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President Hu Visits Canada, Attends G20 Summit
SCO Summit

Chinese President Hu Jintao will pay a state visit to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan from June 9 to 12 , and will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent.

World Expo 2010
World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China.
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In Belgium, frites aren't small potatoes
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BRUSSELS — Paul Ilegems, a retired professor of art history, has a vision of heaven. It involves a simple Belgian pommes frites stand where "human souls ascended eat their fries undisturbed."
Robots to ease workload in greying Japan
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TOKYO — Robotic wheelchairs, mechanical arms and humanoid waiters are among the cutting-edge inventions on show at a robotics fair in Japan, a country whose population is ageing rapidly.
Rare film shows devastation in Warsaw following WWII
Agencies
WARSAW, Poland — An unusual 3-D film created by Polish historians shows the shocking sea of rubble that Warsaw was reduced to during World War II, bringing the city's wartime history home to young people often unaware of the extent the destruction.
Aretha and Rice make soul music to help charity
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PHILADELPHIA — Condoleezza Rice is no stranger to the whims of royalty. So when the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin, decided the two should get together to play a song or two for charity, it was decreed.
Caves offer new tour in Star Trek lingo
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SYDNEY — Staff at the Jenolan Caves west of Sydney have added a new out-of-this-world attraction — a tour in the Star Trek language Klingon.
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This image from the film City of Ruins, provided by the Warsaw Uprising Museum and Platige Image, shows the ruins of Warsaw as seen in 1944 after the uprising.
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ROK prime minister steps aside
By CHENG GUANGJIN
BEIJING — Chung Un-chan, the ROK's prime minister, filed his resignation on Thursday, holding himself responsible for the government's failure last month to get parliamentary approval for a bill to scrap a project to develop a new administrative city, the ROK's Yonhap News Agency reported.
Military told to keep close eye on situation
By Ai Yang and Li Xiaokun
Beijing — A top military officer has warned the Chinese military to keep a close eye on the changing situation amid a large-scale naval exercise in the South China Sea, held at the same time as a joint Washington-Seoul drill, State media reported on Thursday.
Extending helping hands abroad
By Peng Yining, Cao Li and Wang Yan
China has provided aid to more than 160 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and in the South Pacific since 1950. The nearly 2,000 aid projects include agriculture, construction, transport, medical care and education, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce.
Rains delay salvage effort
Agencies
ISLAMABAD — Heavy monsoon rains in Islamabad on Thursday hampered recovery efforts at the site of a Pakistani plane crash that killed all 152 people on board a day earlier, a senior police officer said.