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China plans to press an Asia-Pacific Free Trade Area at the upcoming APEC meetings in Beijing.
"We advocate the start of the construction of the Asia-Pacific FTA and treat this as our priority task."
Ahead of the American mid-term election, Vice President Biden says the White House doesn't have to change the way it does business.
"No I don't think we have to change the way. I think we have to be more direct and clear about exactly what it is and what we were going to do."
An Intellectual Property Rights court is ready to be open in Beijing later this month.
"If an appeal is made to a higher court, the IPR division in the administrative region will be brought in to local area to help with the case."
and the interim President of Burkina Faso says the army is going to quickly cede power to a transitional government.
"We need to reassure them that we are not here to usurp power, to get in the chair and run the power of the state, but we are here to help get the country out of the situation in which it is finding itself now."
Those stories and more over the hour and towards the end of the show we'll be looking at comments online about a Beijing university offering the country's first creative writing postgraduate program.
Now our global survey of headlines
First up, in Asia,
India and Pakistan have held a military ceremony at their only land border crossing, a day after a suicide attack there killed dozens of people.
In China, the country's central bank announced Monday that it has signed a currency swap deal worth 35 billion yuan (about 5.7 billion U.S. dollars) with the central bank of Qatar.
In Oceania,
In Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott says a shooting outside a Sydney prayer centre appears to be an example of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group having an impact in Australia.
Staying in the country, the government says it will target fires, weeds and feral animals in a new strategy to protect threatened species at Kakadu National Park.
Moving on to Africa,
In Nigeria, a suicide bomber has killed 15 worshippers at a Shia religious ceremony in north-eastern town of Potiskum.
In Libya, fierce fighting has erupted in Benghazi, as the army attempts to retake the area from Islamist militias.
And in the Middle East,
In Israel, a government committee on Monday advanced plans for 500 settler homes in East Jerusalem.
In Syria, Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters and moderate Syrian rebels bombarded Islamic State positions in Kobani on Monday, but it was unclear if their arrival would turn the tide in the battle for the besieged Syrian border town.
Looking to Latin America,
In Bolivia, the Bolivian ombudsman said regional and national authorities were failing to act in the face of a growing number of increasingly cruel attacks on young girls.
In Argentina, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is being treated for an "infectious fever" in a hospital in the capital, Buenos Aires.
And in Europe,
In Romania, Prime Minister Victor Ponta won the first round of Romania's presidential election.
In Turkey, at least 24 people have been killed and scores are missing after a boat said to be carrying migrants sank off the north coast.
In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative party on Monday shrugged off German anxiety about its plans to curb immigration from the European Union, saying it would tackle what has become a major public concern.
And finally in North America,
In the U.S., a weekend investigation into car break-ins in a Baltimore suburb may have headed off a 10th-grader's planned school attack.
Staying in the country, more than 13 years after the original towers were destroyed in the 9/11 attacks, New York's World Trade Center has re-opened for business.
That's our global survey of headlines.
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