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They come in search of justice – but end up thrown into jail
Report reveals how Chinese citizens with grievances are being silenced in prisons government says do not exist
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Hiroshima hails Barack, but he's too busy to visit
Thursday, 12 November 2009
It was a speech Tsutomu Yamaguchi had waited 64 years to hear. Watching television at home in Hiroshima in April, one of Japan's most famous A-bomb survivors heard an American president call for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Afghan police need three years of training
Thursday, 12 November 2009
The Afghan National Police needs another three years of training and investment to be turned into a credible force, said a senior British officer. Lieutenant Colonel Jasper de Quincey Adams, chief mentor to the ANP, said a professional force would not be created overnight, but methods such as "embedded partnering", where British and Afghan forces live and work by each other, were making progress.
How an old banger turned Nepali minister into a slapper
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Memo to all Nepali civil servants: when junior minister Karina Begum arrives in town, send the smartest, swankiest government car to pick her up. Or else expect to get slapped.
Obama's Asian odyssey
Thursday, 12 November 2009
In a world of changing realities, all eyes will be on the President on his tour of the Far East. But can he make any real impact? Rupert Cornwell reports
Thai demand for Thaksin extradition is turned down
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Cambodia refused a request from Thailand yesterday to extradite fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, adding fuel to a widening diplomatic row that threatens to worsen Thailand's political crisis.
How a single bullet halted Taliban attack
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
A sniper ended a Taliban attack in an Afghan village with a single shot, it was revealed today.
Suspect who bought a new face to evade justice is held
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Man accused of Lindsay Hawker's murder is caught, despite plastic surgery
US 'wants to guard Pakistan's nuclear arsenal'
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Concern that weapons could fall into enemy hands prompted drastic plan, claims 'New Yorker' report
Thai fury as Thaksin starts Cambodian job
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
The Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, wanted at home for a conviction on corruption charges, arrived in Cambodia yesterday to take up a government job offer that has set off a diplomatic row with Bangkok.
North and South Korea clash on the high seas
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
US envoy to visit Pyongyang for rare one-on-one talks with reclusive communist regime
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