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Bombers targeted staff at Israel’s embassies in India and Georgia on Monday, wounding four people, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of involvement. The New Delhi bomb wrecked a vehicle with diplomatic plates and Israel’s parliamentary television channel said the wife of Israel’s defence attache and her driver [...]
The US embassy in Thailand warned on Friday that “foreign terrorists” could be looking to conduct attacks in areas of the capital, Bangkok, frequented by tourists and told its citizens in a message to be careful. Walter Braunohler, spokesman at the embassy, declined to give further details but said: “We’re warning all US citizens to [...]
Top US officials strongly condemned a video that appears to show Marines urinating on dead insurgents in Afghanistan, while the Pentagon said it had identified the unit involved. US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the behavior in the video was “utterly deplorable,” US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke of her “total dismay,” and both [...]
A remote region of northern China that began growing grapes for fine wine just a decade ago has beaten the centuries-old French wine-producing region of Bordeaux in a blind tasting held in Beijing. A group of wine experts — five French and five Chinese — ranked the bottles from the remote and sparsely populated Ningxia [...]
Thailand’s government has put forward proposals for an amnesty that seems designed to allow self-exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra to return home without serving a sentence for abuse of power, Thai media reported on Wednesday. The proposed amnesty was agreed at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, media said, but no mention was made of it [...]
President Barack Obama signalled a pivotal US shift to Asia on Thursday, pledging not to let Washington’s budget crunch compromise his expansive vision and military presence in the region. “The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay,” Obama declared in the Australian parliament on the latest stop of a tour [...]
More than 1000 protesters, including pregnant women, marched in Hong Kong Sunday opposing the growing number of mainland Chinese women coming to the city to give birth, organisers said. Women from mainland China are keen to have babies in Hong Kong — a city that has had semi-autonomous status within China since it ceased to [...]
An earthquake of 7.3 magnitude rocked eastern Turkey on Sunday, with a seimological institute saying up to 1,000 people could lie dead under the rubble of dozens of collapsed buildings. Turkey’s strongest earthquake in years struck Van, a large eastern city populated mainly by Kurds. “Five hundred to 1,000 people are estimated to have been [...]
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, his presidential hopes shattered by a sex assault scandal that rocked his homeland, returned on Sunday to France facing a frosty public reception and unease among his political allies. The former IMF chief arrived at Paris’s Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport at about 7 a.m. (1 a.m. EDT) with his wife Anne Sinclair. [...]
A leading adult film producer demanded an apology Thursday over claims about an actor’s HIV test that triggered a suspension of US porn filming, as it awaits final test results for “Patient A.” But an AIDS group which campaigns for condoms to be used on porn film sets refused to say it was sorry, boasting [...]