Dalai Lama “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ”
Barack Obama “Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”
A roadside bomb killed two U.S. Marines in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Sunday, the latest deaths in an escalation of violence that has put pressure on coalition leaders over their war strategy.
Thousands of U.S. Marines and hundreds of British soldiers have been fighting major new offensives in the past 10 days [...]
As British troops moved into the village newly freed from Taliban control, they heard one message from the anxious locals: for God’s sake do not bring back the Afghan police.
U.S. and British troops have launched a campaign to seize control of Helmand province, about half of which was in Taliban hands, and restore Afghan [...]
Britain said on Friday eight soldiers had been killed in Afghanistan, its worst death toll in a 24-hour period, and Prime Minister Gordon Brown said troops faced a “very hard summer” battling insurgents.
Five troops on foot patrol were killed by two blasts, the highest death toll in a single attack.
Britain has now lost 184 [...]
China has raised the death toll from ethnic rioting in its far west to 184 and detailed for the first time the ethnicity of those killed, while tension lingered over the city at the center of the strife.
The official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday that 137 of those killed in the mayhem on [...]
About 1,400 people are dying every week in a camp set up in Sri Lanka to detain Tamil refugees from the country’s civil war, a British newspaper reports.
Quoting senior international aid sources, The Times reported on Friday that the death toll at the Menik Farm internment will add to concerns that the Sri Lankan government [...]
Chinese riot police broke up a small demonstration by Uighurs leaving Friday prayers in a Muslim Uighur neighborhood of Urumqi, arresting several who were taken away with hands above their heads.
A crowd of several hundred gathered near the White Mosque along with riot police with submachine guns as armored police vehicles blocked roads around [...]
The widely condemned trial of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi resumed on Friday, a week after the country’s military rulers ignored a plea from the United Nations chief to drop security charges against her.
Yangon’s Northern District Court heard testimony from legal expert Khin Moe Moe, Suu Kyi’s one remaining defense witness, legal [...]
Five Sri Lankan doctors have recanted their allegations that thousands of civilians were killed in the final days of the government’s war with the Tamil Tiger separatists.
The doctors, who are being held by Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department, said on Wednesday that they were pressured into giving exaggerated figures.
“The LTTE [Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam] threatened doctors to give [...]
At least 16 students are among 25 people killed by a roadside bomb in Logar province to the south of Kabul, the Afghan capital, officials said.
The blast happened on Thursday as a convoy of police were patrolling the district of Mohammad Agha.
Four police officers were among the dead.
A lorry laden with explosives had overturned the previous night [...]
Banks of anti-riot police tried to drive a wedge into a crowd of about 1,000 Han Chinese protesters on Wednesday in Urumqi after 156 people were killed at the weekend in the region’s worst ethnic violence for decades.
Urumqi, capital of the far-flung northwestern region of Xinjiang, imposed an overnight curfew after thousands of Han [...]
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