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Thai protesters poured blood outside the government headquarters in a symbolic sacrifice to press their demands for new elections.

Supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinwatra demanded the current government be dissolved and new elections held.

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The Report states that in 2009, the government of Burma "continued its egregious human rights violations and abuses."

The United States considers a good relationship with countries of the Asia-Pacific region to be a top priority.

"Terrorism is terrorism, violence is violence, and it has no place in Islamic teaching and no justification can be provided for it."

President Robert Mugabe stripped authority from several cabinet ministries led by members of the Movement for Democratic Change.

This month, the United States and Japan are celebrating more than 50 years of cooperation.

Violent communal clashes have erupted again in central Nigeria.

Poet Simin Behbahani was prevented from traveling to Paris to attend a Women's Day event.

Ninety percent of the world's opium poppies are still grown in Afghanistan but production has declined by 36 percent.

"Today, development is a strategic, economic, and moral imperative."

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