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Philippines buries dead, typhoon toll hits 418

YoopyaDec 7, 20120

(Reuters) – Residents in the southern Philippines buried their dead on Friday even as rescue workers continued scouring remote areas for survivors of Typhoon Bopha,

China’s new boss Xi hits nationalist note with talk of “revival”

YoopyaDec 7, 20120

(Reuters) – In his first three weeks as China’s Communist Party boss, Xi Jinping has shown himself to be more confident, direct and relaxed than

Egypt demonstrators reject Mursi call for dialogue

YoopyaDec 7, 20120

(Reuters) – Demonstrators rejected a call from Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Mursi for a national dialogue after deadly clashes around his palace, demanding the “downfall

Tanks outside Mursi’s palace, streets calm

YoopyaDec 6, 20120

(Reuters) – At least four tanks deployed outside the Egyptian presidential palace on Thursday in a street where supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Mursi

Philippines finds elderly survivor after typhoon kills 332

YoopyaDec 6, 20120

(Reuters) – Rescue workers found a 77-year-old man alive on Thursday who had survived on coconuts for two days after a powerful typhoon ravaged the

Ghana poll tests Africa’s “model democracy”

YoopyaDec 6, 2012June 24, 20230

(Reuters) – Ghana’s cliff-hanger presidential election on Friday will test the country’s reputation as a bulwark for democracy and economic growth in Africa’s so-called coup-belt.

No military intervention in Mali before September: U.N. peacekeeping chief

YoopyaDec 6, 20120

(Reuters) – International military intervention to oust Islamist militants from northern Mali is almost inevitable, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said on Wednesday, but he said

China’s “board and search” sea rules likely had Beijing’s sign-off: official

YoopyaDec 5, 20120

(Reuters) – New Chinese regulations allowing police to board vessels deemed to be trespassing off the southern island of Hainan were a provincial-level initiative, but

Philippines’ biggest typhoon kills at least 230, hundreds missing

YoopyaDec 5, 20120

(Reuters) – The death toll from the Philippines’ strongest typhoon this year rose on Wednesday to around 230, with hundreds missing in landslides and floodwaters,

Egypt’s Mursi leaves palace as police battle protesters

YoopyaDec 5, 20120

(Reuters) – Egyptian police battled thousands of protesters outside President Mohamed Mursi’s palace in Cairo on Tuesday, prompting the Islamist leader to leave the building,