfire afterward. Heraman says the victims were Buddhist hunters headed to...

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Philippines bans labor deployments to 41 countries

By AP News Thu, Nov 03, 2011 10:45AM UTC View Comments

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines, one of the world’s largest labor exporters, has ordered a ban on the deployment of workers to 41 countries — including war-torn Afghanistan and booming India — where Filipino officials say there are inadequate protections against labor abuse, the government said Wednesday. Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said worker deployments...

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Brit accused of faking death arrested in Australia

By AP News Thu, Nov 03, 2011 8:00AM UTC View Comments

SYDNEY (AP) – Australian police say they have arrested a British man accused of faking his own death in a life insurance scam. Australian Federal Police arrested Hugo Sanchez in Sydney on Wednesday after a six-year hunt. Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service says on its website Sanchez and his wife Sophie had been living in Surrey...

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