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By Luis Ramirez Bangkok 08 January 2008 The wife of Thailand's ousted prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, has returned to the country to face corruption charges after more than a year in exile. Her return to Thailand comes as Mr. Thaksin's supporters
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By Gary Thomas Washington 14 February 2008 Voters in Pakistan are set to go to the polls Monday in elections for the lower house of parliament and the four provincial assemblies. As VOA correspondent Gary Thomas reports, the elections and their afte
By Cathy Majtenyi Zeila, Somaliland 22 February 2008 Somaliland is a relatively new east African republic that broke away from Somalia in 1991 and is still not recognized internationally as independent. But it is a land ripe with historical treasure,
By Daniel Schearf Beijing 07 June 2008 Chinese workers have started draining a massive, unstable lake formed by the Sichuan earthquake. Chinese officials say the water level is still rising but the threat of the lake bursting has been eased. Daniel
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