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Nauru refugee riots follow Australian crackdown Buildings were razed as hundreds of asylum-seekers escaped detention during riots at an Australian refugee facility on Nauru.
21 July 2013
Nazi-themed cafe in Indonesia sparks global outrage From a painting hung high on a blood-red wall, Adolf Hitler peers down on young students eating schnitzel and slurping German beer in Indonesia's Nazi-themed cafe.
21 July 2013
©REUTERS/Kyodo Japan wins rights to explore for rare metals in Pacific Japan on Saturday said it had won the rights to explore for cobalt-rich crusts in the Pacific, a move that could reduce its dependence on China for rare metals.
21 July 2013
N. Korea awards late leader new order ahead of anniversary North Korea has awarded late leader Kim Jong-Il a new medal, as Pyongyang gears up to mark 60 years since the Korean War ended.
21 July 2013
Wall Street hammers Microsoft after earnings miss Microsoft shares were hammered Friday after a disappointing earnings report cast doubts on the tech giant's transition to a post-PC world.
20 July 2013
G20 gets 'action plan' to fight tax avoidance The OECD has presented the G20 nations with a bold strategy to crack down on tax avoidance by corporate giants and the super rich, and so boost overstretched national budgets.
20 July 2013
Navalny returns to Moscow a hero, will push ahead with mayor bid Top opposition leader Alexei Navalny triumphantly returned home to Russia's capital on Saturday after his unexpected release from prison.
20 July 2013
Tourists flock to Pakistan Kashmir valley in rare boom Success stories can be rare in Pakistan, but business is booming in one Kashmir tourist spot as the region rebuilds after a devastating earthquake and shrugs off associations with violence.
20 July 2013
US sweats out massive heat wave Clutching water bottles, New Yorkers battled a sweltering heat wave Friday with temperatures topping 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) and intense humidity packing an additional punch.
20 July 2013
Roman Coppola brings Charlie Sheen back to big screen Making original films in Hollywood is now so difficult that director Roman Coppola says he resorted to giving his own clothes to Charlie Sheen to wear during the shooting of their new movie.
20 July 2013
©RUETERS Copy of Schindler's list up for sale on eBay for $3 mn An original copy of the list of Jews Oskar Schindler saved from the Holocaust is up for sale on eBay, with the starting bid set at $3 million dollars.
20 July 2013
Michael Hayden. ©REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Huawei spies for China, says ex-CIA chief The former head of the United States' Central Intelligence Agency Michael Hayden said Friday it "goes without saying" that Chinese telecoms giant Huawei spies for Beijing.
20 July 2013
©REUTERS/Andrew Burton Afghan customs fines hike cost of US military pullout A customs dispute between the Afghan and US governments has disrupted the withdrawal of American military equipment, dramatically inflating the cost of the drawdown.
20 July 2013
©REUTERS/Rebecca Cook Japan govt approves stem cell clinical trials Japan's government on Friday gave its seal of approval to the world's first clinical trials using stem cells harvested from a patient's own body.
20 July 2013
San Miguel Corporation President Ramon Ang. ©REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo Philippines' San Miguel reaps $400 mn in power sale Philippine conglomerate San Miguel Corp. said Friday it sold part of its minority stake in the country's main electricity retailer for nearly $400 million.
20 July 2013
Australia closed to boatpeople: PM Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Friday announced that no more boatpeople will be resettled in Australia with all unauthorised arrivals to be sent to poverty-stricken Papua New Guinea.
20 July 2013
Chairman of Kazakhstan State Service Agency Alikhan Baimenov. Illustration by Tengrinews.kz Kazakhstan's state service reform concures with development of European countries Kazakhstan State Service Agency is interested in the state service reform experience of Great Britain and the Netherlands.
19 July 2013
©REUTERS/Kyodo Fukushima steam still baffling: TEPCO The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Friday it still did not know what caused steam seen inside a reactor building, nor why it was no longer there.
19 July 2013
Photo courtesy of dreamstime.com US 'concerned' over detention of Chinese lawyer The United States on Thursday called on China to release a human rights lawyer who has campaigned against government corruption.
19 July 2013
More than 200 detained after Navalny rally: watchdog More than 200 people have been detained in Moscow after several thousand rallied outside the Kremlin to protest the conviction and jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
19 July 2013

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