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Taiwan's jailed former president Chen Shui-bian pushes the wheelchair ...
Jan 6th, 2012
(AP) - Taiwan's jailed former president Chen Shui-bian pushes the wheelchair of his wife Wu Shu-chen from the funeral home of his late mother-in-law in Tainan, southern Taiwan, Friday, Janu. 6, 2012. Chen attended mourning rites for his mother-in-law after authorities allowed him to briefly leave prison. Chen is serving a lengthy term for corruption. (AP Photo/Johnson Liu, Pool) -
MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) - A Myanmar court sentenced seven Muslims to prison - one of them to a life term - in the killing of a Buddhist monk amid deadly sectarian violence that was overwhelmingly directed against minority Muslims but has produced no serious charges against the members of the country's Buddhist majority. (Source: Associated Pre... [Full Article]
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