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World: China-bound Malaysian jet vanishes with 239 aboard

YoopyaMar 8, 2014September 16, 20230

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 carrying 239 people lost contact over the South China Sea early Saturday morning on a

Pro-Assad forces kill 175 rebels in ambush: Syrian state media

YoopyaFeb 27, 2014October 28, 20230

(Reuters) – Forces loyal to Syria’s president killed at least 175 Islamist rebel fighters, most of them foreigners, in an ambush in insurgent-held eastern outskirts

Exclusive: Iraq signs deal to buy arms, ammunition from Iran – documents

YoopyaFeb 25, 2014October 30, 20230

(Reuters) – Iran has signed a deal to sell Iraq arms and ammunition worth $195 million, according to documents seen by Reuters – a move

Iraqi authorities distribute cards for elections

YoopyaFeb 22, 2014October 30, 20230

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s election commission said Saturday that it has not yet decided how it will distribute voter ID cards in the embattled western

First ‘orange’ pollution alert as smog rolls into Beijing

YoopyaFeb 21, 2014October 30, 20230

(Reuters) – China’s capital Beijing, under fire to take effective measures against air pollution, raised its four-tiered alert system to orange for the first time

China urges Obama to cancel meeting with Dalai Lama

YoopyaFeb 21, 2014October 30, 20230

(Reuters) – China urged the United States on Friday to scrap plans for President Barack Obama to meet exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama

Thai protesters take to Facebook to target businesses linked to PM

YoopyaFeb 20, 2014November 1, 20230

(Reuters) – Protesters campaigning to oust Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra turned to Facebook and other social media to attack businesses linked to her family

Rajiv Gandhi murder: Tamil Nadu to free plotters

YoopyaFeb 19, 2014November 1, 20230

The government in India’s Tamil Nadu state has decided to free seven people convicted of plotting the assassination of former PM Rajiv Gandhi. All seven

Suicide bombers target Iranian centre in Beirut, kill four

YoopyaFeb 19, 2014October 30, 20230

(Reuters) – A twin suicide bombing hit the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut on Wednesday during the morning rush hour, killing at least four people

China says it will win West over to its view on Tibet, Xinjiang

YoopyaFeb 19, 2014October 30, 20230

(Reuters) – China has time on its side to win over Western opinion to its point of view on the restive regions of Tibet and