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Russia, China veto UN resolution on Syria (AP)

This image from amateur video made available by Shaam News Network on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, purports to show a wounded man being treated at a field hospital in Homs, Syria. Syrian forces unleashed a barrage of mortars and artillery on the battered city of Homs for hours before dawn on Saturday, sending terrified residents fleeing into basements and killing scores of people in what appeared to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said.(AP Photo/Shaam News Network via APTN) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIAL.  TV OUTAP – Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution backing calls for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down, despite international outrage Saturday over a devastating bombardment of the city of Homs by his regime’s forces. Activists said more than 200 were killed in the bloodiest episode of the nearly 11-month uprising.


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Russia, China veto resolution on Syria, as bloody  massacre kills hundreds 

Russia and China on Saturday vetoed a Security Council resolution backing an Arab League peace plan that calls for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down amid escalating violence.

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Wealthy ‘Octomom’ stuns in one-child China

The incident has highlighted both the use of birth surrogates, a violation of Chinese law, and how wealthy Chinese do as they please.

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Tear gas fired at protesters in China seaside town (AP)

Villagers gather to protest Friday Dec. 23, 2011 in Haimen, China. Riot police in the southern Chinese coastal town fired tear gas at protesters Friday on the fourth day of unrest over a planned power plant expansion, according to a demonstrator's account and TV footage. A crowd of protesters were locked in a standoff with police near the entrance to a highway in the town of Haimen, demanding authorities release an unknown number of demonstrators, a man surnamed Lin told The Associated Press. (AP Photo)AP – Riot police in a southern Chinese coastal town fired tear gas Friday at protesters, including elderly men and women, on the fourth day of unrest over a planned power plant expansion, according to protesters’ accounts and TV footage.


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China prepares for big entry into vaccine market (AP)

In this photo taken on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011, a worker inspects the label on vials containing H1N1 flu vaccine produced by Beijing-based drug maker Sinovac Biotech Ltd. in Beijing. The world should get ready for a new Made in China product, vaccines. After years of supplying its own market, China's vaccine makers are gearing up to push exports in a move that should lower costs of lifesaving immunizations for the world's poor and provide major new competition for the big Western pharmaceutical companies.  (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP – The world should get ready for a new Made in China product — vaccines.


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Countering China, Obama asserts US a Pacific power (AP)

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the Australian Parliament in Canberra, Australia, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)AP – Signaling a determination to counter a rising China, President Barack Obama vowed Thursday to expand U.S. influence in the Asia-Pacific region and “project power and deter threats to peace” in that part of the world even as he reduces defense spending and winds down two wars.


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Countering China, US sets training in Australia (AP)

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a joint press conference with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011. Obama announced an agreement Wednesday to expand the U.S. military presence in Australia, underscoring growing concern over an increasingly assertive China. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, Pool)AP – Signaling U.S. determination to counter a rising China, President Barack Obama said Wednesday he will send military aircraft and up to 2,500 Marines to northern Australia for a training hub to help allies and protect American interests across Asia. He declared the U.S. is not afraid of China, by far the biggest and most powerful country in the region.


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