The U-S House of representatives has passed (Thursday) a resolution calling for political reforms in Laos and international monitoring of human rights in the southeast Asian country.
A bomb blast in a Shi'ite mosque in Karachi, Pakistan, has killed at least five people.
Thailand's prime minister recalls the top police commander in his country's violence-torn southern Muslim provinces.
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