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A 25-year-old Saudi woman makes history by reaching the summit of the world’s highest mountain.
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A British woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said on Saturday. The woman, identified only by her initials AR, was arrested at a hotel in the city of Surabaya, East Java province, last month with 1.47 kilograms of the drug, the national narcotics agency said. “Because she smuggled drugs weighing more than five grams, she could face the death penalty,” agency spokesman Sumirat Dwiyanto said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Prime Minister Shinzo Abe defended in an interview on Friday the right of Japan’s leaders to visit a controversial shrine to war dead but hit back at critics who accuse him of revisionism. Amid the latest flare-up with China and South Korea over history, Abe quoted a US scholar as comparing the Yasukuni shrine to Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, which has a section for Confederate Civil War dead. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A mother whose four-year-old daughter had been abducted chased the suspect down and crashed her vehicle into his car, leading to his arrest, police said. The girl was playing in her yard in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at about 6.30pm on Wednesday when a group of teenagers saw the kidnapping and ran to alert the girl’s mother, police said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US authorities in Idaho said they arrested an Uzbek national accused of conspiring with a terrorist group in his home country and helping plot to use a weapon of mass destruction. The US attorney’s office said Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, was arrested at an apartment in south Boise after a grand jury issued a three-count indictment as part of an investigation into his activities in Idaho and Utah. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Sichuan man, abducted and taken to Fujian province at the age of five, has finally found his way home after spending years trying to work out where he came from. And he says he could not have done it without the help of Google Maps, Fujian’s news portal nhaidu.com reports. Luo Gang, who was born in a small town in Guangan city, disappeared on his way to kindergarten 23 years ago, said his parents. Heartbroken, they did everything they could to find him, but to no avail. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Kevin Fallon, on May 17th, 2013 Clad in their Tobias Fünke cutoffs, ‘Arrested’ fans takeover Times Square. Watch video.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In 13 months more than 500 kilos of crystal meth seized in Australia has come from Hong Kong. The haul is more than ten times that seized in the SAR over the past five years. A total of seven Hongkongers are now facing the Australian courts. Southern China is one of the world’s biggest producer of ephedrine – the main precursor chemical for ice. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013
The Boston bombing suspect wrote a message in a boat where he hid, describing victims of the attack as “collateral damage”, US media report.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note before his capture in which he called the victims “collateral damage” for US action in Afghanistan and Iraq, local media reported on Thursday. “When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims,” Tsarnaev also scribbled on the inside wall of the boat where he hid from police during a massive manhunt in the days after the April 15 blasts, according to CBS News. The twin explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded more than 260. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The cause of a fire that triggered a massive explosion at a West, Texas fertiliser plant has been ruled undetermined, and investigators have not eliminated the possibility that the fire was set intentionally, state and federal officials said on Thursday. Robert Champion, a special agent in charge at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said that while authorities could not rule out arson, they also could not eliminate the plant’s electrical system or a golf cart at the plant as potential causes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Vietnamese court has sentenced two student activists to six and eight years in prison for distributing leaflets calling on people to demonstrate against China. The sentences, handed down yesterday by a court in the southern province of Long An, were the latest in an intensified crackdown against dissent in the one-party, authoritarian state. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Authorities have arrested the suspect wanted in a Mother’s Day parade shooting that wounded 19 people in New Orleans, police said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Jean Trinh, on May 16th, 2013 Jean Trinh talks to Adam DeVine about his ‘Workaholics’ fame and upcoming TV and feature film projects.
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hainan police and medical experts said on Thursday that a medical examination found the girls’ hymens still “intact”, the China Daily reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Hainan child sex scandal takes new turn as girl says she was offered money for sex
By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Four suspects were arrested in Turkey late on Wednesday in connection with car bombings that killed 51 people in a town near the Syrian border at the weekend, state-run Anatolian news agency reported. The two bomb blasts in Reyhanli fanned fears that Syria’s civil war is dragging in neighbouring states. Damascus has denied Turkish allegations it was involved in the blasts. Turkish prosecutors sent eight suspects to a court in the southern city of Adana after questioning and the court released four, remanding the other four in custody, the agency said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By REUTERS, on May 16th, 2013 New Orleans police arrested a man identified in connection with a shooting at a Mother’s Day parade in which 19 people were injured, authorities said.
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By , on May 15th, 2013
People who have been arrested should not normally be named until they are charged, Home Secretary Theresa May says in a letter to police.
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By By J. DAVID GOODMAN, on May 15th, 2013 Each spring, a woman would show her breasts and be cited or arrested, but in February, the police made sure officers knew the behavior wasn’t illegal.
Continue reading A Police Roll-Call Reminder: Women May Go Topless
By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia yesterday accused the US of “crude and clumsy” spying on its territory after a suspected CIA agent was caught in Moscow seeking to recruit an agent while disguised in a blonde wig. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Saudi woman reaches Everest summit
A 25-year-old Saudi woman makes history by reaching the summit of the world’s highest mountain.
Continue reading Saudi woman reaches Everest summit
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