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2,000 feared missing after landslide buries northeast Afghan village
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2,000 feared missing after landslide buries northeast Afghan village
An Afghan official has said around 2,000 people missing after landslide buried Ab-e-Khoshk, a northeast village in Argu district. | Earlier in the day, around 250 people were feared dead in the mudsli... (photo: US Army / Nikayla Shodeen)
A man a mobile phone in front of an electronic stock indicator in Tokyo, Monday, July 8, 2013.
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Nikkei down 0.19 pct as investors await U.S. jobs data
TOKYO, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Japan's Nikkei stock index closed 0. 19 percent lower Friday as investors opted to lock in profits made on recent gains and hit the sidelines ahead of key U.S. earnings and jo... (photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi)
Lt. Mike Glynn, assigned to Patrol Squadron (VP) 16, pilots a P-8A Poseidon over the Indian Ocean during a search mission in support of the international effort to locate Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, 15 April, 2014.  BBC News 
Missing flight MH370: Search 'could take a year'
The official leading the hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner MH370 says a full search of the suspected crash area could take up to a year. | Speaking in Malaysia, Angus Houston said he was confide... (photo: US Navy / CMCS Keith DeVinney)

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Misuse of US military aid in Afghanistan impeded US war effort: Report  The Siasat Daily 
Misuse of US military aid in Afghanistan impeded US war effort: Report
Washington, May 02: | A report released by the US military reportedly details out how rampant misuse of US aid in Afghanistan has hampered the US war effort, a new report from Pentagon has revealed. |... (photo: US Army / Nikayla Shodeen)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures during her speech at the German Federal Parliament, Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. The Japan News
Abe, Merkel: Change by force unacceptable
Chikara Shima / Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent BERLIN—Japan and Germany have agreed to cooperate closely to help settle the increasingly tense situation in Ukraine. | Th... (photo: AP / Michael Sohn)
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President Barack Obama gestures during a statement on the Gulf oil spill, and the first quarter GDP numbers, Friday, April 30, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Fresno Bee
Obama returns from Asia with a mixed bag
The following editorial appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Wednesday, April 30: | Now that President Barack Obama has returned from a weeklong trip to Japan, Sout... (photo: AP / Evan Vucci)
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Heavily armed Chinese paramilitary policemen march past the site of the Wednesday's explosion outside the Urumqi South Railway Station in Urumqi in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Thursday, May 1, 2014. The Miami Herald
China's Xi demands action after 3 killed in attack
URUMQI, China -- Chinese President Xi Jinping demanded "decisive" action against terrorism after a slashing and bomb attack at a Xinjiang train station killed three peopl... (photo: AP / Ng Han Guan)
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U.S. President Barack Obama gestures as he talks to members of the media during a bilateral meeting with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, not seen, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Toronto, Saturday, June 26, 2010. The Siasat Daily
Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs are targets of violence: Obama
Washington, May 01: | US President Barack Obama has acknowledged that even today a number of people from the South Asian origin - particularly those from Hindu, Muslim an... (photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis)
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File - Chief Interior Communications Technician Curtis N. Fox, assigned to USS Blue Ridge, enjoys an open water recreational scuba dive at Manta Ray Bay Reef on the Great Barrier Reef during a four-day port visit to Cairns, Australia. BBC News
Unesco warns Australia over Great Barrier Reef
Unesco has threatened to list the Great Barrier Reef as a World Heritage in Danger site, amid controversy over a plan to dump dredged sediment. | Reef authorities granted... (photo: US Navy / Chief Photographer's Mate John S. Stadelman)
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Death toll in Philippine clashes rises to 26 The Times Of India
Death toll in Philippine clashes rises to 26
MANILA, Philippines: Officials say the death toll in fighting between Philippine government troops and Muslim militants who launched a surprise attack to regain control o... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)
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Air India to join Star Alliance in July The Times Of India
Air India to join Star Alliance in July
NEW DELHI: Air India (AI) is all set to join the world's largest airline grouping company— Star Alliance, this June, making it the first airline company from India to b... (photo: WN / Geeta)
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U.S. President Barack Obama gestures to Indian leaders during a state dinner at Rashtrapati Bhavan, or President's Palace in New Delhi, India, Monday, Nov. 8, 2010. Malaya
Obama said what we wanted to hear
  | The statement came on the Tuesday after a Monday of evading questions about what the US would do in the event that the current tension with China turned into a shoot... (photo: AP / Manish Swarup)
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File - Chief Interior Communications Technician Curtis N. Fox, assigned to USS Blue Ridge, enjoys an open water recreational scuba dive at Manta Ray Bay Reef on the Great Barrier Reef during a four-day port visit to Cairns, Australia. Unesco warns Australia over Great Barrier ReefBBC News
Death toll in Philippine clashes rises to 26 Death toll in Philippine clashes rises to 26The Times Of India
Pills, Drugs Antibiotic-resistant superbugs now a global epidemicNew Scientist
Food firms 'need tax breaks' to cash in on Asian dining boom Food firms 'need tax breaks' to cash in on Asian dining boomSydney Morning Herald
North & Central Asia
Misuse of US military aid in Afghanistan impeded US war effort: Report Misuse of US military aid in Afghanistan impeded US war effort: Report The Siasat Daily
Afghan flood death toll rises as thousands need aid Afghan flood death toll rises as thousands need aid BBC News
Here's How US Arms Dealers Sell Weapons All Over The World Here's How US Arms Dealers Sell Weapons All Over The World Business Insider
How the U.S. Created, then Lost, the War in Afghanistan How the U.S. Created, then Lost, the War in Afghanistan Real Clear Politics
Far East
Heavily armed Chinese paramilitary policemen march past the site of the Wednesday's explosion outside the Urumqi South Railway Station in Urumqi in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Thursday, May 1, 2014. China's Xi demands action after 3 killed in attack The Miami Herald
President Barack Obama gestures while speaking at Orion Energy Systems, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011, in Manitowoc, Wis. What did we get from Obama visit? Malaya
Global stocks slide on US growth slowdown Global stocks slide on US growth slowdown Newsday
President Barack Obama gestures during a news conference with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in the East Room of the White House Obama tells it like it is, almost Malaya
Middle East
File - Kashmiri muslims offer funeral prayers in absentia for Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden in Srinagar on May 6, 2011. Osama bin Laden: Three years after Abbottabad Al Jazeera
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An 'informal tented settlement' in Lebanon's Bekaa valley. Five soldiers injured in ambush in Lebanon Newstrack India
South Asia
Air India to join Star Alliance in July Air India to join Star Alliance in July The Times Of India
Efforts to tackle impacts of climate change Efforts to tackle impacts of climate change The Himalayan
How the U.S. Created, then Lost, the War in Afghanistan How the U.S. Created, then Lost, the War in Afghanistan Real Clear Politics
Business & Industry Economy & Finance
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- 2,000 feared missing after landslide buries northeast Afghan
2,000 feared missing after landslide buries northeast Afghan village
2,000 feared missing after landslide buries northeast Afghan village
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A man a mobile phone in front of an electronic stock indicator in Tokyo, Monday, July 8, 2013.
Nikkei down 0.19 pct as investors await U.S. jobs data
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- Abbott pulls out of Bali meeting
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- Afghan official says 2,000 missing after landslide
- COLUMN-The playbook for sanctions on Russia
File - Kashmiri muslims offer funeral prayers in absentia for Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden in Srinagar on May 6, 2011.
Osama bin Laden: Three years after Abbottabad
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- Joseph Sparling's Abecedarian approach to early learning
- New-concept flood insurance could help Bangladesh's poor
- On Asia tour, Obama sees traces of his late mother's wor
- Lydia Ko: Leader of golf's new young breed
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Technology Terrorism
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- Interpol, Philippines bust cyber extortion network
- Start-ups line up for CeBIT 2014 in Sydney
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Alibaba.com Chief Executive Officer Jack Ma gestures during a news conference to launch the software called ALISOFT Monday, Jan. 8, 2007 in Shanghai, China. Alibaba Group, China's largest e-commerce company, on Monday launched a new Web-based business software targeting its 18 million users.
Alibaba Finds Another Place for Its Cash — China's Version of YouTube
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- China slams `irresponsible` US report on terrorism
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- Assailants in Xinjiang blast identified says Chinese media
- Attacks show bolder terror threat growing in China
- Inside the Fanciful World of Stratfor
- Afghanistan—A Nightmare of Failure
File - Kashmiri muslims offer funeral prayers in absentia for Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden in Srinagar on May 6, 2011.
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