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16.04.2009, 22:36
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There is no shortage of candidates in the Indian presidential election, including one 45-year-old transsexual, who says it’s her sexual identity that will defeat the political heavyweights.
04.09.2010, 15:15
A Thai parliamentary commission of the ruling coalition and opposition has spent three hours in a Bangkok jail cell talking to alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout, who faces extradition to the US after a recent court ruling.
Viktor Bout case
09.09.2009, 09:32
The tradition of ritual suicides by widowed women is still respected in certain communities of India and, despite long ago being prohibited, such cases continue to occur.
23.03.2010, 10:47
China has accused the world's leading search engine of breaking the promises it made when entering the market, after Google stopped self-censoring search results in the country.
27.03.2010, 10:18
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In parts of India, witch hunting is not merely a dark part of history. It is still happening today.
11.03.2010, 06:34
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China is a threat to cyber security and Internet freedom, both of which America should promote. That's according to the US Congress, which praised Google's decision to fight against Chinese web censorship.
25.10.2010, 16:31
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A high-ranking Israeli official on Sunday slammed a statement from Catholic bishops, who called for international organizations to lead the cause of Palestinian statehood.
06.06.2009, 00:37
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Africans are learning the hard way that in China the consequences for drug smuggling are more grave than a stained criminal record or a long sentence behind bars. Drug smugglers face a life penalty, but not in prison.
29.05.2009, 18:31
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Japan's attempts to undermine the Russian sovereignty of the disputed Kuril Islands will not be tolerated, said President Dmitry Medvedev as he accepted the credentials of newly-appointed ambassadors in Moscow.
14.04.2010, 20:06
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Poland is disturbed by a Belgian newspaper’s cartoons on the recent deadly plane crash, which killed Polish president Lech Kazcynski, his wife and dozens of Polish political, cultural and religious elite.
Published: 09 August, 2010, 08:10
Edited: 09 August, 2010, 19:59
During two years of hearings, a Pakistan citizen who was charged with being the only terrorist woman in Al Qaeda has turned into an unarmed person who allegedly managed fighting six American officers.
This is a shoddy piece of half-baked journalism. The opening statement from the prosecution was that Dr Aafia Siddiqui was NOT al Qaida, nor did she have any links or connections with any terrorist organisation, the Taliban or any other banned groups. Had she been involved in any sort of illegal activities it is quite obvious the FBI would have had her charged as such. Furthermore, she was kidnapped and renditioned to America without any formal extradition request, thereby making the trial illegal. Throughout the trial she attempted to sack her legal team because they were not representing her interests but the judge Richard Berman said she was not mentally fit to make such a decvision. Yet at the same time the judge declared she was mentally fit to stand trial despite prison psychiatrists arguing to the contrary. This story should be about the injustice thrown at this brilliant neuro-scientists who was swept up and kidnapped, brutalised and tortured in the now-discredited War on Terror.