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PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Reuters: Pakistani warplanes bombed Taliban positions in the northwest Sunday, killing at least five insurgents, residents said, as militants distributed leaflets warning area tribesmen not to rise up against them. Fighting has intensified in northwest Pakistan over the past two months, since the military went on the offensive to push back an expanding militant movement that had raised fears for the...
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Global Voices Online's Caucasus Editor pays a visit to Armenia's second largest city of Gyumri where he interviews a member of the country's most well-known rock band. The post also includes an alternative video recipe for a little known local dish.
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
A roadside bomb and a rocket-propelled grenade in southern Afghanistan killed two British soldiers, while gunmen in the east abducted 16 mine-clearing personnel working for the United Nations, officials said Sunday.
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
In Mutatione Fortitudo laments the state of the Azerbaijani alphabet and the various changes it has seen since the 1920s.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 44 minutes ago
Pakistani fighter jets targeted suspected Taliban hide-outs in a tribal region near Afghanistan on Sunday, killing as many as six people and raising the odds of a future military offensive there, intelligence officials said.
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
JALALABAD, Afghanistan -- As U.S. Marines launched a major offensive against Taliban insurgents in southern Helmand Province, the presidential campaign unfolding in more peaceful parts of northern and eastern Afghanistan last week seemed to be taking place on another planet.
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Lawyer and blogger raymiyatake expresses his doubts [ja] over the election of Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano as director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). First, he says, Amano was supported by only 23 nations out of 35. Second, he points out the difficult situation that the Agency is dealing with, at present, and [...]
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
In February UNESCO presented the Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, giving an accurate and worrying description of the languages considered endangered (about 2,500). Among these eight belong to the Japanese archipelago. Not a big surprise if we think about the severe policies of linguistic and cultural assimilation carried out by the Japanese government [...]
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Tzitzernak2 posts a video of fugitive newspaper editor and opposition activist Nikol Pashinian turning himself in after a more than a year on the run following last year's post-election unrest in Armenia. Meanwhile, @unzippedblog reports that @nikolpashinyan has started tweeting from detention in the building of the National Security Service (NSS) in Yerevan.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A pro-reform Iranian clerical group said on Sunday the outcome of last month's presidential vote was "invalid," even though Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has upheld the result.
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PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
NY Times: A suicide attack Thursday on a bus in Rawalpindi was the first that singled out workers of Pakistan’s prized nuclear labs, military analysts and prominent national newspapers said, raising new questions about the government’s ability to withstand increasingly bold assaults by the Taliban against the country’s military complex. The attack comes as Pakistan’s army is...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Tehran - Iran on Sunday released a detained Greek-British correspondent of the Washington Times, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi said. The spokesman said on the website of state television network IRIB that despite professional violatio...
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Nazarian comments on the recent visit by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to Armenia. The blog says that nationalist forces in the country have every right to be angered by the medal awarded to Saakashvili by his Armenian counterpart, but says that Russian parliamentarians should stay out of the affairs of another country.
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rediff News (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Amid a growing controversy over the death of MBA graduate Ranbir Singh at the hands of the Uttarakhand police, his autopsy report on Sunday revealed that he was shot at close range and may have been tortured, and his family demanded a CBI probe into the killing.The report showed that the body of 22-year-old Singh, who was gunned down by the police on Friday, bore 12 marks of bullets fired from close...
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Irfan Ahmed (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
A person who I shall not mention but is a great man but most reading this will not no the individual so I shall continue, recently commented on a trip that he had taken to France and what he witnessed. The man so prostitution and begging taking place in and around Paris and when he asked the people who were escorting him around the city who are these people who are poor and have to beg in Paris the...
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ravipatel1212@gmail. | 07/04/2009
US to China: Green Dam Won't Pass Muster With WTO Jinhui helped to develop the Green Dam Youth Escort software, which the government said was needed to filter out pornographic content but is apparently also designed to consolidate existing blocks on politically sensitive websites. The government has ordered computer manufacturers to pre-install Green Dam on all new computers from July 1. Read More
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togovn99 | 07/03/2009
Vietnam Visa Support Company offers Vietnam visa arrangement for free if travelers book service on the company website. Vietnam Visa Support Company Offers Vietnam Visa Service Online for Free Vietnam Visa Support Company offers Vietnam visa arrangement for free if travelers book service on the company website. Most visitors to Vietnam need a visa to enter the country. Visas are exempted for the citizens...
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togovn99 | 07/02/2009
Visitors must obtain visa approval prior to entry. A tourist visa for Vietnam can be obtained from any Vietnam Embassy or consulate office worldwide. Visas are valid for 30 days and can be extended through our head office in Vietnam. Vietnam exempts entry visa for Asean Citizens (Laos, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, The Philippines, Cambdodia, Myanmar, Indonesia), Scandinavian citizens, Russian...