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BBC Thursday 27th October, 2011
Taiwan's defence ministry says it will pay $4.4m (2.7m) in compensation to the relatives of an air force private who was wrongly executed in 1997. Chiang Kuo-ching was found guilty of raping and killing a five-year-old girl, but in September this year a military court overturned the conviction posthumously. The court said Mr Chiang was innocent a...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the release of four Filipino peacekeepers captured by Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights last week.
They had been detained May 7 in the vicinity ...
The Boy Scouts of America National Council has resolved to accept gay members. Do you agree with this policy?
We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.
Barack Obama
The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.
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