China to lift ban on citizens going to Taiwan

BEIJING, Tuesday (Reuters) Beijing has decided to lift a ban on Chinese tourists going to Taiwan and is offering the island a pair of giant pandas as a goodwill gesture at the end of a visit to the mainland by Taiwan opposition leader Lien Chan.

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Twenty dead, several trapped after Pakistan building collapses

Multiple gas blasts tore through tenements and an ice cream factory in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore early Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and trapping several others, police said.

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