Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, European Council President Herman van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso spoke by telephone for 30 minutes late yesterday, a Japanese...
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard emphasised loyalty over experience in new cabinet selections named yesterday after a bungled leadership challenge laid bare intra-government turmoil and...
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Pol Pot's former deputy Nuon Chea is fit to continue with his trial for war crimes and genocide, doctors told Cambodia's Khmer Rouge court yesterday following the death of a co-defendant. "From a...
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Two supporters of Thailand's "red shirt" protest movement were acquitted yesterday of setting fire to a shopping mall during mass anti-government rallies that rocked Bangkok in 2010. A court in...
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Created in 1993 as the mouthpiece of a military junta, The New Light of Myanmar newspaper is seeking joint venture partners as it gears up for competition. The newspaper has for decades held a...
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Myanmar’s government warned on Monday that religious violence could threaten democratic reforms after anti-Muslim mobs rampaged through three more towns in the country’s predominantly Buddhist...
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A new South Korea-US pact providing for a joint military response even to low-level provocation by North Korea offers an added deterrent at a time of elevated tension, the South’s defence ministry...
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Afghanistan on Monday took full control of Bagram military prison from the United States, healing one running sore in their testy relationship as US-led forces wind down more than a decade of war...
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday accused her Labor party of self-indulgence after a farcical leadership coup against her, saying she was “appalled” by the events in an election...
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The Indian unit of Ford Motor Company has apologised for advertisements decried as demeaning to women, including one depicting Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with a trio of bound...
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Four Bollywood stars, including Life of Pi actress Tabu, have been charged in a 14-year-old poaching case and will finally go on trial next month for alleged complicity in the shooting of an...
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Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has returned to Pakistan after more than four years in exile, defying a Taliban death threat and vowing to "save" the country at the risk of his life.
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A fishing boat carrying 95 asylum seekers capsized off Australia’s west coast on Monday, authorities said, turning the spotlight on the sensitive issues of refugee policy and border protection...
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