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Nepal's Chitwan National Park records first rhino death of 2020

A young and rare one-horned rhinoceros has died in the buffer zone of Chitwan National Park (CNP) in central Nepal, authorities confirmed. The baby rhino estimated to b

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Trump warns Iran of 'major retaliation,' threatens sanctions on Iraq

US President Donald Trump threatened "major retaliation" Sunday if Iran avenges the killing of a key military commander and he warned of massive economic sanctions agai

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Foreign Investment Law is no measure of makeshift

A man passes by a signboard for Shanghai E-port in Shanghai, east China, August 12, 2018. /Xinhua Photo Editor's Note: Zhu Zheng is an assistant professor focusing on constitutional law and po

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U.S., Iran escalate war threats amid rocket attacks on U.S. embassy

A former Iranian military official is threatening that Iran will strike Israel if the U.S. attacks Iran.U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted the United States will "quickly fully" strike back if Iran

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Body of Iranian commander killed by US strike in Iraq returned to Iran

The body of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. military strike, was returned to Iran on Sunday and driven through thousands o

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Bacteria in Hollywood: Separating fact from (science) fiction

Spoiler alert: Not everything in Hollywood movies is true to life. Off-screen, the lovable loser doesn't always find happiness, the have-a-go hero isn't strangely impervious to the bad guy's bullets

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4 years of Yangtze River Economic Zone: A development demonstration

Workers finish joining together the steel structures of a rail-road bridge of the Shangqiu-Hefei-Hangzhou high-speed railway over the Yangtze River in Wuhu, China, April 26, 2019. /Xinhua Photo

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3 mortar rounds hit air base housing U.S. troops in Iraq's Salahudin province

Three mortar rounds on Saturday struck Balad air base, which houses U.S. troops in Iraq's central province of Salahudin, without causing human casualties, a provincial

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Man United held by Wolves in FA Cup stalemate, Man City cruise through

Man United's Nemanja Matic (C) in action during their FA Cup third round clash with Wolves on January 4, 2020. Spluttering Manchester United were forced to settle for a dour 0-0 draw at Wolve

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Man United held by Wolves in FA Cup stalemate, Man City cruise through

Man United's Nemanja Matic (C) in action during their FA Cup third round clash with Wolves on January 4, 2020. Spluttering Manchester United were forced to settle for a dour 0-0 draw at Wolve

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Turkish intervention risks Syria scenario for Libya: experts

Turkey's decision to approve the deployment of troops to Libya risks plunging the North African nation deeper into a Syrian-style proxy war between regional powers incl

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Tens of thousands march in Baghdad to mourn Soleimani, others killed in U.S. air strike

Tens of thousands of people marched in Baghdad on Saturday to mourn Iran’s military chief Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, killed in a U

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A timeline of US-Iran relations since 1953 in pictures

02:15 US President Donald Trump ordered the assassination of Iran's chief military commander, Major General Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force on

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APD | Weekly top 10 hot news ( December 28 --January 3 )

Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.This week, the following hot news you should know:Top 1 | 'US strike' killed t

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Xinhua Headlines: China races to rescue rare Yangtze finless porpoise

After its more-storied cousin, the Baiji dolphin, was declared "functionally extinct" in 2007 in the same waters, the finless porpoise is thus believed by experts to be

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UAE condemns attack on U.S. embassy in Baghdad

The United Arab Emirates condemned the attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, terming it a "blatant violation of diplomatic norms and conventions," the official news a

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Pakistani PM inaugurates special economic zone under CPEC

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Allama Iqbal Industrial City, a special economic zone (SEZ) under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in th