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Throwing Mortar Boards For World Record
Backdropped by Tower Bridge, hundreds of students from more than 100 nationalities toss their mortar boards into the air in a Guinness World Record attempt for the most people throwing mortar boards simultaneously outside City Hall in London as part of World Record London to mark the news that more…
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Illumination On Tower Bridge To Celebrate Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
A new eco-friendly lighting system illuminates the Tower Bridge in London to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and the London 2012 Olympic Games, May 30, 2012. <Xinhua> news@theasian.asia
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World
Egyptians Defy Result Of Presidential Election
An Egyptian protester holds up a shoe with the sole covered in pictures of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, former President Hosni Mubarak, U.S. minister of Foreign affairs Hillary Clinton, and an Israeli flag at Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, May 29, 2012. Overnight, protesters stormed and burned the campaign…
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West Asia
Koffi Annan In Syria: “We Are At A Tipping Point”
In this photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria, in Damascus, Syria. The meeting Tuesday followed a massacre in Houla, Syria, last week in which more than 100 people were killed,…
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West Asia
Bahraini Activist Resumes Activities Soon After Release
Bahraini human rights activist Zainab al-Khawaja holds her daughter Jude, 2, as she speaks by phone to a journalist Tuesday, May 29, 2012, at a coffee shop in Abu Saiba, Bahrain, hours after her release from jail. Al-Khawaja spent more than a month in jail on various charges relating to…
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West Asia
Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Syrian refugees who fled their houses from Bab Dreib neighborhood in Homs province, walk at an under construction home which they took with their families temporarily, at the Lebanese-Syrian border town of Arssal, eastern Lebanon, Tuesday, May 29, 2012. Thousands of Syrian refugees who fled the violence in their country…
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Politics
Scholars prefer FTA to TPP for East Asian countries
Scholars of South Korea, Japan and China exchange talks under the theme of Nuclear Security and Regional Community in the second East Asian Community Forum held at the International Studies Hall in Korea University on May 26, 2012. The scholars of South Korea and Japan expressed opinion that the Trans-Pacific Partnership…
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Images Of About 100 Yemeni Soldiers Killed By A Comrade
A Yemeni woman uses her mobile phone to take photos of images of soldiers who were killed in a suicide bomb attack last week in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, May 28, 2012. A Yemeni soldier who detonated a bomb hidden in his uniform during a rehearsal for a military parade has…
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South Asia
Innocent Smile Of A Pakistani Girl Carrying Coal On Head
Pakistani Saima Khadim, 5, carries remains of coal that she collected from a brick factory, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, May 28, 2012. <AP/Newsis> news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
Scene Of Massacre By Syrian Troops In Houla
This frame grab made from an amateur video provided by Syrian activists on Monday, May 28, 2012, purports to show the massacre in Houla on May 25 that killed more than 100 people, many of them children. The amateur footage shows people running along a street, purportedly just after the…
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