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Ren Zhiqiang, a Chinese real estate tycoon, attends a conference in Beijing last November. Ren, 54, is locked in a battle with the government over the question of free speech.

In Social Media Battle, Real Estate Mogul Takes On Chinese Government

10:43pm March 01, 2016

by Anthony Kuhn

China's Internet authorities have shut down all social media accounts of Ren Zhiqiang, a sharp-tongued real estate mogul compared by some in China to Donald Trump.

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Osama bin Laden wrote in a will that he had a fortune of about $29 million and that he wanted it spent

Osama Bin Laden's Will: $29 Million That Should Be Spent On 'Jihad'

4:16pm March 01, 2016

by Greg Myre

A new batch of documents reveals the tension between his desire to micromanage al-Qaida's day-to-day operations and his fears he might be detected and killed by sending out directives.

Saba, 18, eloped with her fiance, which her family regarded as bringing shame upon them. So her father and uncle tried to kill her.

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This Oscar-Winning Film Could Help End Honor Killings In Pakistan

8:08pm February 29, 2016

by NPR Staff

Saba was shot and then thrown into a river by her own family for eloping with her lover. She survived, and now she's fighting back.

A member of the main opposition party in South Korea speaks past midnight and into Tuesday morning, marking the seventh day of a filibuster against a new surveillance bill.

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Watch Live: South Korean Lawmakers' Filibuster Is Now In Its Seventh Day

2:10pm February 29, 2016

by Bill Chappell

Opposition legislators have now spoken for some 150 hours straight, holding up a bill that would give new surveillance powers to South Korea's spy agency.

Otto Frederick Warmbier, 21, arrives at the People's Cultural House in Pyongyang, North Korea, where he asked forgiveness in front of the media Monday.

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Detained American Student Gives Apparent Confession In North Korean Video

1:23pm February 29, 2016

by Bill Chappell

Appearing to weep at one point in the video, Otto Frederick Warmbier says, "Please, I've made the worst mistake of my life, but, please, act to save me."

Iranian women vote in the parliamentary and Experts Assembly elections at a polling station in Qom, 78 miles south of the capital, Tehran, on Friday.

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Iranian Moderates Make Big Gains In Parliamentary Elections

11:59am February 29, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Final results are trickling in from elections — the first since last year's nuclear deal — that began last week. So far, they're a stunning blow to Iran's hardliners.

South Korean Lawmakers Conduct Tag-Team Filibuster

7:28am February 29, 2016

They were filibustering an anti-terrorism bill. By Sunday, they had been talking more than 115 hours — a world record.

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China Stares Down Economic Concerns

5:33pm February 27, 2016

At the G-20 summit in Shanghai, Chinese officials are trying to reassure foreign finance ministers that the government can handle the country's turbulent economy.

In Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary The Look of Silence, an Indonesian optometrist offers forgiveness to his older brother's killers — if they'll admit to the deed.

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Confronting His Brother's Killers — And Vying For An Oscar

7:00am February 27, 2016

by Diane Cole

Adi, an optometrist in Indonesia, offers forgiveness — if they'll admit to what they did during the massacre of the mid-1960s. That's the story that unfolds in the documentary The Look Of Silence.

People watch a television screen showing news of North Korea's long-range rocket launch on Feb. 7 in Seoul. The new proposed U.N. resolution would ban supplying North Korea with aviation fuel, including rocket fuel.

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U.S. Proposes Tough New Sanctions On North Korea — With China's Support

7:38pm February 26, 2016

by Hannah Bloch

Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, says the proposed U.N. Security Council resolution "is nearly unprecedented in many respects and the toughest ... in more than two decades."

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