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Kenyan policeman, Congolese arrested with 600 kg of rhino horns

​Kenyan authorities arrested in Nairobi a police officer and two other suspects including a Congolese related to smuggling 600 kilogrammes of rhino horns.

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Income, corruption top concerns for two sessions: Polls

​The public are most concerned that income distribution and countercorruption are discussed at the ongoing two sessions, online polls have shown.

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Cuba releases Canadian entrepreneur charged of corruption

Cuba has freed a Canadian businessman who was sentenced to 15 years in prison on corruption charges, his company said on Saturday.

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Criminal lawsuit lodged in Thai supreme court against Yingluck

​A criminal lawsuit was formally filed in court against former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra involving an allegedly loss-ridden rice program on Thursday.

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China's young migrants dream big

Speaking fluent Mandarin and wearing a fine cashmere coat, no one would have any inkling that Ting Chengchun, 36, is from a poor background and only spent nine years in school.

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China's young migrants dream big

Speaking fluent Mandarin and wearing a fine cashmere coat, no one would have any inkling that Ting Chengchun, 36, is from a poor background and only spent nine years in school.

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Egypt sentences 230 life sentence, including key activist

An Egyptian court sentenced on Wednesday 230, including prominent liberal activist Ahmed Douma, for life sentence over voilence charges, official news MENA reported.

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Cloisonne, made in China with pride

​The "Made in China" label is seen on clothes and electrical appliances as somehow meaning an acceptable price and barely satisfactory qualify.

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Russia to lose 200 bln USD as economic shocks seep in

​External shocks, including plunging oil prices, would cost the Russian economy 200 billion U.S. dollars, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Wednesday, warning that two sovereign wealth funds would be exhausted within the next two years if budget expenditures remain unchanged.

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Public donations aid boy, 8, who defies medical opinion

The plight of Song Liuchen, from a village in Shangqiu, Henan province, who has confounded medical experts by fighting epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a rare skin disease, since birth, has caused a nationwide sensation.

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Algerian court sentences two al-Qaida-linked militants over terror charges

​An Algerian court Monday sentenced two al-Qaida-linked militants, including one Libyan, to five and 15 years in prison over terrorism-related charges, local media reported.

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Change and hope, five years after China-ASEAN Free Trade Area established

Vietnamese merchant Do Thi Ngan, who has been doing business in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for more than 10 years, is looking forward to a more fruitful 2015.

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Change and hope, five years after China-ASEAN Free Trade Area established

Vietnamese merchant Do Thi Ngan, who has been doing business in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for more than 10 years, is looking forward to a more fruitful 2015.

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Searching operation in Aisne for Charlie Hebdo attack finished: media

​Police's searching operation for the two main suspects of Charlie Hebdo attack is finished, suspects still at large, said BFMTV on Thursday night.

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Egypt court cuts jail sentences for 23 political activists

​An Egyptian appeal court on Sunday cut the sentences of 23 pro-democracy activists accused of violating the country's protest law from three to two years in prison, state-run al-Ahram online website reported.

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Three intelligence agents released by U.S. return to Cuba

Cuban leader Raul Castro confirmed here Wednesday that the remaining three agents of the Cuban Five, who had been imprisoned in the United States, were released and returned to their home country.

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Hope flickers over tinderbox

​The Korean Peninsula marks a rare anomaly in modern human history: It is unusual for an armistice not to have morphed into a peace treaty after more than 60 years; it is more so that the warring countries are the two halves of the same nation.