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World leaders have called for stronger action to reduce global poverty levels as spiking food and fuel prices, as well as spreading financial turmoil, hit those with the least hardest.
26/09/2008
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Three Chinese astronauts are preparing to blast off from a remote launch site in western China on a mission that will include the country's first ever spacewalk.
25/09/2008
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The World Health Organisation and the United Nations children's fund have condemned as "deplorable" China's escalating scandal over contaminated baby formula and other milk products.
25/09/2008
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At least five Palestinians have been killed and four others injured after an explosion collapsed a tunnel running under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
25/09/2008
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The New Zealand firm which co-owns the Chinese dairy company at the centre of a growing health scare has said it is appalled that it was not informed of the issue for several months.
24/09/2008
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Flooding in Thailand has killed at least 14 people and forced more than half a million from their homes amid a growing threat of disease.
24/09/2008
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A dairy at the centre of China's growing scandal over contaminated milk was first made aware of problems nine months before it announced a recall of its products, Chinese state media has reported.
23/09/2008
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Chinese space technicians have begun final preparations for the country's third manned space flight.
23/09/2008
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The extent of China's contaminated milk scandal has escalated dramatically after the government revealed that more than 53,000 babies have so far needed treatment.
22/09/2008
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Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation after 13 newborn babies died in 24 hours at a state hospital in the western city of Izmir.
22/09/2008
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At least 173 people have been killed due to heavy rains and flooding over the weekend across India, officials said.
22/09/2008
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A three-year-old girl in Hong Kong has developed a kidney stone after drinking Chinese infant formula, the government has said.
21/09/2008
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At least 43 people have been killed and 88 others injured in a fire at a nightclub in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, state media have reported.
21/09/2008
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The world's largest particle collider, situated on the Swiss-French border, will be down for at least two months after a helium leak into the tunnel, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) has said.
21/09/2008
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At least 37 miners have died after inhaling gas in an explosion at a coal mine near the city of Dengfeng in central China, state media has reported.
21/09/2008
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