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Suu Kyi reassures Myanmar's Karen refugees
Jun 05, 2012 (UPI)
Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi told the mostly Karen refugees in Mae La camp in Thailand she will work to get them back to Myanmar as soon as p...
Outside View: Ukraine's business class
Jun 01, 2012 (UPI)
Faced by the choice in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential elections of Yulia Tymoshenko and Viktor Yanukovych, the majority of Ukraine's big business backed the la...
Decades-old Egypt emergency ends: military
May 31, 2012 (AFP)
Egypt's decades-old state of emergency came to an end on Thursday as its last renewal expired, the ruling military said, vowing to continue to "protect" the nat...
What, no spellcheck? Romney app misspells 'America'
May 30, 2012 (AFP)
White House hopeful Mitt Romney has meticulously spelled out his vision for a better America while on the campaign trail this year. But in his new mobile app? N...
Outside View: What's in a name?
May 30, 2012 (UPI)
Language is a quite remarkable reflection of society and its attitudes. After the Vietnam War and a succession of operational and procurement failures, "the Pen...
EP report urges women's rights in Turkey
May 24, 2012 (UPI)
The European Parliament this week adopted a report urging Turkey to follow up on its recent work toward securing gender equality and women's rights. The report,...
Internet voting still faces hurdles in US
May 24, 2012 (AFP)
Shop online. Bank online. Why not vote online? Pressure is building to make Internet voting widely available in the United States and elsewhere, even though tec...
Romney in new China dig at Obama
May 24, 2012 (AFP)
Mitt Romney fired a fresh jab at President Barack Obama Thursday over his China policy, in a new web video vowing to make China "play by the rules" of global tr...
Nepal faces constitution deadline on path to peace
May 23, 2012 (AFP)
Four years after elections ended centuries of royal rule, lawmakers in Nepal are scrambling to complete a constitution amid widespread doubt that the troubled n...
Fiji defends military's election role
May 23, 2012 (AFP)
Fiji on Wednesday defended the army's role in preparations for the Pacific nation's first elections since a 2006 military coup, saying there was no other way to...
World not doing enough for Syria: Turkey's Gul
May 22, 2012 (AFP)
The international community is not doing enough to help resolve the Syrian crisis, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Tuesday as he urged an orderly transition...
Egypt's election: A leap into the unknown
May 21, 2012 (UPI)
Egypt, the heart of the Arab world and its most populous country, goes to the polls Wednesday and Thursday to elect a new president, a leap into the unknown aft...
Thousands of NATO protesters demand end to war
May 20, 2012 (AFP)
Thousands of NATO protesters demanding an end to costly and destructive wars marched in Chicago Sunday where the leaders of more than 50 nations were discussing...
Protesters clash with police at NATO summit
May 20, 2012 (AFP)
Protesters clashed with riot police Sunday as an anti-NATO protest turned ugly in Chicago when a few hundred demonstrators demanding an end to war ignored order...
Egypt protest seeks to end military courts
May 20, 2012 (AFP)
Several hundred activists took part in a one-day hunger strike in Cairo on Sunday to protest the ruling military council's continued use of military courts to t...
Egypt army pledges of retreat could be an illusion: analysts
May 20, 2012 (AFP)
Egypt's ruling military has promised a return to the barracks once a new president is elected, but the army's formidable political and economic weight means tha...
Protestors march to demand Chicago frees activists
May 19, 2012 (AFP)
Hundreds of anti-NATO protesters marched through the streets of Chicago Saturday demanding the release of three activists arrested on terror charges. The crowd ...
HRW accuses Egypt military of torture, beatings
May 19, 2012 (AFP)
Human Rights Watch accused Egypt's military on Saturday of beating and torturing protesters arrested during clashes with soldiers in Cairo earlier this month. T...
First troops of west African force arrive in G.Bissau
May 17, 2012 (AFP)
Some 70 soldiers of a west African force arrived Thursday in Guinea-Bissau on a mission to restore stability after the country's April 12 coup, as the prime min...
Pro-European Tadic set for landslide win in Serbia
May 17, 2012 (AFP)
Serbian voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a new president with the incumbent Boris Tadic set for a landslide victory over his nationalist challenger Tomisl...
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