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China on Tuesday expressed anger at Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee's statement that a disputed Himalayan border region was an "integral part of India."
"We deeply regret the Indian side's remarks, which take no regard of the historical facts," Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said after Mukherjee's weekend visit to the... |
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Taliban fighters killed a British female aid worker for "spreading Christianity," on Monday as she was going to her office in the western part of Kabul, officials said.
The attackers, who were riding on motorbike, fled the area after the shooting, Interior Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said.
Bashary had earlier said...
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A South Korean man went on a rampage Monday in Seoul, setting fire to an 85-room lodging and stabbing five people to death, local media reported.
The unemployed 31-year-old suspect first set fire to his room in a low-cost lodging facility in Seoul and then stabbed other residents with a knife while fleeing the fire, Yonhap news...
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Nine Chinese oil workers have been kidnapped by an unknown group in Sudan, state media said on Monday.
The nine workers were seized at an oil field in Southern Kordofan State close to Sudan`s strife-torn Darfur region, the official Xinhua news agency quoted Chinese embassy officials as saying.
No group has claimed responsibility...
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A senior China official was heckled by pro-independence activists Monday during an academic seminar in the southern Taiwan county of Tainan, forcing him to cancel all public activities organized by his local host.
"Get out, get out of Taiwan," shouted dozens of activists, who rallied outside Tainan University of Art to...
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Two Iraqis were killed and seven injured when a bomb went off in eastern Baghdad on Monday, an Iraqi police source said.
The bomb targeted a civilian passenger vehicle in al-Fadiliya area, eastern Baghdad.
Two women were among the injured, the source told Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.
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Banks in Hong Kong, China and Macau have been asked to help finance construction of a 37-billion-Hong-Kong-dollar (4.74-billion-US-dollar) bridge across the Pearl River estuary, government officials said Monday.
The institutions, including some of the region's largest financial players including HSBC, Standard Chartered and the Bank...
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Thai shares jumped nearly 6 per cent in value Monday on regional and European increases, despite fears of further political troubles.
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index ended at 476.95, up 5.64 per cent.
Analysts said political turmoil was a cause for concern, but noted that share prices had become cheap enough on...
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Former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan has backed calls for an international tribunal to try people accused of involvement in Kenya's post-election violence.
A commission led by Justice Philip Waki last week said that prominent politicians and businessmen helped organize ethnically based violence.
He gave an envelope...
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Asia-Pacific stocks soared Monday after South Korea announced a more than 130-billion-dollar package to stabilize the country's financial sector.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average was up 3.59 per cent at 9,005.59 while its broader Topix index of all first-section issues gained 3.7 per cent to close at 927.37.
The...
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While the global financial crisis has driven investors around the world to buy dollars in a flight to quality, depositors in Vietnam have been doing the opposite recently, shifting money from dollars into Vietnamese dong, bank officers said Monday.
For years, Vietnamese have preferred to save money in dollar-denominated accounts as a...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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