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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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AFP - Germany was to extradite to France on Wednesday an old comrade-in-arms of Rwanda's president over an assassination that triggered 1994's genocide, sparking mass anti-European protests in Kigali.
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Pirates hijacked a Thai fishing boat with 16 crewmembers off the coast of Somalia, the eighth ship to be seized in the area in ...
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AFP - Indian Kashmir voted under tight security Monday for a new state government, with separatists staging a massive boycott to protest New Delhi's hold over the Himalayan region.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 16 -- Pakistan temporarily barred oil tankers and container trucks from a key passageway to Afghanistan, threatening a critical supply route for U.S. and NATO troops Sunday and raising more fears about security in the insurgent-plagued border region. The suspension came as...(more)
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Most of those killed in missile strikes and military helicopter fire are said to be militants. Suspected U.S. missiles killed 12 people Friday in northwestern Pakistan, and Pakistani troops in attack helicopters killed 20 insurgents.
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AFP - Sri Lankan security forces on Saturday recaptured the strategically important northern town of Pooneryn from Tamil Tiger rebels after months of heavy fighting, the defence ministry said.
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AFP - Pakistan announced Saturday it will receive a loan of at least 7.6 billion dollars from the International Monetary Fund, the Fund's first rescue in Asia since the global financial crisis began.
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Some Europeans danced in the streets when Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential election. Kenya declared a national holiday. In Egypt the celebration was somewhat different: Government-controlled goons burned down the headquarters of the liberal democratic party that tried to embrace President Bush's "freedom agenda."...(more)
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The rebel leader Laurent Nkunda agreed to support UN efforts to restore peace in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday even as his troops were battling government forces. After meeting the UN special envoy, Olusegun Obasanjo, Nkunda said he would respect a ceasefire, contribute to a...(more)
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AP - A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced an additional nine pro-democracy activists to 65-year prison terms, relatives and activists said Saturday.
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