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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> No new human cases of the H7N9 virus have been recorded in China for a week, national health authorities said, for the first time since the outbreak began in March. One previously infected patient died in the week beginning between May 13, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said in a statement late on Monday, taking the total number of fatalities from the virus to 36. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US President Barack Obama will hold his first summit with President Xi Jinping in California next month, with Sino-US relations rattled by alleged Chinese cyber spying and tensions in the Pacific. Obama will welcome Xi to the plush Sunnylands estate resort in Palm Springs on June 7-8, as Washington seeks Chinese help to subdue North Korean belligerence and seeks a diplomatic breakthrough to end the slaughter in Syria. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JONATHAN WEISMAN, on May 20th, 2013 The Senate Finance Committee forwarded a six-page letter to Steven Miller, the acting I.R.S. commissioner who is resigning, with 41 pointed questions seeking information about who in the Obama administration knew what.
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Federal agents have arrested the top enforcement officer for the US Virgin Islands environment agency on drug trafficking charges after he was allegedly caught with a cache of cocaine on a government patrol boat. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hunan’s high court agreed to hear an appeal by Tang Hui, the mother of a teenage girl who was raped and forced into prostitution by local officials. A lower court had dismissed her compensation claim last month against local authorities who sent her to a labour camp for protesting inappropriately. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Rape victim’s petitioning mother Tang Hui wins court review
By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Legislators on Monday cast doubts on the securities regulator’s decision to allow the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange to surrender its licence, instead of immediately suspending it, after it emerged that the firm had insufficient capital. The HKMEx, a commodity trader, chaired by Executive Councillor Barry Cheung Chun-yuen, last week handed back its trading licence and suspended operations after it became clear it could no longer meet the requirement that it have sufficient cash to cover nine months of operations. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Provincial Higher People’s Court said on Sunday that it would review plaintiff Tang Hui’s lawsuit against Yongzhou authorities after she was sent to a labour camp for 18 months. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Petition mother Tang Hui clears hurdle in court appeal over labour camp imprisonment
By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nigel Wright, Harper’s chief of staff, resigned after secretly giving a C$90,000 (HK$679,360) cheque in February to Mike Duffy, a member of the upper Senate chamber, to help him cover living expenses he had improperly claimed. News of the gift leaked late on Tuesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Pakistani politician Imran Khan has blamed a rival political leader for the killing of a senior member of his party, who was gunned down outside her home in the violence-plagued city of Karachi. The killing of Zohra Hussain, 59, vice-president of the women’s wing of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Sindh province, came on the eve of a partial re-run in the southern city of the May 11 election. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Imran Khan blames exiled Altaf Hussain for killing Zohra Hussain
By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 21-year-old university student killed in a home invasion east of New York was mistakenly shot in the head by an officer who fired eight times at an armed suspect who was holding a gun to the student’s head and then pointed it at him. Seven of the bullets hit the man, who was also killed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Officer kills robber and hostage in home invasion east of New York
By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> France became the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage on Saturday after President Francois Hollande signed it into law following months of bitter political debate. Hollande acted a day after the Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition, which had been the last obstacle to passing the bill into law. The legislation also legalises gay adoption. French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira, who steered the legislation through parliament, has said the first gay marriages could be celebrated as early as June. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 
The inquest into the death of ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko could be replaced by a form of public inquiry to allow evidence about Russia’s alleged role in the killing to be heard in secret.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former ICAC chief Timothy Tong Hin-ming spent HK$100,000 of public money on a reception at The Peak in one of two lavish dinners he will face questions over in the Legislative Council today. The Independent Commission Against Corruption confirmed the details in a written reply to the Legislative Council’s Public Accounts Committee, before which Tong will testify today. It will be the former ICAC commissioner’s first public appearance since the scandal emerged last month over his spending on entertaining mainland officials during his tenure. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Ex-ICAC boss to be grilled over HK$100,000 dinner
By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Communist Party’s powerful Central Organisation Department, its top personnel management organ, has pledged to apply a tougher yardstick to the exceptionally rapid promotion of cadres following a spate of nepotism controversies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Top Communist Party unit to tighten rules on rapid promotions
By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> AMSTERDAM (AP) — World stock markets rose steadily on Friday after two key indicators suggested the U.S. economic expansion will continue. The Conference Board reported that its leading indicator index for the U.S. increased 0.6 percent in April, following a 0.2 decline in March, due to recovering housing and labor markets. “In general, the (index) points to a continuing economic expansion with some upside potential,” said Ataman Ozyildirim, an economist at the private research association.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Jorge Rafael Videla, an austere former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a “dirty war” dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died on Friday at age 87. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq police raise death toll from Friday bombings to 47 . <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla dies, imprisoned for crimes against humanity. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> PARIS (AP) — Police official: About $1 million in jewelry stolen from hotel room near Cannes Film Festival. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> AMSTERDAM (AP) — World stock markets shrugged off suggestions the U.S. Federal Reserve may begin to reverse some of its asset purchase programs by the end of the summer, and were mostly higher ahead of key data releases Friday. The Conference Board is due to report on U.S. leading indicators after North American markets open, along with the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index. Analysts are expecting both to show an improvement from March. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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No new H7N9 cases in China for a week
<!– google_ad_section_start –> No new human cases of the H7N9 virus have been recorded in China for a week, national health authorities said, for the first time since the outbreak began in March. One previously infected patient died in the week beginning between May 13, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said in a statement late on Monday, taking the total number of fatalities from the virus to 36. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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