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Asia news: Afghan official: Blast at market in east kills 38

YoopyaJul 15, 2014July 16, 20230

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says a suicide car bomber has killed at least 38 people in the country’s east. Mohammad Reza Kharoti,

World: Powerful typhoon pounds Japan’s Okinawa islands

YoopyaJul 8, 2014July 16, 20230

TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon pummeled the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa on Tuesday, paralyzing transport and prompting U.S. forces based there to cancel

Asia news: 46 Indian nurses stranded in Iraq return home

YoopyaJul 5, 2014July 16, 20230

NEW DELHI (AP) — Dozens of Indian nurses stranded in territory held by Islamic extremists in Iraq returned home to southern India on Saturday aboard

Europe: Exclusive: Iran eases demands in Vienna nuclear talks – Western diplomats

YoopyaJul 4, 2014July 29, 20230

(Reuters) – Iran has reduced demands for the size of its future nuclear enrichment program in talks with world powers although Western governments are urging

World: Turkey turns inwards as war spreads from Syria to Iraq

YoopyaJul 4, 2014July 25, 20230

(Reuters) – As al Qaeda-inspired Sunni militants spread right along Turkey’s southeastern border last month from Syria through Iraq, seizing Turkish hostages as they went,

Asia news: Rescuers dig for survivors in India building ruins

YoopyaJun 30, 2014July 29, 20230

NEW DELHI (AP) — Rescuers pulled two survivors Monday from the huge pile of broken concrete left by the collapse of an 11-story apartment building

World news: After Iraq gains, Qaeda offshoot claims Islamic “caliphate”

YoopyaJun 30, 2014September 7, 20230

(Reuters) – An offshoot of al Qaeda which has seized territory in Iraq and Syria has declared itself an Islamic caliphate and called on factions

Asia: Malaysia jet most likely on autopilot when it crashed, Australia says

YoopyaJun 26, 2014June 24, 20230

(Reuters) – Malaysia Airlines (MASM.KL) Flight MH370 was most likely on autopilot when it crashed into the Indian Ocean further south than previously thought, Australian

US Politics: China calls U.S. bid to name street for Nobel peace laureate a ‘farce’

YoopyaJun 25, 2014July 16, 20230

(Reuters) – China on Wednesday dismissed as a farce and a smear a vote by a United States panel of lawmakers to rename a Washington

UN News: UN chief warns of massive sectarian Iraq violence

YoopyaJun 17, 2014July 16, 20230

GENEVA (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is warning that sectarian violence could blow up to huge proportions in Iraq and beyond as Iraq’s instability