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Easing of China policy may not result in baby boom

YoopyaNov 16, 2013March 3, 20240

BEIJING (AP) — Don’t expect a new Chinese baby boom, experts say, despite the first easing of the country’s controversial one-child policy in three decades.

NSA chief says Snowden leaked up to 200,000 secret documents

YoopyaNov 15, 2013March 3, 20240

(Reuters) – Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked as many as 200,000 classified U.S. documents to the media, according to little-noticed public

Poll: Most Kenyans want president to stand trial

YoopyaNov 15, 2013March 3, 20240

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A majority of Kenyans want to see their president appear in court to face charges of crimes against humanity. That’s according

Attacks against Shiites in Iraq kill at least 41

YoopyaNov 14, 2013January 31, 20240

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide attacker and twin bomb blasts on Thursday targeted Shiites marking a somber religious ritual in Iraq, killing at least 41

Typhoon-struck Philippine city begins mass burial

YoopyaNov 14, 2013January 31, 20240

TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — Workers in this typhoon-shattered city buried scores of unidentified bodies in a hillside mass burial Thursday as desperately needed aid began

Insight: Revival of Islamists in Mali tests French, U.N. nerve

YoopyaNov 14, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – Nine months after they were scattered across the Sahara by waves of French air strikes, Islamists in Mali are making a comeback –

Sri Lanka defends rights record at Commonwealth

YoopyaNov 14, 2013January 31, 20240

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The president of Sri Lanka hit out Thursday at reporters and critics who question his nation’s human rights record, saying

Yahoo! users gripe over latest email change

YoopyaNov 14, 2013March 6, 20240

Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer’s latest peace offering to angry users of the company’s popular email service is getting a big, fat thumbs down. In a

U.N. Security Council to vote this week on delay of Kenya trials: Rwanda

YoopyaNov 13, 2013February 14, 20240

(Reuters) – As Africa urges the U.N. Security Council to take it more seriously, Rwanda plans to put to a vote this week a draft

U.S. to name Nigeria’s Boko Haram as terrorist group: sources

YoopyaNov 13, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – The State Department will formally designate the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization on Wednesday, congressional sources and