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News for Tuesday, 2 Aug 2011

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at Dangerous Festival

Now in its third year, the 2011 Festival of Dangerous Ideas brings important questions to light as a catalyst for sharp and vibrant discussion. Traversing a broad terrain, the...

Yemen air raid kills 13 militants

Yemeni war planes bombed a village in south Yemen on Monday, killing at least 13 people who a local official said were Islamist militants challenging army control in the flashpoint...

China police shoot dead two suspects in Xinjiang attacks

Chinese police have shot dead two suspects being hunted for a deadly attack in the restive western region of Xinjiang, which an exiled regional leader blamed on Beijing’s hardline policies...

Thousands protest against Indonesian rule in Papua

Around 10,000 Papuans protested Tuesday for independence from Indonesia, defying a heavy police presence a day after a deadly ambush that police blamed on separatist rebels, witnesses said. Demonstrators in the...

Maltese priests given jail sentences for child abuse

Two Maltese priests were sentenced to a total of 11 years in prison between them on Tuesday after they were convicted of sexually abusing boys at an orphanage in the...

‘War to go on even if NATO bombing ends’

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s camp has vowed to push on with its war against rebels whether or not NATO stops its bombing campaign, leaving little room for diplomacy to end...

Syria death toll reaches 137 since Sunday

The death toll in Syria’s violent crackdown on opposition to President Bashar al-Assad in the city of Hama and elsewhere climbed on Tuesday, spurring Western efforts to pile diplomatic pressure...

Bombers target churches in northern Iraq

A car bomb exploded near a Catholic Church in northern Iraq on Tuesday, injuring at least 16 people in part of a coordinated attack on Christian places of worship in...

Flood hazards and managing risk

Disasters like last year’s monsoon floods in Pakistan may only make news for a few days, but the real story lasts substantially much longer than media coverage of calamity-hit areas....

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