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Chinese shares close at new high
2019-04-08BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese share prices rose 1.48 percent to close at another record high on Monday despite Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index dropping 2.67 percent and Indonesian stocks falling 4.3...
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Fuel cell buses planned for 2010 Games
2019-04-08British Columbia's transit system has agreed to buy a fleet of fuel cell-powered buses to be used in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the western Canadian province said on Friday. BC Transit has...
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Chinese police must be more polite, more efficient and better dressed in the run-up to next year's Beijing Olympics or they will be punished, state media said on Sunday. It is part of a Ministry of Pu...
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WASHINGTON, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The White House denied on Friday that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Robert Mueller III on Thursday contradicted the sworn testimony of Attorney General...
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KIM HEE-YEON, wife of pastor Bae Hyung-kyu who was kidnapped and killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan, cries during a news conference asking for the safe return of the remaining 22 South Korean hostag...
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ISLAMABAD, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said Friday that Lal Masjid, or the Red Mosque, would be closed for indefinite period.The government had opened ...
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3 NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan
2019-04-08KABUL, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Three soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed on Friday in Afghanistan, an ISAF statement said.Two ISAF soldiers and one Afghan s...
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U.S., India reach deal on nuclear co-op
2019-04-08WASHINGTON, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The United States and India have reached an operating agreement on peaceful nuclear cooperation, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Friday. “The United Sta...
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WASHINGTON, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. House of Representatives passed a multi-billion dollar farm bill on Friday, despite a veto threat from the White House.The new five-year package devotes money ...
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Pigeons from US Found to Be Infected
2019-04-08The country's top watchdog on products quality has urged local quarantine authorities to tighten inspections of birds and poultry from the United States after a shipment of carrier pigeons from there ...