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40 Taliban Killed in Afghan Fighting
Provincial official says Taliban fighters killed in several days of clashes with security forces in south ...
Officials Gather for UN Climate Change Conference in Bali
Officials, environmentalists to debate ways to deal with climate change, man-made disasters ...
Controversy Erupts in India Over Bangladeshi Writer
Taslima Nasreen came to India after spending nearly a decade in Europe, after fleeing Muslim-majority Bangladesh in 1994 ...
Moderate Earthquake Strikes Northwest Pakistan
Officials say quake had magnitude of 4.9 on Richter scale and was centered in Hindu Kush mountains of neighboring Afghanistan ...
China Reports 17th Bird Flu Death
WHO reports there have been at least 25 human cases of avian flu confirmed in China in recent years, 16 of them fatal ...
Rudd Sworn In As Australia's Prime Minister
New prime minister will represent Australia at UN-sponsored climate-change conference in Bali ...
Australia's Qantas Airline Pleads Guilty to Price-Fixing
Australia's Qantas airline has pleaded guilty to price-fixing and Vietnam will soon have its first aircraft-related production facility ...
Climate Change Conference Opens in Bali
Global meeting on climate change calls for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions ...
Australia's New PM Signs Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change
Kevin Rudd signed accord shortly after being sworn in; he also plans to withdraw Australian troops from Iraq by middle of 2008 ...
Pro-Democracy Leader Wins Hong Kong's By-Election
Anson Chan has won a hotly contested by-election for a seat in the city's legislature, in a vote widely seen as a referendum on democratic reform ...
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