Reuters – The Japanese government fought off criticism on Tuesday over the appointment of an air force general fired last week for saying Japan was not an aggressor in World War Two and urging an end to tight controls on its military.
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AP – Washington’s new top war general said he would consider rising Pakistani criticism of U.S. missile strikes on suspected militant targets in the Muslim nation’s unstable border regions.
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AP – Gunmen killed a state police chief in the border city of Nogales and three police detectives in central Guanajuato state, as a wave of drug-related violence batters Mexican security forces, authorities said Monday.
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Reuters – Flood water from southern China pushed up river levels in northern Vietnam on Tuesday, worsening inundations across a wide region that have killed at least 120 people on both sides of the border.
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AP – Argentine police on Monday detained a retired army major accused in the kidnapping, torture and disappearance of a young French woman in 1976, during the nation’s military dictatorship.
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AP – As of Monday, Nov. 3, 2008, at least 4,190 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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AFP – When New Zealand votes in this weekend’s election, voting complexities and political loyalties may leave a party with less than three percent support deciding the country’s next government.
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AP – The highest-ranking Chinese official to visit Taiwan in six decades has begun talks with his Taiwanese counterpart on a sweeping trade pact that could help ease the threat of war between the rivals.
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AFP – Taiwan and China began historic talks here Tuesday aimed at bringing the formerly bitter rivals closer economically after almost 60 years of cross-strait hostility.
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Reuters – U.S. auto sales plunged 32 percent in October to lows unseen in a quarter-century led by a 45 percent drop at General Motors Corp in a collapse that hit every major automaker and offered little sign that the industry has hit bottom in its largest market.
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