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East Asia
Suu Kyi visits Japan for the first time in 27 years
Nobel laureate and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was greeted by dozens of flag-waving well-wishers, including people from her home country, as she arrived in Japan on Saturday for a weeklong visit. She later met with other people from Myanmar, packing a Tokyo hall, and answered their questions…
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West Asia
Lebanese pro-Syrian fighters patrol at Lebanon-Syria border
In this Friday, April 12, 2013 photo, members of the Lebanese pro-Syrian Popular Committees pose for a photograph at the Lebanon-Syria border, near the northeastern Lebanese town of al-Qasr, Lebanon. Masked men in camouflage toting Kalashnikov rifles fan out through a dusty olive orchard, part of a group of Hezbollah-backed…
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South East Asia
New Year in Myanmar: people celebrate water festival
Vehicles carrying revelers line up towards a pavilion from where another group of revelers spray water during the traditional Thingyan celebrations in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Myanmar celebrated its annual water festival, known as Thingyan, from Saturday, marking the start of the New Year according to the traditional…
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South Asia
Indian children lie on the ground as a ritual for Hindu festival
Children are laid on a road as Hindu devotees step over them as part of a ritual during celebration of Shiva Gajan, a Hindu festival in Kolkata, India, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Devotees of Hindu god Shiva believe performing this ritual will ensure fulfillment of their wishes. Children are laid…
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South Asia
Bangladesh Hindu devotees perform at Charak Puja festival
A Bangladeshi Hindu devotee prepares to hang from a rope with hooks pierced in his back as part of a ritual during the Charak Puja festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, April 14, 2013. A Bangladeshi Hindu devotee carries a child as he hangs in a rope with hooks pierced in…
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South East Asia
Lion Air jet crashes into sea as all 108 passengers and crew survive
The wreckage of a Lion Air jet sits in the ocean near the airport in Bali, Indonesia on Sunday, April 14, 2013. All 108 passengers and crew survived after the new Lion Air jet crashed into the ocean and snapped into two while attempting to land Saturday on the Indonesian…
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West Asia
Israel commemorates fallen soldiers on Memorial Day
Israeli soldiers attend the ceremony marking Memorial Day at the Western Wall in Jerusalem at night of April 14, 2013. Israel commemorated its fallen soldiers on Memorial Day, which began on Sunday night. <Xinhua/JINIPIX>
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West Asia
Iranians hold funeral for soldiers who killed in Iran-Iraq war
Iranians carry the coffin of an unknown soldier during a funeral ceremony for recently found remains of unknown soldiers killed during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) in Tehran, Iran, April 14, 2013. <Xinhua/Ahmad Halabisaz>
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East Asia
Paintings exhibition opens in memory of Yushu earthquake
A visitor takes pictures of paintings at an exhibition commemorating the third anniversary of the Yushu earthquake, at the Qinghai Provincial Museum in Xining, capital of northwest China’s Qinghai Province, April 14, 2013. A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Yushu on April 14, 2010, leaving 2,698 dead and over 12,000 injured. <Xinhua/Wu…
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South Asia
Pakistani soldiers inspect blast site dug up by terrorists’ attack
Pakistani soldiers inspect the blast site on the outskirts of Mingora, the main town of northwest Pakistan’s Swat valley on April 14, 2013. Terrorists attacked two leaders of an anti-militant political party on Sunday in northwest Pakistan, killing one and wounding another in the latest attack targeting members of secular-leaning…
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