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China on Monday implicitly criticised Israel’s air strikes in Syria as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas both visited the country to meet top leaders. The raids on military sites outside Damascus a day earlier raised fears

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com World View will be suspended until Thursday or Friday Orthodox Christians celebrate Holy Fire ‘miracle’ on Easter Major defense contractor QinetiQ hacked for years by China Israeli air strike on Damascus escalates Syria crisis

(AP) China city quashes protest against petro plantBy DIDI TANGAssociated PressBEIJINGAfter word spread about an environmental protest that was planned for Saturday in the central Chinese city of Chengdu, drugstores and printing shops were ordered to report anyone making certain

(AP) China emerging as new force in drone warfareBy CHRISTOPHER BODEENAssociated PressBEIJINGDetermined to kill or capture a murderous Mekong River drug lord, China’s security forces considered a tactic they’d never tried before: calling a drone strike on his remote hideaway

For a fearsome pirate, even one in self-declared retirement, there is a notable lack of what literature has led one to expect: cutlass, eye-patch, hook or even a parrot. Instead, Mohamed Abdi Hassan, one of Somalia’s — if not the

(AFP) China has detained 900 people for meat-related crimes including selling rat and fox meat as beef and mutton, the public security ministry said, in another blow to the nation’s food safety. News of the three-month operation added to a

(AP) North Korea sentences American to 15 years’ laborBy SAM KIMAssociated PressSEOUL, South Korea A Korean American detained for six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for “hostile acts” against the state, the

In Hong Kong, the 17th century British tradition of lawyers wearing wigs has become a battle between barristers, who wear wigs and have unlimited rights in court, and solicitors, who want to wear the wigs but only have limited rights

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com May Day protests highlight financial crisis, worker exploitation U.S. declares H7N9 bird flu a ‘significant’ public health danger Buddhist on Muslim violence continues to spread in Burma (Myanmar) May Day protests highlight financial crisis,

(AFP) US auto giant General Motors is withdrawing a global advertisement which refers to China as the land where people say “ching-ching, chop suey” after admitting it contains “offensive content”, a report said Wednesday. The television advert for the Chevrolet

By JULHAS ALAM and CHRIS BLAKEAssociated PressSAVAR, BangladeshThe fugitive owner of an illegally-constructed building that collapsed in Bangladesh in a deadly heap last week was captured Sunday at a border crossing with India by members of a commando force. Mohammed

(AP) – Police in Bangladesh took five people into custody in connection with the collapse of a shoddily-constructed building that killed at least 348 people, as rescue workers admitted Saturday that voices of survivors are getting weaker after four days

(AFP) – US and British accusations that the regime in Damascus may have used chemical weapons are a “barefaced lie,” Syria’s information minister told Russian television Saturday. “First of all, I want to confirm that statements by the US Secretary

(AP) – North Korea said Saturday it will soon put a detained American on trial for allegedly trying to overthrow the government, further complicating already fraught relations between Pyongyang and Washington. The indictment of Kenneth Bae comes in the middle

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com S. Korea sets deadline for N. Korea on Kaesong Industrial Complex U.S. says Syria has used chemical weapons twice China’s Uighur violence may be related to East Turkestan Islamic Movement U.N. Security Council approves

BEIJING/LONDON (Reuters) – A new bird flu strain that has killed 22 people in China is “one of the most lethal” of its kind and transmits more easily to humans than another strain that has killed hundreds since 2003, a

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Ethnic violence kills 21 in China’s Xinjiang province Will Thursday be the day for a North Korean missile test? Syria’s opposition scorns Obama over chemical weapons commitment Ethnic violence kills 21 in China’s Xinjiang

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com France’s embassy in Tripoli, Libya, attacked by car bomb Israel accuses Syria of using chemical weapons, then retracts Twitter hoax causes a new Wall Street ‘Flash Crash’ Japan’s Shinzo Abe threatens ‘force’ against China’s

French President Francois Hollande, accompanied by a high-powered business delegation, starts a two-day visit to China Thursday, with trade rather than geopolitics at the top of the agenda. For Hollande, beset by economic woes and the aftermath of a damaging

(AFP) – Syria’s main opposition National Coalition said on Saturday that Russia was “out of step” with history for backing President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and was isolating itself on the international scene. “Russia is keeping up a foreign policy that

(AP) – A powerful earthquake struck the steep hills of China’s southwestern Sichuan province on Saturday, leaving at least 156 people dead and more than 5,500 injured, nearly five years after a devastating quake wreaked widespread damage across the region.

(AP) – A Communist Party official says that earthquake that hit China’s Sichuan provinces left at least 32 people dead and injured more than 600. Xu Mengjia, party secretary of Ya’an city, which administers the area where the quake hit,

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Japan and Mongolia cooperate to counter China’s influence Racial hatred suspected in shooting of Bangladeshis in Greece Greece looks ‘like 1930s Germany’ as neo-Nazis gain support Japan and Mongolia cooperate to counter China’s influence

97-year old retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole took the controls of a vintage B-25 bomber and flew it over the skies of Destin, FL, on April 16. It was part of the final reunion of WWII’s Doolittle Raiders. Cole is