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Afghan MP among 19 killed in suicide attack 

December 30, 2011
Afghan MP among 19 killed in suicide attack 

  A suicide bomber attacked a funeral in northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday killing at least 19 people including an MP and wounding dozens of others, officials said. The attacker detonated his vest after mourners gathered for the funeral of a government official in Taluqan city, the capital of Takhar province. "We have 19 dead including [...]

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Afghan MP among 19 killed in suicide attack 

December 25, 2011
Afghan MP among 19 killed in suicide attack 

  A suicide bomber attacked a funeral in northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday killing at least 19 people including an MP and wounding dozens of others, officials said. The attacker detonated his vest after mourners gathered for the funeral of a government official in Taluqan city, the capital of Takhar province. "We have 19 dead including [...]

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Vietnamese police accept shortcomings in in-custody death scandal 

December 19, 2011
Vietnamese police accept shortcomings in in-custody death scandal 

Nguyen Thi Thanh Tuyen holds a photo of her husband, Nguyen Cong Nhut, who died at the Ben Cat District Police Station in Binh Duong Province on April 25 during an interrogation related to crimes at a local tire factory where he worked. Police in Binh Duong Province have said they are responsible for managing their officials [...]

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China's suicide rate 'among highest in world' 

September 9, 2011
China's suicide rate 'among highest in world' 

The sun rises over highrise buildings in downtown Beijing in 2010. A person tries to kill themselves in China every two minutes, the government and state media said Thursday, giving the country one of the highest suicide rates in the world. China’s suicide rate is 22.23 people out of every 100,000, the Centre for Disease [...]

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Suicide bomber kills Kandahar mayor 

July 27, 2011
Suicide bomber kills Kandahar mayor 

File photo of an Afghan wheeling his bicycle across a street in Kandahar City. The mayor of Kandahar, the biggest city in southern Afghanistan and the birthplace of the Taliban movement, was killed in a suicide attack on Wednesday, police said. The death comes two weeks after the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the so-called [...]

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Suicide bomb destroys Pakistan police station 

May 25, 2011
Suicide bomb destroys Pakistan police station 

Pakistani security personnel and volunteers search for victims in the rubble of a destroyed police station following a suicide bomb attack in Peshawar on May 25, 2011. A Taliban suicide bomber flattened a Pakistani police station on Wednesday, killing six people in the latest brazen assault on security forces since US troops killed Osama bin [...]

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Pakistan's parliament condemns bin Laden raid 

May 14, 2011
Pakistan's parliament condemns bin Laden raid 

Family members accompany a man, who was injured by a suicide bomb blast in Charsadda, as he is treated at Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar May 13, 2011. Pakistan’s parliament condemned on Saturday the US raid to find and kill Osama bin Laden, calling for a review of US ties and warning that Pakistan could [...]

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Suicide attack kills 27 Pakistan army recruits 

February 10, 2011
Suicide attack kills 27 Pakistan army recruits 

Pakistani paramilitary soldiers are seen on patrol. A teenage suicide bomber killed up to 27 Pakistani army recruits at a parade ground on Thursday, an attack the Taliban said was vengeance for US drone strikes and local military offensives. Wearing school uniform, the boy blew himself up at the parade inside a heavily guarded military [...]

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High school vice-principal accused of having sex with 11th-grader 

December 14, 2010

  A high school vice principal in the northern province of Vinh Phuc has rejected claims that he has confessed to having sex with one of his students. News website VietnamNet reported Wednesday that the family of a schoolgirl has said Nguyen Van Huan of Ben Tre High School has admitted to having sex with their [...]

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Airbase attacked, 10 killed in Afghan market bombing 

November 13, 2010
Airbase attacked, 10 killed in Afghan market bombing 

An Afghan soldier stands guard after clashes with Taliban fighters near Jalalabad airport. The Taliban launched a pre-dawn attack on a NATO base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, triggering a firefight with foreign and Afghan forces that left eight militants dead. Another 10 people, including three children, were killed in a motorcycle bombing in a [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...