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Armed men attack Hanoi hotel guests 

November 23, 2011

  Around 20 young men brought swords and home-made guns to attack guests at a Hanoi hotel early Tuesday.   The men broke into Bach Duong hotel at 1:30 a.m. They went straight into a room, shooting the ceiling and beating the guests there.   Police said the room had been rented by Nguyen Viet Dung [...]

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Libyan rebels say military chief killed 

July 29, 2011
Libyan rebels say military chief killed 

Mustafa Abdel Jalil, top rebel leader and chairman of the Libyan National Transitional Council, makes a statement on the death of Abdel Fattah Younes in Benghazi July 28, 2011. Libya’s rebels said their military commander was shot dead in an incident that remained shrouded in mystery, pointing either to divisions within the movement trying to [...]

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Fresh Libya civilian deaths pile pressure on NATO 

June 21, 2011
Fresh Libya civilian deaths pile pressure on NATO 

A Royal Air Force Tornado aircraft prepares to land at RAF Marham, Norfolk. The Libyan government said on Monday 19 civilians were killed in a NATO air strike on the home of one of Muammar Gaddafi’s top officials, a day after NATO admitted killing civilians in a separate aerial attack. Libyan officials took reporters to [...]

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Vietnam to tighten digital information security after cyber attacks 

June 14, 2011
Vietnam to tighten digital information security after cyber attacks 

  The Vietnamese prime minister Friday asked all government agencies and local authorities to strengthen measures to protect digital information.   The order followed reports that hundreds of Vietnam websites, including the portals of many government agencies, have been hacked recently.   PM Nguyen Tan Dung required the agencies and local authorities to apply measures that [...]

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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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Saudi diplomat shot dead in Karachi 

May 16, 2011
Saudi diplomat shot dead in Karachi 

Pakistani security officials gather outside the Saudi consulate in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on May 11, 2011, following a grenade attack. A Saudi diplomat was killed in a drive-by shooting near the consulate in Karachi on Monday, the second attack on Saudi interests in Pakistan’s biggest city in less than a week, officials said. [...]

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Gbagbo’s forces attack Ouattara’s Ivory Coast base 

April 10, 2011
Gbagbo’s forces attack Ouattara’s Ivory Coast base 

A French soldier speaks to locals during a patrol in the “Deux Plateaux” district of Abidjan. Forces loyal to Ivory Coast incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo have stepped up a counter-attack on presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara by firing on his hotel headquarters in Abidjan. Rebel forces seeking to install Ouattara, who won an election last November [...]

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Gunman wounds congresswoman, kills six 

January 9, 2011
Gunman wounds congresswoman, kills six 

People gather for a vigil at University Medical Center for US Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was in critical condition after being shot in the head by a gunman in Tucson, Arizona. A gunman shot a congresswoman in the head, seriously wounding her, and killed six other people in a shooting rampage at a public meeting [...]

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Vietnamese student assaulted in Australia not of danger 

January 9, 2011
Vietnamese student assaulted in Australia not of danger 

19-year-old Vu Ngoc Minh, a student at Deakin University’s Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology, is in critical condition after being beaten by a group of youngsters in Australia An overseas Vietnamese student is still in critical condition more than a week after being beaten up by a group of youngsters in Melbourne on December [...]

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Two Koreas exchange fire across maritime border 

November 23, 2010
Two Koreas exchange fire across maritime border 

  North Korea on Tuesday fired dozens of artillery shells at a South Korean island, in one of the heaviest bombardments on the South since the Korean War ended in 1953. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, who has pursued a hard line with the North since taking office nearly three years ago, said a response [...]

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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...