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India marks 3 years since last polio case reported

YoopyaJanuary 13, 2014November 26, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 13, 2014November 26, 202309

NEW DELHI (AP) — India marked three years Monday since its last reported polio case, putting the country on course to being formally declared free...

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Iran nuclear deal to take effect on January 20

YoopyaJanuary 13, 2014November 26, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 13, 2014November 26, 202305

(Reuters) – A deal between Iran and six major powers intended to pave the way to a solution to a long standoff over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions will...

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South Korea to contribute $867 million for U.S. military forces in 2014

YoopyaJanuary 13, 2014November 26, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 13, 2014November 26, 202305

(Reuters) – South Korea said on Sunday it had agreed to pay 920 billion won ($866.86 million) in 2014 towards the cost of the U.S. military presence...

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Car bombs, clashes kill 18 civilians in Iraq

YoopyaJanuary 13, 2014December 10, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 13, 2014December 10, 202306

BAGHDAD (AP) — Two car bombs targeted commuters in Baghdad and clashes between security forces and militants killed at least 18 civilians, officials said Sunday,...

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Hasina sworn in for 3rd time as Bangladesh PM

YoopyaJanuary 12, 2014December 31, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 12, 2014December 31, 202302

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Sheikh Hasina was sworn in Sunday for her second straight term as Bangladesh’s prime minister and third overall, following one of...

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The Pakistani servant girl tortured to death

YoopyaJanuary 11, 2014December 31, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 11, 2014December 31, 202303

The case of a 10-year-old girl in Pakistan’s Punjab province, whose employers confessed to beating her to death last week, has highlighted concerns about child...

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China mulls national pollution permit trading system

YoopyaJanuary 10, 2014December 3, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 10, 2014December 3, 202303

(Reuters) – China will look into establishing a nation-wide trading system for pollution permits as part of efforts to use market mechanisms to help clean up its...

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Japan urges ‘hotline’ with China, plays down shrine visit

YoopyaJanuary 10, 2014December 3, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 10, 2014December 3, 202309

(Reuters) – Japan, at odds with China on territorial and other issues, took its case to Europe on Thursday, defending Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to a war...

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For Indonesian jihadists, Syrian civil war beckons

YoopyaJanuary 10, 2014December 3, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 10, 2014December 3, 202306

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The young Indonesian was raised in an extremist household and graduated from a boarding school notorious for teaching generations of terrorists....

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Thai anti-government protesters march, consumer confidence slumps

YoopyaJanuary 9, 2014December 10, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 9, 2014December 10, 202300

(Reuters) – Protesters trying to topple Thailand’s prime minister marched in Bangkok again on Thursday, testing support for a planned “shutdown” of the capital next...