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TOKYO (AP) - One of the authors of a Japanese middle-school textbook accused South Korea of ``narrow-minded nationalism'' for complaining that the book glosses over Japan's wartime aggression.

WASHINGTON (AP) - State vehicle emissions inspection programs are wasting much of their effort and should refocus on older, malfunctioning vehicles that produce most of the pollution.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Seeking to end a long separatist war in a region rich in oil and gas, Indonesia's parliament Thursday passed a bill granting sweeping autonomy to the Aceh province.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Seeking to end a long separatist war in a region rich in oil and gas, Indonesia's parliament Thursday passed a bill granting sweeping autonomy to the Aceh province.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Much of the beleaguered American steel industry has been significantly harmed by cheap foreign imports, a U.S. trade panel ruled Monday, taking a first step toward protective barriers that would make most steel costlier for...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft headed for its first brush with the martian atmosphere early Saturday, a surf along the upper fringe of the atmosphere less than 100 miles above the planet's surface.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has started taking dips into the Martian atmosphere to slowly get into position to map the planet's surface, the mission manager said Saturday.

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - President Vojislav Kostunica accused Serbia's government on Friday of incompetence and failure to tackle rising crime and corruption, as a dispute within Yugoslavia's new leadership worsened.

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's state-owned oil monopoly, Pemex, fired the first salvo Monday in an expected battle to allow private investment in the oil industry, warning it could face ``collapse'' unless it gets more private money.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - Serbs say the 1995 offensive in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica was a liberation of the enclave. Muslims described it as a massacre. On Thursday, the U.N. war crimes court offered another label: genocide.

BERLIN (AP) - Germany's interior minister proposed a new immigration law Friday that would put more pressure on newcomers to integrate and tighten rules for asylum-seekers while trying to lure skilled workers.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Pinch-runner Chad Allen scored from second base while Jacque Jones beat out an infield hit, capping a two-run rally in the 10th inning Friday night that lifted the Minnesota Twins over Kansas City 8-7.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Talks to end Haiti's political crisis broke down Tuesday, with the governing party and opposition unable to agree on which of last year's disputed elections should be rerun.