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Last week’s deadly rioting that resulted after the central government refused the king of Buganda, Uganda’s largest ethnic group from traveling to one of his counties, left over 20 people dead and property worth billions of shillings...
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A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily...
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Reporting from Beijing - When it came to China, President Obama’s famous powers of persuasion failed to persuade.
He came bearing a long shopping list, including...
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Chinese officials are being told to dump their mistresses, avoid hostess bars, and shun extravagances as part of the Communist party’s efforts to clamp down on...
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President Barack Obama faces tensions with China over trade and Tibet on his first visit to the emerging superpower for a summit that will grapple with economic...
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It is really surprising but the truth is The Communist party in China is at honest about one thing it knows that with the salary given to the bureaucrats it is not...
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The race between the two EU’s eastern gas pipelines is going on while next winter can again show some supply problems via Ukraine. South Stream got latest boost...
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In a cavernous warehouse amid rolling hills and dairy farms, a group of farmers recently gathered around a buyer in a conversation heralding a sea change in the United...
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Heavy snow has left 21 people dead in north and central China since Monday, the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced (MCA) Friday.
The ministry did not detail the...
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In 1982, a Pakistani military C-130 left the western Chinese city of Urumqi with a highly unusual cargo: enough weapons-grade uranium for two atomic bombs, according to...
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Kidnapping people on their way to lodge complaints with China’s central government has evolved into a lucrative cottage industry that police refuse to acknowledge...
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China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 people in far western Xinjiang...
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China’s premier on Sunday pledged $10 billion in concessional loans to African nations over the next three years and said Beijing would cancel the government...
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Thank god so far Dalai Lama does not need permission from China to visit Arunachal & can stay at Dharmshala till god wants. I wonder why there is no national...
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Will it be China that finally pays the huge bills for repairing and rebuilding Afghanistan and Iraq — and reaps the rewards? It’s looking that way: as the US and...
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Our huge hue and cry over the Chinese aggression matters little to china. We are no match for them and they know that very well. So they hold us in contempt for being a...
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China has seen a tenfold increase in syphilis cases over the past decade, as migrant workers made enough money in the country’s economic boom to hire more...
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I’ve never understood the affinity between communists and Islamists. When it comes to spirituality they are polar opposites- Communists are atheists, and...
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A TOP China air force commander has called the militarisation of space an “historical inevitability”, state media said today, marking an apparent shift in...
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Oh! What a strange! Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, is dauntless to throw charge against the Pakistani Government. “Pakistan is safe haven for Al Qaeda since...
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A bus plunged into a valley along a mountainous road in China’s northern Shanxi province, killing 13 people and injuring at least 40 others, local police and the...
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Fresh protests have been reported in the province of Xinjiang in western China, where almost 200 people were killed in ethnic violence in July.
Hundreds of ethnic Han...
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Tribesmen trying to steal cattle attacked a village in southern Sudan, sparking a conflict that killed 46 people, including seven soldiers, the U.N. said Monday.
The...
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On a gray and rainy Saturday, five young men are gathered at the Body Guard music studio in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital. The modest one-story building has...
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China has vowed to execute protesters responsible for the deaths of 156 people in violent protests in Xingjiang province.
Li Zhi, the Communist Party’s highest...
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Some women glared through their black veils at the paramilitary troops encircling them. Others held identity cards of missing relatives in the air. Fists raised, tears...
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In almost every bed in Ward Two of Nasir hospital in South Sudan, there lies a patient with a bullet wound.
“I was hit in my leg, when the soldiers started...
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Streets had reverted to calm and curfews were in force in major districts of Urumqi as the death toll mounted from rioting.
Police halted people who had gathered in...
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China said a riot that shook the capital of the western Xinjiang region killed 140 people and the government called the ethnic unrest a plot against its power,...
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Sindh government has decided to allow the victims of Swat operation, the internally displaced people (IDP), to live in Karachi and other parts of the province. However,...
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Last century was marked deep ethnic tensions between Croats and Serbs. These tensions erupted most violent way during WWII and Yugoslavia’s breakup wars early 1990s....
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In January, one of Africa’s most stable democracies was ripping itself apart. How was it saved? Part 2 of four.
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When Luke Kibet won the world marathon championship last August, he became a favorite to achieve what no Kenyan has despite this country’s istance-running...
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A rocky cliff overlooking the Maasai Mara Game Reserve marks a new front line in a conflict between people and wildlife that threatens the revival of Kenya’s $1...
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The ethnic violence has erupted again in the North Eastern state of India, Assam on Saturday. The terror outfit ULFA have killed as many as 15 people in Tinsukia...
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