Ethiopian strongman Meles dies abroad |
- Ethiopian strongman Meles dies abroad
- Obama warns Assad U.S. could act
- Japan hints at economic action in South Korea island feud
- Lonmin says sacking striking miners could lead to more violence
- Sixteen wounded in clashes in Lebanese port city
- Japan considers non-diplomatic action in South Korea island feud
- Ethiopian PM Meles dies from infection - state television
- Kyrgyz forces kill fugitive border guard after attack
- Sixteen wounded in clashes in Lebanese port city
- Park stakes claim to make history in S. Korea
- MTUC wants old benefits restored
- Muslim graves to be relocated: Rapid
- Sharing everything online
- Indigenous clothing inspires couture designers in Bolivia
- Zombie president
- Drugs No 1 social scourge: MCPF
- Ethiopia's Meles: ex-rebel turned key regional strongman (UPDATED)
- VIDEO: Artists recreate Angkor Wat's lost carvings
- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles has died- state television
- China's leftists dig in for fight over Bo Xilai
| Ethiopian strongman Meles dies abroad Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:49 PM PDT ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who led the Horn of Africa country for more than two decades, died of an infection while being treated abroad for an undisclosed illness, state-run television said on Tuesday. 
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| Obama warns Assad U.S. could act Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:48 PM PDT WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S. forces could move against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, President Barack Obama warned, notably if he deploys his chemical weapons against rebels trying to overthrow him. 
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| Japan hints at economic action in South Korea island feud Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:42 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan said on Tuesday it was considering taking measures beyond diplomatic action in its feud with South Korea over a group of disputed islands, suggesting Tokyo may take the unusual step of extending the stand-off into the economic arena. 
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| Lonmin says sacking striking miners could lead to more violence Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:37 PM PDT JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Lonmin, the world's third-largest platinum producer, on Tuesday conceded that sacking 3,000 striking workers at its Marikana mine near Johannesburg, South Africa, could lead to more violence. 
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| Sixteen wounded in clashes in Lebanese port city Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:32 PM PDT TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Sixteen people were wounded in overnight clashes between Sunni Muslim and Alawite neighbourhoods in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli, local security and medical sources said on Tuesday. 
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| Japan considers non-diplomatic action in South Korea island feud Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:14 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan said on Tuesday it was considering taking measures beyond diplomatic action in its feud with South Korea over a group of disputed islands, suggesting Tokyo may take the unusual step of extending the stand-off into the economic arena. 
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| Ethiopian PM Meles dies from infection - state television Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:27 PM PDT ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has died from a sudden infection while recovering from an undisclosed illness at a hospital abroad, the African nation's state-run television said on Tuesday. 
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| Kyrgyz forces kill fugitive border guard after attack Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:26 PM PDT BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyz security forces on Tuesday killed a fugitive border guard suspected of shooting dead five people at a remote frontier post, the border guard service of the former Soviet republic said. 
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| Sixteen wounded in clashes in Lebanese port city Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:10 PM PDT TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Sixteen people were wounded in overnight clashes between Sunni Muslim and Alawite neighbourhoods in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli, local security and medical sources said on Tuesday. 
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| Park stakes claim to make history in S. Korea Posted: 21 Aug 2012 12:11 AM PDT Park Geun-Hye, the daughter of an assassinated dictator, will make history in male-dominated South Korea if her campaign to become the country's first female president succeeds.
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| MTUC wants old benefits restored Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:54 PM PDT The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) has called on the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) Board to immediately restore the old formula for the payment of death and incapacitation benefits to the 6.28 million active members.
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| Muslim graves to be relocated: Rapid Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:12 PM PDT Muslim graves would be relocated to make ay for the construction of the RM60 billion Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Complex (Rapid) project in Pengerang.
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| Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:50 PM PDT The absurd move of the "Wiper Woman" had made the incident more dramatic, causing people think that it has become a routine to capture everything in life in the era of social networking.
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| Indigenous clothing inspires couture designers in Bolivia Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:24 PM PDT La Paz, Bolivia - For his new collection, the Bolivian designer John Pacheco got his inspiration from Kusillo – a character from local indigenous folklore. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2012.
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| Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:17 PM PDT Actors portraying America's first zombie presidential candidate, A. Zombie and his wife Patty Morgan-Zombie, greet fans and other zombies at a press conference for AMC's "The Walking Dead" at Horton Plaza in San Diego, California.
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| Drugs No 1 social scourge: MCPF Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:08 PM PDT Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) vice-chairman, Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye lamented that drug addiction has been the number one social scourge in Malaysia for the past three decades.
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| Ethiopia's Meles: ex-rebel turned key regional strongman (UPDATED) Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:03 PM PDT Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, an intellectual ex-rebel vilified by some as a dictator but praised by others as a visionary, dominated politics at home and in the region for over two decades.
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| VIDEO: Artists recreate Angkor Wat's lost carvings Posted: 20 Aug 2012 04:23 AM PDT A collection of artists including a relative of John Constable have been commissioned to recreate some of the elaborate carvings missing from the temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
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| Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles has died- state television Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:44 PM PDT (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has died, Ethiopian state television said on Tuesday. 
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| China's leftists dig in for fight over Bo Xilai Posted: 20 Aug 2012 08:51 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - Leftist supporters of China's toppled politician Bo Xilai are digging in for an unusually defiant defence of their hero, arguing that he and his wife are victims of a plot that has opened a dangerous schism between them and the Communist Party. 
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