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Philippine Boxer To Run For Senate In 2016
Boxer Manny Pacquiao has announced he plans to run for a seat in the Philippines senate in 2016.
Mr Pacquiao, 36, is currently a member of the country's lower house of representatives, the congress.
He said on Monday evening that he would run for higher office in May next year, after his congress term ends.
The boxing champion is hugely popular at home. Earlier this year he lost to American Floyd Mayweather in one of the biggest fights in the sport.
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Chinese Dissident Finds Listening Devices In His Studio
Ai Weiwei has posted a number of pictures of what he says are listening devices found in his Beijing studio.
The Chinese dissident artist captioned one photo of a bug on Instagram with "There will always be surprises".
His friend Liu Xiaoyuan confirmed the bugs were found after the artist returned from a trip to Germany.
Xiaoyuan tweeted that they were found when redecoration started on Ai's home and were found in the office and a living room. The pictures show the devices were hidden in electric sockets.
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Safe Harbour Agreement Ruled Invalid By EU Court Of Justice
A pact that helped the tech giants and others send personal data from the EU to the US has been ruled invalid.
The European Court of Justice said that the Safe Harbour agreement did not eliminate the need for local privacy watchdogs to check US firms were taking adequate data protection measures.
It added that the ruling meant Ireland's regulator now needed to decide whether Facebook's EU-to-US transfers should be suspended. The pact has existed for 15 years.
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Sydney Schoolboy Arrested Over Social Media Posts
A Sydney teenager from the same school as the 15-year-old who shot dead a police worker on Friday has been arrested on his way to class.
Police said the boy was asked about alleged social media posts, but became threatening and intimidated officers.
Facebook posts which local media say were written by the boy, who has not been named, defended and praised teen gunman Farhad Jabar's actions.
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Afghan Forces Requested Air Strike That Hit Clinic In Kunduz
Afghan forces called in the air strike that hit a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic in Kunduz, killing 22 people, a US general says.
Gen John Campbell admitted that no US forces had been under fire at the time, reversing an earlier statement.
MSF says Afghan attempts to justify the strike amount to "an admission of a war crime". Afghan forces backed by the US have retaken much of Kunduz, which was overrun by the Taliban last week.
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Indian Prime Minister Urges Germany To Invest With Them
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged German companies to invest in India, on the concluding day of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit.
Mr Modi said his government had "worked aggressively" to make India an easy place to do business. Germany has already pledged more than 1bn euros ($1.12bn; £74m) to India to develop solar projects.
Mr Modi has launched the "Make in India" campaign to boost manufacturing at home and create millions of jobs.
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Political Aftermath Of Indian Villager Killed For Eating Beef
What does the aftermath of last week's lynching of a 50-year-old Muslim man by a Hindu mob over rumours that his family had been consuming beef say about political imagination in India?
Mohammad Akhlaq, an ironsmith, was killed in his village in Dadri in Uttar Pradesh, barely 50km (31 miles) from the Indian capital. His 22-year-old son Danish was seriously injured in the attack. Another son, Mohammad Sartaj, who works as a technician with the Indian Air Force, survived the attack because he does not live in the village.
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Restaurant In China Faces Backlash Online Over Price Of Prawns
A Chinese customer left a seafood restaurant in the city of Qingdao with a bad taste in his mouth after claiming he was overcharged for prawns.
The diner ordered a dish of prawns that appeared to be marked at 38 yuan (£4, $6) on the menu, reported local media. But he was later told the menu had specified the price was for each prawn, and was asked to pay 1,520 yuan (£160; $240) for the dish.
The restaurant has attracted intense criticism on Chinese social media.
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Australian Prisoner Found Hiding In Kitchen
An Australian prisoner who escaped from a New South Wales jail earlier this year has been found hiding in a kitchen cupboard, police say.
The 58-year-old man had been on the run from St Helier's Correctional Centre in Muswellbrook since 24 July.
He was discovered on Sunday inside the kitchen cupboard of a home in Alfords Point, 164 miles (264km) away.
New South Wales police say he has been charged with escaping custody and was due to go to court on Monday.
It was not immediately clear why the man was being held at the correctional centre.
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Refugee Crisis Likely To Intensify Warns Turkey
Turkey has warned the EU that millions more refugees could flee Syria as the civil war intensifies, European Council President Donald Tusk has said.
He said Russian and Iranian engagement in Syria was making a victory for President Bashar al-Assad more likely. According to Turkish estimates, it could mean another three million refugees from Aleppo and the area. The International Organization for Migration says it has so far had no reports of more people leaving Syria. "Violence and increased military activity breed displacement of civilians," IOM spokesman Leonard Doyle commented. He said his o…
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