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Japan's stock slump a good thing? Japan's main trading index, the Tokyo Nikkei, plunged more than 7% Thursday, ending a red-hot rally that saw the bourse climb nearly 50% since the start of the year.
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China 'offers peacekeepers' for Mali China has offered soldiers to the new UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, UN officials say.
BBC News | 7 hours, 31 minutes ago | comment? | recommend

Sri Lanka garment firms boost work conditions New campaign helps improve safety standards and workers' rights in country gaining image as ethical source of clothing.
Al Jazeera | 7 hours, 44 minutes ago | comment? | recommend

Todd family may exhume son's body The parents of American Shane Todd, found hanging in his Singapore apartment last June, tell CNN they may exhume their son's body to conduct an autopsy in the United States.
CNN.com | 13 hours, 42 minutes ago | comment? | recommend

'How I escaped the Taliban' In his first television interview, photographer Pierre Borghi describes his kidnapping and escape from a Taliban prison.
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Vietnam activist sentences reduced A court in Vietnam reduces the prison sentences of four activists convicted in January of trying to overthrow the one-party communist state.
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Japanese man, 80, oldest to top Everest _ for now KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) An 80-year-old Japanese man who began the year with his fourth heart operation became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest on Thursday, a feat he called "the world's best feeling" even with an 81-year-old Nepalese clim
Yahoo! News | 23 hours, 55 minutes ago | comment? | recommend

Taliban rickshaw bomb kills 13 in Pakistan QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) A large bomb hidden by the Taliban in a rickshaw exploded as a police vehicle passed in southwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing 11 policemen and two civilians, police said.
Yahoo! News | May 23, 2013 1:39 PM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Life terms urged in Bangladesh accident State-appointed panel says building whose collapse killed more than 1,000 people, was meant to house shopping mall.
Al Jazeera | May 23, 2013 12:31 PM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Crane disrupts Vietnam energy supply A mistake by a crane operator causes a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam and parts of neighbouring Cambodia, officials say.
BBC News | May 23, 2013 11:36 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

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