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China's icebreaker Xuelong trapped after Antarctica rescue
2014-01-04
China's icebreaker Xuelong has been trapped by heavy floes since Friday after rescuing passengers on a Russian vessel stranded in Antarctica. Xueying 12, a ...
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Gold suffers worst year since 1981
2014-01-02
The price of gold endured its worst year since 1981 as the US economy improved, inflation remained at bay and worries about the financial system and gridlock in ...
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Hepatitis B vaccine makers fail to win approval
2014-01-02
Major hepatitis B vaccine makers, Shenzhen-based BioKangtai, Beijing Tiantan Biological Products Co Ltd and Hualan Biological Engineering Inc, announced they failed ...
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Beijing's smog mainly caused by industrial pollution
2013-12-31
Industrial pollution is the biggest source of the PM 2.5 problems which cause Beijing's smog, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said on Monday. Secondary inorganic ...
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Six charged over gang rape in India
2013-12-30
Police arrested 10 people and charged six of them with raping a 21-year-old woman in southern India, police said on Friday, a year after a fatal gang rape in New ...
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26 Killed in Indian Train Fire
2013-12-29
Railway officials in southern India say the death toll for a fire on a train has risen to 26 people. Authorities say at least seven people were injured when the fire ...
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Russia says Arafat died of natural causes
2013-12-27
Russia said on Thursday that former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died of natural causes, not radiation poisoning, but the Palestinian ambassador to Moscow said ...
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H5N2 bird flu areas sealed off in N China
2013-12-24
Areas within 3 km of a farm in north China's Hebei Province, the site of an H5N2 bird flu outbreak in poultry, were confirmed to have been sealed off, according to ...
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