Pakistani Militants Kill 2 Polio Workers
FAISALABAD, Pakistan—Pakistani militants killed two polio-vaccination workers Sunday, just as the western city of Quetta mourned the deaths of at least 24 people, mostly women, in twin attacks the previous day. The weekend of bloodshed roiled Pakistan a week after the swearing-in of a new government, led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, that had promised [...]
Chinese spaceship blasts off from Gobi Desert China launches manned spacecraft STORY HIGHLIGHTS This is China’s fifth crewed space mission and is scheduled to last 15 days It is the first high-profile launch since Xi Jinping became president in March The mission seeks to test technology related to constructing a space station China’s march into [...]
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Farmers say they have begun working under the new policies, which are designed to boost production by giving managers and workers financial incentives. Foreign analysts say the moves to spur North Korea’s moribund economy suggest Pyongyang is taking cues from Beijing on how to incorporate free market ideas within its rigid socialist system. North Korean [...]
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The Chinese baby that was rescued from a sewage pipe fell in accidentally, the baby’s mother has said. The mother, who has not been named, reportedly told police she unexpectedly gave birth on the toilet and that the baby slipped in to the sewer. She is reported to have raised the initial alarm, despite not [...]
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Girls from CNN Freedom Project help bust U.S. child pornographer Government: 100,000 sex workers are kids (CNN) – A convicted child pornographer in Pennsylvania was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison, thanks in part to three girls featured in CNN’s Freedom Project who provided information to U.S. authorities. Jeffrey Herschell, 54, of Washington, [...]
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The first US drone strike since Pakistan’s general elections comes after an announcement by US President Obama that the strikes would be scaled back. The latest of the contentious strikes killed at least four people. The drone attack occurred on Wednesday in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, which has been the target of anti-terror drone attacks [...]
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Explosion and gunfire shake Kabul Afghan security forces said they were responding to the attack There has been a large explosion in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul, followed by heavy gunfire. Afghan Channel One TV quoted police as saying a group of assailants had entered the Directorate of the Afghan Public Protection Force [...]
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Aleppo soap: War threatens an ancient tradition By Golda ArthurBBC World Service Aleppo soap – widely considered to be the first soap ever made – is popular across the Middle East and far beyond. But the intense fighting is making business in Syria’s second city all but impossible – and the soap’s future is uncertain. [...]
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China is one of a number of countries that has gained permanent observer status on the Arctic Council. At a meeting in Sweden, the eight members of the Council accepted India, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. However following dissent from Canada, a decision on the EU’s application has been deferred. The permanent observers have [...]
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Scientists in India have unveiled a new low-cost vaccine against a deadly virus that kills about half a million children around the world each year. Rotavirus causes dehydration and severe diarrhoea and spreads through contaminated hands and surfaces and is rampant in Asia and Africa. India says clinical trials show the new vaccine, Rotavac, [...]
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