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Tear gas used as 25,000 rally for Malaysia reforms
Full Article The Independent
Malaysian police said in a statement that 222 people were arrested. Lawyers said most were expected to be released soon after having their details recorded, but it was not immediately clear if they would be charged later with any offense. Officials said three demonstrators and 20 police were injured. At least 25,000 demonstrators swamped Malaysia's...
Protesters encounter Malaysian police, not in photo, during a rally to demand for electoral reforms in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, April 28, 2012.
photo: AP / Lai Seng Sin

China dissident Chen Guangcheng 'under US protection'
Full Article BBC News
Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is under "US protection" in Beijing following a dramatic escape from house arrest, a US-based rights group says. The group, ChinaAid, also says high-level talks are under way between US and Chinese officials over his fate. Earlier, fellow activist Hu Jia said Mr Chen was in the US embassy. Neither...
In this image made from video released Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, by China Aid Association, Chinese activist and lawyer Chen Guangcheng speaks in Dongshigu village, Shandong province, China in January, 2011. A secretly made video of Chen  released Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, was smuggled out of his home and given to a U.S.-based rights group.
photo: AP / China Aid Association

Afghan Taliban to get 'safe passage' for joining reconciliation talks
Full Article Newstrack India
Islamabad, Apr 28(ANI): Pakistan, US and Afghanistan have agreed to provide a 'safe passage' to Taliban militants willing to join the reconciliation talks and set up a working group to settle modalities for their...
Afghan Taliban to get 'safe passage' for joining reconciliation talks
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod

EU chief opens 'new chapter' in Myanmar
Full Article Al Jazeera
Catherine Ashton, European Union foreign policy chief, has been in Myanmar to open a "new chapter" of relations following an easing of sanctions that could prompt a surge of investor interest in the long-isolated state. Her visit is the most prominent by the EU since a military government made way a year ago...
Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks as European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, right, laughs during a joint press conference after their meeting at Suu Ky's National League for Democracy party headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, April 28, 2012.
photo: AP / Khin Maung Win

Russia warns EU Iran oil embargo will be costly
Full Article The Star
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia pressed its case against new sanctions over Iran's nuclear programme on Friday, saying an European Union ban on purchasing Iranian oil would end up hurting the bloc's member countries. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds a news conference at the end of a NATO-Russia meeting during a NATO Foreign Ministers meeting...
Persian Gulf (December 12, 2004) - Hundreds of oil tankers each year receive their payload from Iraq’s Al Basrah Oil Terminal (ABOT).
photo: US Navy / PM1 Richard J. Brunson

27 injured in 4 blasts in eastern Ukraine
Full Article Newsday
KIEV, Ukraine -- Four explosions rocked an eastern Ukrainian city Friday, injuring 27 people. Authorities say it was a terrorist attack, but an opposition lawmaker claims it could be a government plot to divert attention from the imprisonment of opposition leader . Top law enforcement officials rushed to Dnipropetrovsk, 250 miles southeast of Kiev,...
Medical workers are seen during an anti-terror training exercise for the upcoming Euro 2012 soccer championship at the Olympiyskiy national stadium in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, April 27, 2012.
photo: AP / Sergei Chuzavkov

Thousands protest, bombs rock Damascus
Full Article Khaleej Times
Tens of thousands of people protested across Syria on Friday as a deadly suicide bombing rocked the capital, killing 11 and fuelling growing scepticism over the prospects of a UN-backed peace plan. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said three people, including a child, were killed as regime forces opened fire to disperse protests. "Tens of...
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a cameraman films a bus that was damaged by an explosion in the Midan neighborhood in Damascus, Syria, on Friday, April 27, 2012.
photo: AP / SANA

Blind dissident escapes house arrest in China
Full Article Al Jazeera
Chen Guangcheng, a blind Chinese legal activist and a prominent rights advocate, has mysteriously escaped from home detention and remains in an undisclosed location, reports say. Chen, a self-schooled legal advocate who campaigned against forced abortions, had been restricted to his village home in Linyi in eastern Shandong province since September...
In this image made from video, blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng is seen on a video posted to YouTube Friday, April 27, 2012 by overseas Chinese news site Boxun.com.
photo: AP / Boxun.com

Bairagi lauds UN role on LDCs
Full Article The Himalayan
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Bairagi lauds UN role on LDCs
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe

Killer Drones, NASA and Inner Space: The Final 'Militarized' Frontier?
Full Article WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When President Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the Fifteenth General Assembly of the United Nations and declared, "The emergence of this new world possesses a vital issue: will outer space be preserved for peaceful use and developed for the benefit of all mankind? Or will it become another focus of the...
A C-17 Globemaster III takes off from Balad Air Base, Iraq as a U.S. Air Force MQ-1L Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) waits to be launched.
photo: US Navy / Tech. Sgt. Scott Reed


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Soldier says deployment eased by having dad along
OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — Soldiers will tell you that one of the hardest parts of military service is leaving family behind. This year, an Ottumwa man got to bring his dad along to Afghanistan. Senior Airman Cory LaRue, 22, of Ottumwa, shipped out with...
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Security Council Welcomes Conviction of Charles Taylor
Saturday, 28 April 2012, 3:38 pm Press Release: United Nations Security Council Welcomes Conviction in War Crimes Trial of Charles Taylor New York, Apr 27 2012 6:10PM The Security Council today joined welcomed the guilty verdict handed down against...
photo: UN / Rick Bajornas
Louis Armstrong, jazz trumpeter in 1953
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A live recording of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong playing his trumpet for one of the last times is being released to the public for the first time. On Jan., 29, 1971, Armstrong was a featured performer at the National Press Club in...
photo: Creative Commons / Calliopejen1
FILE- In this March 21, 2012 file photo, ruling party presidential candidate and Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior gestures after the electoral commission announced provisional election results giving him the lead in the first round of presidential voting, in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.
Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors Soldiers on Friday released two leading politicians they arrested in an April 12 coup, and the army said it would agree...
photo: AP / Tanya Bindra, File
Strauss-Kahn suspects "political enemies" in sex scandal - paper
LONDON (Reuters) - The Guardian newspaper said on its website on Friday that former International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn believes his French presidential bid was scuppered last year by "political enemies" who made sure his sexual...
photo: AP / Michel Spingler
Labour law reform may be at odds with EU rights, warns TD
CAROL COULTER, Legal Affairs Editor THE REFORM of the employment rights structures being proposed by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation may not meet the requirements of the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights, according to a Labour TD....
photo: EC / EC
UAE elected to board of UN agency
New York: The UAE has been elected to the Executive Board of the Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women at the UN for a three-year term until December 2015. The elections were held during a session by the United Nations Economic and...
photo: UN / Rick Bajornas

Malay clashes video: Police fire tear gas at 25000 protesters; updated 28 Apr 2012; published 28 Apr 2012
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Malay clashes video: Police fire tear gas at 25000 protesters
The Independent 28 Apr 2012, Malaysian police said in a statement that 222 people were arrested. Lawyers said most were expected to be released soon after having their details recorded, but it was not immediately clear if they would be charged later with any offense. Officials said three demonstrators and 20 police were injured. At least 25,000 demonstrators swamped Malaysia's...

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Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng Releases Video Shortly After Escaping House Arrest; updated 28 Apr 2012; published 27 Apr 2012
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Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng Releases Video Shortly After Escaping House Arrest
BBC News 28 Apr 2012, Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is under "US protection" in Beijing following a dramatic escape from house arrest, a US-based rights group says. The group, ChinaAid, also says high-level talks are under way between US and Chinese officials over his fate. Earlier, fellow activist Hu Jia said Mr Chen was in the US embassy. Neither...

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The Taliban Spring - Afghanistan; updated 25 Apr 2012; published 16 Apr 2012
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The Taliban Spring - Afghanistan
Newstrack India 28 Apr 2012, Islamabad, Apr 28(ANI): Pakistan, US and Afghanistan have agreed to provide a 'safe passage' to Taliban militants willing to join the reconciliation talks and set up a working group to settle modalities for their...

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101 East - Myanmar's Turn; updated 26 Apr 2012; published 21 Apr 2012
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101 East - Myanmar's Turn
Al Jazeera 28 Apr 2012, Catherine Ashton, European Union foreign policy chief, has been in Myanmar to open a "new chapter" of relations following an easing of sanctions that could prompt a surge of investor interest in the long-isolated state. Her visit is the most prominent by the EU since a military government made way a year ago...

Escobar: EU needs Iran's oil, shoots itself in foot; updated 16 Apr 2012; published 23 Jan 2012
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Escobar: EU needs Iran's oil, shoots itself in foot
The Star 28 Apr 2012, MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia pressed its case against new sanctions over Iran's nuclear programme on Friday, saying an European Union ban on purchasing Iranian oil would end up hurting the bloc's member countries. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds a news conference at the end of a NATO-Russia meeting during a NATO Foreign Ministers meeting...

Two Bombs Blast East Ukraine, Threats of More; updated 05 Nov 2011; published 21 Jan 2011
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Two Bombs Blast East Ukraine, Threats of More
Newsday 28 Apr 2012, KIEV, Ukraine -- Four explosions rocked an eastern Ukrainian city Friday, injuring 27 people. Authorities say it was a terrorist attack, but an opposition lawmaker claims it could be a government plot to divert attention from the imprisonment of opposition leader . Top law enforcement officials rushed to Dnipropetrovsk, 250 miles southeast of Kiev,...

Drums of Intervention: Syrians refuse to dance to foreign tune; updated 26 Apr 2012; published 23 Apr 2012
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Drums of Intervention: Syrians refuse to dance to foreign tune
Khaleej Times 27 Apr 2012, Tens of thousands of people protested across Syria on Friday as a deadly suicide bombing rocked the capital, killing 11 and fuelling growing scepticism over the prospects of a UN-backed peace plan. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said three people, including a child, were killed as regime forces opened fire to disperse protests. "Tens of...

Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng Releases Video Shortly After Escaping House Arrest; updated 28 Apr 2012; published 27 Apr 2012
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Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng Releases Video Shortly After Escaping House Arrest
Al Jazeera 27 Apr 2012, Chen Guangcheng, a blind Chinese legal activist and a prominent rights advocate, has mysteriously escaped from home detention and remains in an undisclosed location, reports say. Chen, a self-schooled legal advocate who campaigned against forced abortions, had been restricted to his village home in Linyi in eastern Shandong province since September...

UNCTAD Secretary-General presents his Report to UNCTAD XIII; updated 01 Mar 2012; published 01 Mar 2012
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UNCTAD Secretary-General presents his Report to UNCTAD XIII
The Himalayan 27 Apr 2012, Added At: 2012-04-27 3:50 PM Last Updated At: 2012-04-27 3:50 PM The Himalayan Times - Saved Articles(s) The headlines has been added to your saved article(s)...

Iran shows intercepted CIA drone unscathed; updated 23 Mar 2012; published 08 Dec 2011
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Iran shows intercepted CIA drone unscathed
WorldNews.com 27 Apr 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling When President Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the Fifteenth General Assembly of the United Nations and declared, "The emergence of this new world possesses a vital issue: will outer space be preserved for peaceful use and developed for the benefit of all mankind? Or will it become another focus of the...

US agrees to Okinawa troop redeployment; updated 27 Apr 2012; published 27 Apr 2012
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US agrees to Okinawa troop redeployment
Atlanta Journal 27 Apr 2012, WASHINGTON — About 9,000 U.S. Marines stationed on the Japanese island of Okinawa will be moved to the U.S. territory of Guam and other locations in the Asia-Pacific, including Hawaii, under a U.S.-Japan agreement announced Thursday. Election 2012: Across the nation Supreme Court moves to center of presidential race In speech, Biden attacks...

Syria Peace Plan, Assad in Homs, More Shelling; updated 18 Apr 2012; published 27 Mar 2012
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Syria Peace Plan, Assad in Homs, More Shelling
Jakarta Globe 27 Apr 2012, Damascus. UN leader Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that the Syrian government is “in contravention” of an agreed peace plan by keeping troops and heavy weapons in cities. Ban also said he was “gravely alarmed” by reports of shelling of populated areas in Syria, in a statement released after the death of scores of people in a massive explosion in the...

UNHRC warns Sri Lanka over war crimes; updated 16 Apr 2012; published 24 Mar 2012
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UNHRC warns Sri Lanka over war crimes
BBC News 26 Apr 2012, Unexploded cluster munitions have been found for the first time in Sri Lanka, a UN expert on land mines has claimed. In an email, Allan Poston said that small bombs from the weapons were discovered in...

Afghanistan War + More Troops = Catastrophe (Trailer); updated 07 Apr 2012; published 26 Feb 2009
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Afghanistan War + More Troops = Catastrophe (Trailer)
Newstrack India 26 Apr 2012, Moscow, April 26 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The terms and goals of the projected US presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014 need to be clarified, the Russian foreign ministry said Thursday. On Sunday, the US and Afghanistan reached a deal on a strategic...





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