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East Asia
Hashimoto makes another controversial remark on wartime sex slave
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo Monday, May 27, 2013. The outspoken Japanese politician apologized Monday for saying U.S. troops should patronize adult entertainment businesses as a way to reduce rapes, but defended another controversial remark about Japan’s…
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South Asia
Bangladeshi garment workers protest to demand better working conditions
A Bangladeshi woman shouts as she participates in a protest by workers outside a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, May 27, 2013. According to local reports, hundreds of garment workers who were protesting to demand better working conditions and to increase in pay hike. Bangladeshi people gather during a…
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East Asia
Indian PM Manmohan Singh arrives in Tokyo for four-day official visit
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speaks to journalists upon arrival at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Monday, May 27, 2013. Singh is here for a four-day official visit. <AP Photo/Koji Sasahara>
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West Asia
EU ends arms embargo on Syrian rebels to press Assad’s regime
The European Union said its member states within days will be able to send weapons to help Syria’s outgunned rebels, seeking to pressure President Bashar Assad’s regime ahead of planned peace talks mediated by the United States and Russia. Though no EU country has any such plans now to send…
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East Asia
China, US officials pave way for first Xi-Obama summit in early June
Chinese President Xi Jinping met U.S. National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon on Monday, forecasting that his upcoming talks with U.S. President Barack Obama will feature discussions on important and strategic issues. “I look forward to meeting with President Obama in California in earlier June,” Xi said at the start of…
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West Asia
66 dead from coordinated car bombings in Iraqi capital Baghdad
A coordinated wave of car bombings tore through mostly Shiite areas of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 66 people and maiming nearly 200 as insurgents step up the bloodshed roiling Iraq. The attacks in markets and other areas frequented by civilians are the latest sign of a rapid deterioration…
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South East Asia
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi slams two-child limit for Muslim families
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Islamic leaders expressed dismay Monday over plans by authorities in western Myanmar to revive a two-child limit on Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists and comes amid accusations of ethnic cleansing. Some Buddhists, however, welcomed the plan for…
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West Asia
Artist Hend Adnan: A woman revolution against the mind of donkeys!
Well. I wrote previously on Hend Adnan’s works of art, but when she introduces a new idea, in a unique way, I must review that, as I believe it is the reader’s right to know. Talking about rights, and duties, the idea of having four wives is well commonly attached…
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West Asia
Afghan girls now go to school in post-Taliban Afghanistan
Afghan girls have a class at a school in Jawzjan province, Afghanistan, on May 26, 2013. Some 8.4 million students, 39 percent of them girls, now go to school in the post-Taliban Afghanistan, according to officials. Afghan children have a class at a school in Jawzjan province, Afghanistan, on May…
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South Asia
Pakistan frees 45 Indian fishermen as goodwill gesture
Released Indian fishermen wait for immigration clearance at Wagah Border in eastern Pakistan’s Lahore on May 25, 2013. Pakistan on Friday freed 45 India fishermen on humanitarian grounds as a goodwill gesture, officials said. Pakistan and India routinely arrest fishermen after they cross the maritime boundaries for fishing. <Xinhua/Sajjad>
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