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Up to 21, mostly foreigners, killed in Kabul suicide attack

YoopyaJan 18, 2014December 3, 20230

(Reuters) – Up to 21 people were killed in Friday’s attack on a restaurant popular with foreigners in the Afghan capital, after a suicide bomber

Uganda’s president opposes tough new anti-gay bill

YoopyaJan 17, 2014December 3, 20230

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s president says he opposes an anti-homosexuality bill recently passed by lawmakers and that abnormal people should not be jailed or

SKorea jails hundreds for refusing military stints

YoopyaJan 17, 2014December 3, 20230

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The young dentist was uncuffed and led to his seat in the courtroom. A few rows back, his mother watched

Gandhi to lead campaign for India’s ruling party

YoopyaJan 17, 2014December 3, 20230

NEW DELHI (AP) — Members of India’s ruling Congress party erupted in rapturous applause Friday for Rahul Gandhi, heir to the country’s Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty,

Indian actress Suchitra Sen dies

YoopyaJan 17, 2014December 3, 20230

KOLKATA, India (AP) — Suchitra Sen, a legendary Indian actress known for her memorable roles in both Bengali-language and Hindi Bollywood films, died Friday of

Kalashnikov rifle designer felt ‘spiritual pain’ from mass deaths it caused

YoopyaJan 17, 2014December 3, 20230

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 rifle, wrote a letter to the Russian Orthodox Church before his death expressing concern that the weapon had

Israeli bill to outlaw the word Nazi sparks ire

YoopyaJan 17, 2014November 26, 20230

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli draft law that would criminalize the use of the word Nazi in most cases has sparked a debate on freedom

‘Seeds of genocide’ in Central African Republic, U.N. warns

YoopyaJan 17, 2014November 26, 20230

(Reuters) – A senior U.N. official warned of the risk of genocide in Central African Republic without a more robust international response to communal bloodshed

Cuban travel in record numbers a year into reform

YoopyaJan 17, 2014November 26, 20230

HAVANA (AP) — Last February, Amalia Reigosa Blanco experienced for the first time the rush of an airplane taking off. She browsed the clothing shops

Blast wounds 28 anti-government protesters in Thai capital

YoopyaJan 17, 2014November 26, 20230

(Reuters) – An explosive device wounded 28 anti-government protesters in the Thai capital on Friday and other violence was reported after several days of relative