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Pride in Obama remains
News, Associated Press, Published on 01/09/2016
» As US President Barack Obama's second term nears its end, Indonesians still speak with pride of the childhood years he spent in their country, though much of the enthusiasm has faded along with the impossibly high expectations of what the first African-American president would achieve.
Republican leaders could be nearing Trump breaking point
News, Associated Press, Published on 15/08/2016
» The Republican Party could be nearing a breaking point with Donald Trump.
Strife-torn territory nears seventh decade of internal struggle
News, Associated Press, Published on 25/07/2016
» When news spread that Indian troops had killed 22-year-old Burhan Wani, a charismatic commander of Indian-controlled Kashmir's biggest rebel group on July 8, the public response was spontaneous and massive. Tens of thousands of angry youths poured out of their homes in towns and villages across the Himalayan region, hurling rocks and bricks and clashing with Indian troops.
Sri Lanka on cautious path to peace
News, Associated Press, Published on 06/06/2016
» For seven years, the ethnic Tamil housewife has waited for news of a son who vanished near the frenzied end of Sri Lanka's quarter-century-long civil war. After so much time, she has little faith that the Sinhalese-majority government will help solve such mysteries and heal old wounds.
Boko Haram still poses threat months after 'technical victory'
News, Associated Press, Published on 20/04/2016
» On the front line against Boko Haram, no one boasts of having "technically" won the war.