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The demonstrators, angered over a plan to raze a city center in Longnan, burn cars and battle police with rocks, iron bars and axes. A Communist Party office is overrun and 60 officials are injured. An angry crowd of about 2,000 rioted in China's impoverished Gansu...(more)
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AP - Rebels steadily advanced in eastern Congo on Tuesday, and fleeing government soldiers even fought with their allies as army control in the region broke down, witnesses said.
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submitted by Grace 54 weeks 3 days 17 hours 58 minutes ago
Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan on Saturday, suspending the constitution, replacing the chief justice before a crucial Supreme Court ruling on his future as president, and cutting communications in the capital.
Pakistan's main opposition leader, Benezir Bhutto, flew back to the country...(more)
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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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Thai authorities stepped up pressure Wednesday on demonstrators occupying the grounds of the prime minister's office, getting court orders demanding the crowd disperse and issuing arrest warrants for nine protest leaders on insurrection charges.
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The opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is in talks with advisers to President Robert G. Mugabe of Zimbabwe, amid signs that some of those close to Mr. Mugabe may encourage him to resign, a Western diplomat and a prominent Zimbabwe political analyst said Tuesday. The negotiations about...(more)
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BANGKOK, Oct. 9 -- Thailand's political stalemate erupted into open conflict this week, but far from being the "final battle" that the government's opponents anticipated, it has left the country even more divided and further than ever from a solution. The dim hopes of compromise...(more)
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Villagers in south-west China attack family planning officials, overturned cars and set fire to government buildings.
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An Israeli academic whose home was bombed last month warns in a BBC interview of a "climate of violence" in the country.
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Police in Indian-administered Kashmir arrest senior separatist leaders who urged poll boycott.
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Myanmar's military leaders said weapons had been seized from Buddhist monatasteries and announced dozens of new arrests today, defying global outrage over its violent repression of protestors who sought an end to 45 years of dictatorship.
Recent raids on monasteries turned up guns, knives and ammunition, though...(more)
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Syria yesterday condemned the US for launching "criminal and terrorist aggression" on its soil while the Iraqi government defended action against foreign jihadis amid warnings it might complicate plans for a controversial security agreement between Baghdad and Washington.Walid al-Muallem, Syria's foreign minister, used a visit to...(more)
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