December 16, 2011
Supporters of US Army Private Bradley Manning, an Army intelligence analyst, attach banners to the perimeter fence of US Army Fort George G. Meade, where Manning’s hearing began Friday. A US soldier accused of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks appeared in court Friday for the first time, with the defense immediately alleging the military hearing [...]
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November 21, 2011
An Egyptian protester tries to put out a fire at Cairo’s Tahrir Square during clashes with security forces. At least 13 people were killed as security forces tried to clear protesters from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, casting a dark shadow over Egypt’s first elections since Hosni Mubarak’s downfall. Police and military forces used batons, tear gas [...]
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November 11, 2011
resident Obama looks on as Chinese President Hu Jintao speaks during their joint news conference on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. I had dinner this week in Beijing with an elegant 85-year-old woman named He Liliang, who had one of the great front-row seats to history. [...]
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October 25, 2011
The body of Libyan ex-leader Moamer Kadhafi was buried overnight in a secret location after days of being put on display in a market freezer, a Misrata military council member said Tuesday. The body of slain despot Moamer Kadhafi was buried overnight in a secret location after being displayed in public for days, marking an [...]
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October 23, 2011
Thailand's prime minister warned Saturday the kingdom will endure weeks more flooding, telling anxious Bangkok residents to prepare for possible metre-deep water as the inundation spread. Thai troops on Sunday reinforced vulnerable barriers along Bangkok’s Chao Phraya river after a sudden rise in the water level set back efforts to contain the worst floods in [...]
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August 13, 2011
Vietnam People's Navy Commander Nguyen Van Hien. The Vietnamese navy is upgrading its capacity with more advanced equipment and devices with peaceful intentions in protecting the country’s sovereignty, Commander Nguyen Van Hien, also deputy minister of the Ministry of Defense, told Thanh Nien. Â Â How do you assess the Vietnam People’s Navy’s current determination and [...]
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July 4, 2011
A Thai soldier stands guard outside a polling station in the country's restive southern province of Yala. Thailand’s powerful military will respect a landslide election win by allies of Thaksin Shinawatra who it toppled five years ago, the defense minister said Monday, easing fears of another coup. Thaksin’s sister Yingluck Shinawatra, a 44-year-old political newcomer [...]
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July 4, 2011
Soldiers and civilians risk their lives in removing unexploded bombs that continue to kill thousands decades after the Vietnam War Soldiers remove an unexploded bomb out of a rice field in the Mekong Delta in April Nguyen Van Cuong quit his job as bomb deactivator two years ago, but constantly thinks of the “meaningful [...]
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May 25, 2011
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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May 3, 2011
Pakistani army soldiers leave the area near the hideout of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after a ground operation by US Special Forces in Abbottabad on May 2, 2011. It took years of painstaking intelligence analysis to find Osama bin Laden in Pakistan — but only three words “It’s a go” uttered by President Barack [...]
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