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Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio is endemic
Pakistan: Doctors wanted the family to pay a bribe to get into the Intensive Care Unit – corrupt system contribute to unnecessary ...
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Serena Williams beats Azarenka to win Italian Open
US Serena Williams returns the ball to Belarus' Victoria Azarenka during their final match at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, Sunday, May 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew ...
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Islamists Riot in Tunisia After Major Rally is Banned
Radical Islamists in Tunisia have engaged in street battles with police after authorities banned thousands of them from holding an annual conference in the center of the country. The radical activists, also known as Salafists, threw stones at Tunisian police who deployed heavily in the central town of Kairouan to prevent them from gathering on Sunday. Police responded to the stone throwers by ...
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Military impresses in Singapore Cup
Military Attack ran out an ultra-impressive winner of the Singapore Airlines International Cup at Kranji. Raced under the name of Rave for John Hills in Britain, Military Attack has developed a new lease of life as a five-year-old in Hong Kong and put this race to bed within a matter of strides. Ed Dunlop's globetrotter Red Cadeaux was forced to concede plenty of ground by making his move ...
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Pakistan heads back to the polls senior politician killed
A bloody campaign season in which about 150 people were killed nationwide ended with the death of Zara Shahid Hussain, a top politician in Pakistan's Tehrik-i-Insaf party. On Sunday, some constituencies accused of vote-rigging voted ...
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Philippine Workers in Taiwan Feel Backlash
MANILA -- Advocates for Philippine migrant workers say they are concerned about the effects of a hiring freeze Taiwan's government has put in place against the Philippines. The move came less than a week after a Philippine Coast Guard crew admitted shooting at a Taiwanese vessel, killing a fisherman. Statistics from ...
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North Korea fires projectile into eastern waters - NBC40.net
By HYUNG-JIN KIMAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area, officials said. North Korea routinely test-launches short-range missiles. But the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing recent tension, including near-daily ...
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Intertek opens RM4m regional centre in KL
Intertek, a London-listed inspection, product testing and certification company, officially opened its RM4.14 million regional centre in Kuala Lumpur last week, which allows it to expand its locally delivered services for its existing exploration and production (E&P) business in Southeast Asia. The new 10,000 sq ft facility has been operational since November 2012. It boasts two ...
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After crushing Mali Islamists France pushes deal with Tuaregs
BAMAKO (Reuters) - After winning adulation across Mali for a five month military offensive that crushed al Qaeda fighters, France is now frustrating some of its allies by pushing for a political settlement with a separate group of Tuareg ...
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Thai FM to visit U.S.
Thai foreign minister is scheduled to visit the United Sates of America from Saturday to Wednesday, according to the Thai Foreign Ministry. Surapong Tovichakchaikul, deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, will leave Bangkok for the States on Saturday and will be back on Wednesday. He will meet with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington DC, said Thai Foreign ...
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Factory owner barred from leaving Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh -; The High Court in Bangladesh's capital asked authorities Sunday to prevent the owner of a garment factory where 112 people died in a fire last year from leaving the country, a lawyer ...
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Second Vietnamese TV provider drops CNN and BBC - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois Missouri News Sports
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A popular Vietnamese cable television provider has stopped providing CNN and BBC, saying the channels don't have the licenses needed under a law stipulating that much content on foreign channels must be translated into Vietnamese. Foreign governments and a leading pay TV trade group have urged the Vietnamese government to modify the decree, saying it is tantamount to ...
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Egyptian police block Israel border crossing in fury at kidnapping sources
A member of Hamas security forces stands guard in front of the closed gate of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 17, ...
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Afghan president to seek military aid on visit to India amid border tensions with Pakistan
KABUL - An aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will seek military aid from India during a three-day visit this week. Karzai's trip comes during escalating border tension with Pakistan, India's archrival. Karzai spokesman Aimal Faizi says the president will discuss recent border skirmishes with Pakistan when he visits New Delhi starting Monday. He added that Karzai would seek ...
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Pakistan killing overshadows Karachi poll
Pakistani voters have cast their ballots in a partial re-run election in Karachi a day after a local political leader was gunned down outside her ...
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Senior Pakistani politician shot dead
Gunmen in Pakistan have killed a senior member of Imran Khan's Movement for Justice (PTI) party outside her home in Karachi. Zahra Shahid Hussain, 60, was shot twice in the head, outside her home in Karachi by two men on motorcycle, police said on ...
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Bangladesh calls one-month ban on rallies
BANGLADESHI authorities have announced a one-month ban on political rallies to facilitate relief operations after Cyclone Mahasen. "It is not possible to protect the fundamental rights like holding meetings and rallies when the country was hit by a natural disaster," Local Government and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam told reporters in the capital Dhaka. The category-one ...
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Sarabjits murder Pakistan judge may visit India
Expressing surprise over S&P's threat to downgrade India's credit rating, India Inc termed the agency's affirming its negative outlook on the country as unfortunate and ...
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UN chief hopes for Syria conference in early June
MOSCOW (AP) -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is holding out hope that an international conference to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the Syrian civil war will be held in early ...
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Syrian Town of Qusair Under Fire
Qusair has been under fire for weeks as government troops seek to re-capture it with airstrikes and shelling. The town is strategically important because it links the capital, Damascus, with the coast. Meanwhile, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he will not step down before next year's elections. Mr. Assad's comments were published Saturday in the Argentine newspaper ...
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Indian Chinese Leaders Meet to Strengthen Ties
China says placing India first on the itinerary of new Premiere Li Keqiang demonstrates the importance Beijing places on the relationship between the two countries. The Chinese premier and his Indian counterpart, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, are expected to address how to smooth over a lingering border dispute - a root cause of their trust deficit. The Chinese leader's visit comes ...
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Bold action big money needed to curb Asia floods
CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AFP) - Asia's flood-prone megacities should fund major drainage, water recycling and waste reduction projects to stem deluges and secure clean supply for their booming populations, experts said on Sunday. Rapid urbanisation has heaped pressure on water resources and drainage systems across Asia, leaving low-lying areas exposed to massive floods such as those that ...
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University students vow against cheating
Executives and students at 27 universities vow against "cheating", ready to support national anti-corruption campaigns. Together, they signed the declaration on Sunday at Thammasat University's stadium, to launch the campaign "Thai students not cheating". Thammasat rector Somkid Lertpaitoon likens the campaign to the vaccination. Upon graduation, these students would be ...
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Netanyahu takes aim at weapons leakage in Syria
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other militant ...
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6 killed 38 injured as suicide blast hits police van in NW Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, April 29 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed and 38 others injured when a suicide blast hit a police vehicle in Pakistan's northwest Peshawar city on Monday morning, police and hospital sources said. Muhammad Faisal, Superintendent Police of Peshawar, said that a suicide bomber carrying an estimated of five to six kg of explosive materials blew himself up near a police ...
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Southeast Asia's growing prominence in world trade
Southeast Asia has been, for many centuries, a major part of world trade and the recent recession has not hampered this position as the region is recovering much faster than many more developed countries.
Southeast Asia, although geographically large, covering an area of around 5 million square miles, is comparatively small economically in relation to the number of people that inhabit the area. The Southeast Asian region is home to over 500 million people and yet the region’s GDP is just US$1.5 trillion, or around US$2,500 per person annually. Read more
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