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Romney gaffes contrast with Obama in ’08
The British were offended, the Palestinians accused him of racism and even in friendlier Poland, Mitt Romney’s union policies drew criticism from the current leaders of the movement that toppled Communism.
Thursday, 02 - August 2012
Waves swept over seawalls and flooded shantytowns in the Philippine capital on Wednesday as the death toll from four days of storms that have battered large swathes of the country rose to 14.
Thursday, 02 - August 2012
A human rights group said Myanmar government forces opened fire on crowds of ethnic Rohingya in a targeted campaign of violence during recent sectarian strife, as a UN envoy visited the area Wednesday to investigate the unrest.
Thursday, 02 - August 2012
For 23 years, his family in Bangladesh thought he was dead. But then an anonymous caller informed a local official in May that he was alive and in jail in Pakistan.
Thursday, 02 - August 2012
Islamabad has told New Delhi that recently obtained evidence of the Mumbai attacks is inadmissible in court because Pakistanis were not allowed to cross-examine Indian officials, a Pakistani lawyer said Wednesday.
Thursday, 02 - August 2012
Police in the Jordanian capital say they have arrested a 12-member “terrorist cell” and seized “large quantities” of arms and ammunition.
Thursday, 02 - August 2012
Two Yemeni soldiers and a civilian were killed in an attack on Wednesday by Al-Qaeda militants on a police station in the southern town of Jaar, a local official said.
Thursday, 02 - August 2012
Indian police have charged a journalist with conspiring to carry out a bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi in February, a senior police official said Wednesday.
Thursday, 02 - August 2012
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gives a mosquito net for malaria prevention to a local woman during a tour of the Philippe Senghor Health Center in Dakar, Senegal, Wednesday.
Thursday, 02 - August 2012
Factories and workshops across India were up and running Wednesday after major electrical grid collapses caused the world’s two worst power blackouts.
Thursday, 02 - August 2012
Sudanese authorities closed schools in Darfur’s largest city Wednesday after at least eight people, many reportedly teenagers, were killed in the worst violence since Arab Spring-style demonstrations began.
Thursday, 02 - August 2012
Get out of nuclear power and do it fast, angry Fukushima residents told Japanese government officials on Wednesday at a public hearing on energy policy held in an area ravaged by a nuclear disaster that has whipped up opposition to atomic power.
Thursday, 02 - August 2012
An explosion believed to have been caused by a bomb ripped through the military intelligence building in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi at dawn Wednesday, causing damage to the structure and nearby homes but no injuries, a security official said.
Thursday, 02 - August 2012
Twelve sailors who were attacked by pirates in the western Pacific spent three days drifting in rubber rafts before being rescued by Philippine Marines, officials said Wednesday.
Thursday, 02 - August 2012
A militant with the armed wing of Gaza’s ruling Hamas movement died in Gaza City on Wednesday after the car he was travelling in exploded, Palestinian medical sources said.
