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The Pakistani government has called off a round of peace talks with the Taliban after the insurgents claim to have executed 23 kidnapped soldiers in the country's north-west.
Topics: foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, pakistan
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| UpdatedHundreds of angry rice farmers swarmed around the Thai Prime Minister's temporary office in Bangkok, threatening to storm the building if Yingluck Shinawatra refuses to speak with them.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, agricultural-policy, thailand
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| UpdatedProtesters end a two-month occupation of Kiev city hall as part of an amnesty deal with the government.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, unrest-conflict-and-war, ukraine
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| UpdatedUkrainian opposition protesters have ended a two-month occupation of city hall in the capital Kiev, as part of an amnesty deal with the government.
In return, criminal charges will be dropped against protesters in relation to the ongoing civil unrest.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, activism-and-lobbying, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, police, ukraine
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Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, police, law-crime-and-justice, ukraine
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| UpdatedAustralia has a legal right to defend its shores, but the Abbott government's border protection policy has begun to drift into some legal grey areas, writes Donald Rothwell.
Topics: government-and-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, international-law
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| UpdatedAt least four people have died after an explosion on a bus carrying Korean tourists in the Sinai peninsula near Egypt's border with Israel.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, egypt, israel, korea-republic-of
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Protesters in Kiev have vacated city hall after occupying the building for over two months as part of anti-government unrest sweeping Ukraine, in a highly symbolic concession ahead of a new mass protest.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, ukraine
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Lebanon has announced a new government, breaking a 10-month political deadlock during which violence from neighbouring Syria worsened internal instability.
Topics: world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, lebanon
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| UpdatedA second round of peace talks between Syria's warring sides has broken off without making any progress and without a date being set for a third round, the UN mediator has said.
Topics: world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedThai police are expected to continue a crackdown on anti-government protesters in Bangkok.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, elections, thailand
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| UpdatedA car bombing outside a mosque in southern Syria has killed at least 33 people, according to monitors.
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| UpdatedFifteen people have been killed in a violent clash in China's western region, in what officials have labelled a terrorist attack, state media said.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, government-and-politics, china
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| UpdatedUS secretary of state John Kerry says China is willing to exert more pressure on North Korea to give up its controversial nuclear program and take additional steps to achieve this goal.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, defence-and-national-security, china, asia, united-states
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US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged that any moves by Beijing to establish a new air defence identification zone be "done in an open, transparent way".
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, defence-and-national-security, china, asia, united-states
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| UpdatedQueensland's deputy state coroner will investigate whether security intelligence failures led to the deaths of three Brisbane-based soldiers in Afghanistan.
Topics: courts-and-trials, army, unrest-conflict-and-war, death, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedBangkok is a city under siege by a dwindling minority, ahead of a fresh round of elections.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, thailand, asia
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A ceasefire has again been extended in the Syrian city of Homs to allow the evacuation of more civilians, as government forces intensify their bombardment of one of the country's last rebel strongholds.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, world-politics, syrian-arab-republic
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Topics: government-and-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, states-and-territories, india, asia
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| UpdatedThailand has sent around 1,300 Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar, dismaying rights campaigners.
Topics: refugees, immigration, unrest-conflict-and-war, thailand, burma, asia
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The United States has labelled Afghanistan's release of 65 detainees as "deeply regrettable" after the US warned they posed a serious security threat.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, world-politics, obama-barack, afghanistan, united-states
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| UpdatedThe United States has severely criticised Afghanistan's release of 65 alleged Taliban fighters from jail.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, unrest-conflict-and-war, afghanistan
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In the latest violence in Pakistan, 11 people have been killed in an explosion targeting a bus full of policeman.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, pakistan, asia
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| UpdatedUS President Barack Obama is planning to visit Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines and South Korea in April.
Topics: world-politics, foreign-affairs, unrest-conflict-and-war, obama-barack, united-states, japan, korea-republic-of, philippines, malaysia, asia
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| UpdatedThe United Nations official mediating talks with Russia and the US about the Syrian crisis has decided to bring forward the next round of negotiations, as he scrambles to keep diplomacy alive.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, world-politics, syrian-arab-republic, russian-federation, switzerland