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North Korea fires short range weapons
PYONGYANG - North Korea continued to fire short range projectiles into waters off its east coast for a third straight day on Monday, officials here said, despite warnings from the US and South Korea against increasing tensions. The North has conducted six such firings since Saturday, in what are believed to be tests of short-range guided missiles or rockets from multiple launchers, officials ...
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Papering over border differences China and India agree to boost trade
NEW DELHI - India and China Monday played down a recent border stand-off and agreed to maintain peace along their disputed boundary as well as boost economic relations. Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, who decided to make India the first stop of his maiden foreign jaunt as premier, stressed that the population of the two nations comprised one third of the world. Both countries have ...
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Musharraf gets bail in Bhutto assassination case
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Former Pakistani military dictator Pervez Musharraf was Monday granted bail in a case related to the assassination of ex premier Benazir Bhutto. Musharraf has been under house arrest because he is accused of failing to provide adequate security for Bhutto who was murdered in a bomb and gun attack in December 2007 while campaigning for elections. The assassination ...
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Multiple bombings in Iraq leave over 60 dead
BAGHDAD, Iraq - More than 60 people, including Iranian Shia pilgrims, were killed in a series of car bombings and shootings across Iraq Monday, officials said. The worst hit in Monday's violence was Baghdad where eight car bombs and a roadside bomb ripped through bus stops, marketplaces and other crowded areas in Shia neighbourhoods. The attacks left 12 people dead and 109 wounded, a senior ...
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Hezbollah loses 23 militants in clash with Syrian rebels claim activists
BEIRUT, Lebanon - At least 23 elite fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, fighting alongside the Syrian government troops, were killed near the Lebanese border Monday, an activist group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks Syria's war, said more than 100 Hezbollah members also have been wounded in the fighting around the opposition-held ...
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Blogging platform Tumblr acquired by Yahoo for $1.1 bn
NEW YORK - Yahoo promised "not to screw it up" as it formally announced its acquisition of the popular Tumblr blogging platform for $1.1bn in cash, giving the company a much-needed base in social media to reach a younger generation of users. The relaxed wording of the memo for one of the internet giant's biggest acquisitions was echoed in the memo sent by David Karp, Tumblr's 26-year-old ...
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US drugmaker Actavis buying Warner Chilcott in $8.5bn deal
WASHINGTON/ DUBLIN - Actavis Inc, the largest US generic drug maker by market value, is acquiring Dublin-based Warner Chilcott in a deal worth $8.5billion (5.6billion pounds) including $3billion net debt, to create the third-biggest specialty pharmaceutical company in the country. Under the deal, Actavis, which itself has been the subject of bid speculation, would be offering $5billion in ...
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Bombardier unveils Challenger 350 mid sized business jet
GENEVA - Canadian aeroplane maker Bombardier has expanded its leading Challenger family of business jets with the launch of the new Challenger 350 aircraft in collaboration with global leader in private aviation, US firm NetJets. The launch on Monday was held at a special event here at the European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (EBACE). Bombardier said deliveries of the ...
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$254mn Eskom wind power project gets South African regulator's nod
JOHANNESBURG - The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has granted power producer Eskom a licence for its Sere wind farm in the Western Cape, paving the way for the company to start construction of its $254.3 million (R2.4-billion) project. Sere is the Nama word for "cool breeze". The wind farm project is scheduled to become fully commercially operational by the end of ...
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Morgan Stanley India to sell wealth management arm to StanChart
MUMBAI - The UK based Standard Chartered (StanChart) Monday announced plans to acquire the Indian private wealth management business of US multinational financial services firm Morgan Stanley for an undisclosed amount as part of plans to expand operations. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals. "Standard Chartered India has agreed to acquire Morgan Stanley's onshore private ...
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For $221k July 4th Fireworks Show on National Mall in Washington Will Go On
The show will go on. Sequestration may have cost Washington D.C. tourists a chance to tour the White House, but the Independence Day fireworks will go off as planned. ...
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Politkovskaya Case Sent To Court For Trial
The case of the 2006 killing of Russia's prominent investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya is set to be tried again in court. Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said on May 21 that four men from Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, his nephews Rustam, Ibragim, and Dzhabrail Makhmudov, and former policeman Sergei Khadzhikurbanov ...
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Suspect In Attack On Ukrainian Journalists Arrested
KYIV -- A man suspected of beating two journalists in Kyiv on May 18 has been arrested. Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko told parliament on May 21 that the suspect, Vadym Titushko, has been charged with hooliganism. Lawmakers requested he brief them on the situation. On May 18, a group of athletic men in tracksuits attacked opposition activists during the "Get Up, ...
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Saakashvili Says Pacific Island No Longer Recognizes Abkhazia
TBILISI -- Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says the tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has withdrawn its recognition of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia. Saakashvili, who held talks with Vanuatu Prime Minister Moana Carcasses Kalosil this week on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Water Summit in Thailand, announced on May 20 that Vanuatu authorities had "changed ...
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A Walk Down Washingtons Alley Of Russian Poets
The Alley of Russian Poets is the brainchild of Uli Zislin, a Russian-born poetry collector and songwriter whose idea fell on receptive ears in ...
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Hezbollah Syrian army renew Qusair offensive
AMMAN - Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and Syrian soldiers, backed by air strikes and artillery, renewed an offensive aimed at driving Syrian rebels from the town of Qusair near the Lebanese border on Tuesday, opposition activists said.They said fighting was raging in Qusair, as well as in areas to the east where several army bases are located, and in the Hezbollah-held southern and western ...
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Ex-wife of Julian Stevenson who killed his son and daughter regularly fought him having custody
Clutching a pink balloon and buying sweets, the children 'murdered by their father' hours lateras it emerges his ex-wife 'regularly fought against him having ...
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Boris Johnsons secret lovechild daughter Stephanie and a victory for the publics right to know
It rejected claims by Helen Macintyre, with whom the married Mayor of London had an affair, that the birth of their daughter Stephanie must remain ...
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Cameron fd things up on gay marriage Norman Tebbit blasts as he suggests he should now be able to marry his own son
Norman Tebbit has launched a foul-mouthed attack on David Cameron, claiming the Tory leader has ‘f***** things up’ buy pressing ahead with gay marriage ...
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British climber Kenton Cool reaches peak of Everest for a record-breaking ELEVENTH time
The climbs have been described as a fitting tribute to Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay who reached the 29,035-foot summit of Everest on May 29, 1953, becoming the first people to stand atop the world's highest ...
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Apple avoids BILLIONS in taxes with dummy headquarters in Ireland says Senate report
An investigation by a Senate committee said the tech giant sought the 'Holy Grail of tax avoidance' schemes by not declaring tax residency in any country, which could be unique among international ...
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Now a Tory MP calls his own party swivel-eyed for obsessing about Europe as row over Camerons leadership intensifies
Gary Streeter, a former minister who served in in the dying days of John Major’s government, said he had seen ‘once more the familiar glint in the swivelled-eyes of the purists’ who are again risking electoral defeat by obsessing about ...
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Cagefighter Vincent Graham who quit ring after losing leg took up new career as playboy drug baron
A cagefighter who quit the ring to lead a cocaine-dealing gang after losing his leg in a road accident has been ordered to pay ...
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Children who live near a busy road are more likely to develop ADHD
The study suggest by the age of seven, children exposed to the substances are more likely to test positive for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and related symptoms, including lack of attentiveness, aggression, and behavioural ...
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George Michael was lucky he didnt die says driver who nearly ran singer over on the M1
Katherine Fox, 23, was travelling behind a silver Range Rover when the singer tumbled out of the passenger door onto the third lane of the ...
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Fiji needs to focus more on needs of the poor
Fiji is facing a major problem with informal housing or ‘squatter colonies’, especially on the outskirts of major cities such as Savu, which draw people in with the promise of jobs and prosperity. An ongoing effort by government to provide affordable housing for low-income earners is hampered by mismanagement, a lack of funds and the reluctance to evict non-payers from their homes.
Fiji is one of the more developed countries of the South Pacific island nations, but a large proportion of the population remain in poverty and exist through subsistence means rather than through formal integration with the national economy. Read more
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