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MIANZHU, China (Reuters) - Chinese soldiers were working non-stop to dig a giant sluice to ease pressure on a swelling “quake lake”, with plans to evacuate 100,000 people to avert a new disaster, state media said.
China on Tuesday put the death toll from the earthquake that struck Sichuan province on May 12 at 67,183, with [...]

NAGASAKI (Kyodo) The Nagasaki District Court sentenced a 60-year-old gangster to death Monday for assassinating Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito during an election campaign last year.
Tetsuya Shiroo shot Ito, 61, twice with a pistol on the evening of April 17, 2007, near his campaign office in front of JR Nagasaki Station, prosecutors said in their closing [...]

A Russian jet did shoot down an unmanned Georgian drone over the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia last month, UN monitors say.
The jet flew back into Russian airspace after the attack, a UN report says.
Russia has denied the charges - even though Georgia’s defence ministry released video appearing to show a Russian MiG-29 shooting down [...]

Thirty people have died in a series of blasts followed by a blaze that engulfed a pharmaceutical plant in central Iran, the official IRNA news agency said.
The accident occurred on Sunday when a container of chemicals caught fire.
The plant is in the Markazi province near the city of Arak, 290km southwest of the capital Tehran.
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Michel Sleiman has called for unity in Lebanon after he was sworn in as the country’s new president.
The ex-army chief was elected president on Sunday in a parliamentary session attended by foreign dignitaries including Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, who helped broker a deal to end a dispute between rival factons.
“Let [...]

Prosecutors and the police yesterday vowed to deal sternly with any illegal rallies against U.S. beef imports as the initially peaceful candlelight vigils turned violent over the weekend.
Justice Minister Kim Kyung-han has directed prosecutors to clamp down on illegal protestors.
“While protecting the right to peaceful gatherings and demonstrations, prosecutors must track down and strictly deal [...]

PASADENA, California (Reuters) - A small science probe blazed through the salmon-colored skies of Mars on Sunday, touching down on a frozen desert at the planet’s north pole to search for water and assess conditions for sustaining life, NASA officials said.
The spacecraft, known as Phoenix, landed at 4:53 p.m. PDT after a do-or-die plunge through [...]

China has said more than 60,000 people were killed as a result of an earthquake in southwest China on May 12.
Wen Jiabao, China’s prime minister, said on Saturday that the final toll could climb higher than 80,000 as he toured quake-hit Sichuan province with Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general.
Around 25,000 people are reported still missing [...]

MADRID (Reuters) - Blame for the sub-prime crisis lies at the feet of banks who took too many risks in mortgage lending, U.S. billionaire investor Warren Buffett told newspaper El Pais in an interview published on Sunday.
“The banks exposed themselves too much, they took on too much risk …. It’s their fault. There’s no need [...]

Eight Italian policemen and three other people have been injured in clashes over the site of a new rubbish dump in a densely populated suburb of Naples.
Most injuries occurred overnight but two police were hurt in the morning, trying to remove a bus being used as a barricade near the site in Chiaiano.
The [...]