World News
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2005
Disasters (16)
Politics (8)
Crime (5)
War & Army (4)
Sports (1)
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| Jan.1 |
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Somber Swedes await Thailand toll
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| Jan.3 |
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Powell, U.S. team arrive in Thailand
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| Jan.5 |
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Missing boy, 12, feared kidnapped
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| Jan.10 |
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Thais dig up graves to ID bodies As many as 800 bodies are being exhumed from mass graves to help identify missing following the tsunamis
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| Jan.13 |
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Thaksin: Send more aid to others Prime Minister has called for more tsunami aid relief, but says his nation does not need financial assistance
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| Jan.17 |
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160 hurt in subway crash
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| Jan.29 |
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Row over tsunami warning system Government ministers have failed to overcome their differences on which country should host a early warning system
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| Jan.30 |
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Bird flu deaths increase A 10-year-old girl has died, the 12th confirmed victim in a month, officials say
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| Feb.6 |
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PM declares victory in vote| Thaksin Shinawatra has declared victory in national election, giving him an unprecedented second term | |
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| Feb.17 |
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Car bomb blast kills 5
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| Feb.18 |
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Ex-US leaders begin tsunami tour Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr. have arrived in Thailand to begin a tour of countries worst-hit by the tsunami
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| Feb.23 |
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WHO warns of bird flu pandemic
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| Apr.4 |
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Thais fear bomb unrest may spread The bombs hit an airport, hotel and supermarket just outside the violence-hit Muslim far south
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| Apr.21 |
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Viet war veterans die in crash 31 veterans and a driver were killed in a bus crash en route to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the end of the war
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| Apr.30 |
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Vietnam remembers fall of Saigon| Celebrations have begun to mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the war | |
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| May.18 |
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WHO to warn on changing avian flu The WHO is to announce that the pattern of the flu in Vietnam is consistent with human-to-human infection
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| Jun.15 |
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Armed men storm school 6 gunmen have taken students and teachers hostage at an international school in Siem Reap
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| Jun.16 |
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Child dies as hostage crisis ends A standoff at an international school has ended with the deaths of a Canadian boy and two gunmen
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| Jul.14 |
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Thaksin defiant after raids Cabinet passed emergency laws giving Prime Minister the power to tackle rising violence in the Muslim far south
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| Jul.24 |
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7.2 quake shakes Indian islands| The earthquake, centered in the Nicobar Islands, did not pose a widespread threat of a tsunami | |
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| Jul.27 |
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6 nations agree new climate pact U.S. and China, Australia, India, Japan and South Korea to unveil a partnership to develop cleaner technologies
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| Sep.21 |
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Marines killed by villagers 2 marines seized in troubled south have been knifed and beaten to death
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| Sep.27 |
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Powerful typhoon The typhoon has made landfall in northern Vietnam, forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate inland
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| Sep.28 |
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Typhoon Damrey deaths reach 74| The regional death toll from flash floods has more than doubled, as Vietnam had recovered the bodies of 33 people | | |
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| Oct.2 |
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Federer retains Thai Open title
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| Oct.19 |
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New avian flu death A man has died of bird flu, raising Thailand's death toll from the virus to 13
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| Nov.3 |
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New bird flu outbreaks The virus had killed 8,940 chickens in the north-eastern Liaoning province in China
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| Nov.11 |
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Toddler positive for bird flu A Bangkok toddler is the first human case in the capital since a fresh flare-up of the deadly disease
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| Dec.21 |
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Bird flu shows resistance to Tamiflu| 2 patients died after developing resistance to Tamiflu, the key drug that governments are stockpiling | | |
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| Dec.24 |
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Tsunami victims remembered Survivors launched a boat laden with flowers and said prayers for the dead marking one year since the Tsunami
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