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| Car Bombing of Police Bus Kills 8 in Pakistan |
(Fri, 29 Aug 2008)
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The bombing followed a pattern of Taliban attacks against government security installations in retaliation for a fierce Pakistani campaign against Islamic militants.
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| China Defends Its Reviled Soccer Team |
(Fri, 29 Aug 2008)
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The government is taking a step to shore up the reputation of that most dubious of national sports icons: the men’s soccer team.
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Category: Olympic Games (2008) |
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| Faiths Clash, Displacing Thousands in East India |
(Fri, 29 Aug 2008)
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Days of Christian-versus-Hindu retaliatory violence sparked by the killing of a Hindu leader has left at least 3,000 people, most of them Christians, homeless.
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| Report Accuses Officials In China of Embezzlement |
(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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A report from China’s top auditor says that ten central government departments “misused or embezzled” more than $660 million last year.
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Category: Politics and Government |
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| Iraq Signs Oil Deal With China Worth Up to $3 Billion |
(Fri, 29 Aug 2008)
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The contract was the first major oil deal the Iraq government has made with a foreign country since 2003.
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Category: Iraq |
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| World Briefing | Asia: India: Dalai Lama Admitted to Hospital |
(Fri, 29 Aug 2008)
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The Dalai Lama, 73, has been hospitalized in Mumbai to undergo tests on Friday for “abdominal discomfort,” his spokesman said.
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| A Chinese Hinterland, Fertile With Field Hockey |
(Sat, 23 Aug 2008)
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For a thousand years, the Daur people of Inner Mongolia have been playing a game called beikou, a close sibling of field hockey.
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| China’s Leaders Try to Impress and Reassure World |
(Sat, 09 Aug 2008)
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The Olympic opening ceremonies gave the Communist Party an unfiltered chance to reach a global audience.
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Category: Olympic Games (2008) |
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| Architecture: In Changing Face of Beijing, a Look at the New China |
(Thu, 31 Jul 2008)
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The aura of China’s new architecture has as much to do with intellectual ferment as economic clout.
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Category: China |
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| A Boy Jockey’s Last Ride in Mongolia |
(Sun, 13 Jul 2008)
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Munkherdene, 13, is among a growing number of urban, affluent Mongolians trying to rediscover their nomadic roots by hitting the summer horse-racing circuit.
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Category: Horse Racing |
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| Leadership Void Seen in Pakistan |
(Tue, 24 Jun 2008)
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Confusion over the lack of leadership is allowing militants to consolidate their sanctuaries along the border area of the country.
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Category: Pakistan |
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| Inside Gate, India’s Good Life; Outside, the Servants’ Slums |
(Mon, 09 Jun 2008)
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Many members of India’s upper middle class have moved to gated communities, with servants who live in nearby slums.
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| World Briefing | Asia: India: 120,000 Evacuated From Flooding |
(Fri, 29 Aug 2008)
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Indian troops helped evacuate more than 120,000 people from monsoon-related flooding in eastern India, officials said Thursday.
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| World Briefing | Asia: China: Officers Killed in Uighur Clash |
(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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Chinese police clashed with members of the Uighur ethnic minority in the far western region of Xinjiang, authorities and an activist said Thursday.
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| World Briefing | Asia: Australia: Cause Cited in Qantas Blast |
(Fri, 29 Aug 2008)
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Air safety investigators say a pressurized oxygen cylinder set off the blast that blew a large hole in the side of a Qantas jet last month, forcing an emergency landing.
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Category: Australia |
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| Military Sending Foreign Fighters to Home Nations |
(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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More than 200 militants captured in Iraq and Afghanistan over two years have been passed to their countries’ intelligence services.
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Category: United States Armament and Defense |
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| U.S.-Pakistani Brainstorming on Border Violence |
(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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The extreme secrecy surrounding talks between the most senior American and Pakistani commanders on Tuesday underscores how gravely the two nations regard the militant threat.
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Category: United States Armament and Defense |
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| U.S. Officials Describe Afghan Airstrike |
(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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American military officials sought to refute claims that as many as 90 civilians, most of them children, were killed in airstrikes on a village in western Afghanistan last week.
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Category: Afghanistan |
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| Switzerland Frees $60 Million in Zardari’s Assets |
(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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The accounts of Asif Ali Zardari, who is expected to become Pakistan’s president, had been frozen in 1997 at the request of Pakistani authorities investigating Mr. Zardari for corruption.
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Category: Zardari, Asif Ali |
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| Protesters Face Police in Thailand |
(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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Thousands of protesters blockaded the prime minister’s office, and their leaders challenged police to arrest them.
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Category: Thailand |
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| 10 Killed And Family Is Captive In Kashmir |
(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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Violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir flared anew as gunmen attacked an Army post, waging a daylong battle and holding a family hostage after they had barricaded themselves into a home.
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Category: Kashmir and Jammu (India) |
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| Indonesia Expands Wildlife Haven |
(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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The government announced it would expand a national park on the island of Sumatra, which hosts endangered elephants and tigers.
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Category: Indonesia |
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| World Briefing | Asia: China: Fatal Explosions at Plant |
(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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The death toll from a series of explosions in southwest China rose to 20 on Wednesday, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
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Category: China |
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| Taliban Gain New Foothold in Afghan City |
(Wed, 27 Aug 2008)
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A June jailbreak highlighted the Afghan government’s frailty, and the security situation has worsened since.
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| Thai Protesters Enter Prime Minister’s Compound |
(Wed, 27 Aug 2008)
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Thousands of anti-government demonstrators besieged government offices in Bangkok and briefly shut down a television station.
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Category: Coups D'Etat and Attempted Coups D'Etat |
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| N. Korea Threatens to Restore Plutonium Plant |
(Wed, 27 Aug 2008)
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North Korea said that it had stopped disabling its main nuclear complex and threatened to restore facilities there, accusing the U.S. of not keeping its promise to take the country off a terrorism blacklist.
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| U.S. Killed 90, Including 60 Children, in Afghan Village, U.N. Finds |
(Wed, 27 Aug 2008)
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A human rights report said that the air strikes last week were the deadliest case of civilian casualties caused by the U.S. in Afghanistan since 2001.
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Category: Afghanistan |
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| Front-Runner in Pakistan Has Been Ill, Report Says |
(Wed, 27 Aug 2008)
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Asif Ali Zardari, who is favored to win the presidency in elections next week, filed medical records in a London courtroom that stated that he suffered from a range of mental illnesses.
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| Rebel Fighting in Philippines Intensifies |
(Wed, 27 Aug 2008)
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Fighting in the southern Philippines between government troops and Islamic separatists is growing, with the number of the displaced now reaching 300,000.
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| Afghanistan’s Opium Harvest Shrinks After Record Crop, U.N. Says |
(Wed, 27 Aug 2008)
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The United Nations said the tide of opium that has engulfed Afghanistan is showing signs of ebbing.
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| Leader of Opposition Wins Seat in Malaysia |
(Tue, 26 Aug 2008)
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The country’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim easily defeated his opponent from the country’s ruling coalition, making a return to Parliament after a decade-long absence.
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Category: Ibrahim, Anwar |
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| World Briefing | Asia: India: 6 Die in Hindu-Christian Violence |
(Wed, 27 Aug 2008)
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Six people were killed when Hindu and Christian groups clashed Tuesday in eastern India.
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| Hindu-Christian Violence Flares in India |
(Tue, 26 Aug 2008)
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The remote state of Orissa has erupted in tit-for-tat slayings after the murder of a Hindu leader prompted a mob to burn small Christian churches and an orphanage.
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| World Briefing | Asia: Bangladesh: Man Killed in Riot |
(Tue, 26 Aug 2008)
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Supporters of Bangladesh’s detained former prime minister, Begum Khaleda Zia, went on a rampage in Dhaka on Monday.
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| World Briefing | Asia: Kashmir: Police Kill 4 at Rally |
(Tue, 26 Aug 2008)
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The police shot and killed four demonstrators who defied curfew to rally in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir.
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| China Deports 8 Americans Held in Protests |
(Mon, 25 Aug 2008)
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Students for a Free Tibet said eight American men were placed on a Los Angeles-bound flight on Sunday evening, just as the closing ceremony was getting under way.
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| Pursuit of Accord With Separatists Poses Risks for Philippine President |
(Mon, 25 Aug 2008)
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President Macapagal Arroyo faces a difficult choice: salvage peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front or abandon them and rely on force to combat the rebels.
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| Plane Crash in Central Asia Kills 68 |
(Mon, 25 Aug 2008)
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Members of a high school sports team were among the 68 people killed in a passenger jet crash in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
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| Tens of Thousands Protest Site of Auto Plant in India |
(Mon, 25 Aug 2008)
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About 40,000 protesters surrounded an Indian factory ready to produce the world’s cheapest car, saying that land for the site had forcibly been taken from local farmers.
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| Superheroes to Be Recast for Japan |
(Sun, 24 Aug 2008)
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Marvel is teaming up with Madhouse, a Japanese animation studio, to create versions of its characters for four series that will premiere in spring 2010 in Japan.
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Category: Marvel Entertainment|MVL|NYSE |
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| Three Medalists Provide Glimpse of a New India |
(Mon, 25 Aug 2008)
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India’s three gold medals represent vastly different Indias that today exist side by side, and the intensity of the new aspirations of young Indians.
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| World Briefing | Asia: Pakistan: At Least 6 Die in Attack on Police |
(Sat, 23 Aug 2008)
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The police say a suicide bomber used a car laden with explosives to attack a police station in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least six officers.
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Category: Swat (Pakistan) |
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| World Briefing | Asia: India: Nuclear Talks End Without Decision |
(Sat, 23 Aug 2008)
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The representatives of 45 nations meeting in Vienna to decide whether to lift a ban on nuclear trade with India ended their talks inconclusively on Friday.
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| Izumo Journal: God’s Home Gets Rehab, and Japan Sneaks Peek |
(Wed, 27 Aug 2008)
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Before renovations began at Izumo Taisha, one of Japan’s oldest and most famous Shinto shrines, it opened to the public for the first time in six decades.
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Category: Japan |
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| Where Tradition Has Ruled, a Home for Contemporary Art |
(Mon, 25 Aug 2008)
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The art that Anupam Poddar and his mother have collected will be exhibited in a new space in what will be, in effect, India’s first contemporary art museum.
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Category: Art |
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