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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang meets Salman Khurshid
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid here on Monday, as he sought to strengthen mutual trust and deepen cooperation between the two nations after a recent military standoff in Ladakh threatened to derail ties between the two Asian giants. The Chinese premier also visited Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi and paid homage to the father of the Indian ...
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India China ties essential for Asia world Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday that India and China's relationship is essential for stability and prosperity in Asia and the world, while stressing the need "for an early resolution of the boundary dispute. "There are many areas of convergence between us. We agreed that the relationship is of growing significance and essential for peaceful development and stability and prosperity in ...
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Chinese Indian leaders call for cooperation
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang waves to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, as he leaves the Indian Presidential Palace after his ceremonial reception in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 20, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, Li visited India on his first foreign three-day trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost ...
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Markets solid despite Fed policy speculation
A man under an umbrella walks past an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, May 20, 2013. Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.4 percent to 15,352.84 as evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push Asian stock markets higher Monday. (AP Photo/Koji ...
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Mobiles offer financial lifeline to Asian migrants
Asia'smobilerevolution is set to transform the region's financial services industry, offering a cheap way for millions of migrant workers to send money home to their families, a report said on ...
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Real Women Have Curves
In Real Women Have Curves, 18-year-old newcomer America Ferrera does a lot of exasperated sighing and angry eye-rolling as Ana, a bright and ambitious young woman who has just graduated from high school and has her whole life ahead of her. Theres one major obstacle in her path, though: her conservative-minded and utterly unbending mother, Carmen (Lupe Ontiveros), who thinks that, because s ... ...
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China presses North Korea over detained sailors ministry
China has called on Pyongyang to intervene over North Koreans detaining a Chinese fishing boat, it said Monday, after the vessel's owner said armed hijackers had demanded a ransom for 16 ...
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Asian death wave tops a year of big disasters
The earthquake and tidal waves that took the lives of more than 23,000 in countries around the Indian Ocean was the latest and biggest of a series of natural disasters in 2004, one of the worst years in recent memory. The other events include:February 24Morocco. An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 hit the northeastern region of Al Hoceima, killing 628 and injuring more than 900. March ...
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Obama exhorts good deeds by Morehouse graduatesSo yes go get that law degree.But if you do ask yourself if the only option is to defend the rich and powerful or if you can also find time to defend the powerless Obama said.
ATLANTA: President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically ...
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Syria war Israel warns of more strikesLebanese Hezbollah militants attacked a Syrian rebel-held town alongside Syrian troops on Sunday and Israel threatened more attacks on Syria to rein the militia in highlighting the risks of a wider regional conflict
Syria to rein the militia in, highlighting the risks of a wider regional conflict if planned peace talks fail. Activists said it was the fiercest fighting in Syria's two year-old civil war involving Hezbollah, a Shi'ite group backed by Iran which they said appeared to be helping ...
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Associated Press CEO calls records seizure by US govt unconstitutional
WASHINGTON: The Associated Press' president and chief executive says the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records has already had a chilling effect on news gathering, a week after the subpoenas were revealed ...
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Nothing will ever completely replace playing the game I love, however I feel like I'm starting a new adventure and I'm genuinely excited about what lies ahead. I'm fortunate to have been given many opportunities throughout my career and now I feel it's my time to give back.
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The world's best known footballer was speaking after formally announcing his retirement.
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Millennium Hotel, Queenstown, New Zealand
I've reviewed this hotel before, and found it one of my favourites in New Zealand. Queenstown is located in the ...
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