• Afghanistan on 6 January 2012

    <Pajhwok Afghan News> reports Karzai’s order to transfer US prison to Afghan control. news@theasian.asia

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    Russia Blastoff Soyuz with 3 Astronauts

    Photo released by NASA shows astronauts waving goodbye from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Dec. 21, 2011. A Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) blasted off from Russia’s launch facility in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. <Photo: Xinhua/NASA> news@theasian.asia    

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