Chinese HIV-positive man files discrimination suit

2011-09-08T16:30:32Z

An HIV-positive man in China said Thursday he was suing local authorities for denying him a job as a primary school teacher, in a sign of growing assertiveness among the nation's HIV/AIDS sufferers.

If accepted by the court, the lawsuit will be only the second such discrimination case heard in China, where people with HIV/AIDS are often stigmatised despite growing signs of openness.

The 27-year-old plaintiff, who goes by the alias

AIDS stalks gay and transgender Indians

2011-08-24T02:31:43Z

India's success in slashing HIV/AIDS infection rates by 50 percent in the last decade masks a high rate of infection among homosexual and transgender people, experts say.

This anomaly was highlighted last month by the country's Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in a now notorious speech at an AIDS conference that will be remembered for other reasons.

Azad went...

HIV epidemics emerging in Middle East, North Africa: study

2011-08-02T14:30:28Z

LONDON (Reuters) - Epidemics of HIV are emerging among gay and bisexual men in the Middle East and North Africa and high levels of risky sexual behavior threaten to spread the AIDS virus further in the region, researchers said Tuesday.

In the first study of its kind in a region where...

'Funding gap' imperils science exploits, AIDS forum hears

2011-07-19T16:30:15Z

Scientists have now provided revolutionary tools to roll back HIV but only a major funding boost, supported especially by emerging giant economies, will determine the outcome, experts say.

Experts at the conference on AIDS medicine here said the money gap imperilled the dazzling potential to curb the 30-year-old pandemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

"We are in dangerous times for AIDS funding," said Peter Piot

Cutting AIDS funding to China a big mistake: UNAIDS

2011-07-11T07:00:16Z

BEIJING (Reuters) - It will be a "big mistake" for donors to cut funding to China in the fight against AIDS, the head of UNAIDS said Monday, rebuffing critics who say the world's second-largest economy should no longer be a recipient of such aid.

Se...

India says EU deal won't hit AIDS drugs supply: U.N.

2011-07-07T06:00:16Z

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has promised not to link a proposed trade deal with the European Union with limiting its production of generic HIV/AIDS drugs, the United Nations s...

Millions will die if India stops AIDS drugs: U.N.

2011-07-05T08:30:30Z

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Millions of people dependent on life-saving generic drugs to treat HIV/AIDS will die if India stops producing cheap drugs for the disease due to its trade deal with the European Union, the head of India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday hailed the country's success in slashing new HIV/AIDS infections by half in the past decade, but warned against complacency.

"Our HIV/AIDS programme can justifiably claim a measure of success," he told a conference in New Delhi discussing means to combat the disease.

India sees cut in new HIV cases but battle not over

2011-06-14T20:30:18Z

Radhe Shyam looks every inch the family man as he cradles his chubby, four-month-old baby in his arms and glances lovingly at his wife and two other daughters.

Shyam, his wife and one of his three daughters, however, are HIV positive. The couple's youngest is also likely to be carrying the virus, although that will be confirmed only when she is tested once she is 18 months old.

The 42-year-old and his family are among the estimated 2.3 million people in

Young drug users forgotten amid India AIDS success

2011-06-07T02:30:04Z

NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - Aslam began to smoke marijuana at the age of ten, lured into it by friends. Soon he graduated to other drugs, mostly heroin, stealing mobile phones and snatching gold necklaces from around women's necks to pay for his habit.

"When I tried it, I really liked it -- I had a feeling of stillness all around me, " said A...

Discrimination in China hinders AIDS fight

2011-05-30T20:30:22Z

When Meng Lin found out he was HIV-positive, he was forced to leave home, quit his job and change his name -- the victim of intense discrimination experts say hinders China's fight against the disease.

Fifteen years later, Meng has finally landed on his feet. He works at an HIV/AIDS NGO and has a partner, but still keeps his disease a secret from his friends amid continuing prejudice in China,...

After 30 years, new sources needed for AIDS campaign

2011-05-30T05:30:18Z

As the war on AIDS heads into its fourth decade, the need for funds is spiralling relentlessly higher, prompting a quest for new resources from consumer levies to contributions from developing giants.

"We currently have around 16 billion dollars available for the global fight against aids," said Bernhard Schwartlander, who heads the strategy and results department at the UN agency South African woman runs the local operations of India's largest drug company, Ranbaxy, and the second largest, Cipla, is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

India's pharmaceutical industry has rolle...

Wider distribution of drugs needed to cut AIDS deaths in China

2011-05-19T06:00:31Z

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China needs to identify and provide effective AIDS drugs to more HIV patients infected through sexual contact and use of dirty needles if it wants cut HIV death rates and avoid broader transmission of the virus, researchers said on Thursday.

In a paper published in medical journal China are routinely denied medical treatment in hospitals, a UN agency said Wednesday, in a sign of ongoing discrimination despite recent progress.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) uncovered HIV-related discrimination in China's ho...

Early drug therapy curbs HIV transmission: study

2011-05-13T06:30:33Z

People with HIV who take antiretroviral drugs before their health declines have a 96 percent lower risk of transmitting the virus to a partner, according to a breakthrough global study.

The large study that covered mainly heterosexual couples in Africa, India and the Americas was hailed by AIDS experts as a "game-changer" that will transform how the disease is managed, 30...

With head in the sand, Indonesia struggles to tackle AIDS

2011-04-12T01:30:04Z

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Financial troubles drove Liana into prostitution almost four years ago, but the 30-year-old ex-accountant said she'd had no idea then that unprotected sex could give her HIV/AIDS, a disease she now has to live with.

Liana, who holds an economics degree, is one of 300,000 Indonesians in the world's most populous Muslim nation w...

Indonesia to boost health services for poor

2011-03-29T12:30:19Z

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia wants the private sector to build more hospitals and reserve a quarter of the available beds for the poor, as it increases spending on free healthcare to tackle a rise in diseases from strokes to AIDS, the health minister said.

The plan to cover basic hospital medical...

Gilead HIV drug meets main goal of trial

2011-03-23T06:30:13Z

BOSTON (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc said on Wednesday that its experimental HIV drug elvitegravir met the main goal of a late-stage clinical trial.

The goal was to demonstrate that the drug is as effective after 48 weeks of treatment, dosed once daily, as EU trade demands they said would make lifesaving drugs unaffordable to millions of people with the virus.

More than 2,000 demonstrators from India and other Asian countries marched through downtown New Delhi carrying banners read...

China warns HIV/AIDS highly prevalent in some areas

2011-02-16T10:30:42Z

China warned Wednesday of the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in some areas, saying the situation in the country was still grim and calling for better prevention and treatment of the disease.

"The disease in some areas and population groups has become highly prevalent and many HIV carriers and patients have not yet been discovered," the State Council, China's cabinet, said in a statement.

It added the HIV virus that causes AIDS was mostly...

China aims to bring AIDS spread under control by 2020

2011-02-16T05:30:08Z

BEIJING (Reuters) - China hopes to more or less bring the spread of AIDS under control by 2020, but faces an uphill task do to so due in part to ignorance and poor policy coordination, the government said on Wednesday.

China has 560,000 to 920,000 people infected with the HIV virus and 97,000 to 112,000 A...

Poignant Chinese AIDS film moves Berlin festival

2011-02-14T20:30:19Z

A heart-wrenching documentary about AIDS sufferers in China and the discrimination they face in their daily lives has won a rapturous reception at the Berlin film festival.

Based on interviews and emails with a wide range of HIV positive people, director Zhao Liang said he hoped the film, Zai Yi Qi ("Together"), could change attitudes in China, where at least 740,0...

Kenyans rally against EU-India deal on AIDS drugs

2010-12-09T08:00:11Z

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Hundreds of Kenyans living with HIV protested outside EU offices in Nairobi on Thursday against a deal they say may block access to cheap life-saving AIDS drugs.

The European Union and Ind...

Malaysian women in conservative state hit by HIV: report

2010-12-06T21:30:18Z

Philandering husbands who visit prostitutes across the border in Thailand are being blamed for high HIV-AIDS infection rates among women in Malaysia's most conservative state.

The Malaysian AIDS Council reportedly said that women in northern Kelantan state, which is ruled by the hardline Islamic party PAS, top the ...

Ex-official implicates China leaders in AIDS scandal

2010-12-01T06:30:48Z

A retired senior Chinese health official on Wednesday called for two of the country's most powerful leaders to take responsibility for a huge 1990s blood-selling AIDS scandal.

Chen Bingzhong, 78, who has advanced liver cancer, wrote an open letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao saying that some involved in the scandal in Henan province...

Ex-official urges probe of China '90s HIV epidemic

2010-11-30T03:30:16Z

Retired Chinese official pushes for investigation of 1990s HIV epidemic from tainted blood

In his dying days, a retired Chinese health official is calling on the government to come clean about a 1990s blood-selling scandal that infected tens of thousands of people with the virus that causes AIDS.

His appeal this week for a full and open investigation highlights a contradiction in China's AIDS policy. Even as the gove...

Xinhua home news advisory -- Nov. 30

2010-11-30T12:39:04Z

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China AIDS death toll up nearly 20,000 in a year

2010-11-29T11:31:31Z

The total number of reported AIDS deaths in China has jumped by nearly 20,000 since an official estimate last year, state media said Monday as Beijing vowed to step up efforts to curb its spread.

Deaths linked to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) since its emergence in China in the 1980s reached 68,315 by the end of October, state television said, citing figures from the health ministry...

AIDS Drugs--For Profit Or Not?

2010-11-30T12:38:34Z

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Philippines reports rise in HIV-AIDS infections

2010-11-25T16:30:31Z

The Philippines on Thursday reported a sharp jump in HIV-AIDS cases which runs against a global trend of declining infection rates, with young homosexual men most at risk.

There were 1,305 confirmed new HIV infections in first 10 months of the year, compared with 835 for the whole of 2009, the health ministry said.

Sex between men accounted for nearly 80 percent of all cases this year, and more than half of those infected ...

HIV Infection Figures Plunge

2010-11-29T14:48:12Z

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Defendant loses China's first HIV jobs bias case

2010-11-12T13:31:35Z

Court rules against defendant in China's first HIV employment discrimination case

A Chinese court ruled Friday against the defendant in the country's first lawsuit over employment discrimination against people who are HIV-positive, the man's lawyer said.

The defendant, identified only by the nickname "Little Wu," brought the suit in the eastern city of Anqing after being refused a teaching job because he...

Condom Ringtone

2010-11-30T13:50:10Z

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China AIDS group says it is forced to shut down

2010-11-11T03:00:16Z

China AIDS group says it is forced to shut down after pressure from authorities

A group founded by well-known imprisoned Chinese activist Hu Jia to work with AIDS patients and orphans said Thursday it is closing down after increasing pressure from tax authorities.

Beijing Loving Source appears to be the...

The final battle in the war against HIV and AIDS

2010-11-29T15:48:16Z

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Challenges faced by women living with HIV/AIDS in India

2010-11-29T15:43:47Z

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Rocks of the Aravalli and Delhi Supergroups

2010-11-29T14:55:32Z

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2010-11-29T15:18:45Z

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2010-11-29T15:16:04Z

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2010-11-29T15:21:34Z

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2010-11-29T15:13:19Z

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2010-11-29T15:10:16Z

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2010-11-03T02:31:09Z

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China court hears first HIV discrimination suit

2010-10-13T01:30:27Z

A Chinese court on Wednesday heard the case of a man who alleges he was denied a job because he is HIV-positive, in the nation's first such discrimination case, his lawyer said.

The plaintiff, who has only been identified by his alias Xiao Wu, filed the suit against the education department of Anqing city in the eastern province of Anhui.

The lawsuit alleges city officials denied the plaintiff, a recent college graduate, a teaching job a...

China court to hear first HIV discrimination suit

2010-10-12T21:30:33Z

A Chinese court was Wednesday to begin hearing the case of a man who alleges he was denied a job because he is HIV-positive, in what state media has said is the nation's first such discrimination case.

The plaintiff, who has only been identified by his alias Xiao Wu, filed the suit against the education department of Anqing city in the eastern province of Anhui, the official Indonesia's information minister sparks controversy with anti-gay tweets, AIDS joke

An Indonesian government minister who has in the past blamed natural disasters on immorality has caused more controversy by posting anti-gay comments on Twitter and joking about people with AIDS.

Tifatul Sembiring, who is information minister and also a membe...

China experts design gel to protect women from HIV

2010-09-30T03:45:10Z

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in China and Hong Kong are designing a gel containing an experimental drug which they hope can reduce HIV infections in women.

The search for such a prophylaxis is gaining urgency in China with sex becoming the number one mode of HIV transmission and new HIV infections...

What Are the Different Chancroid Symptoms?

2010-11-05T10:18:30Z

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China says HIV among migrant workers a concern

2010-09-14T13:16:08Z

China's health minister said Tuesday he was concerned about the HIV/AIDS situation among migrant workers, but added the Asian nation had managed to contain the "fast spread" of the disease.

"My major concern about our situation is the migrant population because the health service towards the migrant population has yet to be improved," Chen Zhu told reporters.

He added that sexual intercourse was the main means of transmis...

Freer trade may hurt access to India generic drugs

2010-09-14T10:45:29Z

GENEVA (Reuters) - Freer trade could harm India's generic drug business, which supplies the bulk of the AIDS medicines sent to developing countries, a study backed by the drug-purchasing body UNITAID said on Tuesday.

The report, written by a UNITAID official along with experts from B...

What Is White Ginseng?

2010-11-05T11:00:13Z

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What Is Ampalaya?

2010-11-05T11:02:24Z

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India not treating AIDS patients early: Global Fund

2010-09-09T09:15:14Z

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Thousands of AIDS patients in India are not receiving treatment on time, underscoring huge challenges the country faces as it combats the disease, the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said on Thursday.

India, with 2.27 million patients, is among the top three c...

Prostitution - The Outcasts Of India And Bangladesh

2010-09-22T08:45:25Z

Prostitution is as old as old as the hills and is known as the worlds oldest profession. In India and in every other third world country, people will have sex with prostitutes. Like every country in the world, prostitution in India is a controversial issue. Prostitution or the exchange of sex for money is legal but the related activities such as soliciting sex, operating brothels and pimping are illegal.

Hindu culture is by far the largest religious group in India. This belief enfo...

China court accepts first HIV discrimination suit

2010-08-30T21:15:33Z

A Chinese man has filed a lawsuit alleging he was denied a job because he is HIV-positive, in what state media on Tuesday called the nation's first such discrimination case.

The plaintiff, whose identity was not revealed, filed the suit against the education department of Anqing city in the eastern province of Anhui, the China Daily reported.

Th...

US-India NIH Collaboration Grants

2010-11-02T14:39:10Z

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AIDS activists: Chinese colleague detained

2010-08-20T22:30:20Z

Chinese AIDS activist who caught the virus as a boy is detained by police, colleagues say

Police in central China have detained an AIDS activist who contracted the virus as a boy and whose tireless campaigning for the rights of those with the disease angered local authorities, his fellow activists said Saturday.

Under pressure to end Tian Xi's campaigning, police from his...

WEEKLY WATCH

2010-11-02T15:43:32Z

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Hepatitis B linked to lymphoma in study

2010-08-03T16:01:50Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People infected with hepatitis B virus are around twice as likely to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma, researchers reported on Tuesday.

Hepatitis B was already known to cause liver cancer and some scientists had suspected it might cause lymphoma, too. The study, published in Lancet Oncology, confirms this. Hepatitis C is also linked to lymphoma.

The blood cancer is not common and widespread v...

China, India should open wallets for AIDS war: Global Fund

2010-07-23T09:15:54Z

China, India and other fast-growing economies should start to contribute to the world's war chest to fight AIDS, the head of the Global Fund said on Friday as the 18th world AIDS conference wound down.

Speaking amid deepening concern about donations from western countries, Michel Kazatchkine said a looming funding gap could be bridg...

Lethal mixture drives AIDS pandemic in ex-Soviet bloc

2010-07-22T09:16:20Z

Official indifference, stigma and a blinkered reflex to criminalise drug addicts have turned Eastern Europe and Central Asia into the region where HIV is spreading fastest, the world AIDS forum heard.

The six-day forum staged a series of workshops and seminars where policymakers and grassroots workers portrayed a regional pandemic growing at murderous pace.

Auth...

Criminalised sex workers, gays at high risk of HIV in Asia

2010-07-21T15:47:33Z

The criminalisation of sex workers, drug users, and men who have sex with men were highlighted as major sources of concern in the fight against HIV in Asia, at the world AIDS conference here Wednesday.

Twenty-five countries in the Asia-Pacific region still impose the death penalty for offences related to the possession and abuse of drugs, creating a huge stigma that means abusers often avoid treatment for fear of imprisonment, said Reuters) - AIDS groups on Tuesday accused the United States of violating the health rights of millions of poor people around the world through trade policies that make it harder for them to get life-saving drugs.

A coalition that includes Health Gap, the Foundation for ...

HIV rising fastest in EEurope, central Asia: UNICEF

2010-07-19T11:16:03Z

Nowhere in the world is the HIV virus spreading faster than in eastern Europe and Central Asia, where more than 80 percent of those infected are under 30 years old, UNICEF said Monday.

"Eastern Europe and Central Asia are the only parts of the world where the HIV epidemic remains c...

China hospital 'refuses to treat HIV-positive woman'

2010-07-16T03:15:24Z

A migrant worker seriously injured in a wage dispute in China said Friday that a hospital had refused to treat her after doctors found out she was HIV-positive.

Li Na, 37, told AFP she was beaten up Monday when she and fellow workers at a construction site in the Inner Mongolia region asked their company for unpaid wages, and was sent to hospital.

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Norway's princess in Vienna for AIDS conference

2010-07-15T10:16:33Z

Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit will be in Vienna this weekend for an AIDS gala and the opening of a Youth Pavilion at the AIDS 2010 conference, organisers said Thursday.

The princess will one of the guests of honour at a special gala being held in the Austrian parliame...

China's AIDS activists face uphill struggle

2010-07-14T01:15:56Z

Wan Yanhai, China's top AIDS activist, said he suffered years of harassment from authorities which eventually came to a head earlier this year when he fled to the United States with his family.

He is just one of the nation's AIDS campaigners who face ongoing pressure -- a situation that is hampering China's efforts to improve HIV prevention and control, activists and experts say.

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Kun Run Biotechnology Wins Approval for Hepatitis B Drug

2010-10-27T09:38:46Z

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China syphilis infections up 30% each year: report

2010-06-12T00:16:04Z

Rampant prostitution which has accompanied China's rapid economic growth is fuelling a 30 percent increase in syphilis infections each year, state media reported on Saturday.

Syphilis was almost wiped out in China 50 years ago, but has increased 10-fold over the past decade to emerge as one of the country's top five infectious diseases, the China Daily...

Eastern Europe, Central Asia leaders shunning AIDS meet

2010-06-10T09:16:25Z

Few Eastern Europe and Central Asian leaders have said they would attend a major AIDS conference next month, organisers said Thursday, despite rising HIV rates in the two regions.

Former US president Bill Clinton tops the billing for the July 18-23 International AIDS Conference in

Row over Uzbekistan clouds Cannes celebrity AIDS gig

2010-05-20T08:15:47Z

A row over Uzbekistan's stand on HIV-AIDS erupted Thursday hours ahead of a celebrity fund-raising gala held at the Cannes film festival each year.

In an open letter, French media watchdog Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders) denounced the scheduled attendance at...

No HIV care for 90% of gay men in Asia Pacific: UN

2010-05-17T07:16:06Z

More than 90 percent of gay men in the Asia Pacific region don't have access to HIV prevention and care services, as levels of the disease soar to "alarming levels", a UN report said Monday.

The study, conducted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), said discriminator...

HIV among gay, bisexual men at alarming highs in Asia

2010-05-17T03:15:16Z

HONG KONG (Reuters) - HIV prevalence among gay and bisexual men has hit alarming levels in Asia and most of them do not have access to services and care due to punitive laws which drive them underground, a U.N.-backed report said on Monday.

The situation may worsen if countries fail to reverse laws that criminalize sex...

Religion News in Brief

2010-06-12T18:37:36Z

Religion News in Brief

Plans to allow married same-sex couples to qualify as families for camping permits reflects an "insidious pattern" of state agencies seeking to change rules to benefit such couples, an Iowa lawmaker said.

Sen. Merlin Bartz, a Republican from Grafton, opposes same-sex marriage and was troubled that the Department of Natural Resources would propose the new rules. He said the changes, considered Mon...

Top AIDS activist flees China for US

2010-05-10T22:15:19Z

China's top AIDS activist, whose group helped uncover a major tainted blood-selling scandal in the 1990s, said Tuesday he had fled with his family to the United States because he feared for his safety.

Wan Yanhai, 46, said he, his wife and his daughter were staying with friends in the eastern US city of Philadelphia after leavin...

China AIDS activist moves to US after harassment

2010-05-09T20:45:09Z

China AIDS activist leaves for US with family after government harassment intensified

A prominent Chinese AIDS activist said Monday he has left China for the United States with his wife and 4-year-old daughter after authorities increasingly harassed him and his organization.

Wan Yanhai, founder of the Beijing-based...

1 Chinese baby born with syphilis every hour

2010-05-06T10:15:17Z

Every hour a baby is born in China with syphilis, as the world's fastest-growing epidemic of the disease is fueled by men with new money from the nation's booming economy, researchers say.

The easy-to-cure bacterial infection, which was nearly wiped out in China five decades ago, is now the most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease in its largest city, Shanghai.

Prostitutes alo...

One baby with syphilis born every hour in China: study

2010-05-06T00:16:35Z

One child was born with syphilis every hour in China in 2008, researchers said Thursday, as new money from the country's growing economy fuels the world's fastest-growing epidemic of the disease.

Syphilis was almost wiped out in China 50 years ago, but it is now the most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease in Shanghai, according to an article in the U.S. special envoy on North Korea, Stephen Bosworth before their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Jung Yeon-je, Pool)

Pakistan Violence

2011-01-04T15:00:59Z

Troops of Pakistan's para military force stand guard outside a local hospital where Punjab's governor Salman Taseer's dead body was brought in Islamabad, Pakistan on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. The governor of Pakistan's powerful Punjab province was shot dead Tuesday by one of his guards in the Pakista...

APTOPIX Pakistan Violence

2011-01-04T14:32:37Z

Supporters of Pakistan People's party mourn death of Punjab's governor Salman Taseer who was shot dead by one of his guards, outside a local hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. The governor of Pakistan's powerful Punjab province was shot dead Tuesday by one of his guards in ...

Australia Tennis Hopman Cup

2011-01-04T06:30:53Z

Serbian Novak Djokovic plays a backhand during his match against Kazakhstan's Andrey Golubev on day two of the Hopman Cup team tennis tournament in Perth, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Steve Wake)

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South Korea US Koreas Clash

2011-01-04T02:30:23Z

Stephen Bosworth, US special representative for North Korea policy, talks to reporters upon his arrival at Incheon international airport, west of Seoul, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. Bosworth arrived in Seoul for talks on North Korea's nuclear...

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