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The real tragedy of self-immolation: Nobody cares
Whether in Syria or Palestine, Greece, Italy or Vietnam, or China individuals continue to go up in flames as a gesture of protest but crowds just look on. Is self-immolation worth the price anymore? #CultureDecoder #Tibet #Arab Spring #Free Tibet #Self-immolations #Thich Quang Duc
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Bahrain demonstrator jailed for flag 'insult'
A defense lawyer in Bahrain says a demonstrator has been sentenced to three months in prison for hanging a Bahrain flag from his truck during 2011 rallies. #social media #World #Twitter #NewsTracker #Bahrain #Arab Spring #Gulf
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Myanmar authorities work to evacuate camps as cyclone nears
SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Authorities in Myanmar struggled on Wednesday to evacuate tens of thousands of people, most of them Rohingya Muslims, before a cyclone reaches camps in low-lying regions that have been their home since ethnic and religious unrest last year. Cyclone Mahasen has already killed at least seven people and displaced 3,881 in Sri Lanka, its Disaster Management Center said on Tuesday #China #Business #Brazil #Arabic #Government #United Kingdom #Latin America #lifestyle
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Nigerian troops on new offensive against Islamists
MAIDUGURI/YOLA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria launched a military campaign on Wednesday to flush Islamist militants out of their bases in remote border areas, after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the northeast. #facebook #Politics #India #China #Technology #Arabic #Russia #Argentina #Entertainment #lifestyle
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Three workers dead, some missing, in collapse at Freeport Indonesia mine
JAKARTA (Reuters) - At least three people were killed on Tuesday and an unknown number missing after a training tunnel collapsed at the Indonesian unit of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc ( FCX.N ), mine officials said. Output at the world's second-largest copper mine was not expected to be significantly affected, they said. Freeport Indonesia operates the Grasberg mine in West Papua province, which also has the world's largest gold reserves and employs just over 24,000 contract and non-contract workers #facebook #China #Japan #Arabic #markets #Argentina #United Kingdom #Latin America #opinion
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Obama to announce Afghanistan troop plans shortly- Kerry
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will announce in the next few weeks how many combat troops the United States will leave in Afghanistan in 2014, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday. #facebook #United States #China #Business #Arabic #Afghanistan #markets #Argentina #Latin America #Entertainment #Mexico
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Syria peace talks look doomed in advance
LONDON (Reuters) - If anyone saw last week's U.S.-Russian agreement to convene a peace conference on Syria as a potential breakthrough, Western leaders have been going out of their way to disabuse them. #India #China #Business #Arabic #United Kingdom #Latin America #opinion #lifestyle
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Controversies give Obama new governing headaches
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama learned on Monday what can happen to presidents caught up in allegations of scandal: they have to address them instead of anything else. It happened when the president had to interrupt his news conference with Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain to answer questions about the widening investigation into the Benghazi attacks in Libya and the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups #United States #India #Business #Democrats #Brazil #Technology #Arabic #markets #United Kingdom #democratic #opinion
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Death toll in Syria likely as high as 120,000 - group
BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 94,000 people have been killed during Syria's two-year conflict, but the death toll is likely to be as high as 120,000, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. The group said that at least 41,000 of those confirmed killed were Alawites, the sect of President Bashar al-Assad. Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the Observatory, said that the Alawite death figures were confirmed by eight different Alawite sources in coastal cities and in Homs #facebook #United States #Brazil #France #Arabic #Russia #markets #Latin America #Entertainment #Mexico #opinion #lifestyle