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Rolling coverage of the ongoing riot clean-up, as hundreds of accused looters appear in courts across country and MPs respond to David Camerons address to Parliament. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced alarm on Thursday over recent reports of civilians killed in Libyas civil war and called on all sides to do as much as possible to avoid killing innocent people. August 11, 2011 Sanctions, Pressure and Syrias Assad Suzanne Presto The Obama administration says Syria would be a better place without leader Bashar al-Assad. In July 2002 a small group of Israeli and Palestinian economists sat down for a rare meeting in the idyllic French village of Aix-en-Provence. KABUL, Afghanistan • Afghan children retrieved souvenir-sized pieces of a helicopter shot down by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan where witnesses on Thursday described seeing the chopper burst into flames and break apart before ... BEIJING,Aug 12 (Xinhuanet) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday announced an additional 17 million dollars in humanitarian aid to the Horn of Africa region hit hard by drought and famine, of which 12 million dollars go to Somalia. The Pakistani Taliban on Friday claimed responsibility for a rare female suicide attack and another bombing against police to avenge military operations in the lawless tribal belt. Seoul (CNN) -- The South Korean military rescued four North Koreans from two sinking boats in the west sea near the maritime border, a defense ministry spokesman said. TALLINN, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- A gunman who fired shots and set off a bomb inside the Estonian Defense Ministry building in downtown Tallinn Thursday afternoon was shot dead by the police, a defense ministry spokesman said. BIRMINGHAM—Three Birmingham men died early Wednesday as they sought to protect local businesses from rioters, showing how the violence that began four days ago in London and spread to the UKs other big cities is stoking long-simmering ... JAKARTA - One of Southeast Asias most wanted terrorism suspects was flown back to Indonesia on Thursday, months after his arrest by the Pakistani authorities in the same town where Osama Bin Laden was killed. 1 of 3. Chinas first aircraft carrier is seen at its shipyard at Dalian Port in northeast Chinas Liaoning province, in this still image taken from a July 27, 2011 video. A man who was robbed in the London riots as he sat injured and in need of help has been identified as an overseas student from Malaysia. A man who was attacked during riots in England has died in hospital from his injuries, becoming the fifth fatality from the unrest which flared in London six days ago, police said. A spectator films a burning car in Hackney during the riots on 8 August. Photograph: Michael Bowles/Rex Features Facebook has responded to David Camerons calls for a clampdown on social networking sites by saying it has already actively removed ... BEIJING,Aug 12 (Xinhuanet) - Egyptian government has begun procedures to end the countrys three-decade old state of emergency. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for wider international sanctions on Syria as the governments violent crackdown on dissent continues. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin traveled to the Taman Peninsula on Wednesday to perform yet another of his trademark adventure activities and scuba dive at a site known as the Russian Atlantis. The period of rapprochement and stability in the relations between Russia and Ukraine that started when Viktor Yanukovych was elected Ukrainian president has ended.
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