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Thailand's prime minister stayed away from the capital Monday, unable to quell a political crisis that has paralyzed his government for weeks and shut down the city's two main airports and stranded 300,000 foreigners.
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With his silver-topped cane, finger-wagging rhetoric and a tendency to refer to himself in the third person, rebel leader Laurent Nkunda is the latest big man to stake his claim in this troubled country.
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Reuters - More than 200 bodies have been brought to the main mosque in the Nigerian city of Jos following ethnic and religious clashes and the final death toll is likely to be much higher, the Red Cross said on Saturday.
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Anti-government protesters reinforced their siege of Bangkok's two airports Monday as the politically paralyzed country struggled ...
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AFP - Thousands of people attacked Chinese police in the southern city of Shenzhen from Friday afternoon to early Saturday morning, state media reported.
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MUMBAI, Nov. 27 -- With her slain husband's body covered in marigolds and draped with the Indian flag, Mansi Shinde pushed away the pallbearers, refusing to let him go. "My baby, my baby," she shrieked, as the wives of other police officers tried to comfort...(more)
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Indian commandoes killed the last three gunman at a landmark hotel late Thursday and were sweeping another luxury hotel in search of hostages and trapped people after suspected Muslim militants stormed targets across Mumbai, leaving 119 people dead.
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They came wearing black hoods, firing automatic weapons and throwing grenades. They took hostages, attacked two hotels, a movie theater a café, a train station and other popular and undefended “soft targets.”
Who are they? The answer to that question remained in dispute Thursday as security...(more)
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The Kremlin in the Putin era has often sought to maintain as much sway over the portrayal of history as over the governing of the country. In seeking to restore Russia’s standing, Mr. Putin and other officials have stoked a nationalism that glorifies Soviet triumphs while...(more)
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A British tycoon has been named as one of six foreigners killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks.At least one Australian, a Japanese, a German and an Italian are among the 119 confirmed dead. The Cypriot foreign ministry said that Andreas Liveras, who has British nationality, died...(more)
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Eight people including a rabbi and his wife remain trapped in a Jewish centre in Mumbai after gunmen believed to be Islamist extremists launched coordinated attacks across the city.Sandra Samuel, a worker at the centre, managed to flee the building with the couple's two-year-old son, Moshe,...(more)
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Syrian state TV airs what it says are confessions by 11 militants behind the Damascas car bombing which left 17 people dead.
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