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Asia NewsAmerican Woman Is Kidnapped in Afghanistan2008-01-28 04:55 - The woman and her Afghan driver were kidnapped by gunmen in Kandahar on her way to work, the provincial governor said. Rights Group Accuses Myanmar of Holding More Dissidents 2008-01-28 04:55 - Four months after a violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators, the government of Myanmar has stepped up arrests of dissenters, breaking a promise to the United Nations. World Briefing | Asia: Koreas Hold First Talks in New Year 2008-01-27 04:55 - North and South Korea held colonel-level military talks, the first dialogue between the countries this year. World Briefing | Asia: Japan: U.S. Base Must Weigh Effect on Revered C... 2008-01-27 04:55 - Plans for a U.S. air base in Japan have failed to assess their environmental impact on the dugong, an aquatic mammal considered a Japanese national treasure. The Saturday Profile: Fighting for Justice, Even at His Own Peril 2008-01-27 04:55 - Taking great risks for himself and his career, Stephen Keim, an unassuming lawyer from Australia, cleared the name of a suspected terrorist. American Kidnapped in Afghanistan 2008-01-27 04:55 - Gunmen kidnapped an American aid worker and her driver while they were traveling through southern Afghanistan early Saturday. World Briefing | Australia: How’s This for a Bad Day? 2008-01-26 06:01 - Two workers at a crocodile farm near Darwin were collecting crocodile eggs when a saltwater crocodile emerged, attacked one and locked his left arm in its jaws. World Briefing | Asia: Pakistan: U.S. Commander and Army Chief Hold Ta... 2008-01-26 06:01 - Adm. William J. Fallon, the senior American military commander in the Middle East, arrived for a one-day visit and called on President Pervez Musharraf’s successor as army chief. World Briefing | Asia: North Suspends Inter-Korean Talks 2008-01-26 06:01 - North Korea has postponed the first inter-Korean dialogue of this year, citing time constraints, the Unification Ministry in South Korea said. The countries were to hold talks Tuesday and Wednesday on repairing a cross-border railway and transporting a joint cheering squad to the Beijing Olympics this year by train. No new date was set. ?We don?t know exactly why North Korea decided to suspend this week’s inter-Korean meeting,? a ministry spokesman said. He refused to confirm a report by the Yonhap news agency that the suspension was a sign of uneasiness over the South’s new hawkish president, Lee Myung-bak, who takes office Feb. 25 and intends to make aid packages conditional on nuclear compliance under the six-nation talks. Last week, Mr. Lee unveiled plans to abolish the Unification Ministry, which he has accused of being too soft on the North. World Briefing | Asia: Thailand: Democracy Returns, and Politics Comes... 2008-01-26 06:01 - Parliament convened for the first time since last month’s election and since Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted as prime minister in a military coup in 2006. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 |
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