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South Asia
Four Small Bombs Blasted In Pune, India
In this picture taken Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, an Indian police officer lays on the ground as he carefully examines evidence at the site of one of four small blasts in the city of Pune, India. India’s home minister says four small explosions took place in the western Indian city…
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‘About 10 Million Yemenis Are Starving’
Yemenis receive food from international aid agencies in capital Sanaa on August 2, 2012. The United Nations has warned that about 45 percent of Yemen’s population, or about 10 million, are suffering from food scarcity and malnutrition is affecting about one million children under five years old in Yemen. <Xinhua/Mohammed>…
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South Asia
A Pakistani Crew Returns Home After Captivity By Somali Pirates
Relatives hug a released Pakistani crew member of a Malaysia-owned ship seized by the Somali pirates, upon his arrival in southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, on Aug. 2, 2012. The seven Pakistani crew members aboard MV Albedo, who had been held hostage by Somali pirates from November 2010, returned…
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East Asia
Kim Jong-un Poses With Chinese Delegation
Top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un (6th R) poses for a group photo with a Chinese delegation led by Wang Jiarui (6th L), head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, in Pyongyang, DPRK, Aug. 2, 2012.…
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Putin-Cameron In Olympic Diplomacy
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron watch women’s -78kg and men’s 100kg judo competition at London 2012 Olympic Games, London, Britain, Aug. 2, 2012. <Xinhua/Wu Xiaoling> news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Hainan Fishermen Restart Fishing After Moratorium
Fishermen return in a boat full of fish at Tanmengang wharf in Qionghai, south China’s Hainan Province, Aug. 2, 2012. Fishermen in Hainan restarted fish catching as soon as the moratorium, which lasted from May 16 to August 1, ended on Wednesday. <Xinhua/Meng Zhongde> news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
Ban Announces Annan’s Resignation As UN Envoy
Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon (R) and Kofi Anna meet the media after a Security Council meeting at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, in this file photo taken on June 7, 2012. Ban Ki-moon announced on Aug. 2, 2012 the resignation of the U.N.-Arab…
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West Asia
Assad Defies U.N. Resolution To Resign
FILE – This June 3, 2012 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech at the parliament in Damascus, Syria. Arab countries on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012 pushed ahead with a symbolic U.N. General Assembly resolution that tells Assad to resign…
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Ukranians Evacuate From Syrian Civil War
Women and their children look out of the window in a Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry’s bus after arriving at Kiev’s Boryspil airport from Syria late Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012. A Ukrainian military plane evacuated 199 people, including 177 Ukrainians, 15 Poles and seven Syrians due to the intensifying civil war…
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East Asia
South Korean Weightlifter Stopped By Injury
Sa Jaehyouk of South Korea is helped after being hurt during the men’s 77kg weightlifting event at London 2012 Olympic Games, London, Britain, Aug. 1, 2012. Sa Jaehyouk did not finish the match. <Xinhua/Chen Xiaowei> news@thesian.asia
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