China offers India a "handshake across the Himalayas"

Reuters | Monday May 20, 2013, New Delhi

India and China will study new ways to ease tensions along their ill-defined border, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday in his first foreign trip since taking office, which comes just weeks after a military stand-off between the Asian giants in the Himalayas.

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Man refused overdraft kills four in bank

Reuters | Tuesday May 21, 2013, Jerusalem

A gunman shot dead four people execution-style in a bank in Israel on Monday after being refused an overdraft and cash from its automatic teller machine.

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Guantanamo hack threat prompts WiFi shutdown

Associated Press | Tuesday May 21, 2013, Miami

The US military has shut down wireless internet service at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba because of online hacking threats.

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Saudi Arabia reports latest death from SARS-like virus, death toll rises to 16

Associated Press | Tuesday May 21, 2013, Riyadh

Saudi Arabia says it has recorded another death from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing the total number of deaths in the kingdom to 16.

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Myanmar President Thein Sein arrives at White House

Agence France-Presse | Tuesday May 21, 2013, Washington

Myanmar President Thein Sein on Monday became the first leader of his country to visit the White House in nearly half a century, as Washington offers a strong symbolic gesture to back his reforms.

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Pakistan's presumptive Prime Minister calls for peace talks with Taliban

Associated Press | Monday May 20, 2013, Islamabad

Pakistan's presumptive prime minister called for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government on Monday, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country's powerful army.

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Wave of attacks hits Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq, killing at least 86 people

Associated Press | Monday May 20, 2013, Baghdad

A wave of attacks killed at least 79 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 200 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years.

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'Harry Potter' 1st edition with original notes on auction

Associated Press | Monday May 20, 2013, London

A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original illustrations is going on sale at a charity auction.

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Dagestan bombs kill three, two dead in shootout near Moscow

Reuters | Monday May 20, 2013, Makhachkala, Russia

Two car bombs killed at least three people and wounded dozens of others on Monday in Dagestan, a turbulent province in Russia's North Caucasus region where armed groups are waging an Islamist insurgency.

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Libya's ports reopen after protests, gas complex attacked

Reuters | Monday May 20, 2013, Tripoli

Libya's oil terminals at Tobruk and Zueitina re-opened over the weekend after protests forced both ports to shut, Libya's deputy oil minister Omar Shakmak said.

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