Grim-faced Chinese guards protecting the Olympic torch have attracted further criticism ahead of the global relay’s arrival in India, where bitter memories of war with its neighbour remain fresh. Phalanxes of Chinese security personnel are accompanying the flame’s around-the-world journey to shield it from pro-Tibetan demonstrators.
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/ 17 December 2007
A manhunt began in Pakistan on Sunday night after a handcuffed British terrorist suspect escaped outside an extradition hearing at an Islamabad court. The disappearance of Rashid Rauf, accused of involvement in an alleged plot to blow up a dozen transatlantic airliners, placed fresh pressure on the strained relations between the United Kingdom and Pakistan
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/ 16 November 2007
A super cyclone packing winds of 250km/h battered Bangladesh coasts overnight, killing over 200 people, local officials said on Friday. They said hundreds of people were injured and scores were missing, they said, but Cyclone Sidr was now losing strength and rain had mostly stopped.
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/ 21 September 2007
Bangladeshi police broke up a protest march by hundreds of Muslims after Friday prayers over the publication of a cartoon that they say offended their religion. Bangladesh suspended publication of Alpin, a weekly satire magazine of leading Bengali daily Prothom Alo, and its publishers apologised.
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/ 15 September 2007
Nearly 13,5-million people have been marooned or displaced by floods in India and Bangladesh, officials said on Saturday. The flooding in South Asia caused by the June-to-September monsoon has been described as the worst in decades, with more than 2 200 people killed by floods and rains in India since it started.