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(15 Dec) - A gunman is holding staff and customers hostage at a cafe in Sydney, Australia. The Lindt cafe in the city centre is surrounded by armed police. Officers have made contact with the gunman. Five people have been seen running from the building. It is not clear how many remain inside. A black Islamic flag has been displayed... 

(14 Dec) - Japan's ruling coalition has won a new two-thirds majority in parliamentary elections seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policy. Japanese media reported that Mr Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) retained its House of Representatives majority. The LDP will govern with the Buddhist-backed... 

Wang Zongnan, the former boss of a Shanghai-based food giant, was arrested by anti-graft inspectors. He is a former chairman of Bright Food Group, the mainland's second-largest food company. Bright Food Group is also the parent firm of what was the Shanghai Yimin Food Number One Plant, where former president Jiang Zemin...