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Pakistan clerics calls for protests against polio worker killings

YoopyaDec 20, 20120

(Reuters) – An alliance of Pakistani clerics will hold demonstrations across the country against the killings of polio eradication campaign workers, leaders said on Thursday,

Final member of NBC team free after Syria kidnap

YoopyaDec 19, 20120

LONDON (AP) — The last missing member of an NBC team that was kidnapped in Syria has been freed and is safely in Turkey, NBC

Pakistan polio attacks: Three killed in Peshawar

YoopyaDec 19, 20120

Three health workers have died in gun attacks in Peshawar, the latest in a spate of strikes against a polio vaccination drive in Pakistan. A

Armed with rocket and maybe heir, Kim Jong-un remembers father

YoopyaDec 17, 20120

(Reuters) – North Korea may soon witness the birth of the fourth generation of its hereditary dictatorship as television pictures showed that the wife of the country’s

Kidnap gangs use leaked bank details to prey on Afghan tycoons

YoopyaDec 17, 20120

(Reuters) – Afghan construction magnate Haji Asadullah Ghaznawi was dragged from his office with a gun to his head and locked up in a slaughterhouse for almost

Japan’s next PM Abe must deliver on economy, cope with China

YoopyaDec 17, 20120

(Reuters) – Conservative ex-premier Shinzo Abe got a second chance to lead Japan after his party surged back to power in Sunday’s election and faces pressure to

Big powers to recognize Syrian opposition

YoopyaDec 12, 20120

(Reuters) – Major powers are set to give Syria’s opposition full political recognition on Wednesday but not the weapons that rebel fighters need to counter

Gazans mass for Hamas anniversary

YoopyaDec 8, 20120

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) Tens of thousands of Palestinians massed in Gaza on Saturday for a rally marking the 25th anniversary of Hamas to

Iran’s long-range missiles said to lag U.S. intelligence fears

YoopyaDec 8, 20120

(Reuters) – An internal report for the U.S. Congress has concluded that Iran probably is no longer on track, if it ever was, to having an ocean-crossing

Philippines buries dead, typhoon toll hits 418

YoopyaDec 7, 20120

(Reuters) – Residents in the southern Philippines buried their dead on Friday even as rescue workers continued scouring remote areas for survivors of Typhoon Bopha,