Contributed by China Stock Digest Touring China’s mega cities can be terribly misleading, so says China’s up-and-coming leader, Vice-Premier Li Keqiang. Li is correct of course. The bright lights of Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen tend to conceal the
AP - Iran began enriching uranium to a higher level Tuesday over the vociferous objections of the U.S. and its allies who fear the process could eventually be used to give the Islamic republic nuclear weapons.
Avalanches on a mountain pass north of Kabul have killed at least 28 people, with another 1,500 stranded in their vehicles on snow-blocked roads, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
-- The first case is a 40-year-old female from Banha District in Daqahliya Governorate. She developed symptoms on 31 January and was hospitalized on 2 February, where she received oseltamivir treatment. She is in stable condition. The second case is a
San Jose (Agenzia Fides) - In Costa Rica, for the first time a woman was elected to lead the country. Laura Chinchilla Miranda, topping the polls, managed to climb the last step. In fact, from 2006 to 2008 she had been the First Vice-President of the
AFP - Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi announced on Tuesday that Tehran has started to produce 20 percent enriched uranium at its Natanz plant, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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