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China and France signed a bilateral pact to fight against climate change together.
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The military regime in Burma is still holding up to 2,500 people in prisons and labour camps around the country, and continues to arrest suspected dissidents, the British government claimed yesterday.
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Burma’s junta claimed that peace and stability had been restored following its crackdown on mass pro-democracy protests in which at least 30 people, but likely far more, were killed.
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North and South Korea agreed today to press their superpower allies for a peace treaty to end the world’s oldest and bloodiest cold war conflict, as the leaders of the divided peninsula wrapped up only their second summit in more than 50 years.

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Burma’s military government has intensified its crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators, abducting people from their homes in the middle of the night. U.S. Embassy personnel have found some Buddhist monasteries completely deserted while others have been closed off by soldiers.
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The military junta in Burma killed up to eight protesters in the last two days, and arrested about 500 monks.
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N. Korea announced it would be taken out of the axis of evil.
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Malaysian taxi-drivers were ordered to pull their socks up.

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A researcher investigating underwater rock formations off the coast of Japan believes they are the remnants of an Asian equivalent of Atlantis — an ancient civilization swallowed up by the ocean.
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South Korea decided to build robot land.

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China ordered the media only to report on positive developments.
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China Public Security, a U.S.-financed company contracted by the People’s Republic, was outfitting the city of Shenzen with 20,000 surveillance cameras and issuing identity cards to record each citizen’s name, address, employment status, education, religion, ethnicity, police record, medical-insurance status, reproductive history, and landlord’s phone number. “If they do not get the permanent card,” said a China Public Security executive, “they cannot live here.”
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China decided to chart every inch of the moon’s surface.
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Japan made cookies that make your boobs bigger.

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The Chinese state media announced that Tibetan living Buddhas are no longer allowed to be reincarnated without permission from the atheist Chinese government.
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The Chinese government forcefully relocated 250,000 Tibetans - nearly one-tenth the population - from scattered rural hamlets to new “socialist villages,” ordering them to build housing largely at their own expense and without their consent. The government calls the more than year-old project the “comfortable housing program.”
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A dozen Christian men were convicted Thursday and sentenced to up to 14 years in jail for beating to death and beheading two Muslims to avenge the government executions of three Christians in Indonesia last year.
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India elected its first woman president.

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United Nations inspectors verified North Korea’s shutdown of its five nuclear facilities.
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Chinese police arrested a television reporter who is accused of fabricating a story claiming that a stall in Beijing had used cardboard as a substitute for pork in steamed buns, state media said on Thursday.
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