| January 2012 |
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A Russian-owned ship reportedly carrying weapons to Syria docked in Tartus on Thursday despite assurances it would change destination, Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News reported.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday strongly condemned an online video appearing to show US Marines urinating on the bloodied corpses of several Taliban fighters, world media said.
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A new government to include opposition members will be formed in Syria early next month, the Al-Watan newspaper close to Syrian authorities reported on Thursday.
The government of Myanmar and the rebel Karen National Union (KNU), one of the world's longest-running insurgencies, signed on Thursday a ceasefire agreement that is seen as a first step toward a lasting peace, the Bangkok Post said.
European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmstrom has called on U.S. President Barack Obama to keep his promise and close the prison in Guantanamo.
The body of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is to be embalmed and put on display at a palace in the capital, Pyongyang, state media have said.
A U.S. federal appeals court in Washington will examine Russian energy giant Gazprom’s appeal on Thursday against a lower court’s dismissal of a $140 mln claim against former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko.
The Taliban is ready to restart peace talks to end the violence in Afghanistan, the militant group said on Thursday.
The Indian Foreign Ministry has instructed its embassies in four ex-Soviet states to carefully examine visa applications from local women in a bid to curb the inflow of sex workers from those countries, The Times of India said on Thursday.
Tajikistan's drug control agency has confiscated more than 100 kilograms of illegal narcotics that were to be trafficked into Russia, a spokeswoman for the agency, Umeda Yusupova, said on Thursday.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the development of capitalistic countries has reached a dead-end and killings is the only way out for them.
One of Hollywood’s most famous couples, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, met on Wednesday with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House, Huffington Post reported.
The U.S. Department of State has ordered a further reduction of its diplomatic personnel in Damascus citing security reasons in light of the ongoing violence in Syria.
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