BEIJING: Chinese President Hu Jintao said in a New Year's Eve address today China would adhere to the path of peaceful development and would always seek to cooperate when facing global problems.
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UN warns Gbagbo against attack on Ivory Coast peacekeepers
By Dave Clark
ABIDJAN: The United Nations sternly warned Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo yesterday not to allow an attack on the hotel where its peacekeepers are defending Alassane Ouattara's shadow government.Tycoon ruling confirms Putin's dominance over Russia
By Dmitry Zaks
ANALYSIS MOSCOW: The tough sentence handed to former Russian tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky has confirmed Vladimir Putin's dominance over Russia even as it seeks to modernise, analysts said.Haiti cholera death toll soars past 3,000
PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haiti's cholera death toll has soared in recent days with 3,333 people dead, official figures showed yesterday, including a one-day record high for the daily number of fatalities since the outbreak erupted in mid-October.
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South Korea reports first bird flu outbreak since 2008
SEOUL: South Korea today confirmed its first outbreak of bird flu for more than two years, with more than 100,000 birds slaughtered as authorities bid to contain the lethal virus.
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Boy dies after being boiled alive in NZealand thermal spring
WELLINGTON: A boy who fell into a boiling geothermal spring in New Zealand died from severe burns today, hospital officials said.
Russia's Khodorkovsky jailed six more years
MOSCOW: A Russian judge sentenced jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky to six additional years in prison today after convicting him on multi-billion dollar theft and money-laundering charges.
Fewer reporters killed, more kidnapped in 2010
BERLIN: A total of 57 journalists were killed while working in 2010, down from 76 last year, but kidnappings of reporters surged, media rights group Reporters Without Borders said today.
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