BANGKOK, Thailand -- India's Hindu temples possess donated gold which
may equal half of America's Fort Knox bullion, but some are rejecting
demands by the government to reveal the value of their sacred
stockpiles.
As President Hassan Rouhani of Iran makes his debut appearance before the United Nations in New York this week, the world is exercised with anticipation about his remarks. Granted Mr. Rouhani’s words will surely not resemble the theatrics...
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Communist Vietnam's police clashed with hundreds
of Catholics who were demanding two parishioners be released from
prison, resulting in what was described as "one of the bloodiest
religious crackdowns in recent years...
War and plunder continue to rip apart great swathes of Africa. The perpetrators are known, and many have been named and exposed. The regimes on Ethiopia, Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda continue to foment covert international...
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A Buddhist group says it successfully convinced a
French factory to stop printing Buddha's face on toilets, but failed
in a lengthy campaign to censor a Walt Disney movie series featuring a
dog named Buddha.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- An American combat photographer said his
picture of captured U.S.-backed Cambodian officials, hours before they
were "bludgeoned to death" by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge in 1975, is the
most important testimony he gave at...