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7 min ago | Kentucky.com

China offers Africa more trade, investment

China is offering to abolish import duties on some commodities from Africa and make sure Chinese exports to the continent are safe as part of a package to boost already thriving economic ties, China's commerce minister said in an article published Saturday.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Africa, Egypt

4 hrs ago | Sunday Times

Obama delays Japan visit after Texas shooting

US President Barack Obama has delayed his visit to Japan next week by one day, a Japanese foreign ministry official said Saturday, following a deadly shooting at a military base in Texas.

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Related Topix: World News, Japan, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Akihito Akihito, US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Fort Hood, TX

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Manawatu Evening Standard

Motive probed for US army shooting rampage

Investigators are searching for the motive behind a mass shooting at a sprawling US army base in Texas, in which an army psychiatrist trained to treat war wounded is suspected of killing 13 people.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Prison, Fort Hood, TX, World News, Afghanistan

Telegraph.co.uk

China angry over Dalai Lama visit to disputed Tibetan border

India has provoked China's fury by allowing the Dalai Lama to visit a remote town near the disputed Tibetan border.

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Related Topix: Travel, China Travel, World News, India, India Travel,

WGNTV Chicago

German defense minister: Civilians likely killed in Afghan strike, but operation necessary

Germany's defense minister said Friday he believes civilians were killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan, but insisted that the German-requested attack was necessary from a military standpoint.

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Related Topix: Afghanistan, World News

Visionmp.com

No Input from Pak on Headley, Says PM

November 6, 2009 Visionmp.com news service The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has said that there is no input from Pakistan on David Coleman Headley, who was arrested in Chicago by the FBI for plotting a major terror strike in India at the best of LeT.

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Related Topix: Manmohan Singh, World News, India, Pakistan,

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Gang leader executed in China

A former gang leader who was the son of a high-ranking politician was executed this week in northern China after being convicted of murder, kidnapping, and extortion, state media reported.

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22 passengers killed as bus falls into gorge in northern India

Some 22 passengers were killed and several others feared dead when a bus plunged into a deep gorge in Kangra town of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh today, a senior police official said, Xinhua reported.

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Fashion Week held in Pakistan, defying Taliban threats

Defying Taliban's threats, the fashionists in Pakistan clustered in the southern commercial hub for the ongoing Karachi Fashion Week to showcase a different side of the terror-torn country, Xinhua reported.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

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22 killed as bus plunges into gorge in northern India

At least 22 people were killed as their bus plunged into a gorge at Kangra town in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh Friday, said police, Xinhua reported.

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Gunman injures 3 near Tokyo, hides in building

A lone gunman shot and wounded three men Friday in a residential area near Tokyo and then took refuge in a building, officials say, AP reported.

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US President Obama to visit China

United States President Barack Obama will visit China from Nov. 15 to 18 at the invitation of Chinese President Hu Jintao, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said on Thursday, Xinhua reported.

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KING5 Seattle News

Senator: No fed money for US-China wind project

A Democratic senator on Thursday called on the Obama administration to reject an expected request for federal economic stimulus money as part of a $1.5 billion West Texas wind energy project, saying it will generate Chinese, not American, jobs - a claim strongly disputed by the project's developer.

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Related Topix: World News, China, West, TX, Science / Technology, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Alternative Energy, Charles Schumer, US News, US Senate, Democrat, US Politics

Reuters Video

Witness: Afghan Firefight

Editor's note: Reuters journalist Deborah Gembara was embedded with the 1-501rst Infantry Battallion in Kushamond, Afghanistan.

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Related Topix: Afghanistan, World News, Anchorage Metro, Anchorage, AK, Video

People's Daily

Expert calls for standardized treatment for Net addicts

A front-line advocate of treating Internet addiction Thursday appealed that net addicts must be taken into qualified health institutions rather than rehab camps, as China's Ministry of Health was soliciting public opinions on a draft guidance to juveniles on Internet use.

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Related Topix: China, World News

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Two earthquakes jolt central Taiwan

Two earthquakes measuring 5.9 and 5.4 on the Richter scale respectively struck central Taiwan in a little more than two hours on Thursday, the China Earthquake Networks Center said, Xinhua reported.

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Gang leader in southwest China gets 20-year jail term

A man convicted of organizing a crime gang that intentionally injured seven people and took huge amounts of money in racketeering over the past eight years was sentenced to 20 years in jail Thursday at a court in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Xinhua reported.

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Japan speeds up process to resolve US base issue

Japan will speed up its review of a deal to move a major U.S. military base on the island of Okinawa, officials said Thursday, but no final decision was expected in time for President Barack Obama's visit to Tokyo next week, AP reported.

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