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US reps, Dalai Lama pinpoint China sore spot Tibet
Associated Press, Published on 10/05/2017
» DHARMSALA -- As President Donald Trump appears to be warming to China, a bipartisan group from the US House of Representatives took aim Wednesday at one of Beijing's sore spots: Tibet.
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.
Indonesia city slaps women with 11pm curfew
Associated Press, Published on 09/06/2015
» BANDA ACEH — The capital of Indonesia's devout Aceh province has imposed a partial curfew for women that it says will reduce sexual violence but which critics say is discriminatory.
Militant Sikh fugitive extradited to India
Associated Press, Published on 16/01/2015
» Thai authorities have extradited to India a Sikh militant who was convicted there for a 1995 assassination of a state minister.
19 vying for Sri Lankan presidency
Associated Press, Published on 08/12/2014
» COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his former health minister were among 19 people Monday to hand in nominations to contest the island's presidential election next month.
World Bank loans Philippines $4.2bn
Associated Press, Published on 15/07/2014
» MANILA – World Bank president Jim Yong Kim says the bank and its private sector arm have committed concessional loans of up to $4.2 billion to the Philippines to help the country reduce poverty, create jobs and sustain growth as it recovers from the impact of a devastating typhoon and separatist rebellion.
Police kill Boston bomb suspect, hunt for second
Associated Press, Published on 19/04/2013
» Police killed one of the Boston marathon bombing suspects in a shootout early Friday and pursued a chaotic street-to-street manhunt for his accomplice, officials said.
Deadly hunt for bomb suspect turns Boston into ghost city
Associated Press, Published on 19/04/2013
» A mass dragnet for a teen bombing suspect emptied the streets of Boston on Friday, after a frenzied night of violence left the fugitive's accomplice brother and a police officer dead.
Acehnese fly separatist flag
Associated Press, Published on 02/04/2013
» BANDA ACEH – Thousands of Acehnese people took to the streets Monday to demand that a separatist flag be made the official flag of the province, police said.