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Thai rubber protests injure dozens of police

YoopyaSep 17, 2013March 31, 20240

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, Thailand (AP) — The Thai government said Tuesday it could declare a security emergency in a district of southern Thailand to stamp

Iran restores blocks on Facebook, Twitter

YoopyaSep 17, 2013April 3, 20240

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The joy of Iran’s Facebook and Twitter fans was short-lived as authorities on Tuesday restored blocks on social networks after filters

Top policewoman shot in Afghanistan has died

YoopyaSep 16, 2013April 3, 20240

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — A top policewoman in southern Afghanistan died early Monday after being shot by unknown attackers, months after her predecessor was also

Powerful typhoon lashes Japan, thousands evacuate

YoopyaSep 16, 2013April 7, 20240

TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon lashed Japan Monday, leaving one dead and dumping torrential rains, damaging homes and flooding parts of the country’s popular

Malaysia’s ex-communist leader dies in Thailand

YoopyaSep 16, 2013September 13, 20230

BANGKOK (AP) — Malaysia’s best-known former communist guerrilla, Chin Peng, who led a bloody insurgency against British rule in Malaysia in the late 1940s and

Satellite image suggests North Korea has restarted Yongbyon nuclear reactor: U.S. group

YoopyaSep 12, 2013April 3, 20240

(Reuters) – Satellite imagery suggests North Korea has restarted a research reactor capable of producing plutonium for weapons at its Yongbyon nuclear complex, a U.S. research institute

U.S. warns diplomatic solution for Syria will take time

YoopyaSep 12, 2013April 3, 20240

(Reuters) – The White House warned on Wednesday that a diplomatic solution over Syria would take “some time” and pledged to pursue talks despite skepticism from U.S.

Iran’s Khamenei hopeful new U.S. policy on Syria is ‘serious’

YoopyaSep 11, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Wednesday he hoped that a U.S. promise to pursue diplomacy to remove the threat of

Syria’s Assad denies chemical weapons use; U.S. presses case for strike

YoopyaSep 9, 2013April 3, 20240

(Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied that he was behind a chemical weapons attack on the Syrian people, as the White House on Sunday

Sectarian riots spread in north India, 28 dead

YoopyaSep 9, 2013April 3, 20240

MUZAFFARNAGAR, India (AP) — Security forces have been ordered to shoot rioters on sight, as sectarian violence spread in northern India on Monday despite an