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3 new foreign mystery novels that are worth your travel time
Craving a foreign excursion? Try the next best thing – one of these mystery novels set in far-away lands.
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Top 7 detective series set in foreign locales
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3 new foreign mystery novels that are worth your travel time
Craving a foreign excursion? Try the next best thing – one of these mystery novels set in far-away lands.
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Face-sized tarantula lives in trees in Sri Lanka
Face-sized tarantula: With a leg span of up to 8 inches across, the Poecilotheria rajaei, is one of the larger species of tarantula.
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How Air Force database is preventing its old bombs from claiming new victims
The US military estimates that an Air Force lieutenant colonel is saving hundreds of lives a year through a new database he is creating of past bombing campaigns. He's also challenging the history books.
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Change Agent One by one, Vietnam deals with unexploded bombs
Since starting work in Vietnam in 1999, the Mines Advisory Group has destroyed an average of 15,000 unexploded bombs from the Vietnam War era each year that continue to kill or injure thousands of Vietnamese.
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The Reformed Broker EU snags the Nobel Peace Prize. Now what?
There are good years and there are bad years for the Nobel Peace Prize, Brown writes. What will the prize mean for the future of the European Union?
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When did modern humans first arrive in Asia? Skull pieces could hold clues. (+video)
An anatomically modern human skull uncovered in Laos's 'Cave of the Monkeys,' could shed light on human migration patterns out of Africa.
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The Monitor's View: US-Vietnam Agent Orange clean-up sets a model
On Thursday, the US and Vietnam start cleaning up dioxin from Agent Orange. This reconciliation, 37 years after the war, may set a precedent in the ethics of dealing with the aftereffects of war.
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Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach
Sassy crime reporter Jimm Juree returns in Colin Cotterill's new mystery series set in Thailand.
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Will the UN reverse its ivory ban?
Delegates overseeing a worldwide endangered species treaty have adopted a plan to allow ivory to be legally traded on the global market.
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Change Agent Clean biogas improves life in rural Vietnam
Thousands of small biogas plants turn manure from farm animals into a useful resource.
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Global News Blog US eases sanctions on Myanmar in rare difference with Aung San Suu Kyi
Last month, Aung San Suu Kyi advised foreign companies not to invest in the state-run Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise until it became more accountable and open.
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ASEAN: Can US open door to Asia trade by softening stance on China?
Following the lead of its ASEAN partners, the US has replaced tough talk about China with calls for cooperation. At stake is a share of the booming trade supplying a rising consumer class in Southeast Asia.
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Apple iTunes store comes to Asia
Apple expanded its online iTunes store to include Taiwan, Hong Kong, and 10 other Asian countries. Previously, Apple users in the company's fastest growing region could only access the iTunes store by using gift cards sold in Europe and the US.
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Vietnam MIAs: Vietnam opens three sites for US M.I.A. hunt (+video)
Vietnamese Defence Minister Phung Quang Thanh told Panetta of the decision during a meeting at his ministry, where they discussed the US strategic shift toward the Asia-Pacific region, and its implications for their growing military ties.
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Global News Blog Russian plane goes missing in Indonesia, dealing blow to aviation industry (+video)
The late-model Russian Sukhoi SuperJet-100 was meant to revive Russia's aging and accident-prone airplane fleet. It disappeared on a demonstration flight.
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Greece heads to the polls – and the political fringes
Today's national elections in Greece could see the end to a two-party monopoly over politics as discontent over the economic crisis generates interest in smaller parties.
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Opinion: Why Voice of America is losing to voice of communist China – at home and abroad
With funding and program cuts, Washington is crippling the truth-telling Voice of America broadcasts in China. Meanwhile, Beijing is aggressively expanding its media campaign to spread untruths – broadcasting from American soil. America can't afford to let the VOA go silent.
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Thailand's blueprint to rein in fallout from floods and drought
Hundreds died and businesses lost billion in last year's floods, caused in part by overflow from dams filled to hedge against drought. This year, Thailand is testing different prevention measures.
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GOP candidates need to debate legalizing marijuana
As GOP candidates debate values, I have not heard them address legalizing marijuana. The words of a narcotics agent ring in my ears: 'I can’t say every pot smoker goes on to get hooked on the hard stuff. But I can say every addict I know on the hard stuff got started on pot.'
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Despite riots, Greece pushes ahead with austerity (+video)
The Greek Parliament voted last night to slash the minimum wage and public sector jobs in exchange for a bailout, despite public fury that led to Molotov cocktails and tear gas.
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Why Chinese workers are getting kidnapped abroad
Kidnapped Chinese workers were freed today in Egypt, but as more Chinese workers become easy targets abroad, citizens back home are calling for action.
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An end to one of the world's longest wars? Myanmar rebels cautious. (+video)
Ceasefire talks between the Myanmar government and the Karen ethnic minority army hold the possibility of an end to one of the world's longest-lasting wars.
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China executes Filipino drug trafficker, draws attention to Chinese drug problem
China, the world’s most prolific executioner, put a Filipino drug trafficker to death Thursday despite an appeal from the Philippine president.
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Thailand's worst floods in decades reach Bangkok as political fallout mounts
Some 40,000 Thai Army troops have been deployed to build flood walls, set up sandbags, and help evacuations, but citizens are beginning to express frustration with the government response.
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Why Thailand has become a popular path to freedom for North Korean defectors
A growing number of North Korean defectors are crossing illegally into Thailand via a new 'underground railroad' because Thailand processes defectors and sends them to South Korea quickly.
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