Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. What nation has 70 percent of its citizens Shia Muslims but only 13 percent serving in the government, 5 percent in the judiciary, and 0 percent of...
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Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. Bodhgaya, India: - The spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, arrived in Bodhgaya amid tight security Saturday, December 31st, to a traditional welcome by more than two...
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Mogadishu, Somalia -- Ethiopian troops poured into a strategic town in central Somalia on Saturday, seizing it from the al-Shabab militant group and opening a new axis of conflict in the country. The loss of Beledweyne, a trading hub near the...
WASHINGTON: There was no brutal crackdown by a tyrant, no runaway tanks that mowed down demonstrators, no trigger-happy police firing, and no self-immolation by any protestor. Even flash mobs require more organization and coordination, so innocuously...
Myanmar has set April 1 as the date for parliamentary by-elections, which will see pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party return to mainstream politics for the first time in two decades. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) has said...
Jamaica's opposition capitalized on discontent over the economy to return to power Thursday, as voters gave the country's first female leader a second chance to govern the island. Supporters of former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, 66,...
Two international aid workers have been shot and killed in the Somali capital, a police and medical officials said. The workers were employees of the aid group Doctors Without Borders (known by its French acronym, MSF), and were shot by a disgruntled...
December 29, 2011 -- Updated 1834 GMT (0234 HKT) The U.S. plans to sell nearly $30 billion worth of F-15 jets to Saudi Arabia. Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. government has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia to sell nearly $30 billion worth of F-15...
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