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Source: Global Times Published: May 21, 2012 01:20
The three-day ASEAN-US meeting kicked off Sunday in Manila, where officials from the US and ASEAN will meet amid a standoff between China and the Philippines over Huangyan Island, AFP reported.
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Source: AFP Published: May 21, 2012 01:20
Iran hopes a visit by the UN nuclear watchdog chief Monday will lead to an accord on how to resolve disputes on monitoring its nuclear activities, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in media reports.
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Source: Reuters - AFP Published: May 21, 2012 01:15
NATO leaders gathered in Chicago Sunday for a summit that would chart a path out of Afghanistan, as Western nations seek to fend off fissures in their alliance and ensure Afghanistan can hold a still-potent Taliban at bay when foreign troops withdraw.
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Source: Reuters Published: May 21, 2012 01:00
Thailand's Red Shirts took to the street this weekend to mark the anniversary of the army's bloody repression of their mass rally in Bangkok in 2010 amid growing signs of a rift with the government they helped elect in July last year.
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Source: Reuters Published: May 21, 2012 01:00
Thousands of schools closed, roads were empty and businesses shuttered across Nepal Sunday at the start of a three-day general strike over a state boundary dispute that could push lawmakers past a May 27 deadline to write a new constitution.
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Source: Reuters - AFP Published: May 21, 2012 01:00
A strong earthquake rocked a large swathe of northern Italy early Sunday, killing at least six people, injuring dozens and seriously damaging historic buildings such as churches, bell towers and a mediaeval castle.
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Source: AFP Published: May 21, 2012 01:00
Sri Lanka's president has ordered the release of his jailed electoral foe, ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka, bowing to US-led pressure three years after the end of the long ethnic war.
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Source: Reuters Published: May 21, 2012 00:55
US President Barack Obama told G8 leaders meeting at Camp David that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must leave power, and pointed to Yemen as a model of how political transition could work there, the White House said on Saturday.
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Source: AFP Published: May 21, 2012 00:55
Pakistan blocked Twitter Sunday, saying the website had refused to remove posts promoting a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
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Source: Xinhua Published: May 20, 2012 16:40
The Philippine Air Force has contracted the services of survey ship with sonar and fathom tracking devices and deployed divers to search the wreckage of an ill-fated SF-260 trainer plane with two pilots on board that crashed off the waters of Bataan province on Friday.
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