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Officials: Slim
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BEIJING: Rescuers battled Saturday to reach more than
180 miners trapped underground by flash flooding in eastern China,
but officials warned the men had little chance of survival.
Torrential rains triggered
flooding, which breached a river levee and sent water cascading into
the mine in Shandong province via an old shaft, the official
Xinhua news agency reported.
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Typhoon
‘Sepat’ hammers Taiwan
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TAIPEI: Typhoon “Sepat”
pounded Taiwan on Saturday bringing torrential rain and powerful
winds that triggered mudslides, uprooted trees and disrupted
transport across the island.
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Turkish plane
hijacked en route to Istanbul
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ANKARA: Two men who said they
were al-Qaeda members attempted to hijack a Turkish passenger plane
to Iran or Syria, forcing the aircraft to land in the southern
Turkish city of Antalya, passengers and officials said.
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Pyongyang
postpones summit due to floods
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SEOUL: North Korea Saturday asked
to postpone this month’s summit with South Korea because of
devastating flooding which has left over 300 people dead and sparked
a food crisis in the communist state.
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Vietnam warns
women: Beware of overseas marriages
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HANOI: Vietnam’s women’s
union plans to set up 40 information centers to teach prospective
brides about the risks of overseas marriages arranged via illegal
matchmakers, the state media said Saturday.
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Legendary
filmmaker Bergman buried n Baltic Isle
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STOCKHOLM: The Swedish filmmaker
Ingmar Bergman, one of the most influential film directors of the
20th century, will be buried on Saturday in a private ceremony on
Faaroe Island in the Baltic Sea, media reports said.
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