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At least 26 people are dead and 10 missing since Wednesday as storms hit southern and central China.
2014-05-26

Two Japanese cabinet ministers, Jin Matsubara and Yuichiro Hata, visit the controversial Yasukuni Shrine amid territorial disputes with both the People's Republic of China and South Korea.
2012-08-15

2011 Libyan civil war: Seven rebels are killed and 50 injured in fighting in the town of Zlitan.
2011-08-2

A Chinese court sentences a forklift driver to death for killing a protester in an incident that started unrest in Inner Mongolia. [http:--www.straitstimes.com-BreakingNews-Asia-Story-STIStory_682301.html ("Straits Times")]date=August 2019
2011-06-21

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il reportedly visits China, the third such visit in a year.
2011-05-20

The Tripoli compound of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is targeted for more bombing raids in the third night of the international intervention in Libya.
2011-03-21

The United Nations says the situation on the Libyan-Tunisian border has reached "crisis point".
2011-03-1

Nations including the United Kingdom, the United States of America, France, the People's Republic of China, Russia, Italy and Greece evacuate their citizens from Libya.
2011-02-23

The Karmapa Lama, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan Buddhism's third-highest lama, is questioned by police after large amounts of foreign money are found at his monastery in Dharamsala, northern India. Some Indian media allege he is acting as a spy for China.
2011-02-1

Seven people are killed and fourteen injured in a bomb attack in China's Xinjiang province. Although the region has recently been embroiled in violence including Muslim separatists and majority Han Chinese, the attack is being investigated as a criminal case.
2010-08-19