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China deplores Korea tension, warns against regional turmoil North Korean soldiers take part in a shooting drill in an unknown location in this picture taken on April 6, 2013 and released by North Korea's official KCNA news agency in Pyongyang on April 7, 2013. REUTERS/KCNA By Ben Blanchard...

Death toll rises to 72 in Mumbai building collapse By Vivek Prakash MUMBAI | Sat Apr 6, 2013 3:06am EDT (Reuters) - The death toll from a collapsed building in India's financial center Mumbai rose to 72 on Saturday, as an injured woman trapped for 36 hours was freed from the rubble of the...

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Four South Korean workers kidnapped in Nigeria freed: reports SEOUL | Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:03pm EST (Reuters) - Four South Korean employees of Hyundai Heavy Industries, who were abducted earlier this week in Nigeria, have been released, local media reported on Saturday, quoting unnamed...

Saturday December 22, 2012 Discounted toll rates on Christmas Day KUALA LUMPUR: Twenty-four highway concessionaires will be giving discounted toll rates and rebates for road users travelling on Christmas day. Malaysian Highway Authority director-general Datuk Ismail Md Salleh said the...

Ex-director fined and jailed for corruption By Alvina Soh | Posted: 21 December 2012 1854 hrs SINGAPORE: A former director of a sea freight services was on Friday sentenced to four weeks' jail and fined S$30,000 for corruption. Sixty-five-year-old Tan Tuck Soo, the director of Assets...

Putin backs tit-for-tat response to U.S. rights law By Alexei Anishchuk and Timothy Heritage MOSCOW | Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:39pm EST (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin backed a ban on Americans adopting Russian children on Thursday in a feud over a U.S. law that aims to punish Russians...

Molesting 'TV director' caught The Star/Asia News Network Thursday, Dec 20, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR - A man has been arrested after a 22-year-old woman accused him of molesting her during an "audition". The 49-year-old property agent was believed to have impersonated a well-known telemovie...

Gun group takes down Facebook page Date December 18, 2012 A man examines shotguns at a National Rifle Association exhibition in Missouri. Photo: Getty Images/AFP On December 13, the National Rifle Association's Twitter account announced a giveaway promotion, thanked its followers for...

Fiji declared a disaster zone after cyclone cuts power, water Date December 19, 2012 AUCKLAND: A state of natural disaster has been declared for parts of Fiji as the clean-up from cyclone Evan begins. Thousands of people took refuge in evacuation centres overnight, as the cyclone pounded...

N. Korean satellite orbiting but 'dead' Date December 19, 2012 A mighty launch for a fizzer ... the North Korean rocket has succeeded in upsetting the reclusive country's neighbours, but little more. Photo: Reuters/KCNA A SATELLITE launched with fanfare last week by a defiant North Korea...

'They made us choose which one of us would be shot first ': TV reporter kidnapped in Syria escapes after firefight Date December 19, 2012 - 6:31AM NBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel said on Tuesday he and members of his network crew escaped unharmed after five days of captivity in...

Militants kill polio vaccination workers Date December 19, 2012 - 1:59PM ISLAMABAD: Gunmen have shot dead five health workers in Pakistan at the start of a polio vaccination drive, in a spree of apparently co-ordinated attacks on the nationwide medical campaign. Officials were forced to halt...

Obama 'will back assault weapons ban' Date December 19, 2012 - 9:03AM WASHINGTON: Barack Obama would support legislation restoring a ban on assault weapons and requiring background checks of buyers at gun shows as steps toward preventing more mass shootings, his spokesman says. The US...

Ireland legalises abortion to protect mothers Date December 19, 2012 - 9:16AM Outrage ... protesters in Dublin calling for abortion rights last month carry pictures of Savita Halappanavar. Photo: AP DUBLIN: Ireland is to legalise abortions when the mother's life is at risk, including when...

New investigation into Winnie Mandela Date December 19, 2012 - 10:06AM Past accusations ... Winnie Madikizela-Mandela with Joyce Seipei, mother of Stompie, at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1997. Photo: Reuters JOHANNESBURG: South African prosecutors say they have launched a...

Perth man sought by ATO held in Thailand Date December 19, 2012 - 10:10AM A Perth man being pursued by Operation Wickenby investigators on charges of avoiding tax and money laundering has been arrested in Thailand. Greg Dunn, 53, was detained this week by Thai police, acting on an Australian...

Pussy Riot member opens up about life in jail FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2012 12:04 PM EST | UPDATED: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2012 12:12 PM EST Incarcerated Pussy Riot star Maria Alekhina spends 12 hours a day sewing in a workshop for $32 a month as she serves her two-year sentence...

No charges for David Petraeus' mistress Paula Broadwell in cyberstalking case JANE SUTTON, REUTERS FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2012 02:40 PM EST | UPDATED: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2012 03:02 PM EST Paula Broadwell and David Petraeus (Photos from Twitter, Reuters) Federal prosecutors...