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Vigil for victims of Tiananmen Square in Hong Kong
Peace activists gather in Hong Kong yesterday to mark the 21st anniversary of China's crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations, which culminated in the deaths of hundreds of workers and students in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
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Karzai urged to talk to Taliban
Saturday, 5 June 2010
An Afghan national peace conference yesterday urged the government to take formal steps towards negotiating with insurgents, boosting President Hamid Karzai's plans to open talks with the Taliban.
City-centre inferno kills at least 116 in Bangladesh
Saturday, 5 June 2010
At least 116 people were killed by a fire in a densely populated part of the capital, Dhaka. The blaze began when an electrical transformer exploded after a rainstorm on Thursday night.
New PM pledges to rebuild economy
Saturday, 5 June 2010
Naoto Kan, a straight-talking campaigner who rose to become one of Japan's most popular politicians, has been elected the country's new prime minister.
Bangladesh apartment fires leave 100 dead
Friday, 4 June 2010
The blaze started when an electric transformer exploded, igniting a three-storey apartment building.
Burmese junta 'is developing a nuclear threat'
Friday, 4 June 2010
Burma is trying to develop nuclear weapons, according to exiled journalists who claim to have uncovered evidence of a nascent missile programme.
Case against me is all lies, says whaling activist on trial in Japan
Friday, 4 June 2010
Arrested at sea, taken to Tokyo in handcuffs and now facing a possible 15-year jail sentence for trying to stop Japan's annual whale cull, Peter Bethune has become a controversial hero of the environmental movement.
Corrupt Afghan police blamed for locals joining the Taliban
Friday, 4 June 2010
Corruption and the abuse of power among Afghan police have alienated local people and driven some to join the Taliban, British commanders returning from Helmand have warned.
Japanese PM resigns after failing to take on US over Okinawa base
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Yukio Hatoyama, Japan's Prime Minister, quit yesterday after a vertiginous eight-month fall in popularity caused by money scandals and a humiliating retreat on one of his key pledges, the relocation of a US military base.
Taliban rocket attack shakes peace congress in Afghanistan
Thursday, 3 June 2010
The Taliban launched a co-ordinated suicide bomb and rocket attack yesterday, interrupting the opening of Hamid Karzai's much vaunted national peace conference and making a mockery of the President's ambitious strategy to end the country's vicious insurgency.
Chinese iPhone factory is 'pretty nice', says Jobs
Thursday, 3 June 2010
For employees at Foxconn, the Chinese company that manufactures iPads and iPhones, life at 30p an hour can sometimes seem difficult. But after a suicide crisis that has seen 10 employees kill themselves since February, Apple boss Steve Jobs has taken a different view.
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