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 ;Big earth quake cause China crippled by loss of power, water, travel, life 
| on Tuesday, May 13 @ 15:35:39 GMT+7
BEIJING — Monday's deadly earthquake occurred on a fault where South Asia pushes against the Eurasian landmass, smashing the Sichuan plain into mountains leading to the Tibetan highlands
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;1.5 million people affected in Myanmar cyclone
| on Friday, May 09 @ 10:38:36 GMT+7
The United Nations estimated 1.5 million people have been "severely affected" by the cyclone that swept through Myanmar and the United States expressed outrage on Thursday at the delays in allowing in aid.
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;Doctors at heart of UK. terror plots
| on Wednesday, July 04 @ 17:47:57 GMT+7
LONDON: The eight people arrested in the aftermath of two bungled car bombings here last week are from the medical profession, a British police official said Tuesday, giving the plot a starkly different dimension than previous acts of Islamic terrorism in Britain.
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;Vatican plan to use solar energy
| on Wednesday, June 06 @ 10:23:17 GMT+7
ROME (AP) -- Some Holy See buildings will start using solar energy, reflecting Pope Benedict XVI's concern about conserving the Earth's resources, a Vatican engineer said Tuesday. The roof of the Paul VI auditorium will be redone next year, with its cement panels replaced with photovoltaic cells to convert sunlight into electricity, engineer Pier Carlo Cuscianna said.
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;G8 Members To Announce Plans To Increase HIV/AIDS Spending At Summit
| on Wednesday, June 06 @ 10:15:24 GMT+7
Members of the Group of Eight industrialized nations plan to unveil their commitments to increase spending for fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic during their upcoming 2007 summit, which is scheduled to be held next week,
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;Blair makes final White House visit
| on Friday, May 18 @ 07:22:06 GMT+7
The poignancy of Prime Minister Tony Blair's final White House news conference Thursday was perhaps summed up best when a British reporter asked President George W. Bush, whose own time in office is winding down, whether he was partly responsible for Blair's leadership ending sooner than either man might have liked.
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;US move to deport aggressive student
| on Friday, May 11 @ 12:01:11 GMT+7
A Thai graduate student who argued about the American constitutional right to own a gun may be deported from the United States later this month after being expelled from university, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday.
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;China military ties with ASEAN no threat
| on Friday, May 11 @ 11:52:37 GMT+7
China’s bid for closer military ties with Southeast Asia is a “positive overture” and does not pose a threat to U.S. interests in the region, a top U.S. military commander said on Thursday.
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;Clinton salutes Thai drug stance
| on Thursday, May 10 @ 12:23:44 GMT+7
New York — Former US president Bill Clinton yesterday gave his backing to Thailand and Brazil’s recent moves to break Aids drugs patents held by US pharmaceutical companies to reduce the cost of treating the disease.
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;Brazil to bypass AIDS drug patent
| on Sunday, May 06 @ 15:38:34 GMT+7
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will issue a "compulsory license" overriding the patent of an AIDS drug made by the U.S. pharmaceutical giant Merck, Brazil's official news service reported Friday.
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