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September10 Activist Chinese lawyer freed, but remains under house arrest Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September9 Chinese warn Japanese relations could sour over high seas dispute Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September8 Sri Lankan parliament hands president unlimited powers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 7 Strikers in France, London protest government austerity measures Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 3 Mexican troops kill 27 drug cartel gunmen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 2 Food riots continue in Mozambique Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 1 Ban Ki-moon condemns "cynical" murder of Israelis Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 31 North Korea hopes nuclear talks will restart soon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 30 North Korea hopes nuclear talks will restart soon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 27 Burma's top generals prepare to become civilian leaders Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 26 North Korean leader makes unexpected visit to China Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 25 British spy found murdered in London apartment Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 24 Islamic militants storm Mogadishu hotel Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 23 Venezuela: the ignored war zone Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 18 France prepares to deport foreign Roma Listen | Listen in your iPhone | 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August 5 Kenyans vote to curb presidential power, entrench civic rights Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 4 Tehran denies assassination attempt on president Ahmadinejad Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 3 Pakistan's Karachi shuttered after 47 die in revenge killings Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 14 Death toll rises in NATO offensive against Taliban's Afghan stronghold Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 13 Missing Iranian nuclear scientist claims he was kidnapped by the CIA Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 12 Somali militants claim responsibility for World Cup bombing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 9 UN stops short of blaming Pyongyang for sinking South Korean warship Listen | Listen in your iPhone 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Washington and London differ on prospects of talking to the Taliban Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 25 Hong Kong shuffles towards democracy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 23 Talks to curb whale hunt break down Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 22 White House summons U.S. Afghan commander to explain remarks Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 21 WWhaling talks go behind closed doors to avert collapse Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 18 While condemning Israel, Turkish military attacks Kurds in Iraq Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 17 Spanish bond sale eases fears of European debt crisis Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 16 Obama to demand BP bank $20 billion 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 27 Terrorists continue to hold hostages after well-coordinated attacks in Mumbai. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 26 Violence in Thailand intensifies as the prime minister rebuffs army demands he step down. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 25 Anti-government protestors stormed Thailand's main international airport today forcing its closure for outgoing flights. The demonstrators, some wielding guns, knives, sticks and slingshots, broke into the passenger terminal of the new Suvarnabhumi Airport outside Bangkok in an attempt to prevent the return to Thailand of prime minister Somchai Wongsawat who has been attending an international conference in Peru. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 4 Tutsi rebel leader Laurent Nkunda is threatening to invade the Congolese capital of Kinshasa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 3 High-level talks on improving economic ties between China and Taiwan began today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 31 Emissaries from the Dalai Lama begin talks with Beijing over Tibet's future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 30 The most senior descendant of the great Chinese philosopher and sage, Confucius, has died. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 28 The U.S. admits killing Islamic militants based in Syria. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 22 Today India joined Asia's space race. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 21 Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been sentenced to two years in prison for corruption. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 8 Malaysian leader quits to avoid humiliation. Prime minister Abdullah Badawi he will hand post to deputy Najib Razak. Najib has been caught up in a torrid sex and murder scandal and two of his bodyguards are currently standing trial for the murder of the mistress of one of Najib's senior policy advisers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 7 Riot police battle thousands of anti-government demonstrators in Bangkok. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 6 A British officer's assertion that the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable challenges American policy. 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Tens of thousands in South Korea are protesting against the lifting of the beef ban, even though a warmer relationship between Seoul and Washington could lead to new job-stimulating trade agreements. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 3 Islamic zealots have been pressing the Indonesian government to outlaw the Ahmadiyya sect -- a branch of Islam some consider to hold heretical beliefs. Riots have broken out in Jakarta. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 2 Somalia's once again attempting to resolve years of civil war and fighting in the African nation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 30 In Nepal, thousands of cheering people flocked onto the streets of the capital Kathmandu. Nepal's newly minted Constituent Assembly has declared the Himalayan kingdom a republic. King Gyanendra is now a private citizen and must vacate the royal palace, which, with its content of treasures, is slated to become a museum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 29 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's intent on the destruction of Israel rises. Iran acquiring nuclear warhead designs evidence shows. A spike in tension comes as debate continues within the administration of United States president George W. Bush over whether or not to pursue a more confrontational approach to Iran. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 27 Burma's ruling generals fear a relief effort run by foreign military would be a cover to depose them and put in power Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 23 Twelve days after mobs began attacking foreign immigrants in South Africa it is becoming clear the outbreaks are symptoms of the country's deep social and economic problems that may spark wider unrest in the run-up to next year's elections. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 22 Nearly three weeks after a cyclone ripped across southern Burma leaving 134,000 people dead or missing and another 2.5 million homeless, the country's military regime is still reluctant to accept a serious international relief effort. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 21 No matter at what stage Israel's secret peace talks might be with Syria, it is doubtful if Israel's prime minister Ehud Olmert has the political capital to get the Israeli people to agree to giving up the Golan Heights, which dominate much of the north of the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 20 Zimbabwe's chaos is spreading. But the irony is if South Africa president Thabo Mbeki had taken seriously the duty given him by the international community to push Robert Mugabe into retirement, South Africa would not have caught this infection of civil unrest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 16 Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao's damage control at the country's devastated earthquake zone is more than just for appearance's sake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 15 American missile attack on Islamic militants in the country's lawless tribal regions bordering Afghanistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 14 Burma's generals refusal to provide care for the Burmese peoplehas aroused utter disgust. China, in contrast, has thrown all the resources at its disposal into the effort to bring aid to the hundreds of thousands of people caught in the devastating earthquake in Sichuan province that killed at least 50,000 people. China does not want to risk harming its close relationship withthe generals by putting pressure on them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 13 Pakistan is on the brink of renewed political instability.|This political confusion will undoubtedly distract government attention from important national problems like confronting radical Islamist fighters. |Critical matter for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies, including Canada, attempting toestablish security in that country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 8 Who is Running Russia |Vladmir Putin has stepped down |Dmitry Medvedev has replaced him |Russia's has serious problems of inflation, corruption,insecurity and a social service network on the verge of collapse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 7 China and Japan dictates mood of Asia |Political relations have been tense and mistrustful |China’s current president Hu Jintao has started a three-day visit to Japan that both countries hope will open an era of partnership in place of rivalry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 6 International relief agencies and governments rush to get aid to southern Burma only to face a Military regime, mistrustful of all foreign activity in its country.|It has taken 14 years to come up with a proposed constitution that only serves to entrench military control.|It is unlikely that any meaningful referendum votecan be held on Saturday. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 12 Burma's ruling generals continue to refuse to grant visa's to international aid agency workers. |Only a trickle of aid has reached the commercial capital Rangoon close to the worst-hit areas and the junta is insisting that government officials distribute the relief supplies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 9 Lebanon close to civil war. |The violence stems from unresolved tensions following Hezbollah's 32-day warwith Israel in southern Lebanon in 2006. |In Burma, news about Burmese National league for democracy leader Aung San SuuKyi following the cyclone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website