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Christian minority in Pakistan marks solemn anniversary

Christians living in Pakistan are getting ready to mark a sad anniversary.Just over a year ago, on March 2, the country’s Minister for Minorities was assassinated in Islamabad. In the months that...

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New report says Japan's 2011 nuclear disaster narrowly avoided being much worse

Japan dodged a massive nuclear bullet last spring. That’s the conclusion of a new report out Tuesday on last year’s disaster at the country’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.The massive...

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Educated, well-to-do Indians try out living on $2 per day

Six days a week, 50-year-old Chandrika works as a housemaid on the outskirts of the south Indian city of Trivandrum.Chandrika is all angles, a mere 4-foot-8 of bone and muscle. Her body is testament to...

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Journalists allowed up-close look at efforts to dismantle Fukushima Daiichi...

Foreign journalists were allowed into the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant recently, for the the first time since the disaster there nearly a year ago.They donned protective clothing and masks...

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Myanmar loosens restrictions on press freedom

It’s an exciting time to be a journalist in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.Censorship is easing, taboos on what can be covered are lifting, and the current president, Thein Sein, has even talked...

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In Korea, trees planted in Mongolia bring hopes for fewer dust storms

While a downpour pounded Seoul on a recent morning, Kwon Byong Hyon had a different sort of storm on his mind.It was fourteen years earlier, on the day he first landed in Beijing, as Korea’s ambassador...

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Political reforms in Myanmar leave residents looking for economic changes as...

Change is coming fast in the country long known as Burma and now, officially as Myanmar.But it’s not fast enough for many ordinary Burmese. They welcome the relaxed political environment, the ability...

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Malay parents struggling to find schools that will teach their children English

English is the predominant language of global business and diplomacy and despite talk of America’s declining influence in the world, lots of people still want to learn English.But in Malaysia, English...

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Japan endures slow rebuilding a year after earthquake, tsunami

It may seem an unlikely place to post messages of hope for the tsunami victims.After all, it is a comic book museum. But this white, dome-like structure is also an icon. Or at least it was. Today the...

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As Burma reforms, students clamor to learn English

When Burma shed British colonial rule and became an independent country in 1948, it was one of the wealthiest and best-educated nations in the region.Now, after almost half a century of repressive...

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As Japan tries to clean up radiation contamination, some question whether...

It‘s the moment when the alarms on the Geiger counters all start going off at once that it sinks in.The bus is going inside the 12 mile ring around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that just...

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An estimated two-thirds of organ transplants in China come from executed...

China's Ministry of Health has admitted harvesting organs of death-row inmates and, according to reports, most of the organs used for transplants in China come from death-row inmates."Officials within...

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Taliban call off talks with U.S. as tensions mount in Afghanistan

The murder of 16 Afghan civilians, coupled with the burning of Korans, all by U.S. military forces, may have caused a rupture in what were once viewed as promising peace talks between the United States...

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Details emerge about circumstances leading up to Afghan civilian massacre

U.S. officials continue to shield the identity of the Army staff sergeant accused of massacring 16 Afghan civilians over the week.But late Thursday night and Friday new details began to emerge about...

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In culturally homogenous South Korea, tentative steps toward multiculturalism

Cultural homogeneity is a source of pride for many South Koreans — but their nation is going through a demographic change.Over the past decade, hundreds of thousands of Korean men have married women...

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China issues new regulation requiring lawyers to swear allegiance to...

China’s Ministry of Justice announced this week that new Chinese lawyers need to take a pledge of loyalty to the Communist Party, if they want to get their license to practice.This new rule comes in...

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U.S. Army sergeant expected to face 17 murder charges for Afghan massacre

Robert Bales, the U.S. Army staff sergeant accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in a massacre more than a week ago, is expected to be charged Friday with 17 counts of murder, as well as additional...

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Afghan officials disrupt imminent, potentially deadly terrorist attack on...

Security officials seized 11 suicide bomb jackets and made at least 18 arrests — foiling a planned attack at the Ministry of Defense in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul, the BBC reported.The arrests were...

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New details emerge about bin Laden's time in Pakistan after 9/11

Details are beginning to emerge on just how Osama bin Laden spent his days between when the U.S. attacked Afghanistan in 2001 through his death at the hands of U.S. forces in 2011.The new information...

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Myanmar government opponents face new reality in wake of parliamentary elections

There were 45 parliamentary seats at stake in Sunday’s elections in Myanmar, the country also known as Burma.What remains at stake is the government’s continued effort to gain legitimacy in the eyes of...

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