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Ashes Fawad Ahmed still in the frame to face England despite being named in Australia A squad
Australia Pakistan-born spinner Fawad Ahmed is being sent to Africa on an Australia A tour at the same time as the Ashes series.But Ahmed remains in contention for the Ashes should his Australian citizenship be approved in time.Ahmed and fellow tweaker Ashton Agar were on Wednesday named in a 15-man Australia A squad for an African tour next month.Ahmed's citizenship is expected to be ...
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Fiji offers more than 500 troops to Golan force—diplomats
UNITED NATIONS--Fiji has offered more than 500 troops to the UN Golan Heights peacekeeping force after several countries withdrew because of the spillover from the Syria conflict, diplomats said Tuesday. Fiji will supply 170 troops this month to replace Japanese and Croatian soldiers who have left in previous weeks. Diplomats said it has also offered to replace the 370 troops that Austria is ...
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GM aims for 10 percent of Chinas luxury car market by 2020
GM.N ) said on Wednesday it aims to quadruple its share of China's luxury auto market to 10 percent by 2020 as the U.S. automaker launches new Cadillac models and expands its distribution network in the world's largest car ...
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Asia Markets China stocks fall Japan jumps ahead of Fed meet
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Chinese and South Korean stocks fell Wednesday on caution ahead of the Federal Reserve's monetary-policy decision later in the day, while Japanese shares rallied on a weakened yen and strong overnight gains on Wall ...
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Charges pending against Afghans accused of prison abuse Australia
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Afghan authorities will lay charges against officials at a prison run by the country's internal security service, Australia said on Wednesday, just weeks after Canberra blocked prisoner transfers over fears of detainee ...
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Knox murder acquittal had discrepancies Italian courtItalys top court said on Tuesday it had ordered a re-run of the Meredith Kercher murder trial because the acquittal of American Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend contained shortcomings cont
American Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend contained "shortcomings, contradictions and inconsistencies". Knox and Italian Raffaele Sollecito were initially found guilty of killing the 21-year-old Leeds University student in 2007 during a drug-fuelled sexual assault, but both were cleared on appeal in 2011. In March this year, Italy's top appeals court overturned that acquittal and ...
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Grisly Syria heart-eating video sparks outrage
A video which appears to show a Syrian rebel carving out the heart of a dead soldier and putting it into his mouth has shocked journalists who met him in Homs in 2011 and 2012 and sparked widespread condemnation. The gruesome video appeared to feature a Syrian rebel commander, dressed in camouflage trousers, cutting open the corpse of what appeared to be a soldier loyal to Syrian President ...
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Koreas start first govt-level talks in over 2 years
The first working-level talks in over two years between officials of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and South Korea began on Sunday at Panmunjom border village, according to Yonhap news agency. The working contact at Freedom House on the South Korean side of the truce village is aimed at preparing for the ministerial meeting to be held in Seoul on Wednesday. DPRK on June ...
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U.S. Army general in Japan suspended amid sex-assault probe
Maj Gen Michael T Harrison (Photo:Agencies) A two-star general who commands U.S. Army forces in Japan has been suspended from his duties for allegedly failing to report or properly investigate an allegation of sexual assault, the Army said Friday. Maj Gen Michael T Harrison was suspended by the Army chief of staff, Gen Ray Odierno, and Army Secretary John McHugh, the Army said. It provided no ...
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Park meets with former top Chinese diplomat
South Korean President Park Geun-hye met with a former top Chinese diplomat Friday as she prepares for her first summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, where she plans to use to enlist Beijing's help in pressuring North Korea to give up its nuclear programs. The meeting with Xi, set for June 27, comes after the new Chinese president and U.S. President Barack Obama agreed at a summit ...
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5.4-magnitude quake hits Philippine Islands region -- USGS
An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale jolted Philippine Islands region at 02:12:00 GMT on Saturday (10:12:00 Beijing time), the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 52.50 km, was initially determined to be at 10.6352 degrees north latitude and 126.7634 degrees east ...
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S. Sudan Could Drop Austerity Budget as Oil Flows
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN -- South Sudan’s Council of Ministers has submitted a $5.6 billion dollar national budget to parliament for the new fiscal year, more than double the country’s current austerity budget. But officials warned that they are prepared to slash spending if oil production is shut down again over a new row with Sudan, which has accused Juba of backing rebels in the north ...
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College Student Escapes Roommate’s Poisoning Attempt in China
Just months after two cases of university students who are suspected of having been poisoned by their roommates made headlines in China, the Chinese public has been shocked by yet another, similar attempt that took place just last month. The victim, who has chosen to use the alias of "Wang," was a female student at a university in eastern China's Zhejiang Province, who lived in ...
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China commences its first carbon trading scheme
As ABC/AFP report , the city will host one of seven pilot schemes which will aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The six other schemes are also planned to start this year. They will be located in Beijing, Chongqing, Guangdong, Hubei, Shanghai and Tianjin. Shenzhen, located near Hong Kong, is one of China's Special Economic Zones. It has committed to reduce the emissions intensity ...
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Japans opposition leader slams party co-leader over controversial words
The Japan Restoration Party's co-head Shintaro Ishihara slammed the party's another leader, Toru Hashimoto, over the latter's controversial wartime sexual slavery remarks that have hurt public support for the party, according to local media.Ishihara said the improper words made by Hashimoto over the wartime military brothels a "great nuisance", adding that Hashimoto ...
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Globalfoundries lands wafer start orders from China-based Rockchip
Globalfoundries has landed wafer start orders from China-based SoC solution provider Rockchip Electronics. The US-based foundry house will manufacture Rockchip's RK3188 and RK3168 chips using a 28nm HKMG process, according to industry ...
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China market Domestic TV panel supply falls far short of demand says CVIA vice president
China-based makers turned out 24 million LCD TV panels for a global market share of 10.5% in 2012 and will produce an estimated 44 million panels to account for 17.6% of the global total in 2013, according to vice president and secretary-general Bai Weimin for the China Video Industry Association. However, China-based vendors will produce more than 120 million LCD TVs in 2013, meaning that ...
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Taiwan market Sony to launch Handycam camcorder GW88V
GW88V features Exmor R CMOS image sensor to support Full HD video recording and 20.4-megapixel photography, 10x optical zoom, operability at 10m under water and low temperatures up to -10 degrees C, shockproof of 10m fall and IP5X dustproof, Sony Taiwan ...
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Tastes and sights of Taiwan in Xiamen
Vendors from Taiwan sell Taiwanese foods at a Taiwan-style temple fair in Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian Province, on Friday, June 14, 2013. The temple fair is part of the city's fifth Straits Forum to be held on June ...
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Hot Air Balloon Festival kicks off in Chinas Hainan
15 hot air balloons participated in the event Tuesday to to fly across the Qiongzhou Strait from the city of Haikou and reach a designated place in neighboring Guangdong ...
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Sebin Festival of Owenke ethnic group kicks off in N China
Herdsmen of the Owenke ethnic group wrestle at the annual Sebin (Happiness) Festival in Owenke Autonomous Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, June 18, 2013. The Owenke ethnic group has the reputation of the "last hunting tribe in ...
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Obama to invoke call of history in Berlin speech
Barack Obama will on Wednesday invoke the Cold War history of German-US solidarity, on a long-awaited first visit to Berlin as president, but will face sharp questions on US spy snooping ...
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Japan finds highly toxic strontium in Fukushima groundwater
TOKYO (Reuters) - High levels of toxic strontium-90 have been found in groundwater at the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the utility that operates the facility said on Wednesday Strontium-90 is a by-product of the fission of uranium and plutonium in nuclear reactors as well as nuclear weapons, according to the website of the U.S. Environmental Protection ...
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News Corp. print assets start trading in Australia
0.00% fell 15 Australian cents to 14.85 Australian dollars ($14.04) Wednesday as they began trading in Sydney. The company holds the publishing assets that were spun off by media conglomerate News Corp. More than 4.6 million New Newscorp shares were traded in the first 15 minutes of their debut, according to FactSet data. News ...
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Snowden says NSA used Cisco to spy China media
+0.49% routers to spy on Chinese networks. The report on the Chinese-language site Techweb.com, dated Tuesday, also said that Cisco had been involved in many major Chinese Internet infrastructure projects, including those of military and government networks. However, ...
North Korea Digest
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North Korea's navy integral to sea border security
The North Korean Navy is an integral part of the country’s armed forces and the 46,000 men and woman that man it are the part of the defense force most often in international and North Korean news media.
The North Korean Navy is part of the Korean People’s Army Naval Force and makes up the country’s maritime defense capability. Because the navy is primarily concerned with defense, it operates as a ‘green water’ rather than a ‘blue water’ navy, which means it is capable of carrying out missions and activities offshore but not at extended ranges such as the Chinese Navy, which is much larger and includes air craft carriers, battle ships and destroyers. Read more
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