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- VIDEO: Wikileaks suspect due in court
- British economic situation 'very worrying': French minister
- Japan says stricken nuclear power plant in cold shutdown
- U.S. Navy may station ships in Singapore, Philippines
- Polemical journalist Christopher Hitchens dead at 62
- Hardly ‘Incredible India’
- Gaddafi’s death may be war crime, says ICC prosecutor
- Indonesia passes land law to speed development
- After selling Proton
- Japan says Fukushima reactors now stable
- VIDEO: How the Arab Spring began
- VIDEO: 'Miracle baby' to be sent home
- Newspaper founder killed in Russia's Dagestan
- Insight - Hardly "Incredible India"
- Army says coup memo attempt to hurt Pakistan - reports
- British women offered free contraception pill at Christmas
- Shortest
- By-election if elected rep jumps ship: Penang Gerakan
- Taylor's crown jewels under the hammer
- Australia jails China student for drug smuggling
| VIDEO: Wikileaks suspect due in court Posted: 15 Dec 2011 11:12 PM PST A US Army analyst suspected of leaking government secrets is set to make his first military court appearance.
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| British economic situation 'very worrying': French minister Posted: 16 Dec 2011 12:55 AM PST French Finance Minister Francois Baroin raised concerns about the state of the British economy on Friday and said France was in better shape.
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| Japan says stricken nuclear power plant in cold shutdown Posted: 16 Dec 2011 12:10 AM PST TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan declared its tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant to be in cold shutdown on Friday in a major step toward resolving the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years. 
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| U.S. Navy may station ships in Singapore, Philippines Posted: 15 Dec 2011 11:58 PM PST WASHINGTON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy said it would station several new coastal combat ships in Singapore and perhaps in the Philippines in coming years, moves likely to fuel China's fears of being encircled and pressured in the South China Sea dispute. 
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| Polemical journalist Christopher Hitchens dead at 62 Posted: 15 Dec 2011 11:37 PM PST WASHINGTON, Dec 16 — British-born journalist and atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who made the United States his home and backed the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, died yesterday at the age of 62. Hitchens died in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of cancer of the oesophagus, Vanity Fair magazine said. "Christopher Hitchens — the ... 
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| Posted: 15 Dec 2011 10:44 PM PST NEW DELHI, Dec 16 — Frustrated executives while away time in five-star hotels waiting for deals that never come, and civil servants play video games in their offices — growing signs of the reform limbo and crisis of confidence behind India's economic malaise. Policy paralysis, corruption scandals and a government fearful of political backlash to ... 
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| Gaddafi’s death may be war crime, says ICC prosecutor Posted: 15 Dec 2011 07:51 PM PST THE HAGUE, Dec 16 — The death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was captured and killed by rebels in October, may have been a war crime, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said today. "I think the way in which Mr Gaddafi was killed creates suspicions of ... war crimes," ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told ... 
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| Indonesia passes land law to speed development Posted: 16 Dec 2011 12:03 AM PST Indonesia's parliament on Friday passed a long-anticipated bill allowing the government to seize land for public projects in an attempt to speed up much-needed infrastructure development.
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| Posted: 15 Dec 2011 11:42 PM PST The recent movements of Proton's shares send many speculating that the national car manufacturer could have had a new buyer.
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| Japan says Fukushima reactors now stable Posted: 15 Dec 2011 11:37 PM PST Japan said Friday it had finally brought leaking reactors at Fukushima under control, in what authorities say is a vital step on the long road to recovery, nine months after its nuclear crisis began.
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| VIDEO: How the Arab Spring began Posted: 15 Dec 2011 09:47 PM PST The BBC's security correspondent, Frank Gardner, looks back at the events of the Arab Spring over the past year.
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| VIDEO: 'Miracle baby' to be sent home Posted: 15 Dec 2011 11:45 PM PST Doctors in California are preparing to send home one of the smallest premature babies ever to survive anywhere in the world.
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| Newspaper founder killed in Russia's Dagestan Posted: 15 Dec 2011 10:01 PM PST MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - The founder of a newspaper that investigated government corruption was shot dead in Russia's North Caucasus region, in what an international watchdog called "a lethal blow to press freedom." 
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| Insight - Hardly "Incredible India" Posted: 15 Dec 2011 09:29 PM PST NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Frustrated executives while away time in five-star hotels waiting for deals that never come, and civil servants play video games in their offices - growing signs of the reform limbo and crisis of confidence behind India's economic malaise. 
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| Army says coup memo attempt to hurt Pakistan - reports Posted: 15 Dec 2011 09:13 PM PST ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's army chief has said a memo accusing the military of plotting a coup, which could damage the unpopular president and led to the resignation of Islamabad's ambassador to Washington, was an attempt to hurt national security, newspapers said. 
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| British women offered free contraception pill at Christmas Posted: 15 Dec 2011 11:17 PM PST British women are being offered free supplies of the emergency "morning-after" contraceptive pill over the Christmas and New Year holidays, the country's leading abortion agency said Tuesday.
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| Posted: 15 Dec 2011 11:09 PM PST Jyoti Amge, 18, reacts as she receives birthday greetings from relatives at her residence in Nagpur, India. Amge is currently recognised as the "shortest living teenager" measuring 61.95cm (2 ft).
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| By-election if elected rep jumps ship: Penang Gerakan Posted: 15 Dec 2011 10:55 PM PST The Penang Gerakan today suggested that a by-election be called if an elected representatives from any political coalitions jumps to a party in another political coalition.
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| Taylor's crown jewels under the hammer Posted: 15 Dec 2011 10:09 PM PST (America-AFP) - The legendary jewelry and fashion collections of Elizabeth Taylor, the so-called "Crown Jewels of Hollywood," go on sale this week Tuesday to Friday in a much anticipated auction at Christie's, which expects total sales of between $30 million and $50 million. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2011.
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| Australia jails China student for drug smuggling Posted: 15 Dec 2011 10:02 PM PST A young Chinese man was Friday jailed for attempting to import drugs into Australia in a case police said highlighted how gangs were recruiting international students to collect narcotics.
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