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Taiwan president calls for China
talks
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TAIPEI: Taiwan’s new president Ma Ying-jeou called in his
inaugural address Tuesday for a resumption of high-level talks with
China, underscoring his priorities for his first four years in
power.
Shortly after swearing the oath of presidential
office, Ma said both sides should “reconcile and cease fire” to
mend their own fragile relationship and bolster regional stability.
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Aftershock forecast stirs
fear among survivors
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CHENGDU: Forecast of a strong aftershock in southwest China’s
Sichuan province late on Monday has prompted panic among the local
residents as well as the neighboring Chongqing municipality and
Guizhou province.
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Extinct Tasmanian tiger gene ‘resurrected’
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SYDNEY: Scientists said Tuesday they had “resurrected” a gene
from the extinct Tasmanian tiger by implanting it in a mouse,
raising the future possibility of bringing animals such as dinosaurs
back to life.
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Clinton warns Obama of early celebration
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WASHINGTON: Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday looked set to pass an
electoral milestone in his historic White House quest, but Hillary
Clinton’s camp warned him not to declare “mission
accomplished.”
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Cuba links US diplomats to terrorists
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HAVANA: Cuba on Monday denounced the scandalous links between US
diplomats based in Havana and terrorists resident in the United
States, by means of which Cuban counterrevolutionaries receive
financial and material support.
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BEIJING: The Chinese government said it would build a DNA database of those unidentified dead bodies after the disastrous Sichuan earthquake for later identification.
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