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WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday that he will urge the Chinese to move more quickly to adopt economic reforms, including a more flexible currency. But in his first speech on the international economy since joining the Bush Cabinet in July, Paulson stressed that the administration will oppose …

BEIJING – A drunken Chinese migrant worker jumped into a panda enclosure at the Beijing Zoo, was bitten by the bear and retaliated by chomping down on the animal’s back, state media said Wednesday. Zhang Xinyan, from the central province of Henan, drank four jugs of beer at a restaurant …

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Tuesday for a purge of liberal and secular teachers from the country’s universities, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported in another step back to 1980s-style radicalism. “Today, students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university …