China vows to stand by isolated North Korea |
- China vows to stand by isolated North Korea
- Q+A - What will come of Chinese PM's visit to N.Korea
- Some schools reopen in quake-hit Indonesia city
- Major report details India infant mortality crisis (AFP)
- Deaths as Thai train derails
- Ministers hold Pakistan terrorism talks: officials (AFP)
- Thai train derails, killing 8 people (AP)
- Some schools reopen in quake-hit Indonesia city
- Support for Japan's PM above 70 percent: media
- How a 'Miracle' Biofuel Plant Ruined Kenyan Farmers (Time.com)
- Malaysian officials save endangered Malayan tiger (AFP)
- Injunction by Twitter: A Blogger Makes History Trying to Unmask His Impostor (Time.com)
- Four dead as Thai train derails
- Death toll in Indian floods passes 200
- Letterman haunted by the ghosts of sex jokes past
- Eight US troops killed in Afghanistan firefight
- Vietnam typhoon death toll hits 162
- Support for Japan's PM stays above 70 pct - media
- Guinea military leader says blameless in killings
- Syria rebuffs Abbas over Gaza delay
| China vows to stand by isolated North Korea Posted: 04 Oct 2009 10:50 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China pledged to strengthen bonds with isolated North Korea on Monday, calling their relationship a boon to peace, while reports of swoops on North Korean ships underscored strains behind a recent easing of tension.
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| Q+A - What will come of Chinese PM's visit to N.Korea Posted: 04 Oct 2009 10:50 PM PDT Following are some points on how Wen's visit is playing out against the backdrop of international efforts to jump start stalled talks on ending the North's nuclear arms ambitions.
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| Some schools reopen in quake-hit Indonesia city Posted: 04 Oct 2009 10:02 PM PDT PADANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Markets reopened and some children attended school in the shattered port city of Padang on Monday, but no hope remained for some inland villages which would be left as mass graves.
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| Major report details India infant mortality crisis (AFP) Posted: 04 Oct 2009 10:27 PM PDT
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| Posted: 04 Oct 2009 10:17 PM PDT At least eight killed and dozens injured as train jumps tracks in heavy rain.
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| Ministers hold Pakistan terrorism talks: officials (AFP) Posted: 04 Oct 2009 09:50 PM PDT
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| Thai train derails, killing 8 people (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2009 09:40 PM PDT AP - A train derailed during heavy rains Monday near the coastal Thai city of Hua Hin, killing at least eight people and injuring 54 others, officials said.
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| Some schools reopen in quake-hit Indonesia city Posted: 04 Oct 2009 09:58 PM PDT PADANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Markets reopened and some children attended school in the shattered port city of Padang on Monday, but no hope remained for some inland villages which would be left as mass graves.
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| Support for Japan's PM above 70 percent: media Posted: 04 Oct 2009 08:53 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Support for Japan's new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, stayed above 70 percent more than two weeks after he took power, a newspaper survey showed on Monday, but tough challenges loom ahead for the novice government.
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| How a 'Miracle' Biofuel Plant Ruined Kenyan Farmers (Time.com) Posted: 04 Oct 2009 09:10 PM PDT Time.com - After receiving promises of riches from the government, farmers in a Kenyanvillage turned over hundreds of acres of precious farmland to a plant calledjatropha, used to make biofuel. Then their crops failed. The farmers are nowdemanding answers
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| Malaysian officials save endangered Malayan tiger (AFP) Posted: 04 Oct 2009 09:25 PM PDT
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| Injunction by Twitter: A Blogger Makes History Trying to Unmask His Impostor (Time.com) Posted: 04 Oct 2009 09:10 PM PDT Time.com - Someone has been sending tweets pretending to be a British Conservative blogger. To force his imposter to stop, Donal Blaney achieved a legal first: a tweetinjunction
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| Four dead as Thai train derails Posted: 04 Oct 2009 05:51 PM PDT
The overnight train, travelling from the southern Trang province to Bangkok, came off the tracks close to the coastal resort town of
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| Death toll in Indian floods passes 200 Posted: 04 Oct 2009 01:32 AM PDT BANGALORE, India Hundreds of thousands of people in southern India were evacuated after torrential rains and floods swept away homes, leaving at least 207 people dead, officials said on Sunday.
The death toll in the state of Karnataka stood at 170, while
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| Letterman haunted by the ghosts of sex jokes past Posted: 03 Oct 2009 11:40 PM PDT NEW YORK If you live by the sword, you die by the sword. Certainly that adage has proved true for the beleaguered talkshow host David Letterman this weekend as he faced a barrage of mockery from his acid-tongued rivals.
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| Eight US troops killed in Afghanistan firefight Posted: 03 Oct 2009 10:40 PM PDT KABUL NATO has suffered its deadliest attack in Afghanistan in more than a year after eight US soldiers were killed in a firefight in the east of the country, the alliance said Sunday. Tribal militia launched attacks on Saturday from a local mosque and a village in Nuristan province near
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| Vietnam typhoon death toll hits 162 Posted: 03 Oct 2009 10:40 PM PDT HANOI The death toll from Typhoon Ketsana in Vietnam jumped to 162 on Sunday with hundreds more injured, an official said, adding urgency to a Red Cross appeal launched to help more than 200,000 storm victims.
Another 13 people remain missing and
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| Support for Japan's PM stays above 70 pct - media Posted: 04 Oct 2009 09:29 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Support for Japan's new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, stayed above 70 percent more than two weeks after he took power, a newspaper survey showed on Monday, but tough challenges loom ahead for the novice government.
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| Guinea military leader says blameless in killings Posted: 04 Oct 2009 09:29 PM PDT DAKAR (Reuters) - Guinea's military leader on Sunday said he was blameless in last week's lethal crackdown on protesters that a local human rights group said killed at least 157 people and injured hundreds.
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| Syria rebuffs Abbas over Gaza delay Posted: 04 Oct 2009 09:06 PM PDT Palestinian leader's trip postponed after delay in endorsing UN Gaza war report.
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BANGKOK A passenger train derailed in Thailand early Monday killing four people and injuring scores of others, officials said.
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