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Chinese premier heads to India to boost ties

By AP News Sun, May 19, 2013 4:03PM UTC

NEW DELHI (AP) — Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China’s new premier headed to India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties. China says Premier Li Keqiang’s choice of

Cyclone Mahasen fizzles as it hits Bangladesh

By AP News Thu, May 16, 2013 8:02PM UTC

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Cyclone Mahasan weakened Thursday afternoon into a tropical storm, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed over coastal Bangladesh and spared Burma almost entirely. At least 18 deaths related to Mahasen were reported in Bangladesh, Burma and Sri Lanka, but officials

Stranded in Dubai: Tamil refugees live in ‘constant fear’ of deportation

By Frances Harrison Thu, May 16, 2013 7:18PM UTC

After surviving the brutality of the Sri Lankan civil war and its aftermath, 15 refugees face an uncertain future SO desperate for clothing, they fashioned dresses from bed sheets, pulling out individual threads to use as cotton and improvising a needle from pins nailed to wooden crates. Men, women and

Cyclone Mahasen batters Bangladesh; 1 million flee

By AP News Thu, May 16, 2013 3:10PM UTC

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — The outer bands of Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh on Thursday, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and fierce winds that flattened mud and straw huts and forced the evacuation of more than 1 million people. The eye of the storm

Generic drug manufacturer agrees to $500 million penalty

By AP News Tue, May 14, 2013 11:51AM UTC

WASHINGTON (AP) — A subsidiary of India’s largest pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay a record $500 million in fines and penalties for selling adulterated drugs and lying to federal regulators in a case that is part of an ongoing crackdown on the quality of generic drugs flowing into the