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Yemen Starts Probe On Brutality During Anti-Gov’t Protest Last Year
A Yemeni walks past pictures of protesters allegedly killed during the 2011 uprising against former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, at the Change Square in Sanaa, Yemen, Sept. 23, 2012. Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Saturday issued a decree to investigate alleged human rights violations that occurred during protests last…
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Objects From Ruins Of Pompeii Set To Be Exhibited In British Museum
Undated handout photo issued by the British Musuem Thursday Sept. 20, 2012 of a wall painting of the baker Terentius Neo and his wife, from the House of Terentius Neo, Pompeii, AD 50-79. as dozens of objects recovered from the ruins of Roman cities Pompeii and Herculaneum will go on…
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Sri Lankan Muslims Protest Against Anti-Islam Film In Colombo
Sri Lankan Muslims hit with a broom and sandals on a banner carrying portraits of Pastor Terry Jones, left, U.S. President Barack Obama and Christian activist Steve Klein, right, during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. Hundreds of Muslims in Sri Lanka’s capital protested Wednesday against…
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Renewed Fightings Drive More People To Refugee Camp In South Sudan
In this photo taken Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, refugees wait in line to receive packages of food that had been air-dropped by the World Food Programme (WFP) the previous day, in Yida camp, South Sudan. Newly arrived refugees at the camp along the volatile South Sudan-Sudan border say renewed fighting…
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Kurdish Forces Attack Turkish Military Convoy, Killing Seven
Picture taken on Sept. 18, 2012 shows an attacked military truck on the Bingol-Mus highway in Turkey. At least seven soldiers of the Turkish security forces were killed and more than 50 others wounded when suspected members of Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) attacked a military convoy in Bingol province in…
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Papyrus Script Saying Jesus Had Wife Found By Havard Professor
This Sept. 5, 2012 photo released by Harvard University shows a fourth century fragment of papyrus that divinity professor Karen L. King says is the only existing ancient text that quotes Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife. King, an expert in the history of Christianity, says the text contains…
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Egyptian President Discusses Syrian Situation With Turkish FM
In this image released by the Egyptian President, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, right, meets with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. Turkey, which hosts some 80,000 Syrian refugees, has accused Syria of “state terrorism” and has allowed rebels to use…
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Putin Attends Military Drill At Naval Base Near Black Sea
Russian President Vladimir Putin, third right back to camera, attends military strategic command and staff exercises Caucasus-2012 at a naval base near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, Russia, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. <AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service> news@theasian.asia
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Lebanese Hold Rally To Denounce Anti-Islam U.S. Movie
A veiled Hezbollah supporters ties a banner on her friend’s forehead, that reads in Arabic, “At your service God’s prophet,” during a rally denouncing an anti-Islam film that has provoked a week of unrest in Muslim countries worldwide, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday Sept. 17, 2012. Hezbollah’s…
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66th U.N. General Assembly Session Comes To A Close
Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser (L), president of the 66th session of the General Assembly, speaks during the closing session of the General Assembly 66th session at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, Sept. 17, 2012. The UN General Assembly concluded its 66th session on Monday. <Xinhua/Shen Hong> news@theasian.asia
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