Restive Maldives eases curfew after rounding up dissidents
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A curfew in the capital of the Maldives was eased but parliament sessions were put off indefinitely and emergency rule continued following last week's riots, officials and residents said.
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Bangladesh relaxed a curfew for most of  Saturday, despite attempts to defy it by unidentified  activists, police said.
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Military-run Myanmar on Saturday lifted a curfew in the main city Yangon that was imposed on the eve of the junta's deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protests, a local official told AFP.
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The president of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, has escaped an assassination attempt, a presidential spokesman said.
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Kathmandu: Nepal will briefly lift a curfew imposed on the capital on Thursday, after widespread rioting in response to the slaying of 12 Nepalese in Iraq, announcing the death toll from the unrest had risen to two.
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Myanmar's junta imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the country's two main cities on Wednesday after pouring security forces into Yangon to try to end the biggest protests against military rule in 20 years.
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Syria's most prominent political dissident has been rearrested in a new crackdown on opposition figures by President Bashar al-Assad's regime
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Opposition activists win the two parliamentary seats for the Maldives capital, provisional results show.
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People in the tsunami-stricken Maldives  voted on Saturday in a parliamentary election, dismissed as a  sham by the opposition but praised by the government as a vote  of confidence for reform.
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A curfew is in effect in Baghdad banning virtually all movement in the city, police said.
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Senior Maldives opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed is freed from house arrest.
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PARACHINAR, Pakistan  - Authorities imposed a curfew in a northwestern Pakistani town on Sunday a day after a suicide bomber attacked supporters of assassinated prime minister Benazir Bhutto killing 39 people, an official said.
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Most of the 33 Iranian women activists arrested earlier in the week in Tehran have been freed from jail.
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Burma's military regime lifts the curfew that was imposed on Rangoon at the height of protests led by monks.
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Only three days after the Indian Ocean tsunami swept over almost all the islands and atolls of the Maldives, tourists are once again willing to travel to the sparsely-populated
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The government on Saturday tried to ease tensions over the deaths of 85 accused Muslim rioters -- including 78 who died in military custody -- by freeing hundreds of detainees
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Myanmar's military junta on Saturday lifted a curfew imposed in the country's main city Yangon last month after a crackdown on mass protests.