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Source: Xinhua Published: May 14, 2012 10:40
New Zealand's population growth slowed in the year to March to its lowest rise in more than a decade, due to emigration and fewer births, the government statistics agency announced Monday.
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Source: Xinhua Published: May 14, 2012 10:32
US President Barack Obama on Sunday welcomed the security transition that took place in Afghanistan earlier in the day, saying world leaders will demonstrate their support for Afghanistan beyond 2014 in the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago.
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Source: AFP Published: May 14, 2012 00:40
US Republican White House challenger Mitt Romney, wooing social conservatives, has adamantly rejected same-sex marriage and trumpeted his belief in Christian values and the family.
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Source: AFP Published: May 14, 2012 00:40
Dozens of Russian experts combed a remote mountainside in Indonesia yesterday searching for the flight recorders of a Sukhoi jet that slammed into a dormant volcano killing everyone on board.
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Source: AFP Published: May 14, 2012 00:40
Fiji beauty queen Torika Watters, who was the target of racist criticism about her looks, has been replaced as the island nation's Miss World Pageant entrant, organizers said Sunday.
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Source: Xinhua Published: May 13, 2012 13:14
Seven people were killed and three others were injured Sunday morning as a fire broke out at a hotel in Hiroshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan, local press reported.
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Source: Xinhua Published: May 12, 2012 10:09
A jet fighter of Pakistan Air Force crashed near Karachi on Friday, reported local media Geo, adding that the pilot bailed out successfully.
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Source: Xinhua Published: May 12, 2012 10:07
A 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit New Zealand's lower South Island on Saturday morning.
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Source: Xinhua Published: May 11, 2012 16:26
Indian flag carrier Air India Friday cancelled at least 12 international flights as the pilots strike entered the fourth day even as the country's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the Civil Aviation Minister to ensure that air fares don't shoot up because of the stir.
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Source: Xinhua Published: May 11, 2012 16:25
India's Supreme Court Friday ordered the country's premier probe agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to probe the alleged role of a former Chief Minister of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled southern state of Karnataka in iron ore mining scam, sources said Friday.
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