China PM defends assertive trade, foreign policy (AP)

AP - China vowed Sunday to remain alert to any renewed signs of economic crisis and forcefully defended its currency, trade and more assertive foreign policies as helping global rebalancing, not undermining it.

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Ala. prof’s family, friends: No hint of violence (AP)

AP - An Alabama professor accused of shooting six colleagues was vocal in her resentment over being denied tenure and the looming loss of her teaching post, though relatives and students said she had never suggested she might become violent.

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US seeks to shore up support for tough Iran stance (AP)

AP - U.S. officials sought to shore up support Sunday for a tougher stand against Iran’s nuclear program by saying Tehran had left the world little choice and expressing renewed confidence that holdout China would come around to harsher U.N. penalties.

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US forces scale back Haiti relief role (AP)

AP - The biggest U.S. military surge since Iraq and Afghanistan is scaling back a month after the troops arrived in haste to aid victims of Haiti’s catastrophic quake

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US, globe rush rescue, relief workers to Haiti (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama dispatched military troops and an air and sea flotilla to speed earthquake relief to Haiti on Wednesday, and governments from China to Venezuela rushed to help with aid and rescue workers, as well. Obama said the world’s help was critical to deal with a “cruel and incomprehensible” tragedy.

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Google to end China censorship after e-mail breach (AP)

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UN conference recognizes climate deal (AP)

AP - The U.N. climate conference narrowly escaped collapse by agreeing Saturday to recognize a political accord brokered by President Barack Obama with China and other emerging powers.

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Miners’ families want answers in China mine blast (AP)

AP - Grieving miners’ families demanded answers Monday from mining officials about the underground gas explosion that left at least 104 men dead in northeastern China.

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A Great Wall: Obama tours China’s iconic site (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama absorbed history’s expanse Wednesday from atop the Great Wall of China, a manmade wonder of such enormity that Obama found himself putting daily life in perspective.

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Obama to China: Uncensored society is healthy (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama gave China a pointed, unexpected nudge to stop censoring the Internet access of its own people, offering an animated defense of the tool that helped him win the White House — and telling his tightly controlled hosts not to be wary of a little criticism.

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