China December factory PMIs suggest economy cooling further, more stimulus expected

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's factory activity sputtered in December, underlining the challenges facing the country's manufacturers as they fight rising costs and softening demand in a cooling economy.

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Shanghai New Year's Eve stampede kills 35 after fake money thrown from building

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A stampede killed at least 35 people during New Year's Eve celebrations in Shanghai, authorities said, possibly caused by people rushing to pick up fake money thrown from a building overlooking the city's famous Bund waterfront district.

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Poor weather, heavy seas hinder effort to reach suspected AirAsia plane wreck

PANGKALAN BUN/JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Search teams looking for the sunken wreck of an Indonesia AirAsia jet off Borneo struggled to resume full-scale operations on Thursday after a small window of fine weather closed, giving way to rising seas which have dogged the search from the start.

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Deadly winter storms batter California, chill New Year's Eve

(Reuters) - Two people died on a wind-thrashed California island, and scores of motorists were left stranded on snow-swept mountain roads farther inland as winter storms chilled much of the Western United States on New Year's Eve, officials said on Wednesday.

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North Korea leader Kim Jong Un says open to summit with South

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he was open to a high-level summit with neighboring South Korea, days after a proposal from Seoul to resume dialogue.

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Indonesian frog is one of a kind - and not because of its fangs

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Its fangs are not what makes the newly identified Indonesian frog species Limnonectes larvaepartus unique on Earth. The way it makes babies does.

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Tunisian secular leader Essebsi sworn in as new president

TUNIS (Reuters) - Veteran politician Beji Caid Sebsi was sworn in as Tunisian president on Wednesday, giving the country a democratically elected leader four years after an uprising ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.

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Abbas signs onto International Criminal Court after U.N. loss

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed on to 20 international agreements on Wednesday, including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a day after a bid for independence by 2017 failed at the United Nations Security Council.

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