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| Successful Games launches Asia's golden age of sport |
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 By Julian Linden INCHEON South Korea (Reuters) - The 17th Asian Games came to a close on Saturday, bringing an end to two weeks of intense competition, drama and controversy that shone a light on the best and worst of a region that will host the world's biggest events for the next decade. A spectacular ceremony at Incheon's Asiad stadium officially marked the end of a Games that was hailed as a brilliant success and a model for future multi-sports events despite being tarnished by doping, crime and rows over religious freedom, women's rights and judging. ...
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| British PM says he will use "all assets" against Islamic State |
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 LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Saturday he would use "all the assets we have" to try to find hostages being held by Islamic State and defeat the insurgent group. Speaking in a broadcast message after the release on Friday of a video showing the decapitated body of British aid worker Alan Henning, Cameron said the whole country was mourning. He added: "In terms of what we will do, we will use all the assets we have ... to try and find these hostages, to try and help these hostages ... ...
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| Rival protesters face off in gritty Hong Kong neighbourhood |
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 By Clare Jim and Yimou Lee HONG KONG (Reuters) - More than a thousand rival protesters, some wearing helmets, faced off in a densely populated, gritty district of Hong Kong on Saturday, fuelling concerns that the Chinese-controlled city's worst unrest in decades could take a more violent turn. After a night of trouble which resulted in 19 arrests, supporters of the city's pro-Beijing government rallied next to pro-democracy protesters in Mong Kok, a working class neighbourhood near the popular shopping district of Tsim Tsa Shui. ...
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| Malaysia discovers 155 Uighurs crammed into 2 apartments |
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| KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian authorities have detained 155 Uighurs, more than half of them children, who were found crammed into two apartments in the capital Kuala Lumpur, immigration officials said. The Uighurs, a Muslim people from China's far-western region of Xinjiang, were discovered when officers from Malaysia's Immigration Department raided the residential units on Oct. 1 after receiving a tip-off. ... |
| Thai king readmitted to hospital - palace statement |
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 BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-reigning monarch, was readmitted to a Bangkok hospital late on Friday after leaving it last month, the palace said in an announcement on Saturday. The 86-year-old king has been admitted for a high fever and the diagnosis suggested blood infection, so doctors had asked him to stay at Siriraj hospital for special treatment, the Bureau of the Royal Household said in a statement. It said that after taking medicine, the king's blood pressure had stabilised and his fever had decreased. ...
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