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MALAYSIA’s government declares the crash of Flight 370 an accident to pave the way for compensation claims, angering victims’ families still waiting for evidence, while officials said the search for

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CHINA recorded its first drop in coal production since 2000 last year, as the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter pulls back on its use of the fossil fuel and switches

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NEPAL steps up security in the capital and put police on alert, anticipating trouble both inside parliament and on the streets because of planned protests by the opposition against governing

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N KOREA-USA U.S. academics and former senior officials meet with North Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator in Singapore to get a feel for each other’s positions amid a yearslong standoff over

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CHINA Thirty-two officials in far-western China have been punished over alleged bribe-taking, nepotism or other wrongdoing in the choosing of people for over-subscribed Muslim pilgrimages to the holy city of

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CANADA The Canadian sergeant-at-arms hailed as a hero for shooting the gunman who stormed Parliament in Ottawa will be named the country’s ambassador to Ireland. The Canadian Press has reported

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CHINA A senior Chinese diplomat has been removed from his position and is being investigated for an unspecified disciplinary violation. A two-sentence statement from the Foreign Ministry did not offer

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CHINA The president has called for the Communist Party’s leadership over the country’s universities to be enhanced in a continuing tightening of ideological controls across a wide range of society.

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VIETNAM Vietnamese police have detained a third blogger in a month in the latest crackdown on dissent in the communist country. Blogger Nguyen Dinh Ngoc, 48, was taken into custody

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CHINA Two fire chiefs and two poultry farm bosses have been convicted and sentenced to prison terms of up to nine years in relation to a fire at a plant

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N KOREA Key North Korean websites were back online yesterday after an hours-long shutdown that followed a U.S. vow to respond to a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pictures that Washington

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CHINA secured a deal yesterday to construct a high-speed train link between the Belgrade and Budapest that will cut travel time between the Serbian and Hungarian capitals from eight hours

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