Mbeki holds separate meetings with incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo and challenger Alassane Ouattara
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Vote, marred by opposition complaints calling it a farce, expected to bring landslide victory to ruling National Democratic Party
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NATO says incident, which killed two other people and wounded several more, occurred outside military base in eastern city of Gardez
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Iran says yellowcake, a uranium concentrate powder processed in the country, will be used at the Isfahan conversion plant
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Some 400 protesters marched through Hong Kong's financial district, holding banners, chanting slogans calling for Liu Xiaobo's freedom
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Witnesses say driver apparently lost control of his car, and collided head-on with cyclists
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Officials say blast in Kaili city, Guizhou province, appears to have been caused by illegal storage of chemicals in next-door shop
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US ‘Supertanker,’ Palestinian fire engines have joined battle giving boost to multi-national effort that began last Thursday
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Police say they hope to draw on FBI's experience dealing with explosives and tracing origins of arms
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| Survey says a number of people think it is not necessary to be married to have a family |
A suicide bomb attack in the Mohmand region of north-west Pakistan leaves at least 40 people dead and many others injured, local officials say.
A Paris court blames US carrier Continental for the 2000 Concorde crash which killed 113, but the airline vows to appeal.
Iran and key world powers begin talks in Geneva on Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, the first in more than a year.
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| Refugees from Burma continue to flow into neighboring Thailand as fighting fails to die down in Karen State between Burmese government troops and breakaway forces of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army. |
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| The Burmese regime has ordered a blackout on news about several socially-engaged personalities from the country's arts and entertainment scene. |
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| Not only their British fans were sorely disappointed when Manchester United were thrashed 4-0 by lowly West Ham United last week—gamblers in Burma also lost heavily. |
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| Caning of convicts and asylum seekers in Malaysian prisons has reached "epidemic proportions" and is often inflicted so severely that flesh is torn off the body, Amnesty International says. |
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| Thailand on Sunday marked the 83rd birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-reigning monarch, but elaborate celebrations could not mask concern over his health and the future of the royal institution. |
(Interview) Pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi spoke with Mizzima on Monday, responding ...
Artists off-air after backing Suu Kyi, political satire
Burma’s Ministry of Information banned eight FM radio stations from broadcasting interviews or ...
WikiLeaks: Lee Kwan Yew; Asean spying for China
Singaporean prominent leader Lee Kuan Yew said that Association of Southeast Asian Nations countries ...
Junta orders closure of Shan office amid building tensions
The Burmese military has ordered a Shan ethnic militia formerly under ceasefire to close its office in ...
Myanma Airways’ two new Chinese aircraft enter service
Two Xian MA60s entered service on Wednesday for domestic carrier Myanma Airways to mark Burma’s ...
All Burma Students' Democratic Front met with renegade DKBA commander shortly after fighting erupted in November close to the Thai border
Land close to Myawaddy earmarked for development of petrol storage facilities by construction and trade company close to Burmese junta
Lack of profit-margin for private fuel stations causes a surge in black market sellers where gas can retail at nearly double the price
Continental blamed over Concorde