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  • Political supporters clash in streets of Sri Lanka
    Political supporters clash in streets of Sri Lanka

    Government supporters hurled stones at thousands of opposition activists demonstrating against the arrest of their defeated presidential candidate in Sri Lanka's capital Wednesday.

  • China declares new national food-safety campaign

    China declared a new food-safety campaign Wednesday after contaminated milk products from an earlier scandal showed up repackaged in several places around the country, exposing weaknesses in the country's promise to stop such problems from happening again.

  • China jails young man for joining political party
    China jails young man for joining political party

    A 20-year-old factory worker who joined a banned political party because he was unhappy with one-party rule in China was sentenced to jail for 18 months Wednesday, his mother said.

  • Officials: Afghan avalanches kill 157 people

    Afghanistan's Interior Ministry says 157 people have been killed in avalanches that blocked a mountain pass north of Kabul.

  • Myanmar court sentences US man to 3 years' prison

    A Myanmar court ordered a U.S. citizen Wednesday to serve three years in prison for entering the military-ruled country with forged documents and undeclared foreign currency.

  • Suspect on trial in Indonesia hotel bombings
    Suspect on trial in Indonesia hotel bombings

    An alleged Islamist militant being tried on charges of harboring terrorists behind deadly twin hotel bombings in the Indonesian capital claimed Wednesday that he had helped craft a plot to assassinate the president.

  • China high court stresses 'mercy' in death penalty

    China's highest court has issued new guidelines on the death penalty that instruct lower courts to limit its use to a small number of "extremely serious" cases.

  • UN envoy in North Korea to spur nuke talks
    UN envoy in North Korea to spur nuke talks

    A senior U.N. envoy pressed ahead Wednesday with international efforts to get North Korea back into nuclear disarmament talks, during the world body's first high-level visit to the reclusive state in nearly six years.

  • US poised to seize Afghan town as Taliban dig in
    US poised to seize Afghan town as Taliban dig in

    U.S. and Afghan forces pushed Tuesday to the edge of the southern Afghan town of Marjah, poised to seize the major Taliban supply and drug-smuggling stronghold in hopes of building public support by providing aid and services once the insurgents are gone.

  • China gives 5 years to activist who probed quake
    China gives 5 years to activist who probed quake

    A Chinese activist who investigated the deaths of thousands of children crushed in their schools during the Sichuan earthquake was sentenced Tuesday to five years, underscoring the government's determination to suppress questions about why the buildings fell.

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