WASHINGTON -- Giant pandas Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their male cub Xiao Qi Ji departed the Smithsonian's National Zoo here on Wednesday, wrapping up their stay in the United States and embarking on a journey back to China. (China-U.S.-Panda)

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CANBERRA -- The Australian government has expressed concerns over the impact of a major telecommunications outage on critical services.

Millions of Australians were on Wednesday morning left without mobile and internet service after Optus, Australia's second-largest telecommunications company with over 10 million customers, was hit by a major outage.

The loss of service has caused public transport delays across the country, downed payment systems and cut hospital telephone lines. (Australia-Telecom Failure)

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JAKARTA -- A 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocked off Indonesia's eastern province of Maluku on Wednesday, but did not trigger a tsunami, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency BMKG said.

Having centered at the shallow seabed, the earthquake occurred at 11:52 a.m. Jakarta time (0452 GMT), the agency said.

The location of the epicenter was 251 km northwest of Maluku Tenggara Barat (Tanimbar Islands) district, with a depth of 10 km under the sea floor, it said. (Indonesia-Earthquake)

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YANGON -- Four people were killed and six others sustained injuries in a drop bomb attack on a field in southern Myanmar's Bago region on Tuesday, state-run daily The Mirror reported on Wednesday.

According to the media report, the attack was carried out by the People's Defence Force (PDF) on a field on the bank of Sittaung River near Tanawkyun village in Waw township of Bago region at around 2:15 p.m. local time on Tuesday. (Myanmar-Bomb Attack-Deaths) Enditem

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