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DAMASCUS, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Syria's tourism minister Bishr Yazagi on Friday warned against rebels' possible attacks on a 4500- year-old historical site in the country's northern city of Aleppo. Yazagi said the rebels in Aleppo city are digging tunnels under the old city as part of their preparations to launch attacks on an ancient citadel, adding that "This crime could be the crime of the

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NEW DELHI, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday told visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that India is willing to work with the United States to "build a partnership for peace, stability and prosperity in the world". Modi welcomed the continued U.S. engagement with the new government, saying he was looking forward to his summit-level talks with U.S.

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MADRID, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- The draw for the preliminary rounds of the Champions League and the Europa League on Friday has given mixed fortunes for Spanish sides. Athletic Club Bilbao, who finished fourth in the BBVA Primera Liga have been handed a tough tie against Italian side, Napoli, in order to reach the lucrative knockout stages of the competition. The tie sees the Basques play a

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BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Instant messaging service providers on Friday voiced support for a new regulation that requires netizens to use their real names when registering and restricts rights to release and retweet political reports. "The regulation will help the company handle harmful information and standardize the release of news information through public accounts," said Jiang Yang,

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BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- China's ongoing anti-monopoly investigations into foreign auto makers are aimed at building a fair market, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) said on Friday. "These moves were taken in accordance with the Anti-monopoly Law and are expected to clean up the auto market and safeguard the legal interests of Chinese consumers," the CAAM said in a

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Baghdad, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. air force has started on Friday airstrikes against Iraqi Sunni extremist targets in northern Iraq, according to media and Pentagon sources. The air strikes came after artillery fire near U.S. personnel, the Pentagon said Friday. U.S. President Barack Obama authorized these air raids in a bid to protect Christians, and prevent "genocide" of tens of

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DUBLIN, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- About 70 million euros worth of Irish exports will be affected by Russia's ban on imports from the European Union (EU) and other countries, state broadcaster RTE reported Friday. About 40 million euros of those are in the dairy area, mostly milk powders and cheese, RTE said, quoting Aidan Cotter, chief executive of Board Bia, the Irish state agency with the aim of

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HANOI, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Some 672 out of 927 companies hit by mid-May riots in Vietnam have declared their losses were estimated to reach over 156.75 million U.S. dollars as of the end of July, local authorities reported. According to reports by four localities affected by riots including central Ha Tinh province, southern Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai province and Binh Duong province, two

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ATHENS, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Greek authorities have been put on alert this week over a suspected Ebola case which eventually turned out to be malaria, according to the Health Ministry Friday. A man who recently traveled to Greece from Libya was hospitalized with symptoms of the lethal virus in an Athens hospital. The tests eventually showed that he suffered from malaria, as another patient

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MOSUL, Iraq, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Sunni insurgents of the Islamic State (IS) have seized Iraq's largest dam near Mosul and are closing to a major refugee camp in Nineveh province, a provincial official said on Friday. Dozens of Islamic State militants recaptured the Mosul Dam on the Tigris River, about 70 km north of Nineveh's provincial capital of Mosul, after fierce clashes with the Kurdish

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LUDIAN, Yunnan, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Over 11,000 Chinese armed forces, armed police and militia staff took part in the earthquake relief in southwest China's Yunnan Province, saving 460 people, military said Friday. At a press conference Friday afternoon, the Chengdu Military Area Command (CMAC) said staff are still working in 39 villages in nine townships. Sunday's quake killed 617 people

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MADRID, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- FC Barcelona striker Luis Suarez was in Geneva on Friday as he attempts to have the four month suspension which he was given for biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini in the World Cup finals lifted by the Court of Arbitration in Sport. The Uruguay international was given an eight match international ban and also a four month ban from any official football

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by Abu Hanifah JAKARTA, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia takes firm moves to crackdown and pursue citizens joining the Islamic States of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) after it banned the international notorious radical group from developing in the country. On Friday, the national police's anti-terror squad of Detachment 88 arrested two members of ISIS linked to an Indonesian radical Muslim group led

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CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian Foreign Ministry urged on Friday in a statement that both the Palestinians and the Israelis should "return to commitment to ceasefire, and resume negotiations." Egypt has recently managed to broker a 72-hour humanitarian truce that expired early on Friday, and mediated indirect talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis to extend the

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LONDON, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- The British trade deficit in goods and services was estimated to have been 2.5 billion pounds (4.2 billion U.S. dollars) in June 2014, up from 2.4 billion pounds a month earlier, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said Friday. Britain registered a 9.4 billion pounds deficit in goods trade, and an estimated surplus of 7 billion pounds in services in June.

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TOKYO, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Powerful typhoon Halong is expected to reach the southern Japanese island of Kyushu on Saturday and may hit other regions in western Japan this weekend, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Friday. As the third super typhoon of 2014, Halong may bring more than 1,000 millimeters rainfall on the Pacific side of western Japan, said the agency. Officials also warned

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LONDON, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The deadly earthquake which struck in China's southwestern Yunnan Province is unlikely to have an effect on the wider Chinese economy, British experts said. The earthquake hit Ludian County in Zhaotong City, a rural area with no great urban center and some distance from Yunnan's capital Kunming, which is unaffected. It is a serious event for the area, however, as

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BEIJING, August 7 (Xinhuanet) -- China and Myanmar have a long history of friendly ties. And on a microcosmic scale, the older generation of Chinese immigrants in Myanmar can recall the days of celebrating holidays together with the locals. Ninety-year-old Shwe Paw insists on going to work every day in the company he founded, even though it is being well looked after by his son. He takes

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KIEV, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Fifteen Ukrainian troops have been killed and 79 wounded in fierce clashes with independence-seeking insurgents over the past 24 hours, a military spokesman said Friday. "There were seven Ukrainian soldiers and eight border guards among those dead," Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for the National Security and Defense Council, told reporters during a media briefing.

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JAKARTA, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian authorities, along with their Singaporean and Malaysian counterparts, are highly expected to intensify sea patrols in Malacca Strait due to escalating piracy activities lately that cost international and national shipping business, an international transport workers organization said on Friday. International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) said

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ATHENS, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Greek government on Friday accepted a donation of 2.3 million euros (3.1 million U.S. dollars) worth of state bonds acquired by a non-profit group for cancellation, the Finance Ministry said. Greece Debt Free, a U.S.-based nongovernmental organization founded in 2011 by Greeks living abroad aiming to support efforts to reduce Greece's national debt to

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KABUL, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Both Afghan presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai on Friday said they would accept the election results. They made the announcement at a joint press conference attended by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and UN Secretary General's Special Envoy to Afghanistan Jan Kubis here. Kerry arrived in Afghanistan Thursday night and held

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BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhuanet) --- Malaysia needs many more professional accountants to put forward its plan of economic transformation and become a developed country in 2020, according to Abdul Wahid Omar, Minister of Prime Minister Department on Wednesday. He said the country needs 60, 000 more professional accountants for the development of all industries in 2020, though there were already

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BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhuanet) --- A new direct flight from Kuala Lumpur to Clark of the Philippines will soon start, according to Airasia Airline’s announcement at Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday. It will first fly from Oct. 17, four flights each week, and customers could book the discount tickets from Aug. 7 on. The flight is the fourth from Kuala Lumpur to the Philippines after flights to Manila

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BEIJING, Aug.？7 (Xinhuanet) --- The business period of certificated car wash in the State of Selangor is restricted to six hours per day, according to the spokesman of the State of Selangor Thursday, with immediate effect. The spokesman said that this move aims at alleviating recent shortage of water supply due to the El Nino phenomenon, so as to ensure steady supply of water in the state.

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