| British PM in southern Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 02:43 AM PST  AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is visiting troops in the volatile part of southern Afghanistan where thousands more coalition forces are to be deployed.
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| Philippine tribal gunmen free all 47 hostages (AFP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 02:39 AM PST  AFP - Tribal gunmen in the southern Philippines on Sunday released 47 hostages they had been holding for three days, after authorities agreed not to arrest them and animals were sacrificed.
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| Brown vows new push to defeat Taliban (AFP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 02:35 AM PST  AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown vowed a renewed effort to defeat the Taliban insurgency during a visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, hailing the next few months as critical.
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| Philippine hostage crisis ends, victims freed (Reuters) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 02:19 AM PST  Reuters - Tribal gunmen on Sunday freed all hostages they had been holding for the past three days in the southern Philippines, witnesses and officials said.
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| Gunmen free 47 hostages in Philippines (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 02:12 AM PST  AP - Officials say gunmen have freed the 47 hostages they were holding at a southern Philippine jungle hideout, in exchange for a government pledge they will not be arrested for past murder charges.
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| Thailand's Thaksin arrives in Cambodia (AFP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 02:10 AM PST  AFP - Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra arrived in Cambodia's capital Sunday, an AFP reporter said, in a trip likely to set off new diplomatic ructions between the two nations.
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| 5 charged after NKorean weapons seized in Thailand (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 01:46 AM PST  AP - Five foreigners who crewed an aircraft carrying about 35 tons of weapons originating in North Korea have been charged with illegal possession of arms in Thailand, police said Sunday.
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| Brown in Afghanistan, seeks to fix rift with Karzai (Reuters) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 01:41 AM PST Reuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Afghan President Hamid Karzai met at an Afghan air base on Sunday, aiming to fix a relationship that has grown bitter as the Afghan war grows deadlier and more unpopular. |
| Philippine kidnappers 'free 47 hostages' (AFP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 01:41 AM PST AFP - Tribal gunmen on Sunday released all 47 hostages they had been holding for four days in a mountainous area of the southern Philippines, a government official said. |
| Panda genome resembles dog: Chinese media (AFP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 01:38 AM PST  AFP - A detailed genome map of the giant panda completed by Chinese scientists has shown that the notoriously shy animal is genetically similar to the dog, state media reported Sunday.
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| Aussie, Chinese officials urge pandas to reproduce (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 12:51 AM PST  AP - Australian and Chinese officials urged two bamboo-munching giant pandas on Sunday to consider reproducing during their 10-year residency Down Under.
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| Fighting in Pakistan kills 7 militants, 2 troops (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 12:50 AM PST  AP - Pakistani soldiers battled militants in a tribal region close to the Afghan border Sunday, killing seven insurgents but losing two of their own in skirmishes in an area where al-Qaida and the Taliban have long sought sanctuary, officials said.
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| Peshawar on front line of Pakistan's militant war (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 12:04 AM PST  AP - Grisly ghosts haunt 8-year-old Saira Khan's dreams.
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| Militants attack Philippine jail, 31 inmates freed (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2009 09:35 PM PST AP - Scores of suspected Islamic militants knocked down a concrete wall and barged into a jail in the volatile southern Philippines on Sunday, freeing 31 inmates in a nighttime attack that sparked a gunbattle in which two people were killed, officials said. |
| Sri Lanka war refugees face uneasy homecoming (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2009 09:09 PM PST  AP - Three years ago, Vairamuttu Bavani left her home in eastern Sri Lanka to attend her cousin's wedding in the north.
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| Man accused of killing 12 people captured in China (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2009 09:06 PM PST AP - State media say authorities in central China have captured a man who went on a shooting spree with a shotgun, killing 12 people including his father. |
| (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2009 05:25 PM PST AP - Official says suspected Islamic militants storm a Philippine jail and spring 31 inmates. |
| Police: Americans in Pakistan had Taliban contact (AP) Posted: 12 Dec 2009 07:15 AM PST  AP - Five young American men under investigation in Pakistan for alleged terror links had established contact with a Taliban recruiter and have told FBI officials they were on a mission to be martyred, a Pakistani police official said.
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