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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A nuclear research laboratory in northern Japan has reported a radiation leak that may have affected 55 people, though none were hospitalised and no impact was expected outside the facility. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said on Saturday that the accident occurred on Thursday at a nuclear physics lab in Tokaimura, the site of at least two previous radiation accidents. Four researchers were tested afterward, with the highest radiation dose found to be 2 millisieverts. Nuclear workers generally are limited to 100 millisieverts of exposure over five years. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police say that overnight violence in suburban districts of Stockholm was less intense than previous nights but as many as 25 cars had been burned. A police officer was slightly injured west of the Swedish capital. Stockholm police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said Saturday 19 people were detained on the sixth straight night of violence, but there had been no hurling of rocks against officers as in previous days. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — Russian police: Female suicide bomber injures at least 11 in Caucasus region of Dagestan. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Japan’s premier agreed on Saturday to press on with work on a major industrial zone near Yangon on a visit to Myanmar aimed at deepening economic ties with the former junta-ruled nation. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Myanmar officials at the Thilawa project on the first day of a trip promoting Japanese business in a country which desperately needs investment and infrastructure to drive a much-anticipated economic revival. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Japanese politician who drew fire for calling “comfort women” a wartime necessity has been forced to apologise for suggesting US soldiers in Okinawa visit brothels to vent their violent frustrations. Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto had suggested that US servicemen in the southern prefecture of Okinawa, where relations are frequently tested by violent crimes including rapes and assaults, patronise legal sex businesses there. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Eleven people were killed in the southern Philippines early on Saturday as troops clashed with a militant group blamed for the country’s deadliest terror attacks, the military said. The fighting left seven Filipino marines dead and nine others wounded on the island of Jolo, said Colonel Jose Cenabre, a local military commander. Four members of the Abu Sayyaf group were also killed in the firefight, Cenabre, the commander of a marine brigade in the area, said in a report. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A telephone call on Friday has again delayed a decision in a murder trial in coastal China, which the nation’s highest court called flawed, and has exposed the worrying consequences of a hasty high-profile crime investigation. In the summer of 2008, Nian Bin, then 30, worked as a food stall owner in Woqian village in Pingtan county, an island in Fujian province. On August 1, he was arrested for the murder of two children, who had died after eating rice porridge containing rat poison only six days earlier. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A top North Korean envoy has delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing’s efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions. North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae’s three-day visit was seen as a fence-mending mission after Pyongyang angered Beijing with recent snubs and moves to develop its nuclear program. Choe returned to North Korea late Friday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese media reports suggest Hu Haifeng, the son of China’s ex-President Hu Jintao, might have been appointed deputy party secretary of Jiaxing, a prefectural-level city in Zhejiang province. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Seventeen Pakistani children burnt to death on Saturday when a gas cylinder on the bus taking them to school exploded, media said. Ten children were injured in the blaze on the outskirts of Gujirat 170km southeast of Islamabad, DawnNews said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of China’s Communist Party, has baffled and shocked people in China by launching a “Dishonest Americans” Series, aiming to “provide a more objective picture of what the US and Americans are really like.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By KIA GREGORY, on May 25th, 2013 Hundreds of mourners at a church in Jamaica, Queens, on Friday remembered D’aja Robinson as an honor roll student with a bright smile who liked to sing and dance.
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By By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY, on May 25th, 2013 Despite President Obama’s conciliatory gesture of a review of Justice Department investigations involving journalists, some reporters say that chill has already set in.
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By By MARK LANDLER and MARK MAZZETTI, on May 25th, 2013 Taking America off “perpetual war footing,” as the president proposes to do, will not be a simple task.
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By By FLOYD NORRIS, on May 24th, 2013 The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index has more than doubled since Barack Obama took office, an accomplishment achieved by only four other presidents.
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Annie Park shot a 1-under 71 to top the individual standings and help Southern California take its third NCAA women’s tournament title with a record-setting team performance Friday. Southern California finished at 19-under 1,133 — 15 strokes better than the previous tournament mark set by UCLA in 2004 — to beat second-place Duke by 21 strokes. Third-place Purdue was 21 over — 40 shots behind Southern California. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> TORONTO (AP) — Toronto mayor Rob Ford says he does not smoke crack cocaine. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Kevin Fallon, on May 24th, 2013 The troubled child star donned a platinum blonde wig while facing drug charges in court Thursday. The meltdown was inevitable, so why are we still surprised?
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By Kevin Fallon, on May 24th, 2013 The troubled child star donned a platinum blonde wig while facing drug charges in court Friday. The meltdown was inevitable, so why are we still surprised?
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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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Radiation leak reported at Japan lab
<!– google_ad_section_start –> A nuclear research laboratory in northern Japan has reported a radiation leak that may have affected 55 people, though none were hospitalised and no impact was expected outside the facility. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said on Saturday that the accident occurred on Thursday at a nuclear physics lab in Tokaimura, the site of at least two previous radiation accidents. Four researchers were tested afterward, with the highest radiation dose found to be 2 millisieverts. Nuclear workers generally are limited to 100 millisieverts of exposure over five years. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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