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Riot police move in to end Myanmar copper mine protest By Aung Hla Tun YANGON | Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:47pm EST (Reuters) - Riot police fired water cannon and tear gas early on Thursday to break up a three-month protest against a vast copper mining project run by the powerful Myanmar military...

Greece passes 2013 austerity budget By DEMETRIS NELLAS, Associated Press – 7 hours ago ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek lawmakers approved the country's 2013 austerity budget early Monday, an essential step in Greece's efforts to persuade its international creditors to unblock a vital rescue...

12 November 2012 Last updated at 01:14 GMT Guatemala hit by another powerful earthquake The new earthquake brought panic to Guatemala's devastated San Marcos region, where up to 10,000 houses may have been destroyed A strong earthquake has hit Guatemala just days after at least 52 people...

Myanmar quake death toll at 11, aftershocks rumble By Aung Hla Tun YANGON | Mon Nov 12, 2012 12:59am EST (Reuters) - Aftershocks rattled central Myanmar after an earthquake that killed at least 11 people, with that toll likely to rise on Monday as several workers were missing after a...

Analysis: European austerity protests far from revolution By Nicholas Vinocur and Mark John PARIS | Mon Nov 12, 2012 1:56am EST (Reuters) - In a cafe near the former site of Paris's Bastille prison, activists held a meeting last month to decide whether to join unions in protesting the French...

How debts and double-dealing sparked Japan-China islets row By Antoni Slodkowski OMIYA, Japan | Sun Nov 11, 2012 4:30pm EST (Reuters) - The road to China's breakdown in relations with Japan began here - a sleepy Tokyo suburb that is home to the reclusive real-estate investor at the centre of...

Syria's opposition groups strike unity deal against Assad By Rania El Gamal and Regan Doherty DOHA | Sun Nov 11, 2012 6:42pm EST (Reuters) - Syria's fractious opposition finally put aside fierce arguments to rally behind a new leader within a new coalition that its Western and Arab backers...

Buried in a bleak text, hope for a Chinese political experiment By John Ruwitch BEIJING | Mon Nov 12, 2012 2:56am EST (Reuters) - Chinese Communist Party leader Hu Jintao's opening speech at the ongoing 18th Party Congress was a disappointment to many listeners, offering no major signals...

Iran to hold air defence drill Iranian officials said an air defences exercise will involve jet fighters, drones and thousands of troops Thursday November 08 2012 Iran's military is to hold "massive" air defence manoeuvres in the east, starting this weekend. Farzad Esmaili, head of Iran's...

Teen gets prison for life in Craigslist murders KIM PALMER, REUTERS FIRST POSTED: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 09, 2012 05:47 PM EST | UPDATED: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 09, 2012 05:53 PM EST Accused Craigslist killer Richard James Beasley in an undated photo released by the Summit County Sheriff's Office...

Marijuana possession cases in Washington state going up in smoke LAURA L. MYERS, REUTERS FIRST POSTED: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2012 12:24 AM EST | UPDATED: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2012 01:08 AM EST (Shutterstock) SEATTLE - Prosecutors in Washington state’s two most populous counties plan...

CIA Director David Petraeus resigns Cites extramarital affair MARK HOSENBALL AND TABASSUM ZAKARIA, REUTERS FIRST POSTED: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 09, 2012 03:16 PM EST | UPDATED: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 09, 2012 11:13 PM EST WASHINGTON - CIA Director David Petraeus resigned as head of the leading U.S...

27 dead in Sri Lanka prison gunfight RANGA SIRILAL, REUTERS FIRST POSTED: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2012 03:46 AM EST | UPDATED: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2012 04:07 AM EST Army soldiers leave Welikada prison after clash between the Special Task Force (STF) and prisoners in Colombo November 10...

China to launch new manned spaceship in 2013 AILEEN WANG, REUTERS FIRST POSTED: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2012 06:50 AM EST | UPDATED: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2012 06:56 AM EST The Long March II-F rocket loaded with a Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft carrying Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng, Liu...

Denver mailman mistook corpse for Halloween decoration KEITH COFFMAN, REUTERS FIRST POSTED: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2012 04:33 AM EST | UPDATED: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2012 04:49 AM EST A United States Postal Service truck. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton) DENVER - The United States Postal...

Obama's re-election spells positivity for US-China-Taiwan ties Editorial 2012-11-10 10:06 Chinese President Hu Jintao meets his US counterpart Barack Obama at the G20 meeting in Mexico this year. (File photo/Xinhua) China has been one of the heated topics of discussion during the...

Party acknowledges unfair treatment of China's farmers Xinhua 2012-11-10 15:38 Farmland in Changchun, Jilin province. (File photo/Xinhua) After it became the country's only ruling party 63 years ago, the Communist Party of China is now looking back to where it started on its way to the...

Dismay as Chinese students expelled from NZ for false documents Xinhua and Staff Reporter 2012-11-10 12:43 Studying abroad is no longer exclusively reserved for China's elite. (Photo/CNS) The deportation of Chinese students from New Zealand for using fraudulent documents has provoked...

Taiwan finance minister unfazed by hot money prospect Staff Reporter 2012-11-10 11:52 Chang Sheng-ford was speaking in the Legislative Yuan on Thursday. (File photo/Yao Chih-ping) Taiwan's finance minister, Chang Sheng-ford, remained non-committal on Nov. 8 about the potential entry of hot...

Fake Hermes bags sold as real using Hong Kong receipts Staff Reporter 2012-06-30 11:35 Hermes bags at the French brand's flagship store in Shanghai. (Photo/CFP) Unscrupulous traders in China have used receipts from Hermes stores in Hong Kong to sell their fake products as genuine designer...