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Tajikistan, a poor Central Asian country, is having serious problems in tackling ‘witchcraft’. The problem is so acute that superstitious Tajiks queue for long hours in front of a sorcerer’s chamber than in front of any hospital. Well, central Asians...
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European markets opened strongly Monday following Asia’s lead in response to the widespread government efforts over the weekend to shore up the world’s...
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AP, Phnom Penh
Cambodian and Thai foreign ministers on Monday failed to solve a border dispute that recently erupted into a brief military clash.
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AP, Seoul
South Korea is considering expanding cross-border projects with North Korea following major progress in an international standoff over the communist country’s...
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AP, Tokyo
Five central banks, including the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank, announced Monday new measures aimed at thawing frozen credit markets and bolstering...
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AP, Islamabad
Clashes between Taliban militants and pro-government forces killed 15 people overnight in a Pakistani region on the border with Afghanistan, an official and a tribal...
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AP, Kabul
The U.S. coalition says its troops have killed five Taliban militants in a raid in central Afghanistan.
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AP, Manila
The Philippine president is calling on Asian leaders meeting in Beijing next week to convene a special session to tackle the impact of the global economic crisis.
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AP, Tokyo
Tepid public support for Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso has fallen further in the weeks since he took office and voters now want help for the country’s economy...
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AP, Singapore
Oil prices rebounded from a 13-month low to rise above US$80 a barrel Monday in Asia on expectations that a pledge by European countries to keep banks from collapsing...
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In his September 4 commentary titled Who Wants Cold War II? [1], Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Israeli foreign minister, proposes a new world order in which the United...
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AP, Kabul
The top NATO general in Afghanistan on Sunday rejected the idea that NATO is losing the Afghanistan war to an increasingly bloody Taliban insurgency.
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AP, Islamabad
Pakistani tribesmen are raising armies to battle al-Qaida and Taliban militants close to the Afghan border _ a movement encouraged by the military and hailed as a sign...
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AP, Seoul
North Korea said Sunday it will resume dismantling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the United States removed the communist country from a list of states that...
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AP, Seoul
North Korea says it will resume disablement work at its Yongbyon nuclear complex and allow U.S. and IAEA inspections to verify the process.
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AP, Kandahar
An Afghan official says more than 100 militants have been killed in separate battles in southern Afghanistan.
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AP, Srinagar
Shops, businesses and schools were shut in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Saturday to protest a visit by the Indian prime minister who inaugurated the first train...
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AP, Tokyo
Mazda denied Saturday that a decision had been made by troubled Ford Motor Co. to sell its stake in the Japanese automaker, but didn’t rule out a possible deal.
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AP, Bangkok
Thousands of supporters of Thailand’s ruling coalition gathered Saturday on the outskirts of Bangkok in a show of strength, two days ahead of a planned major...
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A joint session of parliament in Islamabad has heard, in camera, the newly-appointed ISI Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha — who was Director General Military...
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AP, Kuala Lumpur
A maritime official says a Greek chemical tanker with 20 crew members has been hijacked by armed pirates in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia.
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A powerful earthquake struck the mountains of Central Asia, destroying a village in Kyrgyzstan and killing at least 72 people, emergency officials said Monday.
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AP, Bishkek
A powerful earthquake struck the mountains of Central Asia, destroying a village in Kyrgyzstan and killing at least 60 people, emergency officials said Monday.
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AP, Beijing
Two men rammed a dump truck into a group of jogging policemen and then tossed grenades into their barracks Monday, killing 16 officers in a restive Chinese province...
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China’s official Xinhua News Agency says an attack on a border patrol station on the country’s frontier with Central Asia has killed 16 police officers.
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China’s official Xinhua News Agency says an unknown group of people has attacked a border patrol station on the country’s frontier with Central Asia,...
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A failed attempt to crash a commercial jet in China was an act of sabotage by foreigners seeking independence for the country’s Xinjiang province in Central Asia,...
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Experts are really very much concerned about the rise in obesity, which is taking a form of pandemic. These experts believe that if obesity goes on soaring up, it may...
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The external affairs ministers of five Central Asian countries have agreed to make Central Asia as Nuclear Weapon free zone. For that, they signed a treaty establishing...
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Scientists, for long, have been warning us on the effects of climate change, leading also to several disease outbreaks! But, do you know, this also enlists the deadly...
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In the name of containing radical Islam or curbing Islamist terrorists, the U.S.A is engaged in activities, proving counterproductive. During the Cold War, the United...
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So, time to take steps to protect some dwindling species has come. The world’s second largest shark, a bird found in the Garden of Eden and Central Asia’s...
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Women in Muslim Societies: Diversity Within Unity reveals the status of women in the Muslim world. The book aims at reflecting sensitive and complex issues affecting...
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