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Maoist crimes go unpunished
News, Associated Press, Published on 30/08/2016
» The image of the teacher's body tied to a tree and riddled with bullets still haunts his son 14 years later. Communist militants allegedly dragged the Nepalese man from the class he was teaching and then killed him for refusing to give part of his salary to fund their bloody rebellion.
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.
Donald Trump's ultimate ego trip
News, Associated Press, Published on 15/07/2016
» Donald Trump was angry: A reporter had the gall to suggest that ego was behind his purchase of New York's famed Plaza Hotel.
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.
Show of frustration at Egypt's courts
News, Associated Press, Published on 02/06/2016
» Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif decided she had had enough of Egypt's justice system.
Tense game of political brinksmanship
News, Associated Press, Published on 30/05/2016
» American ships and fighter jets manoeuvring across the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan represent the "new normal" in US-Pacific relations despite rising tensions with China and Moscow.
Virtually no rebuilding progress one year after earthquake
News, Associated Press, Published on 22/04/2016
» The violence of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake left countless towns and villages across central Nepal in a shambles. Almost one year later, a shambles they remain.
Dissent erupts in Communist Party after Obama visit
News, Associated Press, Published on 31/03/2016
» Days after US President Barack Obama's historic visit, the leaders of Cuba's Communist Party are under highly unusual criticism from their own ranks for imposing new levels of secrecy on the future of social and economic reforms.