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Writers of the latest "Call of Duty" game were too successful in creating something "upsetting, disturbing", earning a ban from the Russian government over scenes of a Moscow ...
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Try as India and Iran may to halt the downward slide in their relations, cooperation in the all-important energy sector remains stuck in a rut. Negotiations between the two ...
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Vice President Tarek al-Hashemi, by using his veto to block an important election law, has thrown Iraq once again into political crisis. Parliament will have to try to sort ...
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The more elderly inhabitants of Tawang, the town plumb in the heart of disputed territory between India and China, have lived under four national flags - British, Tibetan, ...
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Shanghai stocks resumed their starring role this week before settling back at the close, along with others around the region, amid a cloud of commentary that pointed to ...
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The Sum of All Heresies by Frederick Quinn This book provides a broad exploration of the evolution of the Middle East image through European eyes from near antiquity to the ...
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Concern that Japan's megabanks, such as Mizuho Financial and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial, may have to sell shares to meet new international capital-adequacy standards are ...
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In a joint statement, United States President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao this week pledged to "strengthen communication, dialogue and cooperation on issues ...
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After troublesome stopovers in Japan and China, United States President Barack Obama ended his swing through Asia on a high in South Korea, with US troops jubilant after a ...
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Politicians in the days of Saddam Hussein tried to harness the music of Nasiriya. Nowadays, militiamen harass the musicians who live in the southern Iraqi city famed for its ...
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Reports of the United States attempting to take an active role in helping safeguard Pakistan's nuclear arsenal could not have come at a worse time for President Asif Ali ...
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The insurgency in Afghanistan will continue to gather momentum as long as Afghans believe the insurgents have more compelling answers than Western powers or the government of ...
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A closer look at United States President Barack Obama's four-day visit to China reveals subtle but meaningful changes in US policy towards the Middle Kingdom. The Obama ...
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Fears that India's plans for an identity database for its more than one billion citizens could lead to government snooping, corruption and identity theft have not been helped ...
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a month after being inaugurated to his second and final term in office, is hounded by a corruption scandal that puts his often ...
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The Sri Lankan government has announced that the thousands of displaced Tamils still living in camps will be resettled within two months, a decision widely viewed as a public ...
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in further signs of distancing himself from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, has called for a change to the country's "primitive raw materials ...
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Japan Airlines, or JAL, is on the verge of bankruptcy after huge first-half losses, but the government is only too aware that JAL flights account for 60% of the country's ...
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News that the "Gitmo Five" will be tried in New York has raised fears of an increased possibility of terrorist attacks in the city. The Lower Manhattan court, however, apart ...
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Within days of the White House giving the go-ahead to a controversial US$7.5 billion aid package to Pakistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lambasted Islamabad's dismally ...
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Every day, trucks carry diesel from Turkmenistan to the Afghan capital, Kabul, where some of the fuel is used in electricity power stations. Influential people are making a ...
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Barack Obama at the weekend became the first US president to share a room with all 10 leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The US's new Asian focus is based ...
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The joint statement by Chinese President Hu Jintao and United Sates President Barack Obama appears to embrace a long-term, strategic relationship between the nations. The ...
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During his visit to China, President Obama avoided the subject of China's military buildup and its deployment of new missiles, as well as "Juniper Cobra", a vast and ...
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Evidence produced by the International Atomic Energy Agency suggests that Iran's Qom uranium enrichment plant was constructed on one of many sites earmarked as early as 2002 ...
