Two emergency teams worked Saturday to rescue 12 miners trapped inside a coal mine that caught fire in east China’s Jiangxi Province, local officials told the state-run Xinhua news agency.

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Fifty-one children in a village in southeast China have been found to have high levels of lead in their blood, which authorities have linked to a battery factory, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.

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A bus trip intended to reward customers of a health-care products company turned deadly when the vehicle plunged off a road in China’s northern Shanxi province, killing 13 people, according to state-run Xinhua news agency.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has again indicated willingness to participate in bilateral talks with the United States and return to six-party talks over its nuclear program, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.

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