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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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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of Chinese Catholics gathered in Shanghai on Friday for a celebration to honour the Virgin Mary, in a show of religious fervour permitted by the Communist-ruled state. China exercises strict control over religion, requiring followers to worship in state-approved churches. In an annual tradition dating back more than a hundred years, pilgrims walked up Sheshan – or She Mountain – the site of two churches and the seminary for Shanghai’s Catholic Diocese in the city’s southwest. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The debut of Art Basel Hong Kong debut not only brings upon an art overdose but also a party overdose which has seen too many events and parties clashing with each other over the past week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former ICAC Commissioner Timothy Tong Hin-ming said on Friday purchases of alcoholic drinks increased during his five-year term was because he had to receive an increased number of visitors. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Global rights group Amnesty International urged Malaysia on Friday to end its “post-election crackdown” which has seen four critics arrested in the aftermath of the government’s worst electoral result. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> PONTE DI LEGNO, Italy (AP) — Race organizers say former Giro d’Italia winner Danilo Di Luca tests positive for EPO. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Venezuela’s prosecutor’s office said on Thursday it would open an investigation into in a recording the opposition says features a top government ally accusing the deputy head of the ruling Socialist Party of corruption and conspiring against the new president. Opposition deputies on Monday broadcast the recording of a conversation they said was between powerful state television commentator Mario Silva and a Cuban intelligence agent and later requested an investigation of it. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Boy Scouts of America voted on Thursday to lift a century-old ban on openly gay scouts in a major victory for gay rights activists, but the decision means a sea of change for an organisation that depends heavily on faith-based groups. More than 60 per cent of the group’s National Council, comprised of some 1,400 delegates, voted in favour of ending the ban, effective January 1, next year, the group said in a statement. A prohibition on openly gay adult leaders remains in place. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Part of a four-lane freeway bridge over a river in a rural area north of Seattle collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles and people into the frigid water below, authorities said. The collapse on Interstate 5 over the Skagit River happened at about 7pm local time between the towns of Mount Vernon and Burlington, 90km north of Seattle, Washington State Patrol spokesman Trooper Mark Francis said. “I’ve got reports of vehicles and people in the water,” Francis said. He added that he did not know if anyone was injured. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two South Korean women forcibly drafted into Japanese military brothels during World War II have cancelled a meeting with a Japanese mayor who sparked outrage by calling them a wartime necessity. Outspoken Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto and two former “comfort women” were to meet on Friday, but the elderly women reportedly changed their minds over fears of becoming political pawns in a long-running diplomatic dispute that has stoked tensions between Tokyo and Seoul. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MOUNT VERNON, Washington (AP) — Washington state authorities say no deaths in highway bridge collapse. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An Arizona jury failed on Thursday to reach a unanimous verdict on whether Jodi Arias should be put to death for the murder of her ex-boyfriend, prompting the judge to order a rerun of the sentencing phase of the trial. Arias, a former waitress from California, was found guilty this month of murdering Travis Alexander, whose body was found slumped in the shower of his Phoenix-area home in June 2008. He had been stabbed 27 times, had his throat slashed and been shot in the face. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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UK police: 2 men arrested after flight from Pakistan to England diverted
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