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Myanmar opens new probe into unrest
Myanmar has set up a new commission to probe sectarian clashes that saw scores killed and displaced tens of thousands, following intense scrutiny of its handling of the issue.
Sunday, 19 - August 2012
Bahraini security forces have shot dead a teenager as a group of protesters attacked police with petrol bombs near the capital Manama, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
Sunday, 19 - August 2012
South Africa’s police watchdog Saturday was sifting through evidence from the police killings of 34 workers at a platinum mine, as the nation tried to piece together the causes of the tragedy.
Sunday, 19 - August 2012
A number of Gaddafi loyalists are soon to be returned to Libya from exile in Egypt, the Egyptian ambassador, Hisham Abdul-Wahab, has announced.
Sunday, 19 - August 2012
The US military trainers handed the new recruit, Mohammad Ismail, his AK-47 to defend his remote Afghan village.
Sunday, 19 - August 2012
Suspected Al-Qaeda militants targeted a Yemeni intelligence headquarters on Saturday, killing 19 people in a bold attack in the country’s main southern city of Aden, officials said.
Sunday, 19 - August 2012
Three Egyptian policemen and a soldier were injured near the Sinai town of Sheikh Zuwaid on Saturday when armed men fired a rocket-propelled grenade at their convoy during an operation against militants following the killing of 16 border guards.
Sunday, 19 - August 2012
Russia on Saturday faced a storm of international criticism for sentencing three members of the Pussy Riot punk band to two years in prison for a political protest in an Orthodox cathedral.
Sunday, 19 - August 2012
A car crushed by a fallen tree and debris on a street in Hanoi during a storm.
