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ZIMBABWE An American allegedly paid USD50,000 to kill a well-known, protected lion named Cecil, Zimbabwean conservationists said, as authorities yesterday said two Zimbabwean men will appear ... -
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CHINA A Chinese court has accepted a case brought by a social organization against oil giants ConocoPhillips China and China National Offshore Oil Corp. over oil ... -
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SYRIA In his first public address in a year, embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad vowed yesterday to win his country’s long-running civil war while acknowledging his ... -
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HONG KONG The Hong Kong Tourism Board, in conjunction with cycling’s world governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), is launching a major cycling event later ... -
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UK The University of Birmingham says new scientific tests on a Quran parchment place it close to the time of the Prophet Muhammad. The university said ... -
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CHINA-USA President Barack Obama is thanking Chinese President Xi Jinping for China’s role in securing the nuclear deal with Iran. The White House says Obama and ... -
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CHINA State media say former President Hu Jintao’s top aide has been stripped of his party membership, removed from all government positions, and will be criminally ... -
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CHINA’s record on nuclear proliferation is facing congressional criticism as the Obama administration seeks renewal of a 30-year agreement that enables American involvement in China’s fast-growing ... -
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CHINA A nearly complete, new dinosaur fossil has been unearthed in China, the first in its family to have unusually short feathered wings. The new species ... -
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TIBET Chinese authorities have refused to release the body of a Tibetan lama who died in a Chinese prison, prompting a sit-in outside the prison by ... -
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CHINA’s top disciplinary watchdog is investigating Xi Xiaoming, a vice president of the country’s top court, as the ruling Communist Party presses ahead with a nationwide ... -
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CHINA A fire at a residential building in central China killed seven people and injured 12 others, a local government said yesterday. The fire broke out ... -
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HONG KONG issued its third-highest storm signal for the first time this year as Severe Tropical Storm Linfa approached the financial center. The Hong Kong Observatory ... -
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PHILIPPINES-CHINA The Philippines asks an international tribunal to declare China’s vast territorial claims in the South China Sea invalid, saying Beijing’s island-building and other acts have ... -
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CHINA A shoe factory collapses in eastern China during a weekend shift, killing at least 13 people and injuring more than 30. HONG KONG The Land ... -
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CHINA A shoe factory collapsed in eastern China during a weekend shift, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 30, officials said yesterday. Three ... -
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N KOREA, already one of the least-wired places in the world, appears to be cracking down on the use of the Internet by even the small ... -
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CHINA’s manufacturing was weak in June and employers cut more jobs, two surveys showed yesterday, in a new sign the world’s second-largest economy is struggling to ... -
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CHINA’s ruling Communist Party recruited almost 15 percent fewer new members last year amid hopes that better-qualified candidates will expand its guiding role in Chinese society. ... -
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BELGIUM-CHINA China is already the No. 2 trading partner of the European Union, but EU leaders are using a summit in Brussels to call for even ... -
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CHINA A bus overturned on a highway and was hit by an oncoming truck in eastern China, killing at least 12 people, officials said. Another 24 ... -
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CHINA An early morning fire killed 13 people in an apartment building in central China yesterday, state media said. The fire erupted on the ground level ... -
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CHINA has put on display the latest twin pandas born through artificial insemination as part of efforts to boost the numbers of its unofficial national mascot. ... -
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JAPAN-PHILIPPINES A tiny military exercise in the Philippines this week may presage something much bigger: the entry of Japan into the tussle for control of the ... -
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AFGHANISTAN A Taliban suicide bomber strikes the entrance to the Afghan parliament and gunmen try to storm the heavily guarded compound, setting off a gun battle ... -
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CHINA’s Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd., a provider of internet security products and popular mobile browser, has received a USD9.1 billion offer from a group led ... -
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CHINA The last of the Yangtze River shipwreck victims was cremated Tuesday morning in Jianli county, Hubei Province, where the tragedy took place, the Ministry of ... -
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NEPAL Avalanches in Nepal’s northern mountains injure five army rescuers and force the suspension of a search for bodies in a trekking village that was buried ... -
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GERMANY The comet lander Philae has awakened from a seven-month hibernation and managed to communicate with Earth for more than a minute, the European Space Agency ... -
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HONG KONG’s government said 31 of 33 cases tested for Middle East Respiratory virus were negative, seeking to allay concerns about a potential outbreak in the ... -
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Tibet A Chinese tour bus plunged off a cliff in Tibet early yesterday, killing 11 people, state media reported. The accident took place in Gonggar county ... -
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JAPAN Two former Japanese political leaders known for their key apologies over Japan’s World War II atrocities say Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should not water down ... -
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CHINA The latest weapon in the fight against cheating on China’s all-important college entrance exam is a six-propeller drone.. PAKISTAN The Pakistani army says an overnight ... -
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CHINA A 3-year-old girl has died after falling from a bouncy castle that was blown into the air in southern China’s Guangxi region. The official Xinhua ... -
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N KOREAN space agency officials say the country is developing a more advanced Earth observation satellite and are defending their right to conduct rocket launches whenever ...
