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The Pakistani servant girl tortured to death

YoopyaJanuary 11, 2014December 31, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 11, 2014December 31, 20230

The case of a 10-year-old girl in Pakistan’s Punjab province, whose employers confessed to beating her to death last week, has highlighted concerns about child...

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China mulls national pollution permit trading system

YoopyaJanuary 10, 2014December 3, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 10, 2014December 3, 20230

(Reuters) – China will look into establishing a nation-wide trading system for pollution permits as part of efforts to use market mechanisms to help clean up its...

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Japan urges ‘hotline’ with China, plays down shrine visit

YoopyaJanuary 10, 2014December 3, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 10, 2014December 3, 20230

(Reuters) – Japan, at odds with China on territorial and other issues, took its case to Europe on Thursday, defending Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to a war...

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For Indonesian jihadists, Syrian civil war beckons

YoopyaJanuary 10, 2014December 3, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 10, 2014December 3, 20230

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The young Indonesian was raised in an extremist household and graduated from a boarding school notorious for teaching generations of terrorists....

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Thai anti-government protesters march, consumer confidence slumps

YoopyaJanuary 9, 2014December 10, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 9, 2014December 10, 20230

(Reuters) – Protesters trying to topple Thailand’s prime minister marched in Bangkok again on Thursday, testing support for a planned “shutdown” of the capital next...

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Iran’s Khamenei says nuclear talks show U.S. enmity

YoopyaJanuary 9, 2014December 10, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 9, 2014December 10, 20230

(Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday that nuclear negotiations with world powers had revealed U.S. enmity towards the Islamic state....

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Books are latest victim of Lebanon’s violence

YoopyaJanuary 9, 2014June 24, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 9, 2014June 24, 20230

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — The masked men came in the night, ripped off the front door and set the bookstore on fire. They were out...

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Al Qaeda group vows to attack Syrian rebels, opposition leaders

YoopyaJanuary 8, 2014December 3, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 8, 2014December 3, 20230

(Reuters) – An al Qaeda affiliate based in Iraq and Syria has vowed to crush rebel groups fighting it and to target members loyal to the Syrian National Coalition,...

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Britain’s Guardian says its website blocked in China

YoopyaJanuary 8, 2014December 3, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 8, 2014December 3, 20230

(Reuters) – Access to the website of the British newspaper the Guardian has been blocked in China, the newspaper said on Wednesday, adding that it did...

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China-Japan ‘Voldemort’ attacks up ante in propaganda war

YoopyaJanuary 8, 2014December 3, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 8, 2014December 3, 20230

(Reuters) – China lambasted Japan on Tuesday for comparing it to Lord Voldemort, the villain in the Harry Potter stories, after both countries used the character to describe each...