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World News tagged with asia

Time to Take a Stand for Refugees
World  (tags: world, Refugees&Relief, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', government, interesting, asia )

Cal
- 1 day ago - greenleft.org.au
On November 15, Indonesian authorities said they had shot and wounded two Afghan refugees they said were trying to escape after their boat was intercepted three days earlier.
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Obama in South Korea: Security, Trade Agreement Focus of Talks
World  (tags: world, asia, government, news, OBAMA )

Cal
- 1 day ago - latimes.com
The president should find a receptive audience in President Lee Myung-bak. The two are expected to reaffirm their alliance, but the U.S.-Korea free-trade agreement remains in question.
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Obama Tells Burma to Free Suu Kyi [Video]
World  (tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, President Obama, asia, ethics, humanrights )

Janet
- 3 days ago - video.msn.com
U.S. President Barack Obama has urged the military rulers of Burma to release pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.
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New Prison at Bagram Points to Shift in Approach
World  (tags: world, asia, Afghanistan, usa, war, 'HUMANRIGHTS!' )

Cal
- 3 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Detention Facility at Parwan Will Replace Notorious Bagram Prison
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Obama Arrives in Tokyo to Begin 4-Nation Asia Tour
World  (tags: asia, usa, diplomacy, obama, politics, world, interesting )

Cal
- 7 days ago - news.yahoo.com
President Barack Obama has arrived in Tokyo, the first stop on his four-nation tour of Asia
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India Restricts Coverage of Dalai Lama Visit
World  (tags: china, asia, ethics, freedoms, humanrights, interesting, politics, society, tibet, world )

Daphna
- 14 days ago - cbc.ca
The Indian government on Thursday has refused to allow foreign journalists to cover the Dalai Lama's visit on Sunday to a region at the heart of a border dispute with China. The government did not give permits allowing foreign correspondents
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U.N. Evacuates Hundreds of Staff From Afghanistan
World  (tags: politics, world, UnitedNations, unitednations, conflict, interesting, violence, asia )

Cal
- 15 days ago - reuters.com
The United Nations said on Thursday it would temporarily evacuate hundreds of its international staff from Afghanistan due to deteriorating security, a sharp blow for Western efforts to stabilize the country
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Tamil Refugees -- Escaping From Hell
World  (tags: Refugees&Relief, asia, Sri Lanka, conflict, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', world, politics )

Cal
- 17 days ago - greenleft.org.au
While two boat loads of Tamil refugees fleeing Sri Lanka push their case to be admitted into Australia, two reports on Sri Lankan atrocities against Tamils have been released without a word from the Australian media or government.
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Top Rwandan Genocide Suspect Arrested
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', asia, africa, death, ethics, crime, humanrights, humans, violence, war, world, society, corruption, conflict, children )

Gorilly
- 43 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
I so hope he gets what he deserves!!!!! Gorilly
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North Korea Says Ready to Return to Nuclear Talks
World  (tags: world, asia, North Korea, news, interesting, politics )

Cal
- 45 days ago - reuters.com
North Korea on Tuesday signaled it could return to nuclear disarmament talks it had declared dead six months ago, but a report it was near restoring its atomic plant...
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Tribal Elders Gunned Down By Taliban in Pakistan
World  (tags: world, death, violence, asia, humans, terrorism )

Cal
- 57 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Militants ambushed a convoy of prominent anti-Taliban tribal elders in volatile northwest Pakistan on Thursday, spraying their cars with gunfire, killing nine people and wounding six others.
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Indonesia's Aceh Province OKs Stoning for Adulterers
World  (tags: world, Indonesia, muslims, crime, sharia, law, adultery, stoning, hanging, lashing, homosexuality, prison, beheading, beating, humanrights, freedoms, crime, asia, humanrights, civilliberties, middle-east, death, violence, society, culture )

Tom
- 65 days ago - latimes.com
Offending married couples can be punished by a minimum of 100 lashings and a maximum of stoning to death. It also imposes severe prison terms for homosexuality, which will be punishable by public lashings and more than eight years in prison.
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Commentary: Necessity Vs. Choice
World  (tags: usa, war, world, violence, politics, Afghanistan, conflict, government, humans, asia )

Cal
- 90 days ago - upi.com
Afghanistan is not only President Obama's war, but it's also what he now calls "a war of necessity." Public opinion: Half of the American people are now against the Afghan war.
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Afghans Vote Despite Sporadic Violence
World  (tags: asia, conflict, Afghanistan, world, violence, politics, government, war, interesting )

Cal
- 92 days ago - reuters.com
Millions of Afghans went to the polls on Thursday, defying Taliban threats of violence and sporadic attacks across the country to choose a president in the midst of a worsening war.
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Truck Bomb Kills 19 at Ingushetia Police Station
World  (tags: world, conflict, terrorism, politics, RUSSIA, death, asia )

Cal
- 95 days ago - latimes.com
Police officers were on procession when the suicide bomber crashed into the courtyard, a source says.
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