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India airlines flying into stronger profits: study (AFP)
april 06, 2011by latadmin
AFP – India’s private airlines are set to post stronger profits this year and order up to 200 new aircraft as the economy rebounds from the global financial...
Bob Dylan makes China debut (AFP)
april 06, 2011by latadmin
AFP – Counter-culture legend Bob Dylan made his long-awaited China debut Wednesday after finally getting approval to bring his charged songs of protest and...
Activist group says Thailand used cluster shells (AP)
april 06, 2011by latadmin
AP – An activist group accused Thailand of firing cluster shells into Cambodia during border clashes this year, becoming the first nation to use them since a...
Japan focuses on hydrogen buildup after nuclear leak (Reuters)
april 06, 2011by latadmin
Reuters – Japan began pumping nitrogen gas into a crippled nuclear reactor, refocusing the fight against the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 25 years on...
Japan plant town evacuees face hard wait
april 06, 2011by latadmin
The catastrophic disaster which struck Japan on 11 March made hundreds of thousands of people homeless in a matter of minutes. Such was the power of the initial...
AP Exclusive: Voices behind China’s protest calls
april 06, 2011by latadmin
SEOUL, South Korea – Behind some of the anonymous online appeals for pro-democracy protests in China that have roiled the authoritarian government is a group of 20...
UN expert: Fukushima not as bad as Chernobyl
april 06, 2011by latadmin
VIENNA – A senior U.N. radiation expert ranks the Japanese nuclear accident “in between” those that occurred at Chernobyl and…
North Korea may be considering more attacks: U.S.
april 06, 2011by latadmin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea may be considering additional attacks and provocations, a top U.S. general told Congress on Wednesday, adding Washington needed...
Al-Qaeda coming back to Afghanistan: report (AFP)
april 06, 2011by latadmin
AFP – Al-Qaeda militants are gradually returning to eastern Afghanistan and setting up bases for the first time in years, exploiting a withdrawal of US troops in...
U.S. Diplomat Sharply Criticizes China
april 06, 2011by latadmin
SHANGHAI — The outgoing American ambassador to China, Jon M. Huntsman Jr., criticized this country’s human rights record on Wednesday in some of the sharpest...
