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Thai protesters take to Facebook to target businesses linked to PM

YoopyaFeb 20, 2014November 1, 20230

(Reuters) – Protesters campaigning to oust Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra turned to Facebook and other social media to attack businesses linked to her family

Ex-Murdoch editor Brooks launches hacking defense, acquitted on one charge

YoopyaFeb 20, 2014November 25, 20230

(Reuters) – Rebekah Brooks’s meteoric rise to wield vast power from the pinnacle of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper empire should not be held against her

Control of South Sudan oil state capital contested, says government

YoopyaFeb 20, 2014November 1, 20230

(Reuters) – The capital of South Sudan’s main oil-producing region is divided between government troops and rebels, the president’s spokesman said, after an escalation in

Rajiv Gandhi murder: Tamil Nadu to free plotters

YoopyaFeb 19, 2014November 1, 20230

The government in India’s Tamil Nadu state has decided to free seven people convicted of plotting the assassination of former PM Rajiv Gandhi. All seven

UN protest at Liberia-Ivory Coast ‘forced extraditions’

YoopyaFeb 19, 2014November 1, 20230

The head of the UN refugee agency in Liberia has expressed concern over the alleged forced extradition of 14 Ivorian refugees. Khassim Diagne told the

Suicide bombers target Iranian centre in Beirut, kill four

YoopyaFeb 19, 2014October 30, 20230

(Reuters) – A twin suicide bombing hit the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut on Wednesday during the morning rush hour, killing at least four people

China says it will win West over to its view on Tibet, Xinjiang

YoopyaFeb 19, 2014October 30, 20230

(Reuters) – China has time on its side to win over Western opinion to its point of view on the restive regions of Tibet and

Former congressman Mel Reynolds arrested in Zimbabwe

YoopyaFeb 19, 2014October 30, 20230

(Reuters) – Former congressman Mel Reynolds has been arrested in Zimbabwe, an immigration official said on Tuesday, after state media reported the convicted sex offender

Venezuela opposition leader surrenders, protesters flood streets

YoopyaFeb 19, 2014October 30, 20230

(Reuters) – Venezuelan security forces arrested opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez on Tuesday on charges of fomenting unrest that has killed at least four people, bringing

Uganda dismisses Obama pressure on anti-gay law

YoopyaFeb 19, 2014October 30, 20230

(Reuters) – Uganda on Tuesday dismissed U.S. president Barack Obama’s call to its leader Yoweri Museveni not to sign an anti-homosexuality law, saying the U.S.