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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

Asia news: China sentences three to death for Tiananmen Square attack

YoopyaJun 16, 2014July 16, 20230

(Reuters) – China sentenced three people to death on Monday over a deadly attack at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square last October, state television reported, an incident

Environment: Thousands in Nepal hug trees in world record bid

YoopyaJun 5, 2014July 16, 20230

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — More than 2,000 people, mostly students wearing their school uniforms, gathered in Nepal’s capital on Thursday in a bid to set

World: China offers $16 million in aid for Syria refugees

YoopyaJun 5, 2014June 24, 20230

BEIJING (AP) — China offered $16 million in humanitarian assistance Thursday for refugees from the conflict in Syria as part of Beijing’s growing engagement with

India news: Indian gang rape case highlights lack of toilets

YoopyaJun 3, 2014September 2, 20230

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — The two teenage girl cousins had walked out together at night, as they did every night, into the wild bamboo fields

Asia: Thailand’s junta warns over Hunger Games salute

YoopyaJun 3, 2014September 2, 20230

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s military rulers said Tuesday they are monitoring a new form of silent resistance to the coup — a three-fingered salute borrowed