BEIJING (AP) — Prosecutors said Friday they indicted a former fugitive at the center of China’s biggest corruption scandal and that he has confessed to bribery and smuggling. The move brings authorities a step closer to a conclusion in one of China’s most lurid, long-running corruption cases in which the chief suspect fled to...

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — China will emerge as Alaska’s top export customer for 2011 when final trade statistics are counted for the last two months of the year, state officials say. As of Nov. 1, the value of Alaska exports to the Asian giant had reached $1.3 billion, a 52.5 percent increase over the same...

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