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Will U.S. Designate Egypt Pakistan Iraq and Nigeria As Religious Freedom Violators
Pakistani Christians protest against the country's blasphemy laws and violence targeting their minority community. An independent U.S. watchdog has urged the executive branch every year since 2002 to designate Pakistan as a "country of particular concern" over religious freedom violations. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - As the State Department prepares to release its annual report on ...
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Pakistans former military ruler Musharraf granted bail
A judge granted bail to Pakistan's former military ruler on Monday in a case related to the assassination of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, his lawyer ...
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Pakistan court grants Musharraf bail in Bhutto case
Map: Pakistan A Pakistani court has granted bail to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the murder of Benazir Bhutto but the retired general remains under house arrest."General Musharraf's bail has been confirmed", court official Mohammad Aslam Joya said.Judge Habibur Rehman ordered Musharraf to pay two bonds worth one million rupees each, the court official ...
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Pakistans MQM denounces Imran Khan in Karachi protest
1 of 2. Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician and chairman of political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), addresses his supporters after his visit to the mausoleum of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder and first governor-general of Pakistan, during an election campaign in Karachi May 7, ...
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Fresh Plunge in Precious Metals Natural as Bearish Money Managers Hold Upper Hand Over Asian Household Buyers
WHOLESALE PRICES for gold and silver rallied from a fresh plunge in early London dealing on Monday, rising to stand unchanged and 2.3% lower respectively from the end of last week's trade by lunchtime.Asian stock markets closed sharply higher, even as the Japanese Yen reversed Friday's drop to new 4-year lows against the US Dollar.Commodities ticked lower as did major government bonds. ...
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Burma leader making landmark White House visit- Kerry to Mideast to press Syria peace talks
Former general Thein Sein on Monday becomes the first Burma president to be welcomed to the White House in almost 47 years, crowning a dramatic diplomatic rehabilitation for his nation after years of international isolation. But activists are angry about President Obama hosting Thein Sein, and lawmakers are wary. The Burma leader has led the shift from decades of direct military rule, but ...
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Gabon nets US$1.7bn Singaporean investments
Gabonese authorities have managed to secure investments worth a total of US$ 1.7 billion from Singapore, including a new fertilizer plant to be set up outside Port Gentil and palm oil ...
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Rebels Army Clash in Eastern DRC
Fresh fighting has erupted in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between the army and rebel group M23 -- the first clash between the sides in nearly six ...
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The Latest Images from Syria
This citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens shows Syrian rebels preparing to repel an attack by government forces, in Qusair, Homs province, Syria, May 19, ...
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India China Pledge to Overcome Border Tensions
NEW DELHI -- The leaders of Asian giants India and China say they will take steps to build greater mutual trust a month after a tense dispute over their shared border. With words like friendship, peace and consensus, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart, Li Keqiang, meeting in New Delhi, set out to move past the standoff that dominated headlines just weeks ago. ...
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Trigana aircraft comes off runway at Wamena airport
A cargo aircraft operated by PT Trigana ran off the runway at Wamena airport at around 4:30 p.m. local time on Monday, an official has said."I've just received a report that an aircraft has run off the runway; but fortunately, there were no victims during the incident," head of Wamena airport in Jayawijaya, Papua, Junikar Pakondo, told The Jakarta Post.He said the incident ...
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Electric minibus launched in Yogyakarta
Marking National Awakening Day on Monday, the Research and Technology Ministry and the Yogyakarta city administration launched an electric minibus made by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) at the city's Taman Pintar [Pintar Park].The 12-seated electric minibus will be used to transport visitors free of charge to Taman Pintar and its surrounding areas, including Malioboro, ...
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Cambodia factory accident injures 23 Police
PHNOM PENH (AFP) - A collapsing structure injured 23 workers on Monday at a Cambodian factory producing garments for a top Western brand, police said, the latest incident to raise concerns about regional industrial safety. At least 23 workers were injured at a Cambodian factory that produced garments for a top Western brand on Monday, police said, the latest incident to raise concerns about ...
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Rights group criticizes Sri Lankas rights record
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -; An international human rights group said Monday that respect for basic rights and liberties has declined in Sri Lanka in the four years since the government defeated separatist Tamil rebels to end a civil ...
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Pertamina CEO Most Likely to Head Indonesia Investment Body
JAKARTA - PT Pertamina's Chief Executive Karen Agustiawan is the front-runner to head Indonesia's Coordinating Board for Investment after President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Monday made the current chief the country's new finance minister, two people familiar with the matter said. "It's Karen who [likely] will be appointed as the new investment board chief," one of ...
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Wave of attacks kills at least 57 in Iraq
A wrecked truck is removed from the site of a car bomb attack in front of a crowded popular restaurant in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. Two car bombings in the southern city of Basra, killing and wounding dozens of people, police said. Iraq has seen a spike of attacks, including bombings hitting both Sunni and Shiite civilian targets over the ...
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Dog-meat mafia fuels Thai canine trade
Thai authorities are struggling to stop dogs from being stolen and smuggled to northern Vietnam, where a million dogs are eaten each year. This video report ...
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US and Myanmar edge toward rapport
What triggers former foes to become friends and then listen to each other on their mutual interests is a puzzle for political scientists. But it's a process we see in the bilateral relations of the US and Myanmar.Until a year ago, Myanmar faced sanctions and its former military generals were denied visas for the US. The dual-track policy of the Obama administration, which began in 2009, has ...
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Nepal investigates illegal Everest broadcast
Nepal A British mountaineer's interview with the BBC on his smartphone from the top of Mount Everest has stirred controversy, with the Nepalese government calling the broadcast "illegal".British mountaineer Daniel Hughes gave a live video interview to the BBC on his smartphone from the 8,848-metres peak on Sunday morning."This is the world's first live video call - ...
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Do you know your Dakar from your Dhaka Airline mix-up sends couple 7000 miles off-course to wrong continent
All irritating, no doubt; but spare a thought for US couple Sandy Valdiviseo and her husband Triet Vo who ended up 7,000 miles from their destination after an airport code mix-up.The couple had planned to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar, Senegal, but instead found themselves 7,000 miles away in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after their carrier mixed up the airport codes.The bizarre situation resulted in a ...
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GM revs up Asean expansion
The Chevrolet Spin mini-MPV is being assembled in Indonesia for sale throughout Asia including Thailand, where prices will start around 760,000 baht. "For Asean as a whole, all we can see is huge growth and enormous opportunities. The umbrella strategy is ‘build where you sell, and source where you build’," said Martin Apfel, president of GM’s Southeast Asia ...
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Pakistan turns off air-conditioners and tells civil servants to ditch socks
Pakistan has told its civil servants not to wear socks as the country turns off air-conditioners amid soaring temperatures to deal with chronic power cuts.The government has turned off all air-conditioning in its offices as the country endures blackouts of up to 20 hours a day in some places."There shall be no more use of air-conditioners in public offices till such time that substantial ...
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South Korea North Korea fires short-range projectiles for 3rd day launch considered routine
South Korean men watch a TV news program reporting missile launch conducted by North Korea, at a Seoul train station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 20, 2013. North Korea fired two more short-range projectiles into its own eastern waters Monday for a third straight day of such launches, Seoul officials said, as Pyongyang threatened to retaliate against what it calls South Korean and U.S. ...
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Op-Ed Contributors What Obama Needs to Tell Myanmars Leader
President Thein Sein of Myanmar is in Washington this week, the first Burmese head of state to visit since the military dictator Gen Ne Win in 1966. Much has changed since 1966. Fifty years of direct military rule have ended, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is out of house arrest and sits in Parliament, along with 42 of her colleagues from the National League for ...
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Imran Khans party wins Karachi seat election rerun
KARACHI (AFP) - The party of former Pakistani cricket hero Imran Khan secured victory in a repeat election held in one constituency of violence-plagued Karachi, election officials said Monday.Voting was held under tight security in 43 polling stations on Sunday, a day after a senior official of Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party was shot dead outside her home in the city.Polling was re-run ...
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Pakistan's darkest hour
What began as the normal monsoon season has turned into the greatest disaster, the greatest humanitarian crisis and the worst floods ever seen in the history of Pakistan. According to the UN, the disaster in Pakistan from 2010 floods is now worse than the 2005 earthquake in the country and the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia combined.
It is a catastrophe of mammoth proportions and the challenge faced by a centrally weak government is how to get food aid to the some 6 million in need of help and provide relief facilities to the 20 million people impacted by the disaster. Read more
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