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| After toxic spill, China mine explodes |
| An explosion ripped through a state-owned colliery in northeast China, killing 134 miners and trapping 15 underground, just days after Chinese leaders called for vigilance to prevent major accidents.
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| Lanka in peace offer to Tigers |
| Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse said today he was willing to start immediate talks with Tamil Tiger rebels on improving a 2002 ceasefire, the day after the rebels made
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| Nepal raid |
| Armed Nepali police stormed a radio station, detained four reporters and seized equipment to block a BBC interview with Maoist chief Prachanda, the company said today.
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| Hollywood’s Geisha sparks protests |
| A dream team of movie stars from China and Japan gathered in Tokyo on Monday to promote Memoirs of a Geisha, the first big-budget Hollywood romance to feature an almost
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| AIDS piggy-back drug |
| GlaxoSmithKline Plc plans to develop an experimental AIDS vaccine by “piggy-backing” on a shot against measles.
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| 2nd Time scribe in leak glare |
| A second Time magazine reporter has been asked by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to testify in the CIA leak investigation, the magazine disclosed in its Decembe
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| A relative of a trapped miner waits oustide the Dongfeng coal mine in Qitaihe, China?s Heilongjiang province. (Reuters) |
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