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Taiwan will not start a war with China but will defend itself “full on, Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said on Thursday, amid an increase
Japan sentences powerful Yakuza criminal syndicate to death by hanging
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11 Chinese miners saved as rescuers race to find remaining 10
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