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BEIJING/TOKYO - Anti-Japan protests reignited across China
on Tuesday, the sensitive anniversary marking Tokyo's occupation
of its giant neighbour, escalating a maritime dispute which has
forced major Japanese firms to suspend business there.
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KABUL - Afghan militants claimed responsibility on Tuesday
for a suicide bomb attack on a minivan carrying foreign workers
that killed 12 people saying it was retaliation for a film
mocking the Prophet Mohammad.
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WASHINGTON - Republican Mitt Romney's reeling campaign hit
more trouble on Tuesday after new video surfaced showing him
saying that Palestinians do not want peace and a resolution of
their conflict with Israel was not possible.
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SOCHI, Russia - President Vladimir Putin issued a rare
rebuke to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's government on
Tuesday, criticising its fiscal plans and accusing cabinet
ministers of failing to act on orders he issued after his return
in May for a third Kremlin term.
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MARIKANA - Striking miners at Lonmin's Marikana mine in
South Africa on Tuesday accepted a management pay rise
offer and said they would return to work after six weeks of
mining sector unrest that shook Africa's largest economy.
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WASHINGTON - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
opened a two-week tour of the United States on Tuesday with
talks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the latest step
of a rapid normalization of U.S. ties with the former pariah
state.
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CHICAGO - Chicago Teachers Union delegates will meet on
Tuesday to decide whether to end a strike that has closed the
nation's third-largest school district for more than a week and
prompted Mayor Rahm Emanuel to seek a court order to stop it.
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BENGHAZI, Libya - A Libyan Salafi group which has denied it
was involved in a deadly assault on the American consulate in
Benghazi said on Tuesday Libya would turn into "an inferno for
U.S. troops" if the U.S. military retaliated.
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LONDON - British author Salman Rushdie's memoir of more than
nine years in hiding after Iran's supreme leader issued a death
sentence against him hits the shelves on Tuesday, ending the
wait for his account of a furore that has echoes across the
world today.
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PARIS - A French court on Tuesday banned a gossip magazine
from further publishing topless photographs of the wife of
Britain's Prince William, the former Kate Middleton, and ordered
it to hand the pictures over to the royal couple.