Residents protest over history textbook amendment
TOKYO (AP): More than 110,000 people on Japan's southern island of Okinawa demonstrated yesterday against the central government's order to modify school textbooks which say the country's army forced civilians to commit mass suicide at the end of World...
Musharraf's election nomination approved
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP): Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf picked up another legal victory yester-day in his re-election bid while again steamrolling dissent by cracking down hard on protesters.A day after the Supreme Court dismissed several...
Parliament labels CIA,US Army as 'terrorists'
TEHRAN, Iran (AP): Iran's parliament yesterday approved a non-bonding resolution to label the CIA and the United States Army as "terrorist organisations." The move is seen as a diplomatic tit-for-tat after the U.S.
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