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More birds culled as Taiwan battles worst avian flu in 10 years
AFP, Published on 14/01/2015
» TAIPEI - A major outbreak of avian flu in Taiwan has spread to 19 more farms with a total of 160,000 birds slaughtered in the island's worst bout of the disease in a decade, authorities said Wednesday.
Muslims in Philippines march against Charlie Hebdo
AFP, Published on 14/01/2015
» MANILA - Around 1,500 people protested in one of the Philippines' main Muslim-majority cities on Wednesday against the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo's caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, police said.
Security 'nightmare' for Philippine papal visit
AFP, Published on 14/01/2015
» MANILA - Philippine troops are facing a security "nightmare" during Pope Francis's visit starting on Thursday, with potential stampedes, Islamic militants and lone-wolf assailants all concerns.
NZ navy in high-seas standoff with 'illegal' fishing boats
AFP, Published on 14/01/2015
» WELLINGTON - The New Zealand navy was involved in a high-seas standoff with two suspected poaching ships in Antarctic waters Wednesday after the vessels used "evasive tactics" to thwart boarding attempts, officials said.
India court grants Italian marine 3 more months at home
AFP, Published on 14/01/2015
» NEW DELHI - India's top court Wednesday allowed an Italian marine detained for the 2012 killing of two fishermen another three months at home to recover from heart surgery amid a diplomatic row over the case.
Federer, Sharapova gun for more Australian Open glory
AFP, Published on 14/01/2015
» MELBOURNE - Veterans Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova head into the opening Grand Slam of 2015 next week as the form players, but there is a heady mix of youth and experience snapping at their heels.
Charlie Hebdo: From massacre to new edition
AFP, Published on 14/01/2015
» PARIS - A timeline of the crisis in France following Islamist attacks that killed 17.
Japan approves biggest ever defence budget amid Asia tensions
AFP, Published on 14/01/2015
» Japan approved its largest-ever defence budget for the next fiscal year on Wednesday, as hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks to strengthen surveillance of territorial waters in the face of a continuing spat with China.
Polarisation makes attack on SE Asia ever more likely
News, Published on 14/01/2015
» The horrifying spate of terror attacks in Europe this month makes it plain that there is a resurgence of violent extremism that is threatening global security. It’s not just what played out so brutally on TV screens in Paris.
Standing by community, not with Charlie
News, Chaiwat Satha-Anand, Published on 14/01/2015
» The Paris march for unity on Sunday attracted more than a million people and world leaders including Germany’s Merkel, Britain’s Cameron, Turkey’s Davutoglu, Israel’s Netanyahu, and Palestine’s Abbas, among others. This extraordinary action by leaders and citizens is in response to perhaps the bloodiest week in the last half of a century in France with 17 dead. It began with the killing of 12 people at a previously little known satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. French President Francois Hollande warned that the threats facing France are still serious even though the three perpetrators are dead.