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Afghans angry at US soldiers who drove away in the night leaving rent unpaid
Only sign of huge US base is pile of rubbish and broken vehicles – and a festering land dispute in a volatile province.
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Syrian crisis 'could kill 100,000 in next year'
International envoy Lakhdar Brahimi warns that Syria risks 'Somalisation' and control by warlords as situation deteriorates
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Delhi gangrape timeline: 13 days that stopped the nation
From December 16, when the 23-year-old was gang raped in a moving bus in Delhi, to December 29, when she died of her grievous injuries in a Singapore hospital, here is a sequence of 13 days that stopped a nation in its tracks.
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Vietnam maintains 25 years' prison time for bloggers
In a recent ruling, Vietnam has refused leniency to two bloggers who disobeyed the state by allegedly posting anti-government messages online.
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Increasing Barbarity: Gaining a Clearer View of the Syrian Civil War
After spending months reporting on the conflict, a SPIEGEL journalist has pieced together a realistic view of the situation on the ground, and reports that dictator Bashar Assad's fall seems inevitable. But as the fighting grows more barbarous on both sides, he worries what the ultimate price will be.
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Raped by 42 men in 40 days. Sixteen years later, she awaits justice
In Kerala, her case is known as the Suryanelli rape case, after the village where she lived with her parents. They have moved houses twice since then, driven out they say by jeering neighbours.
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Jakarta sinking as water supplies dry up
Experts in Indonesia are preparing to build a huge wall to stop the ocean from swamping parts of Jakarta.
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Japanese man is world's oldest person
Jiroemon Kimura, already the world's oldest man, is now the world's oldest person after Dina Manfredini of Johnston, Iowa died on December 17 at the age of 115.
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Galaxy Note II sales hit 1 million in South Korea
Despite initial complaints that Samsung’s (005930) original Galaxy Note smartphone was too big and too clunky to ever see success, the handset sold through the roof and sparked the phablet phenomenon.
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A rare New Year's address by King Jon Un
North Korea's leader has used a rare New Year’s address to announce a new focus on improving the country’s economy. He also said he would seek to end the North’s decades-old confrontation with the South.
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Japan’s Population Falls by Record in 2012 as Births Decrease
Japan’s population last year declined by 212,000, the biggest drop on record, according to an estimate by the nation’s health ministry.
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New Year, New Problem? Pakistan's Tactical Nukes
Pakistan is developing a new generation of smaller "tactical" nuclear weapons. The dangers and challenges such arms present are very real.
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Guess What The World’s Most Active Twitter City Is?
No surprise that the U.S., whose 141.8 million accounts represent 27.4% of all Twitter users, is the most active country on Twitter. But the most twitterific city? It’s a little bit of a curveball.
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Is yellow the new red? In China, running yellow traffic lights is officially illegal.
China’s new traffic regulation that went into effect on Tuesday bans motor vehicles from running yellow lights, but it has also left drivers across the nation confused, sceptical and even angry.
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Meet the four social networks bigger than Facebook (in some countries)
With its billion or so active members, Facebook once again dominates the World Map of Social Networks. As the No. 1-ranked social network in...
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China, the American Press, and the State Department
It’s time for the State Department to take up the matter of American reporters in China, and Chinese reporters in America.
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Fake Braces Trend Takes Asia By Storm
The problem? The fake braces can be deadly.
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US drone kills senior Pakistan tribal leader
Commander Mullah Nazir, known to have ties to Afghan Taliban, among at least nine fighters killed in separate strikes.
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Japanese Man Vacations on Syrian Front Lines
Toshifumi Fujimoto has been taking pictures with his cameras and a compact video camera in Aleppo, the heart of the Syrian conflict.
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The Dictator's Daughter: Tweets from Gulnara Karimova
Gulnara Karimova, has been many things: Uzbekistan’s ambassador to Spain and permanent representative to the United Nations, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, a Harvard student, a patron to Uzbekistan’s fledgling fashion industry, a jewelry designer, a pop star, and, most recently, the country’s best known twitterer.
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