Former Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz Sentenced to Hang
Voice of America and other news sources reported on October 25 that Tariq Aziz, Iraq’s former foreign minister and deputy prime minister, has...
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Iran Sends Bagsful of Cash to Karzai
U.S. taxpayers, it seems, are not the only ones being taken for a ride by Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The New York Times...
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WikiLeaks Condemned by Governments on Three Continents
The publication of nearly 400,000 secret U.S. military documents about the Iraq war by the whistleblower WikiLeaks earned condemnation from governments on three...
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China Forces Abortion on Woman at 8 Months
The Associated Press reported on October 21 that government officials in China had taken a woman from her home during her eighth month...
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Chinese “Dissident” Receives Nobel Peace Prize for Supporting US Constitutional Principles
Liu Xiaobo, co-author of "Charter 08," was arrested two days before that freedom manifesto was published on December 10, 2008, and was finally...
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Pakistan Reopens Torkham Crossing to NATO
Pakistani authorities on October 10 reopened the Torkham border crossing into Afghanistan for NATO forces, ending an 11-day blockade. The Pakistani government imposed...
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China Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Fetal Genocide
Totalitarian nations have always viewed procreation as an activity that is state business, not the hopes and dreams of ordinary people. Nazi Germany...
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Pakistan-NATO Relations Strained
Officials report that the Pakistani government blocked oil tankers and trucks carrying NATO supplies into Afghanistan. The Pakistani government claims that the blockage...
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China Embraces U.S. Debt and Technology
Item: A senior Chinese general, reported Xinhua, China’s state news agency, on September 1, just met in Beijing “with the head of a...
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Monstrous Mao
Frank Dikotter, an historian from Hong Kong, has been allowed wide access to Chinese Communist Party archives. Speaking at the Independent Literary Festival,...
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Biometric ID Scheme for 1.2 Billion Indians Meets Resistance
A costly plan by the central government of India to create unique biometric identification numbers for every Indian is meeting stiff resistance from...
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Chinese Cyber Warfare Advance in Quantum Teleportation
There’s a new arms race heating up, one that involves not nuclear weapons or satellite-guided bombs but communications. In May of this year,...
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Protests Against Quran Burning Erupt in Afghanistan
Voice of America News reported on September 10 that “thousands of people across Afghanistan” had gathered in the nation’s streets to participate in...
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Will the U.S. Bail Out Kabul Bank?
The bank run at Afghanistan’s largest bank, Kabul Bank, was precipitated by the takeover of the bank by Da Afghanistan Bank, the country’s...
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Chinese Central Bank Head Defection Rumor: Communist Power Struggle?
Japanese Financial Services Minister Shozaburo Jimi confirmed that China's central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan had not defected to the United States, something rumored...
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