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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain scrambled fighter jets on Friday to intercept a commercial airliner carrying more than 300 people from Pakistan, diverting it to an isolated runway at an airport on the outskirts of London and arresting two passengers on suspicion of endangering the aircraft. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By LUKE SHARRETT, on May 24th, 2013 During assignments at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, Luke Sharrett, whose cousin was killed in Iraq, began to notice the mementos left by friends and family.
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile blocks Pascua-Lama mine, fines Barrick $16 million for serious environmental violations. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A British court has ruled that a tweet by a parliamentarian’s wife that pointed her 56,000 followers to online traffic wrongly naming a retired politician as a paedophile was defamatory, even though it did not spell out the allegation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Syrian-born Islamist cleric who taught one of the men accused of hacking to death an off-duty British soldier on a London street praised the attack for its “courage” and said Muslims would see it as a strike on a military target. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Fears of a backlash against Muslims in Britain have intensified after dozens of Islamophobic incidents were reported in the wake of the grotesque murder of soldier Lee Rigby. The Tell Mama hotline for recording Islamophobic crimes detailed 38 incidents overnight on Wednesday, including attacks on three mosques. More were reported on Thursday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than 60,000 people packed into Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta on a recent Saturday night to see the national soccer team play. Another 100 million tuned in to television to watch the match, underlining the appeal of soccer in Indonesia where attendance rivals the top English and German soccer leagues. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> At times, it seemed US President Barack Obama was taking part in a debate rather than giving a speech. Deep into his address at the National Defence University, a heckler repeatedly interrupted from the back of the room, demanding an end to drone strikes and the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Proposals to vet future US drone strikes risk creating “kill courts”, according to human rights campaigners. They say President Barack Obama’s promise of new legal oversight does not go far enough to end what they regard as extrajudicial executions. The president has asked Congress to consider establishing a special court or oversight board to authorise lethal action outside war zones under a new counterterrorism doctrine he says will end the “boundless war on terror”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Explosions and gunfire rocked central Kabul on Friday as the Taliban launched a major attack close to an Afghan intelligence facility and the headquarters of a government force that protects foreign firms. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Malay NGOs are demanding boycotts of Chinese businesses following Malaysia’s divisive election, to teach them “a lesson” for backing opposition candidates. More than 20 non-governmental organisations and the Muslim Consumers Association of Malaysia (PPIM) called upon the country’s Malays, who make up 60 per cent of the population, to boycott Chinese firms, according to a message posted on PPIM’s website. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LONDON (AP) — UK police: 2 men arrested after flight from Pakistan to England diverted. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The trial of fung shui guru Peter Chan Chun-chuen who is accused of forging the will of Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum opened in the Court of First Instance on Friday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LONDON (AP) — UK defense ministry: Typhoon jet launched to investigate incident with civilian plane. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A North Korean envoy told China’s president on Friday that his reclusive country was willing to take “positive actions” to ensure peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, as China steps up diplomatic efforts to bring Pyongyang back to talks. But Choe Ryong-hae, a special envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, made no offer to abandon North Korea’s nuclear programme. The United States insists North Korea takes meaningful steps on denuclearisation before there can be dialogue. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Sri Lankan monk set himself on fire on Friday to protest the slaughter of cattle, in the country’s first attempt at self-immolation by a monk, police said. The monk doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself ablaze near a temple in the central town of Kandy during an important Buddhist festival, police said. “Policemen near the temple doused the flames and rushed the monk to hospital,” police spokesman Buddhika Siriwardena said. “Just before setting himself alight, he shouted that his action was to protest the slaughter of cattle.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — US orders for durable goods up 3.3 percent in April, helped by gain in business investment. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain’s intelligence services came under pressure on Friday to explain how they let two Islamic extremists suspected of hacking a soldier to death in the streets of London slip through their net. Both of the men, under armed guard in London hospitals after being shot by police at the scene, were previously known to the intelligence services but were reportedly assessed as not posing a deadly threat. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> OSAKA, Japan (AP) — Two Korean former sex slaves demanded the resignation of an outspoken Japanese mayor and canceled a meeting with him Friday for justifying Japan’s wartime practice of forcing tens of thousands of Asian women into prostitution for its military. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Explosion shakes Afghan capital, sends smoke rising over downtown Kabul . <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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British police arrest two men on diverted Pakistan flight
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain scrambled fighter jets on Friday to intercept a commercial airliner carrying more than 300 people from Pakistan, diverting it to an isolated runway at an airport on the outskirts of London and arresting two passengers on suspicion of endangering the aircraft. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading British police arrest two men on diverted Pakistan flight
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