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Pigeon sells for a pretty penny
A Chinese businessman has paid a world record 310,000 euros (NZ$488,920) for a Belgian pigeon, highlighting Asia's huge and growing interest in...More Afghan women jailed for ‘moral crimes’, says HRW
The number of women and girls in Afghanistan imprisoned for moral crimes has risen by 50% in the past 18 months, a rights group says. Human Rights Watch says many are jailed for running away from home, often from forced marriages or domestic violence. Others are behind bars as a result of alleged adultery, in truth often involving rape, it said. The government should get tough on abusers of women and stop blaming women who are crime victims, said HRW. It said 600 women and girls were now imprisoned for moral crimes - the highest since the US-led overthrow of the Taliban 12 years ago....Freeport tunnel victims all evacuated
Thirty-eight workers buried in a collapsed tunnel at the Big Gossan underground training facility at the PT Freeport...Kyrgyzstan Bent on Evicting US Air Base in 2014
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan's president has reaffirmed that next year the Central Asian nation will evict the U.S. air base that supports military operations in nearby Afghanistan. President Almazbek Atambayev has repeatedly pledged to shut the Manas Transit Center next year, dismissing U.S. assumptions the base would remain in exchange for higher rent. The United States pays $60...Experts: Japan Nuke Plant Needs More Fault Data
TOKYO — Experts commissioned by the operator of a Japanese nuclear plant that faces possible closure because of a suspected active seismic fault say a decision should wait, citing insufficient data. Tuesday's request came a day before Japan's nuclear watchdog is to rule on the future of the Tsuruga No. 2 reactor in western Japan. The watchdog's own panel said last week that the...Markets choppy ahead of Bernanke testimony
LONDON (AP) — Markets were choppy Tuesday as investors remained cautious in the run-up to a much-anticipated statement from U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke.Defectors Accuse North of Stirring Unrest During 1980 S. Korea Uprising
SEOUL — As South Korea marks the 33rd anniversary of a citizen's uprising, there are questions about whether North Korea secretly attempted to stir social turmoil at the time. A former commander of U.S. Forces Korea, retired Army General John Wickham, Jr., says it is “plausible” North Korea may have tried to take advantage of unrest in the South during the 1980 uprising, but that he never saw evidence of that. Wickham, who subsequently served as U.S. Army chief of staff, recalls that he and then-U.S. Ambassador William Gleysteen had “limited intelligence on sources of unrest and activity” in Gwangju, but “We did conclude that the unrest and uprising...Report calls for a radical shift in toward reducing inequality
SHARE NAIROBI, 21 May 2013 (IRIN) - The hunger afflicting millions of people in the world’s poorest regions will not end unless there is radical shift in governance and development work toward narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor, says a new by the aid agency Oxfam. According to the report, No Accident: Resilience and inequality of risk, the current focus on building resilience among the poorest women and men is promising, but more could be achieved if “risk is more equally shared globally and across societies”. “This will require a major shift in development work, which for too long has avoided dealing with risk,” the report says. “More...India Court Extends Police Custody of Cricketers
By ROMIT GUHA NEW DELHI—Three Indian cricketers arrested last week for allegedly fixing parts of matches in the Indian Premier League were ordered to remain in police custody for five more days at a court hearing in New Delhi on Tuesday. The three players from the Rajasthan Royals IPL franchise have been held at a police facility in New Delhi since Friday after they were arrested last week for alleged spot-fixing, or deliberately rigging certain parts of a match for illicit financial gain. Enlarge Image Close Lawyers for the three cricketers—Ajit Chandila, Ankeet Chavan and S. Sreesanth—say they are innocent. They confirmed that the three players have been sent back to police custody. The...Why is India’s Dr Kotnis so popular in China?
Every time a Chinese leader visits India, he usually meets the family of an Indian doctor who died while treating wounded Chinese soldiers in the conflict with Japan in the 1940s. Dwarkanath S Kotnis was sent to China in 1938 as part of an Indian medical mission after China was invaded by Japan. He served on the frontline and saved the lives of many Chinese soldiers. After four years in China, he fell ill and died at the age of 32. In China, Dr Kotnis fell in love and married a Chinese nurse who worked with him. Quo Qinglan, who remained in China, died last year in the city of Dalian. They had a son, who was studying to become a doctor but fell ill and died when he was 24. The army has...Indonesia
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