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8 die from toxic gas while cleaning sewage in NE China

EightpeoplewerekilledandanothertwobecameillwhilecleaningasewagedischargeoutletFridayinDalian,aportcityinnortheastChina'sLiaoningProvince,localauthoritiessaid.Vi

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Egypt, IMF in initial agreement on next aid tranche

TheInternationalMonetaryFundsaidFridayitwillreleasethesecondtrancheofa$12-billionloantoEgypt,ina"voteofconfidence"inthecountry'seconomicreformprogramme.Theamoun

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Xi urges closer ties in phone call with French President-elect Macron

Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke with French President-elect Emmanuel Macron on the phone on Tuesday and the two agreed to meet at an early date.

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Xi urges closer ties in phone call with French President-elect Macron

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Duterte and Xi talks about regional developments

MANILA, May 3 (APD)--The Department of Foreign Affairs disclosed Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping exchanged views about regional developments and how some concerns can be addressed.

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Democratic women wear white to Trump's address

Democratic women in Congress made an impression Tuesday evening as they sat in the audience for President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress.

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Meryl Streep Has the Final Word on Her Oscars 2017 Look in Elie Saab Couture

There’s no drama quite like dress drama. And this week, the battle was between designer Karl Lagerfeld and Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, with Lagerfeld taking to the trades to decry the fact that Streep had backed out of wearing Chanel at the last minute and wanted money in exchange for a red carpet moment—a comment he later rescinded—and Streep firing back with a terse statement.

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China to improve permanent residence permit system for foreigners

China will optimize the rules and process for issuing certificates of permanent residence to foreigners with favorable treatments.

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41 militants killed, 25 injured in Afghanistan in past 24 hrs

​At least 41 militants were killed and 25 others injured after Afghan army, police and intelligence agency personnel launched wide-scale operations against insurgents' hideouts within the past 24 hours, said a statement of Afghanistan's Defense Ministry Sunday.

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Australian-led search for MH370 suspended after almost three-year joint efforts

The Australian-led underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been suspended indefinitely, the Australian, Malaysian and Chinese governments said in a joint statement on Tuesday.

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Afghan troops kick off operation in remote district

​The Afghan security forces on Tuesday launched a wide-scale operation in a remote district, the latest in a campaign against insurgency and its supply lines, according to a military statement.

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Thai embassy to Cambodia rejects news of canned food containing HIV

The Thai embassy to Cambodia on Saturday rejected news that canned food, particularly canned fruit, manufactured in Thailand were contaminated with HIV. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.

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Park to present her statement to Constitutional Court to rebut impeachment grounds

​President Park Geun-hye will make her case to the Consitutional Court on Friday in a written statement addressing a series of charges cited in the parliamentary impeachment motion via her legal representatives, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said.

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Pakistan says it test-fired Medium-Range Cruise Missile

​Pakistan's military says it has successfully test-fired a revised version of a locally developed medium-range cruise missile, which can strike targets both on land and sea.

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25 killed in Cairo Coptic cathedral bombing

A bombing at Cairo's largest Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and wounded 49, many of them women and children attending Sunday Mass, in the deadliest attack on Egypt's Christian minority in years.

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UN Security Council slams deadly terrorist attack in Istanbul

The UN Security Council on Sunday "condemned in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly terrorist attacks" in Istanbul, Turkey, which left at least 39 people dead and 155 others injured.

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UN Security Council slams deadly terrorist attack in Cairo

The UN Security Council on Sunday "condemned in the strongest terms" a terrorist attack in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, which killed at least 25 people, stressing that "those responsible for these killings should be held accountable."