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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 0600 GMT, Feb. 10

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The New Zealand government is still considering the country's response to the fight against terror group Islamic State (IS), Prime Minister John Key said on Tuesday.

"This brutal group is a threat, not only to stability in the Middle East, but regionally and locally too," Key said in a statement on the government's program for this year tabled at the opening of the parliament. (NZ-IS)

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WELLINGTON -- New Zealand is to issue its first colored coin this year to mark the centenary of its most famous battle of World War I, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) announced Tuesday.

The legal tender 50-cent (37 U.S. cents) coin, on sale at face value from March 23, would commemorate the centenary, on April 25, 1915, of the Anzac (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula. (NZ-Coin)

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NEW DELHI -- India's anti-corruption Aam Aadmi Party (Common Man's Party) is heading for a landslide win in the assembly elections in the national capital, decimating the country's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the main opposition Congress party.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), led by 46-year-old former civil servant-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal, is currently leading in over 60 seats in the 70-member assembly, according to results of leads in vote counting, though the final results are yet to be announced. (India-Delhi Polls)

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PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia -- Malaysia's federal court announced guilty verdict over opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy case on Tuesday.

A five-member Federal Court bench upheld a verdict by the Court of Appeal which found Anwar guilty. In his appeal, Anwar was asking the Federal Court to set aside the conviction and sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal. (Malaysia-Anwar-Sodomy Case) Endi