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Syria crisis: US decries Assad ‘Western puppets’ speech

YoopyaJan 7, 20130

The US has condemned a speech by Syria’s President Assad that denounced his opponents as “puppets of the West”. The state department said a peace

Indian gang rape victim’s father: I want a hospital built in name of my Jyoti

YoopyaJan 7, 20130

Jyoti Singh Pandey’s grieving father Badri called for the 23-year-old’s life to be commemorated in a positive way after she became known simply as India’s

Rebel area shows limits of rebel push for Damascus

YoopyaJan 4, 20130

BEIRUT (AP) — Twin airstrikes by government jets on a large, rebel-held suburb of Damascus on Thursday sheered the sides off apartment towers and left

Indian court to rule on generic drug industry

YoopyaJan 4, 20130

NEW DELHI (AP) — From Africa’s crowded AIDS clinics to the malarial jungles of Southeast Asia, the lives of millions of ill people in the

American journalist missing in Syria

YoopyaJan 2, 20130

BEIRUT (AP) — The family of an American journalist says he went missing in Syria more than one month ago while covering the civil war

Analysis: Young, urban Indians find political voice after student’s gang rape

YoopyaJan 2, 20130

(Reuters) – When Preeti Joshi heard of the gang rape of a fellow student, she joined a movement of thousands of outraged young Indians who

Syrian warplane strike kills, wounds dozens

kiemtarJan 2, 2013January 2, 20130

Syrian government warplanes hammered the Damascus suburbs and other targets Wednesday and left dozens dead in an airstrike on a fuel station. The fighting raged

UN estimates Syria death toll more than 60,000

YoopyaJan 2, 20130

BEIRUT (AP) — The United Nations estimated Wednesday that more than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria’s civil war, a toll one-third higher than

Asian nations giving enthusiastic welcome to 2013

YoopyaDec 31, 20120

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Fiscal cliff? Recession? Not in Asia, where the first countries to see 2013 dawn will enthusiastically welcome the new year. Increasingly

Indian gang-rape victim dies in Singapore hospital

YoopyaDec 29, 20120

NEW DELHI (AP) — Shocked Indians on Saturday were mourning the death of a woman who was gang-raped and beaten on a bus in New