On deck for Thursday: Russians participate in risky clinical trials to receive medical care, a Filipino priest will be investigated for possible links to elephant ivory smuggling, news from the UN General Assembly and U.K. Flooding
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On deck for Wednesday: Three Vietnamese bloggers get sentenced to jail for speaking out on corruption, South Korea faces a debt crisis, and protests roil Europe
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On deck for Tuesday: Peru’s Supreme Court is asked to overturn a ruling that could help Fujimori, wealth patterns are changing in China, and the Queen gets involved in an extradition case.
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On deck for Monday: Syria to top the agenda at the U.N. General Assembly, another high-profile Burmese guest arrives in America and farming reforms expected in North Korea
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Indian government looks likely to survive backlash over unpopular economic reforms; Syria’s Bashar Assad still defiant and resolute
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The U.S. ambassador in China gets cornered; Uruguay pushes ahead with legalizing pot
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Russia kicks out USAID; French satirical magazine publishes offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad
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Things get feisty in China as anti-Japanese anger simmers; why have the Czechs banned the sale of hard liquor?
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Angola may be rich in oil, but it is also full of unexploded land mines
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Today picks: years of poor management leave Vietnam’s banks in unhealthy shape, concern’s over whether Mongolia’s mining boom comes at the expense of its citizens, and the Royal Family’s latest scandal comes at the cruellest …
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Today’s picks include Japanese proposals to phase out nuclear plants, the decline of global child mortality rates and the success of center-ground parties at the Dutch election.
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Today’s picks: the en masse arrival of Pakistan’s Hindus into neigboring India to escape religious persecution, lingering questions over Turkey’s human rights record, as it attempts to reposition itself as the Middle East’s …
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In today’s required reading: where al-Qaeda stands 11 years after the 9/11 attacks, Somalia’s struggle to recover after decades of warfare, and the possibility that four Pakistani soldiers who went missing 47 years ago might …