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The territorial flashpoints making South East Asia a hotbed of international tensions
THE drums of war are beating and sabres are rattling as China, Japan and the United States confront each other to Australia's north.
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Snoopy Island named the best island of 2013
An island resembling Charlie Brown’s best friend has been named the best island of 2013 by the Global Post, the Las Vegas Guardian Express reports. The island, which is located off the coast of Japan, is officially named Niijima, but has been known for some time as “Snoopy” because the shape is quite similar to the dog from the Peanuts cartoon strip.
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Japan's Newest Island Is Now Eight Times Bigger
Previously called Niijima, the volcanic island that first broke above the Pacific Ocean on November 20 has merged with a neighboring uninhabited island called Nishino Shima as it continues to expand. The small volcanic island sits about 600 miles (970 kilometers) south of Tokyo in Japanese waters, part of a chain of about 30 small islands called the Bonin Islands, or the Ogasawara chain.
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Why China can’t take over the world
China’s awe-inspiring rise is often framed as the return to a historical norm. A common belief is that for most of the last 5,000 years, China was the world’s center of wealth, culture, technology, and power. The 19th and 20th centuries, we are told, were a brief aberration, and China is now simply retaking its rightful place as the world’s preeminent nation. This trope gives China a certain air of inevitability.
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'How I visited every country in the world - without a single flight'
Graham Hughes writes exclusively for Telegraph Travel from South Sudan, explaining the highs and lows of his epic, record-breaking journey around the world without taking the plane.
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Global cigarette consumption, number of smokers climbing
As the U.S. marks 50 years of tobacco control, a University of Washington analysis shows worldwide gains are being eroded by high smoking rates in China and other countries.
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New nuke scandal: 34 officers accused of cheating
In a stunning setback for a nuclear missile force already beset by missteps and leadership lapses, the Air Force disclosed on Wednesday that 34 officers entrusted with the world's deadliest weapons have been removed from launch duty for allegedly cheating — or tolerating cheating by others — on routine proficiency tests.
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Speeding, 900-foot Asteroid to Zoom (Safely) by Earth Monday
An asteroid the size of nearly three football fields will zoom past Earth on Monday .
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New highly radioactive leak at Japan's Fukushima plant
The operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday that 100 metric tons of highly contaminated water had leaked out of a tank, the worst incident since last August.
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Drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman captured in Mexico, report says
The head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel was captured overnight by U.S. and Mexican authorities at a hotel in Mazatlan, Mexico, the Associated Press has learned.
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Paris Offers Free Public Transportation This Weekend to Reduce Smog
Authorities in Paris have decided to take a rare step of making public transportation free for three days to reduce smog caused by unusually warm weather.
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Navy Seals board rogue Libya tanker
The US has taken control of a tanker full of oil loaded from a rebel-held port in Libya, the Pentagon says.
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Egyptian court sentences top Muslim Brotherhood leader to death
An Egyptian court sentenced the leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and 682 supporters to death on Monday, intensifying a crackdown on the movement that could trigger protests
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China unveils sophisticated stealth fighter aircraft
China has unveiled a sophisticated new stealth fighter jet at an air show, in a show of muscle during a visit by US president Barack Obama for an Asia-Pacific summit. President Xi Jinping has been pushing to strengthen China's 2.3 million-strong armed forces, and Chinese defence companies and the People's Liberation Army's air force have put the latest weaponry on parade at the Zhuhai air show this week.
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Everest climbing route to be changed
The route used by mountaineers to scale Mount Everest is to be changed amid fears of an increased avalanche risk. Nepal will change the path next month after a deadly collapse in 2014 killed 16 Sherpa guides - the worst single loss of life in expedition history. The current route up the mountain has been in use since the 1990s. Mountaineers will now take a more central route after Base Camp, avoiding the left side of the Khumbu Icefall, where last year's accident occurred.
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The golden age of gas is arriving
Once upon a time, in a world in which oil was costly and energy sources seemed scarce, the International Energy Agency, a think-tank for countries which import fossil fuels, produced a special report heralding a "golden age of gas". That was in 2011. It suggested that fast-rising demand, chiefly from emerging economies and in power generation, could lead gas to displace coal by 2030.
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Poland set for territorial expansion - peacefully
While Poland is gaining new territory, no conflict with its south-western neighbour is on the horizon, daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported on Friday. The countries are merely set to complete a 1958 land-swap agreement. Under that deal, Poland handed over 1,205 hectares of meadows to the then Czechoslovakia, getting a mere 838 hectares in return. To make things even, the Czechs will now return the missing 368 hectares plus nearly 40 additional hectares to make up for...
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The global economy’s weird problem is that we have too much stuff
Excesses in capital, labor and commodities are challenging some of the basic principles of conventional economics.It ought to be a good thing that human society is richer than ever before, so rich that the storage tanks in Cushing, Okla., are nearly overflowing with crude oil and some 110 million bales of cotton are sitting in warehouses around the world, as Josh Zumbrun and Carolyn Cui report in The Wall Street Journal.
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Unesco impotence takes shine off world heritage status
Organisation faces criticism for not only failing to protect sites from fanatics and planners but also accelerating their destruction by encouraging tourism.
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Hamburg districts make UNESCO heritage list - The Local
The UN cultural agency on Sunday designated Hamburg's historic maritime warehouse and business districts, boasting early 20th century German brick architecture, as World Heritage sites.
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