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Obama lands in Philippines as defence pact signed - 0 views

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    President Barack Obama landed in the Philippines Monday to cement new defence ties on the last leg of an Asian tour conducted against a backdrop of territorial tensions between US allies and China.
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Undersea search for MH370 to expand :Australia - 0 views

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    Australia's prime minister Monday announced an expanded search across a huge swathe of seabed where Flight MH370 might have crashed seven weeks ago, admitting it is now "highly unlikely" that any surface wreckage will be found.
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MH370 search at 'critical juncture' :Malaysia - 0 views

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    The effort to find missing flight MH370 is at a "very critical juncture", Malaysia's transport minister said Saturday as authorities mull whether to reassess a challenging search of the Indian Ocean seabed that has so far found nothing.
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Senkaku Islands fall under the Japan-U.S. security treaty: Obama - 0 views

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    U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday the Senkaku Islands fall under the Japan-U.S. security treaty in a show of U.S. commitment to defending the Japanese-administered islands against any attempt by China to seize them by force.
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Brunei ruler says sharia penal code to start Thursday - 0 views

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    The Sultan of Brunei announced that a controversial new penal code featuring tough Islamic criminal punishments that has been criticised by UN human rights officials would be phased in from Thursday.
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Foreign investment into China falls in May - 0 views

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    Foreign investment in China fell in May to its lowest level in 16 months, partly due to slowing growth.
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Asylum-seekers sue Australia over boat tragedy - 0 views

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    Families of asylum-seekers killed in a shipwreck off Australia's Christmas Island in 2010 are suing the government, arguing it breached its duty of care in a move Canberra Tuesday blasted as "shameful".
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Strike call in Turkey as mine blast toll rises to 282 - 0 views

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    Turkey's biggest union geared for a massive strike on Thursday amid mounting anger over the country's worst mining accident, as the toll from the disaster rose to 282, with scores still trapped underground.
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Wukan protester flees China, seek US asylum: report - 0 views

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    A leader of the 2011 Wukan protests in China that grabbed worldwide attention has fled to the US to seek asylum, media reports and an associate said on Wednesday.
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Afghanistan's Worsening, and Baffling, Hunger Crisis - 0 views

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    In the Bost Hospital here, a teenage mother named Bibi Sherina sits on a bed in the severe acute malnutrition ward with her two children. Ahmed, at just 3 months old, looks bigger than his emaciated brother Mohammad, who is a year and a half and weighs 10 pounds.
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President urges cementing ties among CICA members - 0 views

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    Iran s President Hassan Rouhani stressed that cementing economic ties among members of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) and making joint investments were most effective ways to promote regional convergence.
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Abe pushes for more active Japanese military - 0 views

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    Nationalist prime minister Shinzo Abe set out his case Thursday for beefing up pacifist Japan's rules of engagement, saying he wants the armed forces to be able to enter battle in defence of allies.
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Myanmar policies behind Rakhine 'oppression': US envoy - 0 views

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    YANGON, Jan 20, 2015 (AFP) - A senior US diplomat Tuesday criticised Myanmar's policies which impose severe restrictions on the Muslim Rohingya community in Rakhine, saying they "oppress" people in the strife-torn state.
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Australia 'offered asylum-seekers lifeboats to go to India' - 0 views

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    SYDNEY, Aug 04, 2014 (AFP) - Asylum-seekers held on an Australian customs vessel at sea for weeks were given lifeboats and told to make their own way back to India, a lawyer for the group said Monday.
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S. Korea ferry disaster captain jailed for 36 years - 0 views

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    GWANGJU, South Korea, Nov 11, 2014 (AFP) - A South Korean court handed down a 36 year jail sentence Tuesday to the captain of the Sewol ferry that sank in April, but acquitted him of murdering the 304 people who died in the disaster.
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The Japanese group demanding an end to Valentine's Day - 0 views

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    TOKYO, Feb 14, 2015 (AFP) - As Japan celebrated Valentine's Day on Saturday a group of killjoys marched through Tokyo protesting what it called the "passion-based capitalism" of the annual celebration of romance.
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