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Japan culling 230,000 more birds to stop avian flu
AFP, Published on 01/12/2016
» TOKYO - Japan has mobilised its military to help with a second mass cull of 230,000 chickens amid a spreading outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian flu, officials said.
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Indonesian police fire water cannon at pro-Papua demo
AFP, Published on 01/12/2016
» JAKARTA - Indonesian police Thursday fired water cannon in a bid to disperse a demonstration against Jakarta's rule over the insurgency-hit eastern region of Papua, and rounded up scores of protesters.
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Fukushima costs to double to nearly $180bn
AFP, Published on 01/12/2016
» TOKYO - The estimated cost of dealing with the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis has doubled to some $180 billion, a report said Thursday, underlining the challenge Japan faces in overcoming the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
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Scandal-hit Mitsubishi to triple top executives' pay
AFP, Published on 01/12/2016
» TOKYO - Scandal-hit Mitsubishi Motors wants to triple its top executives' pay as Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn gets set to take over as chairman.
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China slaps new 10% tax on super-luxury cars
AFP, Published on 01/12/2016
» BEIJING - China has imposed an extra 10 percent tax on ultra-high-end cars costing over 1.3 million yuan ($190,000), the government said, the latest step in a wide crackdown on conspicuous luxury consumption.
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Oil resumes rise after Opec cut
AFP, Published on 01/12/2016
» SINGAPORE - Oil prices resumed their rise Thursday and held above the $50 barrier following OPEC's decision to carry out its first output cut in eight years.
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McGregor granted California boxing license - reports
AFP, Published on 01/12/2016
» LOS ANGELES - Mixed martial arts superstar Conor McGregor has been issued a boxing license in the state of California, US media reported Wednesday in a development sure to revive talk of a McGregor-Floyd Mayweather meeting in the ring.
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Australia passes bill to detain terrorists indefinitely
AFP, Published on 01/12/2016
» SYDNEY - High-risk terror offenders in Australia may now be kept in jail even after serving their sentences, under legislation passed on Thursday that strengthens laws to tackle the threat posed by extremists.
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Shanghai removes sculptures after UK artist's plagiarism claim
AFP, Published on 01/12/2016
» SHANGHAI - Three sculptures in a Shanghai park have been dismantled by authorities after the British creator of London's "Timepiece" blasted one as plagiarising her work, in the latest example of copying in China.
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Fidel Castro's ashes reunited with 'Che' Guevara
AFP, Published on 01/12/2016
» SANTA CLARA (CUBA) - Fidel Castro's ashes were taken Thursday to a symbolic reunion with his fallen comrade-in-arms Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Santa Clara, the first stop in the late Cold War titan's last trip across Cuba.
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