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Breaking News Sun, 20 May 2012
Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng arrives at Washington Square Village on the campus of New York University, Saturday, May 19, 2012, in New York.
China   Human Rights   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Chen Guangcheng  
 The Times Of India 
Blind Chinese activist Chen arrives in United States
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet NEW YORK: Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundaries" after China let him leave a... (photo: AP / Henny Ray Abrams)
In Didi's success story, a disappointment: Singur
Bengal   Mamata Banerjee   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Singur  
 Indian Express 
In Didi's success story, a disappointment: Singur
| "Even as we complete one year in office, I have a pain, a sadness in my mind — the Singur stalemate and the plight of the suffering farmers," said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee this aft... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
motorola  Herald Tribune 
Google gets China OK for Motorola deal
| NEW YORK - Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week. Enlarge | FILE - In this M... (photo: Creative Commons / nan palmero)
Android   China   Motorola   Photos   Wikipedia: Google  
Maria Sharapova (RUS) competes against Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) during the Women's Final on Day 13 of the Sony Ericsson Open at Crandon Park Tennis Center on March 31, 2012 in Key Biscayne, Florida - USA.  Sky Sports 
Sharapova sets up Li final
| Maria Sharapova will face China's Li Na in the final of the Rome Masters following a 6-3 6-4 triumph over Germany's Angelique Kerber. | The Russian required 89 minutes to despatch Kerber, whose move... (photo: WN / Aaron Gilbert)
Photos   Rome   Sport   Tennis   Wikipedia: Maria Sharapova  
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Central Plaza Ratchada Rama 3 is a shopping center located on Sathupradit Rd in Yannawa district, Bangkok, Thailand. Xinhua
Thai PM pledges to tackle rising consumer prices
| BANGKOK, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Saturday pledged that her government will expedite solving the problem of rising consumer prices, Thai... (photo: WN / RTayco)
Consumer   Economy   Photos   Prices   Thailand   Wikipedia: Thailand  
A Palestinian vendor displays a gold jewellery at a jewellery store in the Rafah Refugee Camp, Southern Gaza Strip on September. 19, 2011. Decline in demand for gold in the Palestinian markets due to the high price of $ 50 per gram, this high price in the global gold. ( Photo by Ahmed Deeb/WN) The Times Of India
Wheat, gold make stunning runs in nervous markets
Tweet | NEW YORK: Wheat charged higher on Friday to post its biggest weekly gain in 16 years and gold continued its recovery from four-month lows as commodity markets saw... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Gold   Markets   Photos   Wheat   Wikipedia: Commodity  
Defence personnel move wounded policemen receiving medical attention at a hospital in Srinagar on May 19, 2012. Militants carried out two grenade attacks in Sopore town and the Batamaloo area of Kashmir on May 19, injuring seven including four policemen, a report said. Herald Tribune
Grenade attacks wound 14 in Indian-held Kashmir
| SRINAGAR, India - Police say suspected rebels have exploded grenades at two police stations in Indian-administered Kashmir, injuring at least 14 people. | Officer Imtiy... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
India   Kashmir   Photos   Police   Wikipedia: Kashmir conflict  
Indian paramilitary soldiers transport an injured colleague at a hospital in Grenade attacks The Guardian
Grenade attacks wound 14 in Indian-held Kashmir
| SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police say suspected rebels have exploded grenades at two police stations in Indian-administered Kashmir, injuring at least 14 people. | Office... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
Attacks   India   Kashmir   Photos   Wikipedia: Grenade  
The Minister of State for Defence, Dr. M.M. Pallam Raju - India- Politics The Hindu
China poses no threat to India: Pallam Raju
China posed no threat to India despite border dispute but the country was equipping itself well and having a strong deterrence posture so that no adversary took it for gr... (photo: PIB of India)
China   Defence   India   Photos   Wikipedia: People's Republic of ChinaIndia relations  
FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, May 2, 2012. and released by the U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind activist Chen Guangcheng, center, holds hands with U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke, at a hospital in Beijing. BBC News
China's Chen Guangcheng 'set to fly to US'
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng - who was at the centre of a diplomatic crisis with the US - says he is at Beijing's airport, where he expects to leave to go to the... (photo: AP / U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, File)
China   Human Rights   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Chen Guangcheng  
INDIA-LEMON-TEAIndia Lemon Tea being display at Hotel in Kolkata in Eastern India ----- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK Newstrack India
Assam industry bats for tea as national drink
| Guwahati, May 19 (IANS) Although the union government has voiced reservations, Assam's tea bodies are insisting that tea be declared the country's national drink. ... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
India   Industry   Photos   Tea   Wikipedia: Assam tea  
File - British Army Lt. Gen. James Bucknall, the International Security Assistance Force deputy commander, speaks with Afghan National Army soldiers during his visit to Joint Combat Outpost Pul-e-Sayad, Afghanistan, April 27, 2011. The Daily Telegraph
Afghan war will cost British taxpayers ÂŁ20 billion by time mission is complete
Britain's war in Afghanistan will cost taxpayers almost £20 billion by time the mission draws to a close, new figures have revealed. | Despite the winding down of o... (photo: US Army / Spc. Kristina Gupton)
Afghanistan   Britain   Photos   Troops   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001present)  
Christmas Decorations in a shopping mall, Singapore. Jakarta Post
Illegal tour guide menace in Singapore
| While Singapore has welcomed a record number of tourists in the last two years, a problem has also emerged: illegal tourist guides muscling in on the action. | They are... (photo: WN / Periasamy)
Economy   Market   Photos   Singapore   Tourism   Wikipedia: Singapore  
The President of Sri Lanka, Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa inspecting the Guard of Honour, at the ceremonial reception, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on June 09, 2010. BBC News
Sri Lanka military parade marks war anniversary
Sri Lanka is marking the three-year anniversary of the end of its long civil war with a large military parade in the capital, Colombo. | President Mahinda Rajapaksa gave ... (photo: PIB of India)
Anniversary   Photos   Sri Lanka   War   Wikipedia: Sri Lankan Civil War  
India West Bengal TMC Supremo Mamata Banerjee - India- Politics The Times Of India
Mamata Banerjee needs to talk less and do more to overcome Herculean tasks at hand
Tweet "Parivartan, my foot," snorted Aroop Roy, a 71-year-old resident of Old Ballygunge, in utter disgust at the very mention of the word. | "The only parivartan has bee... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
India   Photos   Politics   West Bengal   Wikipedia: Mamata Banerjee  
Tourists waiting at New Delhi's IGI Airport-Air passengers-India. The Times Of India
Foreign travel expenses shoot up 20% on falling rupee
Tweet NEW DELHI: The depreciating value of the rupee has made outbound travel for Indians at least 15-20% more expensive. In India, domestic travel too is suffering becau... (photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam)
Economy   Photos   Tourist   Travel   Wikipedia: Air travel  
China India
- Trapped Chinese coal miner rescued after 17 days
- Tunnel blast kills 20 at Chinese construction site
- Google gets China OK for Motorola deal
- Taiwan's Ma signals no China change as term starts
Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng arrives at Washington Square Village on the campus of New York University, Saturday, May 19, 2012, in New York.
Blind Chinese activist Chen arrives in United States
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An Iraqi firefighter hoses down a burned bus after a car bomb attack in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012.
Bomb blasts at bird market in Baghdad kill 4
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Saudi Arabia Japan
- NATO meet won't back an Israeli strike on Iran
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An Iraqi firefighter hoses down a burned bus after a car bomb attack in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012.
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- Canon to up prices 5 per cent; eyes 45 per cent rise in sale
- Japan answers the the call on Chinese agression
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World stock markets sink on US, Europe worries
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A Palestinian vendor displays a gold jewellery at a jewellery store in the Rafah Refugee Camp, Southern Gaza Strip on September. 19, 2011. Decline in demand for gold in the Palestinian markets due to the high price of $ 50 per gram, this high price in the global gold. ( Photo by Ahmed Deeb/WN)
Dollar Prevails while Gold Slumps below US$1,550
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- Zardari in US; friction on NATO routes remains
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U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, second from right, the new commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, visits with U.S., NATO and Afghan forces at checkpoint 91 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, July 9, 2010
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