As the count down to the January referendum in the largest country in Africa narrows, the international community needs to step in as friends and peace crusaders to help the Sudanese people freely make their…
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A most recently-renewed US-led anti-China campaign, in behalf of Liu Xiaobo who was awarded 2010 Nobel Peace Prize last month, seems to have now even gone to the internal politics of UN top leadership position…
A vase found in a house clearance in London has been sold for £43m, thought to be a record for any Chinese artwork.
The 18th Century Qianlong porcelain piece, found in Pinner, had been estimated to fetch up to £1.2m for the brother and sister who inherited it. The vase is thought to have left China about 150 years ago.
Malalai Joya – the youngest woman elected to the Afghanistan Parliament in 2004, who later faced death threats for criticizing tribal warlords – says the image of Afghan women is being unfairly used to justify…
After decades of ice between the two great powers in the East, it seems that relations have finally entered into a “melting” stage. On Sunday, top Chinese and Japanese officials met to discuss improving bilateral…
Iraq’s president gave Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki the affirmation to form the next government on Nov 11, after an eight-month impasse, but a dramatic walkout from parliament by his Sunni rivals cast doubt on…
Netanyahu presents security cabinet with Clinton’s incentive of 20 F-35 fighter planes and security guarantees in exchange for 90-day West Bank building moratorium. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s seven-member inner cabinet discussed Saturday an offer…
McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — The good paying, predominantly white-collar jobs that once sustained many American communities are disappearing at an alarming rate, keeping the unemployment rate stubbornly high despite the end of the Great Recession….
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People rightly want answers, and they are not getting them except from voices that tell tales that have some internal coherence—if you suspend disbelief. The U.S. midterm elections register a level of anger, fear and…