January 15, 2012
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks with journalists at Tehran's Mehrabad airport after his visit to Latin American countries January 14, 2012. Iran said on Saturday it had evidence Washington was behind the latest killing of one of its nuclear scientists, state television reported, at a time when tensions over the country’s nuclear program have escalated [...]
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January 13, 2012
Nguyen Duc Nghia State President Truong Tan Sang has denied clemency for a man who was sentenced to death in Hanoi last November for beheading and robbing his ex-girlfriend in a headline-grabbing case. Nguyen Duc Nghia, 28, on November 15, 2011, sent a letter to the State President seeking a pardon, but the appeal was [...]
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December 30, 2011
Rarely in US history has the end of a war been marked with less fanfare than the withdrawal of the last troops from Iraq in time for Christmas. Indeed, you could almost be forgiven for failing to notice it at all, so arbitrary does the timing seem. US interests in Iraq will be no [...]
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December 29, 2011
Rarely in US history has the end of a war been marked with less fanfare than the withdrawal of the last troops from Iraq in time for Christmas. Indeed, you could almost be forgiven for failing to notice it at all, so arbitrary does the timing seem. US interests in Iraq will be no [...]
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December 25, 2011
China’s Vice President Xi Jinping (L) is greeted by Vietnam’s Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan (R) and Party’s Senior Politburo member Le Hong Anh (C) upon his arrival at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi December 21. Vietnam and China agreed to comprehensively boost strategic cooperation during Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to Hanoi [...]
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December 22, 2011
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev makes his annual state of the nation address in the Moscow Kremlin, on December 22. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday unveiled political reforms in response to an outburst of protests, but warned that “provocateurs and extremists” were seeking to stir unrest in the country. Two days ahead of a new [...]
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December 14, 2011
China's Vice President Xi Jinping China’s Vice President Xi Jinping will visit Vietnam on December 20-22, Vietnamnet news web site quoted the foreign ministry as saying Monday. Xi is making the visit two months after Vietnam and China signed an agreement on ground rules to solve sea matters. The agreement was inked during the visit [...]
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November 25, 2011
A protester holds an image of former president Gloria Arroyo during a protest in front of the Supreme Court in Manila on November 22, 2011. The arrest of former Philippine leader Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for vote rigging has put President Benigno Aquino’s campaign to tackle corruption where he wants it, in the headlines as he [...]
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November 24, 2011
The supercommittee's failure will trigger automatic cuts in the defence budget and domestic spending. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP It took a fictional jury of “12 Angry Men” 96 minutes to agree on a verdict of not guilty. It took “12 good people,” as supercommittee co-chairman Jeb Hensarling referred to them, three months and countless hours [...]
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November 21, 2011
Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (R) directs Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (C) and his wife Tran Thanh Kiem (L) to the opening ceremony of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, November 17. Just days before US President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrive [...]
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