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Pakistan PM leaves for Laos to attend ASEM

kiemtarNov 4, 2012November 4, 20120

Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf left for Laos on Sunday to attend the Asia-Europe Meeting Summit (ASEM) and discuss key regional matters with world

China’s Communist leaders formally purge Bo Xilai from party

kiemtarNov 4, 2012November 4, 20120

Decision by leaders to ratify expulsion of disgraced former Chongqing party boss paves the way for his criminal prosecution China‘s leaders have ended a closed-door

Iran suspends uranium enrichment

kiemtarNov 4, 2012November 4, 20120

Move intended as gesture of goodwill before negotiations with US over nuclear programme begin next week. Iran has suspended the enrichment of uranium stockpiles to the 20%

Syria conflict: Rebels ‘attack key airbase at Taftanaz’

YoopyaNov 3, 20120

Rebels in Syria say they have launched a major offensive to capture a key airbase in the north of the country. Video posted on the

Syrian rebels arm Palestinians against Assad

YoopyaNov 1, 20120

(Reuters) – Syrian rebels said on Wednesday they had begun arming sympathetic Palestinians to fight a pro-Assad faction in a Palestinian enclave in Damascus –

China’s Twitter-like Weibo poses danger, opportunity for new leaders

YoopyaNov 1, 20120

(Reuters) – As China prepares for a generational power shift in the next two weeks, a similar shift is happening online that is testing the limits and

Egyptians in hajj divided over Islam in politics

YoopyaOct 30, 20120

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Now that she has finished the hajj and is returning home to Egypt, Magda Bagnied says

Insight: China grassroots democracy challenge awaits new leaders

YoopyaOct 29, 2012June 24, 20230

(Reuters) – Hua Youjuan is an unlikely Chinese official. Free-spirited but driven, she left her village at age 17, got a degree inmarketing, and opened

More than 30 dead in Afghanistan after suicide blast

kiemtarOct 26, 2012October 27, 20120

A suicide bomber killed as many as 37 and wounded dozens more today when he detonated among worshippers at northern mosque on the first day

Insight: Pakistani death squads spur desperate voyage to Australia

YoopyaOct 25, 2012October 25, 20120

(Reuters) – It was 3 a.m. when Abid Warasi and his friend clambered into an Indonesian fishing boat, joining 300 other migrants packed into the