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China searches for 17 sailors missing in sea collision

  BEIJING / AP China’s navy is searching for 17 sailors after their fishing boat collided with another vessel. The official China News Service said on Saturday that two other sailors have been rescued by another fishing boat following the pre-dawn crash. Three navy ships operating in the East China Sea off the coast of Zhejiang province were diverted to ...

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‘You cannot turn penicillin into a N-bomb’

  Beijing / AFP Sanctions that have pinched North Korea’s health care system should be eased, a group of Nobel laureates said on Saturday, after a rare visit to the nuclear armed state that coincided with its ruling party congress. Embargoes on the flow of goods into the isolated country have squeezed the quality of medical care and research, they ...

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Trump scorns Republican opponents and Democrats

  WASHINGTON / AP Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s derision of his political opponents draws hearty boos of support at rallies. That he castigates as many Republicans as Democrats is another sign of the fractures within the GOP. Trump shrugs off the high-profile Republicans who have stated they aren’t voting for him, among them former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush ...

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