China just invited Taiwan to join its big development bank under one condition
BEIJING (Reuters) - China welcomes Taiwans decision to apply to join the Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as long as the self-ruled island uses an appropriate name, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday. Chinas Taiwan .
A record drought is forcing Southern California to dramatically cut local.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Southern Californias water wholesaler voted on Tuesday to cut its deliveries to cities and communities by 15 percent as the state clamps down on water usage amid a devastating four-year drought. The Metropolitan Water District.
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Taliban militants attack police station in Afghanistan and kill three officers.
Malaysia turns away 800 migrants crammed on boats. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshis abandoned at sea by human traffickers have nowhere to go as Malaysia turned away two boats crammed with migrants and Thailand kept at bay a third .
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Mediterranean migrants forced to take to sea
���Very recently, they (the migrants) have in fact said that in Libya traffickers asked them to jump on the boat although they saw that the weather conditions were really terrible, and therefore they also thought that this would have caused problems in.
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The rest of Africas discourse also seemed focused on SAs violence and little to nothing on the high seas of Europe where so many Africans died trying to find a better life away from home. Both developments and the responses. We also do not know.
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Tony Abbott, the Australian prime minister, has offered his advice on tackling deaths at sea and urged the EU to follow his hardline stance. Under Canberras controversial policy, navy ships intercept boats carrying asylum-seekers and turn them back to.
Chinese Internet giant Tencent is now bigger than Amazon
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinas Tencent for the first time hit a market cap of more than $200 billion on Monday, making it more valuable than U.S. tech firms like Amazon, IBM and Oracle. The countrys biggest social networking and online entertainment firm.
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Thailand has found more than 100 migrants on a southern island while thousands remain adrift as boats are pushed back out into south-east Asias seas by governments who have ignored a UN call for a coordinated rescue. The crisis arose after smugglers ��� Thailand finds over 100 migrants on island,.. Reuters: In Asian seas, a migrant boat finds nowhere to land http://t.co/k2d9UDGA2a �� Reply Retweet Favorite 7:21am - 17 May 15 - 44 minutes ago. Reuters:��.
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Baltimore police officer: We used secret cell phone surveillance and the FBI.
He said the department had used the latest version of the stingray -- dubbed Hailstorm -- about 4,300 times since 2007, the newspaper reported. Reuters could not independently verify the report. The FBI and Baltimore Police Department were not.
Malaysia Turns Away 800 Boat People; Thailand Spots Third Boat
Meanwhile, Thai authorities also spotted a boat with migrants near Lipe island in Satun province on the sea border between Thailand and Malaysia. They have been given food and water, Capt. Chayut Navespootikorn, a senior naval official, told the AP.
In Asian seas, a migrant boat finds nowhere to land
As the Reuters team pulled alongside the migrants boat, hundreds of rake-thin migrants could be seen huddling shoulder-to-shoulder on the deck, sheltering from the harsh sun with whatever they could find, including the torn-up boxes of food handed to.
UPDATE 1-Nowhere to go as Asian boatpeople are turned.
KUALA LUMPUR/BANGKOK, May 14 (Reuters) - Thousands of migrants adrift in Southeast Asian seas have nowhere to go after Thailand declined permission for a boat to land on Thursday and Malaysia said it would push��.
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Nowhere to go as Asian boatpeople are turned away amid growing crisis at sea
Somchai Na Bangchang, a rear admiral in the Royal Thai Navy, said migrants on the boat found on Thursday did not want to land in Thailand but instead wanted to go to Malaysia or Indonesia. But an NGO that has been in contact with the boat for several .
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China is cementing a $46 billion friendship with Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping will launch energy and infrastructure projects worth $46 billion on a visit to Pakistan next week as China cements links with its old ally and generates opportunities for firms hit by slack growth at.
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6000 migrants plucked to safety from Mediterranean in last 5 days
Nearly 6,000 migrants have been rescued from the Mediterranean Sea over the past five days, including a newborn baby. On Wednesday (April 15) 400 other people were feared drowned as they tried to make the perilous crossing between Libya and Italy in .
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Houthis are gaining ground in Yemen despite Saudi-led air strikes
ADEN (Reuters) - Yemens Houthi militiamen, supported by army units, gained ground in the southern city of Aden on Sunday, pushing back loyalists of the Saudi-backed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Residents took refuge in their homes and reported .
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