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Asiana Airlines
Airline   Photos   Transport   Wikipedia: Asiana Airlines   SKorea		  Orlando Sentinel 
S.Korea asked Asiana to improve safety 2 months before crash
Thu 18 Jul 2013
SINGAPORE — Two months before the fatal crash of Asiana Airlines jet in San Francisco, the South Korean government asked the carrier to improve pilot training and strengthen safety measures, a... (photo: WN / Geeta)
FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010 file photo, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe delivers his speech at the National Heroes Acre in Harare. Conference organizers say the global diamond industry's oversight body has failed to reach a hoped-for compromise with Zimbabwe to export its vast stockpile of diamonds. Israel Diamond Institute spokeswoman Sharon Gefen said talks by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme ended Thursday without a deal.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)
Mugabe   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Robert Mugabe   Zimbabwe		  Swissinfo 
Zimbabwe's Mugabe lashes out at 'insane' Washington
Thu 18 Jul 2013
Reuters July 18, 2013 - 17:32 By MacDonald Dzirutwe CHINHOYI, Zimbabwe (Reuters) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe branded the United States "absolutely insane" on Thursday for voicing... (photo: AP / Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)
Phayathai Road in Bangkok, Thailand  Stuff  Fri 7 Jun 2013
Thailand F1 grand prix plans hit major snag
Thailand's plans for a Formula One grand prix in 2015 could be scrapped if the sport insists on it being held in Bangkok, the country's tourism and sports minister was quoted as saying... (photo: WN / RTayco)
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Monsoon clouds in the sky in the month of June in India - rainy season  Headlines India  Fri 7 Jun 2013
Monsoon an important factor in RBI policy: D. Subbarao
Hyderabad, June 7: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor D. Subbarao today said the performance of monsoon would be an important factor in determining the central bank's policy in the next three... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
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Indian Police clash with protestors during protest in Srinagar on Thursday 18, July 2013. Six people were killed on Thursday when the Border Security Force (BSF) personnel fired at protestors outside their camp in Jammu and Kashmir Ramban District. Newstrack India Thu 18 Jul 2013
Omar terms Gool killings unacceptable, speaks to Shinde
Tweet Srinagar, July 18 (IANS) Condemning the deaths due to firing by security forces in Shaida Gool village as "unacceptable", Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
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Security Council Briefed on Darfur by ICC Prosecutor International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda presented the Court’s seventeenth briefing on the situation in Darfur, Sudan, to the Security Council. She said it was long past time for the Council to act with “courage and conviction” by adopting measures to ensure that those responsible for grave atrocities in Darfur were brought to justice sooner rather than later. Mark Lyall Grant, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the UN and President of the Security Council for the month of June, chairs the Council meeting. Swissinfo Thu 18 Jul 2013
U.N. committee to probe North Korean arms ship seized by Panama
Reuters July 18, 2013 - 16:35 UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. Security Council sanctions committee will examine the case of a North Korean ship that was... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider)
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Delhi state Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit asks the media to behave as she comes out of her residence to address the media in New Delhi, India, Monday, Dec. 8, 2008. It looked apparent that Dikshit would be re-elected as Chief Minister for the third time. Newstrack India Thu 18 Jul 2013
Delhi CM Dikshit bats for empowerment of women
Tweet New Delhi, July 18 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today stated that women have the capacity and compassion to strengthen the society economically and... (photo: AP / Saurabh Das)
Delhi   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Sheila Dikshit   Women
The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Dr. M.M. Pallam Raju lighting the lamp at the Inaugural Session of the International Conference on Achieving Literacy for All: Scalable Proven Innovative approaches to accelerate literacy, reduce gender disparities and create a literate world, in New Delhi on July 18, 2013. Newstrack India Thu 18 Jul 2013
Pallam Raju hopes for swift decision on IIT-Kharagpur director
Tweet New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) As protests continue over the appointment of a director at IIT Kharagpur, Human Resource Development Minister M.M. Pallam Raju expressed... (photo: PIB of India / Photo Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India )
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Chile's President-elect Sebastian Pinera laughs during an event to celebrate his victory in the runoff presidential election in Santiago, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. Swissinfo Thu 18 Jul 2013
Fractured Chilean right should pick single candidate - Pinera
Reuters July 18, 2013 - 16:29 SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean president Sebastian Pinera urged his fractured right-wing coalition to settle on one presidential... (photo: AP / Jorge Saenz)
Business   Photos   Politics   Santiago   Wikipedia: Sebastián Piñera
The Union Minister for Water Resources and Minority Affairs, Shri Salman Khurshid . Newstrack India Thu 18 Jul 2013
'We live in a world that combines principles with pragmatism': Khurshid on mountain strike corps
Tweet New Delhi, July 18 (ANI): A day after the Committee on Security (CCS) gave its nod for raising a mountain strike corps along the Sino-Indian border, External... (photo: PIB of India)
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In this undated image from video seized from the walled compound of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and released Saturday, May 7, 2011 by the U.S. Department of Defense a man, who the American government identified as Osama bin Laden, watches television, showing an image of U.S. President Barack Obama. Bin Laden’s killing: national sovereignty as notional fraud Al Jazeera
The head of the election commission shows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's certificate of candidacy for Moscow mayor at the Moscow election commission in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Moscow authorities on Wednesday accepted the candidacy of Russian protest leader Navalny to run in mayoral polls, a day before a verdict is due in his trial on fraud charges that could see him jailed for up to six years. Russian protest leader wins one battle and faces another Swissinfo
The closed gate of the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on May 17, 2013. Egyptian police closed the Rafah border crossing with Gaza in protest at the kidnapping of colleagues in the Sinai peninsula, a security source and witnesses said. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN Seven dead as police and protesters clash in Egypt Swissinfo
Police Service of Northern Ireland officers come under attack from petrol bombs thrown by Nationalists in the Ardoyne Area of north Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday July 12, 2010. Police battled Irish nationalists for control of a Belfast road Monday as a day dominated by peaceful Protestant parades across Northern Ireland turned violent when night fell. Northern Ireland parliament recalled as violence continues Swissinfo
Life in Asia
UN Special envoy for Global Education Mr. Gordon Brown having a press briefing along with Federal Minister for Education & Training, Sheikh Waqas Akram in Islamabad on November 10, 2012 The Malala movement: how the Pakistani teenager shot in the head by the Taliban became a global superpower London Evening Standard
INDIA-RAJASTHAN-MAN Rajasthan's Blue City is a painter's canvas The Times of India
Indian Bollywood film actor Shah Rukh Khan speak a press conference in Srinagar on September 6, 2012. Shah Rukh, who completed his nine-day shooting schedule in the Valley for Indian filmmaker Yash Chopra's untitled project, is confident that people from South Asia and South East Asia will visit the valley when they watch the movie, which has been extensively shot in Kashmir. Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan denies knowing son’s gender before birth The Daily Telegraph
A Pakistan army soldier and a police officer stand guard in a street near the house of former al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Leaked report reveals Pakistan failures on Bin Laden BBC News
Media
Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho seats between Foreign Minister Paulo Portas, left, and Finance Minister Maria Luis Albuquerque during the presentation of a no-confidence vote by the Green Party in the Portuguese parliament chamber in Lisbon Thursday, July 18 2013. The vote comes amid a political crisis in the coalition government sparked by a disagreement between Passos Coelho and Portas on the appointment of Albuquerque to replace the former finance minister. Portugal PM says economy recovering, wants smooth bailout exit Swissinfo
H.H the Dalai Lama graces 14th Shoton Opera Festival Lhasa to hold cycling race during this year's Shoton Festival CNTV
The Aug. 17, 2009 photo provided by Nelson Mandela Foundation Friday, June 11, 2010 shows, from left, Thembela Mandela, Zenani Mandela, Mbuso Mandela and Nelson Mandela. Zenani was killed in a car accident early Friday morning after the World Cup Kick-off concert Friday June 11, 2010. China wishes Mandela happy birthday, speedy recovery CNTV
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