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Cram schools boom widens India’s class divide

YoopyaSep 11, 20120

(Reuters) – With a sprawling five-acre campus, 10,000 students and state-of-the-art LCD projectors in its lecture rooms, Bansal Classes is bigger and slicker than most

North Korea accepts flood aid offer from rival South

YoopyaSep 10, 20120

(Reuters) – Impoverished North Korea has accepted an offer of aid from rival South Korea after devastating summer floods, the South said on Monday, the

Iraq blasts kill 100 as fugitive VP gets death sentence

YoopyaSep 10, 20120

(Reuters) – Car bombs tore through mainly Shi’ite Baghdad districts on Sunday after Iraq’s fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi was sentenced to death, as more

Mali Islamists say army killing of preachers declaration of war

YoopyaSep 10, 20120

BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali Islamic militant group MUJWA said on Sunday the killing of 16 Muslim preachers including eight Mauritanians and eight Malians by an

U.S. probes reported record-shredding of fuel buys for Afghan army

YoopyaSep 10, 20120

(Reuters) – Investigators are probing reports of record-shredding by officials in the U.S.-led NATO command that trains the Afghan army after learning that records of

China, Russia sound alarm on world economy at APEC summit

YoopyaSep 8, 20120

(Reuters) – China and Russia sounded the alarm about the state of the global economy and urged Asian-Pacific countries at a summit on Saturday to

Cuba struggles with foreign investment, growth

YoopyaSep 8, 20120

(Reuters) – Cuba’s failure to encourage more foreign investment is crippling its economic performance and putting its goal of sustainable growth in danger unless changes

Suicide bomber kills six in Kabul

YoopyaSep 8, 2012September 8, 20120

KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) A teenage suicide bomber struck outside NATO headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, killing six people, including child hawkers, as Afghanistan marked a

Pakistan court grants bail to Christian ‘blasphemy’ girl

YoopyaSep 7, 20120

A Pakistani court on Friday granted bail to a Christian girl accused of blasphemy, in a case that has sparked an international outcry. Judge Muhammad

Southwest China quake kills 20: CCTV

YoopyaSep 7, 20120

BEIJING — At least 20 people were killed when a series of earthquakes, one of them measuring magnitude 5.7, struck southwest China on Friday, state