Asia Pacific
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Man spends 3 days in tree during Vietnam storm
AP - Friday, November 6HANOI, Vietnam - The 69-year-old watchman couldn't swim so when Tropical Storm Mirinae sparked a flash flood he ran, shimmied up a tree and hung on _ for three nights and two days.
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Miracle Aussie baby beats rare condition in world first
AFP - Friday, November 6MELBOURNE (AFP) - - A "miracle" Australian baby has become the first person cured of a rare and deadly brain-melting condition after doctors gambled on an experimental drug tested only on mice, they said on Thursday.
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Outrage at photo of naked woman in China prostitute bust
AFP - Wednesday, November 4BEIJING (AFP) - - A photo showing a plainclothes policeman pulling a naked woman by the hair during a prostitution bust in central China has caused outrage on the Internet, where it has been widely circulated.
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Malaysia prince wins defamation suit against wife
AP - Thursday, November 5KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian prince won a defamation suit Thursday against his teenage wife who accused him of sexual and physical abuse after she fled back home to Indonesia.
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Mafia twins jailed for 17 years in China
AFP - Saturday, November 7BEIJING (AFP) - - A court in southwest China on Friday sentenced a pair of 23-year-old twins to 17 years in prison in the latest rulings in a series of sensational organised crime trials that have gripped the nation.
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Thaksin on a mission to humiliate Thai government
AP - Saturday, November 7BANGKOK - Thailand's fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has spent much of the past three years roaming the globe, shopping for diamonds in Africa, golfing at Asian resorts _ and humiliating the government from a distance.
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NATO 'friendly' strike kills Afghan security personnel
AFP - 2 hours 12 minutes agoKABUL (AFP) - - Seven Afghan security personnel were killed in a mis-targeted NATO air strike in the remote northwest, the defence ministry said Saturday, signalling further trouble for a fraying Western military effort.
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China a big winner in carbon credit game
AFP - Saturday, November 7KUNMING, China (AFP) - - In energy-hungry China's southwestern Yunnan province, power is being produced at wind farms, dams and garbage dumps as the Asian giant adopts more "green" technology thanks to carbon trading.
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Sri Lanka boat people leader a known trafficker: Colombo
AFP - Saturday, November 7COLOMBO (AFP) - - The leader of a boat of Sri Lankan asylum seekers held in Indonesia is a known people smuggler previously deported from Canada, the government said Friday, a charge he has strongly denied.
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Disaster declared in flood-hit Australia
AFP - Saturday, November 7SYDNEY (AFP) - - Australian authorities declared a natural disaster along parts of the country's east coast as heavy floods cut the main road linking major cities, stranding thousands of people.
