Loved Ones Rush to Hospitals After Shanghai Stampede

The death toll from a deadly New Year’s Eve stampede in Shanghai’s riverfront Bund area rose by one to at least 36, as friends and relatives swamped local hospitals seeking word about missing loved ones.



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Bad Weather Hampers AirAsia Recovery

Rough weather of the kind that may have contributed to the crash of AirAsia Flight 8501 is wreaking havoc with the search for wreckage of the plane and human remains.



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China Faces Tough Adjustments in 2015

Pulling off broad economic reform will be a challenge for Beijing, whose stability-obsessed leadership fears higher unemployment could spark social unrest and threaten its grip on power.



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Jailed Al Jazeera Journalists Get Retrial in Egypt

An Egyptian appeals court ordered a retrial in the case of three imprisoned Al Jazeera English journalists who have been held since December 2013, but didn’t grant them bail.



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Oman Raises 2015 Spending Plan

Oman defied a sharp decline in oil prices and raised spending in its 2015 government budget, a decision that widened its projected fiscal deficit.



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Afghanistan Investigates Mortar Attack on Civilians

The Afghan government on Thursday launched an investigation into the deaths of at least 20 civilians Wednesday in a mortar attack on a wedding in war-torn Helmand province.



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Edoardo Cignoli : Samsung TVs to Use Tizen Operating System

Samsung Electronics said its homegrown operating system known as Tizen is going to be widely adopted in its televisions starting this year in the company’s latest attempt to beef up its software capabilities.



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