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Little chance peace talks would succeed Syrian President Assad says in interview to Argentine newspaper
Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published in an Argentine newspaper on Saturday. Speaking in Syria with the newspaper Clarin, Assad said he was doubtful that mediation the United States and Russia have proposed could settle a deadly conflict that has convulsed the country for two years. "There is confusion in the world between a political solution and terrorism. They think a political ...
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South Korea on high alert after Norths missile launch
Korea, Republic Of South Korea's defence ministry says it is on high alert after North Korea fired three short-range missiles from its east coast.The ministry says they were short-range anti-ship guided missiles and were apparently fired as part of a military drill."In case of additional launches and the possibility that this might lead to provocations, our army is strengthening ...
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Church must help the poorest Pope Francis says
Pope Francis shared personal moments with 200,000 people on Saturday, telling them he sometimes nods off while praying at the end of a long day and that it "breaks my heart" that the death of a homeless person is not news. Francis, who has made straight talk and simplicity a hallmark of his papacy, made his unscripted comments in answers to questions by four people at a huge ...
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FBI searches apartment in US poison letter probe
SPOKANE, WASHINGTON: Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment on Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ...
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At Least 5 Dead in Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion
Authorities in Texas say at least five -- possibly as many as 15 -- people have been killed in the southwestern U.S. state as a result of Wednesday's massive explosion at a fertilizer ...
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North Korea Launches Short-Range Missiles Into Sea
(CNN) — North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula’s east coast Saturday; South Korea’s semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying. The ministry said it had detected two launches in the morning, followed by another in the afternoon, Yonhap reported. The missiles were fired in a ...
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US-Australia Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty Comes Into Force
United States of America and Australia have signed defense trade treaty Australian on Thursday. Reports say Defence Minister Stephen Smith and US ambassador Jeffrey Bleich exchanged diplomatic notes in Canberra to formally bring the Australia-US Defence Trade Treaty into force. The Treaty reflects the two countries' commitment to strengthening the alliance in the field of Defence ...
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Three new suicides at Apple suppliers China factory
View Photo This file photo shows a Foxconn recruitment point in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province, pictured on February 22, 2013. Three Foxconn workers have committed suicide at a factory in Zhengzhou in the past three weeks, according to state media and a labour rights ...
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Sports Asbel Kiprop rips China
Gebremedhen Gebremariam of Ethiopia (3:32.4), who boasts a 3:34.49 personal best. Collins Cheboi (3:32.43), Morroco's AbdalaatiIguider (3:33.29) and Bethwel Birgen (3:33.67) came in third, fourth and fifth respectively. Silas Kiplagat, the world silver medalist over the distance, came in distant sixth in 3:33.85 as former world junior 1,500m silver medalist James Magut (3:35.29) and ...
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Senior leader of Imran Khans party shot dead
Zahra Shahid Hussain , the vice-president of the party's chapter in Sindh, was shot by two unidentified men outside her home in Defence Phase IV on Saturday. She died while being taken to a nearby hospital. Hussain was a member of the party's central executive committee. The motive for the murder could not immediately be ascertained. The killers escaped on a motorcycle. The shooting ...
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Eric Schmidt Kim Jong Un Could Turn On North Koreas Internet if He Wanted
A group of people bow at the base of the giant bronze statue of the state founder and Great Leader Kim-Il Sung in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang on February 26, 2008. (Reuters) As you might expect, North Korea's "Internet" mirrors North Korea itself: Sad, secluded, and limited to just a handful of propagandistic sites. There's ...
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Thousands of protesters join anti-austerity march in Rome
march in Rome on Saturday, protesting against the new coalition government's austerity measures. The metal workers union FIOM said the rally was to demand "the right to jobs, training and health care". "We cannot wait any longer," said FIOM ...
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Suspected US drone in Yemen kills four al-Qaida militants
al-Qaida militants in the country's south. The officials say the attack took place around dawn on Saturday in an area called Deyfa in Abyan province. Officials spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to brief the media. Yemeni forces battled al-Qaida in Abyan province last year, routing out militants from major cities that al-Qaida had overrun during the country's 2011 ...
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Performance art College students pre...
Six college students pretended they were dead on a street in Guangzhou, capital city of southern Guangdong province to call for equal treatment of gay people, Thursday, May 16. The students, wearing T-shirts that have "Tong Xing Lian" (Chinese characters meaning gay) on them, were walking in downtown Guangzhou while some passer-by shouted "gay men are disgusting" at them. ...
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Fan Bingbing bear hugs Jacky chen in ...
Jacky Chen receives a bear hug from Fan Bingbing as he steps down the yacht to greet the actress during the Cannes International Film ...
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4-yr-old boy drowned by traffickers f...
By Yu Runze, Sina English A 4-year-old boy was drowned after he was dumped into a river in a knapsack with stones in it by three human traffickers in Fujian Province in 1995, one suspect recently confessed the brutal murder when serving the sentence for another crime he committed in in Anhui Province. "The boy was so smart that he remembered everything about his family. As a result, we ...
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Headless corpse found in downtown Bei...
By Jia Xiaoguang, Sina English An unidentified dead body with its head and limbs all missing was found in Xincheng District, Beijing at around 4 o'clock yesterday morning. The corpse was spotted by some passer-by on a pavement not far from Tian'anmen Square at about 4 a.m., according to some eyewitness. He said the body was devoid of head and all the four limbs. The police arrived ...
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Premier Li to make overseas debut in ...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is to kick off a week-long tour to India, Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany on Sunday in his first foreign trip since taking office in March. Analysts said Li's upcoming visits to the countries from May 19 to 27, coupled with President Xi Jinping's first overseas trip as head of state to Russia and Africa in March, highlight Beijing's bid for a more ...
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Strategies Japan Starts to Recharge After Two Lost Economic Decades
A GENERATION ago, Japan was a colossus on any investing map of the world. Envious foreigners called its export-driven economy a ...
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Report Obama Trims Afghan War Budget Request
The Reuters news agency quotes an unidentified White House aide as saying the president has decreased his request for funding the war in Afghanistan by 10 percent for the 2014 fiscal year budget. The report says the president reduced his original request from $88.5 billion to $79.4 billion. The White House issued a statement Friday saying the change was made to account for the drawdown of ...
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Pyongyang fires short-range missiles in apparent drill South Korea ministry
SEOUL -- North Korea on Saturday launched three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, apparently as part of a military drill, South Korea's defense ministry ...
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China to play peaceful role in Arctic development
/enpproperty--> HELSINKI - China will act as a serious player and peaceful power after it has been accepted by the Arctic Council as a formal observer, Chinese Embassador to Finland Huang Xing has said. "I am pleased to learn the news that China has been accepted as a formal observer of this organization," he told Xinhua in an interview in Helsinki late Friday. He stressed that ...
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PH urges Taiwan to protect Filipino workers
Vice President Jejomar Binay. RYAN LEAGOGO/INQUIRER.net MANILA, Philippines--Malacaang has formed a team from the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (Meco) in Taipei to ensure protection for Filipino workers in Taiwan after reports of harassment and attacks by Taiwanese angry over the fatal shooting of one of their fishermen by Philippine coast guards last week. Vice President Jejomar Binay, ...
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Death toll climbs in south China flooding
Chinese officials said the death toll from widespread flooding in southern China reached 53 Saturday, with at least 16 people still missing. Heavy rain fell in southern China, and 10 provinces in the south and central China were reeling from flooding and landslides, China's official Xinhua news agency said. The Chinese government launched a level-four response to the disaster Xinhua ...
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6.0-magnitude quake strikes Japan
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan Saturday, jolting residents in the area hit hard by a massive quake in 2011, officials said. Police and fire officials said no injuries were reported and the temblor caused no damage at the Fukushima No. 1 and No. 2 nuclear reactors, Kyodo News said. No tsunami warning was issued. The Japanese Meteorological Agency said the quake was ...
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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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