HONG KONG, Sept. 2 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Legislators in Hong Kong on Thursday mourned the eight tourists from Hong Kong who died in the Philippines bus hostage crisis last week, condemned the authorities for failing to end the hijacking peacefully and demanded the government to press Manila for...
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Three coffins used to bring back some of the eight Hong Kong tourists killed last week's Philippine hostage crisis had been mislabelled. The mix-up was discovered after the family of one victim went to a Hong Kong mortuary to identify their dead relative only to find the coffin contained the body of...
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Typhoon Kompasu slammed into South Korea on Thursday, killing three people in what was called the strongest tropical storm to hit the Seoul area in 15 years. Powerful gusts knocked over trees, power lines and streetlights, cutting off power to tens of thousands of homes and forcing...
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Scientists have shown that a severe snowfall in North America and Northern Europe in the winter of 2009-2010 was caused by a rare, once...
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LARA MARLOWE in Washington HAMAS'S KILLING of four Israeli settlers dominated the start of two days of Middle East peace talks here yesterday. US president Barack Obama condemned the attack near Hebron on Tuesday as "senseless slaughter" and said it was "an example of what we're up against". Mr...
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By Agence France Presse (AFP) Thursday, September 02, 2010 - Powered by --> WASHINGTON: The United States is pushing for peace talks between Israel, Syria and Lebanon as the Israelis prepare to resume direct negotiations with the Palestinians this week. Wider peace talks between Israel and its...
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ALLERGAN, the maker of the popular anti-wrinkle treatment Botox, said overnight it had agreed to pay $US600 million ($674.27 million) to settle a US probe into marketing for so-called off-label uses. The company said it agreed to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor...
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