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Video North Korean Nuclear Test Turns Spotlight on Iran

Experts say there are indications two countries are helping each other on a variety of scientific endeavors More

Indonesian anti-terror policemen stand guard in the business district in Jakarta, September 11, 2011.

Indonesian Law Aims to Thwart Terror Funds

New law grants more power to authorities, but doesn't represent major shift in country's counterterrorism efforts More

People, many of them Tibetan exiles, hold candle light vigil in solidarity with Tibetans who have self-immolated, Katmandu, Nepal, Feb. 13, 2013.

Photogallery Tibetan Exiles Urge World to Press China Amid Self-Immolations

Appeal comes amid stepped up pace of self-immolations by Tibetans protesting Chinese rule More

India's Youth Keep Spotlight on Violence Against Women

Video India's Youth Keep Spotlight on Violence Against Women

Thousands of young people participate in mass dance protests as part of ongoing global campaign after gang-rape, murder of woman in New Delhi More

Soldiers arrive and take position near the site of a police station after it was attacked in Bannu, February 14, 2013.

Taliban Claims Responsibility for Pakistan Attacks

Roadside bomb targeted vehicle carrying members of anti-Taliban militia in country's northwest, killing 7 militiamen More

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Video North Korean Nuclear Test Turns Spotlight on Iran

Experts say there are indications two countries are helping each other on a variety of scientific endeavors
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Exile Tibetans participate in a candle light vigil in solidarity with fellow Tibetans who have self immolated, in Katmandu, Nepal, February 13, 2013.

Tibetan Monk Dies After Self-Immolating in Nepal

Latest self-immolation in Kathmandu was apparently timed to coincide with the important Tibetan New Year festival of Losar
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Soldiers arrive and take position near the site of a police station after it was attacked in Bannu, February 14, 2013.

Taliban Claims Responsibility for Pakistan Attacks

Roadside bomb targeted vehicle carrying members of anti-Taliban militia in country's northwest, killing 7 militiamen
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In this undated photo released by the South Korean Defense Ministry on February 14, 2013, a South Korean sea-to-land cruise missile is fired from a submarine during a drill at an undisclosed location in South Korea.

South Korea Unveils New Guided Missile to Counter North

Defense ministry spokesman says the precision-guided weapon is very accurate, able to hit the “windows of a North Korean command office”
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Years of mismanagement and a disastrous nationalization process have left Burma

Video Burmese Students Find Hope in University Revival

Years of mismanagement and a disastrous nationalization process have left Burma's once-enviable university system a shambles
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A man rides a motorcycle past a signboard for the Cambodia Iron Group at the Rovieng District in Preah Vihear province, February 10, 2013.

Cambodia's $11 Billion Mystery

Proposals to build infrastructure in remote Rovieng for extraction of iron ore bolsters country's reputation as an agent for Chinese expansionism
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Ten Afghan 'Civilians' Killed in NATO Airstrike

If confirmed is likely to raise tension between President Hamid Karzai's government and US-led NATO forces
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Israel Struggles to Keep Spy Story Cloaked in Secrecy

Death of Australian 'Prisoner X', a purported member of Israel's Mossad spy agency, tests military censorship limits in Internet age
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Video India's Youth Keep Spotlight on Violence Against Women

Demonstrations against women's violence have not quelled in India since the brutal gang-rape of a woman in the capital, New Delhi, nearly two months ago. Throughout India, thousands of young people are taking part in mass dance protests this Valentine's Day as part of a global campaign. VOA's Aru Pande has more from New Delhi.
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