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PORTUGAL Polls on Portugal’s general election put the ruling Portugal à Frente coalition (PAF) ahead with 38 per cent of the vote, compared to 32 per ... -
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CHINA Police have arrested two Japanese citizens on spying allegations, officials said yesterday. Japanese Chief Cabinet Spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters that the two were detained ... -
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UNITED NATIONS Obama and Putin’s first formal meeting in more than two years started with an awkward handshake and ended without a breakthrough on Syria, a ... -
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US-CHINA A Chinese woman who served a U.S. prison term for money laundering was returned to China yesterday, authorities said, just ahead of a meeting between ... -
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US-CHINA The United States has warned that the toughest crackdown in years on Chinese activists threatens to cloud the high-profile state visit by President Xi Jinping. ... -
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US-CHINA When Xi Jinping and wife Peng Liyuan visit Washington later this week, Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, face the daunting task of trying to ... -
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CHINA-NEW ZEALAND As Chinese grew wealthier while their economy raced ahead, dairy farmers more than 6,000 miles away in verdant New Zealand felt like they’d won ... -
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CHINA More than 150 students fell ill in northwest China after breathing in smoke from a mock air defense evacuation drill, state media reported yesterday. Smoke ... -
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USA-CHINA The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee is pressing the Pentagon to sail Navy ships within 20 km of artificial islands China is building ... -
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SRI LANKA The U.N.’s top human rights official is urging the creation of a special court to look into atrocities committed during Sri Lanka’s long civil ... -
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CHINA-USA A physics professor who had been accused of scheming to provide secret U.S. technology to China said he’s grateful and relieved prosecutors dropped the case ... -
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CHINA-USA Federal authorities early yesterday arrested Jason Shiao, a 65-year-old Southern California man they say posed as an attorney, and his 43-year-old daughter, Lynn Leung, on ... -
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PORTUGAL Four days after his release from jail on bail, former Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates has endorsed Socialist Party candidate Antonio Costa to lead the ... -
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NEW ZEALAND A retired French secret service agent has apologized for planting the bombs which sank a Greenpeace ship 30 years ago, killing a photographer and ... -
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CAMBODIA One of four refugees resettled in Cambodia just three months ago in a multimillion-dollar deal that saw them sent from an Australian-run detention camp on ... -
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CHINA The death toll from an explosion at a chemical factory in eastern China has risen to five and the cause of the blast is still ... -
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CHINA has established a USD10 billion fund to support the country’s industrial cooperation with Latin America, the central bank announced yesterday. Initiated by the People’s Bank ... -
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CHINESE border patrol officials seized 620 wild turtles and tortoises — 510 of them considered endangered — that were found alive in a shipment of frozen ... -
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CHINA A sinkhole in a northeastern Chinese city swallowed five people in a dramatic scene that was captured on security video and shared widely on Chinese ... -
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CHINA Smog levels in Beijing hit a record low after the government closed factories and limited traffic in advance of a parade marking the World War ... -
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USA-CHINA Republican Scott Walker says President Barack Obama needs to have some “backbone” and cancel a planned official state visit next month by the president of ... -
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CHINA is considering offering criminals who helped repel Japanese invaders more than 70 years ago a get-out-of-jail-free card now. Legislation proposed as part of events marking ... -
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CHINA Flooding in three central Chinese provinces leaves at least 13 people dead and 13 others missing and disrupts the lives of nearly 1 million people, ... -
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CHINA A U.N. human rights expert has criticized China for its lack of transparency in handling a chemical blast in Tianjin. Baskut Tuncak says the disaster ... -
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CAMBODIA A lawyer says Cambodian opposition senator has been charged with three counts that carry penalties of up to 17 years in prison for Facebook comments ... -
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CHINA A man slashed a Chinese woman to death and injured her French companion in one of Beijing’s busiest shopping districts in broad daylight yesterday, police ... -
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CHINA A coal mining accident in southern China has left 10 dead and five injured, local authorities said yesterday. The Pu’an county government in Guizhou province ... -
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THAILAND – N. KOREA North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su-yong is in Bangkok on an official visit marking the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the ... -
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AFGHANISTAN A suicide bomber in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province has killed 29 people, mainly members of illegal armed groups that have clashed with security forces and ... -
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INDONESIAN police have rescued 45 Burmese fishermen, believed to be trafficking victims, from a hotel in central Jakarta where they were taken after traveling on fake ... -
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CHINA A diocese in central China ordains the country’s first Catholic bishop in three years amid tensions between Beijing and the Vatican and a strained relationship ... -
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PAKISTAN-INDIA Pakistani and Indian border guards trade gunfire and mortar shells along their disputed border in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, killing two Pakistanis and an ... -
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CHINA Action star Jackie Chan says that he intends to work with his son on a movie and an album as the pair mend their relationship ... -
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CHINA A semi-trailer truck rear-ended two sedans on a road in northwest China’s Qinghai Province yesterday, leaving seven people dead and five injured. The truck rear-ended ... -
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HONG KONG Passengers on a Cathay Pacific flight to Los Angeles have spoken of their terror as the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing ...
