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1. JFK's younger sister dies at 88 in Massachusetts hospital
   Shriver had suffered a series of strokes in recent years and passed away at a Cape Cod, Massachusetts, hospital, her family said in a statement.     Her husband, her five children and their spouses, and all 19 ...

2. Hundreds in Taiwan feared buried
    BEIJING, Aug. 11 -- Up to 600 villagers from Hsiao Lin in the south of China's Taiwan are feared buried in a mudslide triggered by rains from Typhoon Morakot.     So far, rescue squads aboard helicopters ...

3. Aung San Suu Kyi's sentence commuted to 18-month house arres
    YANGON, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Myanmar State Peace and Development Council Tuesday commuted Aung San Suu Kyi's sentence to 18-month confinement to her residence after a district court sentenced her three years' jail term for ...

4. China, ASEAN to have full free-trade area by 2010
    BEIJING, Aug. 11 -- China-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian nations) Free Trade Area would be completely operative in 2010 as scheduled, according to sources from the Fourth Pan Beibu Gulf Economic Cooperation Forum held r...

5. PLA kicks off largest long-range tactical military exercise
    BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) on Tuesday launched its largest-ever tactical military exercise, involving the deployment of about 50,000 heavily-armored troops over thousands of miles t...