"China will launch pilot programs to overhaul its judicial system and curb abuses of power by local governments without sacrificing the ruling Communist Party's control of the courts, state media …
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"The Philippines said on Monday that China's 'expansion agenda' in the disputed South China Sea threatened security and stability in the region, calling on all claimant states to halt construction …
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"China sentenced three people to death on Monday over a deadly attack at Beijing's Tiananmen Square last October, state television reported, an incident blamed by the government on Islamist …
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"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas of kidnapping three Israeli teenagers. The students went missing on Thursday near an Israeli settlement …
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"The Alternative for Germany (AfD) failed to make as big a splash in European elections last month as its eurosceptic counterparts in France and Britain. But that may be about to change." Source: …
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"The EU has said it is willing to include Russia in discussions with Kiev about a planned trade agreement that sparked the crisis in Ukraine. European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso made the …
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"France has deported a Tunisian national suspected of recruiting young French people for jihadist forces in Syria's civil war, the interior ministry said on Saturday." Source: France deports Tunisian …
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"Shi'te Muslim Iran is so alarmed by Sunni insurgent gains in Iraq that it may be willing to cooperate with Washington in helping Baghdad fight back, a senior Iranian official told Reuters. The idea …
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"Amid the rubble left in Iraq by the rampage of Islamist insurgents, one group seems poised to benefit: the Kurds. Baghdad's flailing response to the offensive launched by the Islamic State of Iraq …
"The UK will not be getting militarily involved in Iraq, despite Islamist militants gaining control of more of the country, William Hague has said. The Foreign Secretary said the UK was considering …
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