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Chinese premier begins 2-day visit to Pakistan
11 mins ago
Pakistan says it shares "identical views" on foreign policy with China, whose premier is beginning a two-day visit to Islamabad in the latest sign of the tight relationship between the two Asian powers.
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Japan watchdog: Nuke plant sits atop active fault
18 mins ago
Japan's nuclear watchdog has endorsed a panel's conclusion that a seismic fault running underneath an atomic plant in western Japan is active, making the plant's restart virtually impossible.
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6 kids among 7 injured in south China knife attack
27 mins ago
Authorities in southern China say a mentally ill man stabbed six primary school students and an adult in the latest of several attacks on Chinese schoolchildren.
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7 Egyptian security men kidnapped in Sinai freed
27 mins ago
Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the volatile Sinai Peninsula last week were freed by their captors Wednesday after successful mediation, the country's military spokesman said.
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Japan approves joining int'l child abduction pact
39 mins ago
Japan's parliament has approved joining an international child custody treaty amid foreign concerns that Japanese mothers can take children away from foreign fathers without recourse.
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Afghan students protest women's rights decree
46 mins ago
Hard-line Islamist students are protesting in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is un-Islamic.
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Weak yen a help for Japan, but headache elsewhere
47 mins ago
A steady decline in the yen is proving a godsend for exporters such as Toyota and has won solid support from Japan's main trading partners, who are betting the impact on their own currencies will be offset by gains from a recovery in the world's third-largest economy. It's not such good news for entrepreneurs like Thamonwan Thawornthaweewong, whose Angry Bird fish balls, squid rings and other products now cost more to sell in Japan.
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Octogenarians race to be oldest Everest climber
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An 80-year-old Japanese extreme skier who just missed becoming the oldest man to reach the summit of Mount Everest five years ago is back on the mountain to make another attempt at the title.
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Birth of anteater has Conn. zoo staff puzzled
An anteater has given birth at a Connecticut conservation center, prompting officials there to wonder how the mother conceived.
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Japan approves joining int'l child abduction pact
Japan's parliament has approved joining an international child custody treaty amid foreign concerns that Japanese mothers can take children away from foreign fathers without recourse.
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Finance
Volkswagen to put special fuel caps on diesels
Volkswagen is replacing the fuel tank covers on more than 200,000 of its diesel vehicles sold in the U.S. and Canada to remind owners to fill their tanks with diesel _ not ...
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Health
New rice contamination reported in China
Authorities are investigating rice mills in southern China following tests that found almost half of the staple grain in one of the country's largest cities was contaminated with a toxic metal.
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