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China to stress social wellbeing over growt

BEIJING: China’s government promised its people Tuesday deficit-fueled spending to fight corruption, improve the despoiled environment and address other quality-of-life issues that a growing number

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48 Syrian soldiers killed in Iraq ambush

BAGHDAD: Dozens of Syrian soldiers who had crossed intoIraq for refuge were ambushed Monday with bombs, gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades in an attack that killed 48 of them and heightened

Indian woman on 12-year hunger strike charged

NEW DELHI: Irom Sharmila has not eaten a meal in 12 years. The 40-year-old woman has been on a hunger strike — and force fed through a tube by authorities

Violent start in Kenyan election; police killed

NAIROBI, Kenya: Five years after more than 1,000 people were killed in election-related violence, Kenyans on Monday began casting votes in a nationwide election seen as the country’s most important

Car bomb kills 37, wounds 141 in southern Pakistan

KARACHI, Pakistan: A car bomb exploded outside a mosque on Sunday, killing 37 people and wounding another 141 in a Shiite Muslim dominated neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of

Snow kills 8 in Japan, including family in car

TOKYO: Heavy snow that fell in northern Japan over the weekend killed eight people on Hokkaido island, including a family whose car became buried. Kazuyo Miyashita, 40, her two daughters

UK: Queen hospitalized over stomach illness

LONDON: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II was hospitalized Sunday over an apparent stomach infection that has ailed her for days, a rare instance of ill health sidelining the long-reigning monarch. Elizabeth

Scientists say baby born with HIV apparently cured

WASHINGTON: A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who’s now 2½ and

Thailand’s prime minister vows to end ivory trade

BANGKOK: Facing the possibility of sanctions, Thailand’s prime minister vowed for the first time to work toward ending her country’s trade in ivory. But she gave no timeline for implementing

Kerry says US releasing millions in aid to Egypt

CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday rewarded Egypt for President Mohammed Morsi’s pledges of political and economic reforms by releasing $250 million in American aid