In a normal election, Faisal Sabzwari would be busy on the campaign trail, giving speeches at large rallies, glad-handing …
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Many Dead as Garment Factory in Bangladesh Collapses
An eight-storey block housing factories and a shopping centre on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka collapsed on April 24, killing at least 87 people and injuring hundreds.
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France approves a same-sex marriage bill, the Vietnamese Communist Party struggles with growing dissent and China is planning to build more aircraft carriers
What’s Behind the Bombing at the French Embassy in Tripoli?
A car exploded outside the French embassy in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on Tuesday morning in what was likely a planned attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the explosion, which wounded two French security guards and …
The Terror Plot in Canada: What You Need to Know
Canada arrests two suspects in a bomb plot and claim they are linked to al-Qaeda and Iran — even though the terrorist group and the Islamic Republic do not quite get along
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Paraguay’s new president needs to tackle the country’s poverty, continued hikes in food prices could destabilize Iran before its presidential election and North Korea has rejected U.S. calls to show it’s serious about abandoning …
Burma Accused of ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Rohingya Muslims
Burma’s quasi-civilian government has been hit by allegations of “ethnic cleansing” and “crimes against humanity” this week as Human Rights Watch released its report into the sectarian violence that ravaged the …
Older Boston Suspect Made Two Trips to Dagestan, Visited Radical Mosque, Officials Say
Two years ago, while visiting his family in the Russian region of Dagestan, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the prime suspect in last week’s Boston Marathon bombings, was flagged as a potential extremist by Russian security services. The only …
Rape of 5-Year-Old Indian Girl Sparks New Outrage, Old Questions
Dozens of news vans are again camped in front of a major hospital in New Delhi, jockeying for space behind the yellow police barricades so ubiquitous in the Indian capital in recent months. Inside, the 5-year-old victim of …
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A record number of civil war victims are found in Syria, Denmark tries to lean its citizens off generous government benefits and a Chinese official has called for the country’s 100 million religious believers to abandon their …
Bird Flu: China Reports 102 H7N9 Cases, 20 Deaths
Experts are suspecting human-to-human transmission, but there is no evidence confirming this yet
No Exit: Syria’s War Through the Eyes of a Fighter on Both Sides
When Siraj heard the news earlier this month that al-Qaeda had embraced Jabhat al-Nusra, a jihadist group recognized in Syria for its discipline and fighting prowess, but deemed a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department, he …
More Pain in Sichuan: Earthquake Kills at Least 192
Updated with latest figures on Tuesday morning.
Two days after a magnitude 7.0-earthquake struck China’s Sichuan province, residents are still awaiting rescue as well as essentials like drinking water, food, medicine and …
Tsarnaev Neighbors: Older Bombing Suspect Spent Time in Dagestan Helping Dad With Construction
“He was a normal son helping his father,” Agayev, a neighbor who lives in the same apartment building as Anzor Tsarnaev, the brothers’ father, told TIME on Sunday