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Dominant Vettel wins first Indian GP

World champion Sebastian Vettel made history by winning India’s first ever Formula One on Sunday as McLaren’s Jenson Button tightened his grip on the championship’s second place.
Red Bull’s Vettel led wire-to-wire for his 11th victory of in 17 races, finishing some 8.4 seconds ahead of Button with Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso third and Australian Mark Webber [...]

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Sri Lankan FM slams ‘biased’ UN rights report

Sri Lanka’s foreign minister Sunday condemned a “preposterous” UN-commissioned report alleging war crimes in his country, revealing he stopped Canada raising it at a Commonwealth meeting.
Foreign Minister Gamini Peiris also confirmed Sri Lanka will host the next Commonwealth leaders’ meeting in 2013, saying that none of the 54-nation bloc raised the prospect of [...]

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China envoy says Syria unrest ‘cannot continue’

China’s Middle East envoy Wu Sike cautioned Syria during a visit to Damascus of the dangers of a government crackdown on dissent that he said “cannot continue,” he told reporters in Cairo on Sunday.
Wu said that he “affirmed to senior officials in Syria of the danger of the situation and that it cannot [...]

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Explosions, shootings rock troubled Thai south

A dozen small explosions shook Thailand’s Muslim-majority deep south on Sunday, hours after gunmen shot dead three Buddhists at a petrol station in the restive region, police said.
There were no immediate reports of serious injuries or deaths from the blasts, which struck five districts of Narathiwat Province bordering Malaysia, officials said.
“Most of the explosions were [...]

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Pakistan’s Khan offers to help US in Afghan pullout

Pakistan cricket hero turned politician Imran Khan told a huge rally Sunday that his party would help US troops pull out from Afghanistan and bring militancy in the country to an end.
Addressing a crowd of tens of thousands in the eastern city of Lahore he said his Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) party would like [...]

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Activists slam US studio for filming in China city

BEIJING (AP) — Rights activists have criticized a Hollywood studio for filming a buddy comedy in an eastern Chinese city where a blind, self-taught activist lawyer is being held under house arrest and reportedly beaten.
Relativity Media is shooting part of the comedy “21 and Over” in Linyi, a city in Shandong province [...]

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China to maintain strict ‘one child’ policy

China, the world’s most populous country with more than 1.3 billion people, will maintain its strict “one-child” policy, state media said Sunday, despite calls for the rules to be relaxed.
The population control measure has prevented almost half a billion births since it was introduced in 1979, Chinese experts claim.
But it has turned [...]

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Flood-wary Bangkok is contrast of misery, normalcy

BANGKOK (AP) — On one side of Bangkok, you’ll find the victims of Thailand’s worst flooding in half a century. They float down trash-strewn waterways, paddling washtubs with wicker brooms over submerged neighborhoods.
Just a few miles (kilometers) away, you’ll find something else entirely: well-heeled shoppers perusing bustling malls decorated [...]

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Massa-Hamilton feud deepens at Indian GP

NEW DELHI (AP) — Ferrari driver Felipe Massa says the onus is on Lewis Hamilton to clear the air between the two after they collided yet again in the Formula One Indian Grand Prix on Sunday.
The two have crashed into each other in three of the past four races. This time Massa was [...]

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China censors web after tax riots

China on Friday blocked online access to news of riots by thousands of people who clashed with police in an eastern manufacturing city in what began as a protest over taxes.
Cars were smashed and several people were injured in the riots, which went on for more than a day and involved thousands of people, said [...]

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