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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — The price of U.S. benchmark oil rose slightly Tuesday, a day after briefly touching a nine-month high, as traders awaited the start of a Federal Reserve policy meeting. Benchmark oil for July delivery rose 5 cents to $97.82 per barrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Monday, the contract fell slightly after it climbed to $98.74, its highest level since mid-September, as stock and commodity markets wait for Fed policymakers to meet this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Leaders of eight of the world’s wealthiest nations sought elusive progress on lowering trans-Atlantic trade barriers and pushing the warring factions in Syria towards the negotiating table as the G8 summit opened yesterday amid high security in peaceful Northern Ireland. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The decisions of two district councils to use their HK$100 million government grants on community projects of their choice have renewed a debate over whether taxpayers’ money is going into advancing the people’s interest or that of politicians. The 18 district councils each have a one-off grant of HK$100 million from Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to improve neighbourhood facilities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Iranian president-elect Hassan Rowhani said he will make the country’s nuclear programme more transparent as he seeks to ease tension with the US and reduce “brutal” sanctions that have crippled the economy. He ruled out any halt to the nuclear activity that has drawn UN sanctions but said he hoped an early deal could be reached to allay the fears of major powers. The moderate cleric, who won outright victory in Friday’s presidential election on the hopes of millions for an end to the economic hardship caused by Western sanctions, pledged greater transparency in the talks. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British Prime Minister David Cameron says leaders gathering on Monday for the G8 summit in Northern Ireland should reach speedy agreement on trade and tax reforms, and draw inspiration from the host country’s ability to resolve its own stubborn conflict. Speaking hours ahead of the summit’s official opening at a lakeside golf resort, Cameron said he expects formal agreement to launch negotiations on a European-American free trade agreement. He said a pact to slash tariffs on exports would boost employment and growth on both sides of the Atlantic. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse pledged on Sunday to proceed with the first-ever provincial polls in the island’s former war zone but his government said the powers of the elected council will be clipped. The ruling coalition had promised to share limited power with Tamils, pointing to elections to local councils, after the military crushed separatist Tamil rebels in May 2009 and ended 37 years of ethnic bloodshed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The crackdown came just two hours after Erdogan issued an ultimatum to protesters to leave Gezi Park, the epicentre of nationwide protests, ahead of a rally of his ruling party in the city on Sunday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Pentagon confirmed on Saturday that F-16 fighter jets and Patriot missile interceptors will remain in Jordan after the end of a joint military exercise this month. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The powerful National Defense Commission headed by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un issued a statement through state media proposing high-level talks to ease tensions and promote peace and security on the Korean Peninsula. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A US Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft has made an unprecedented landing on a Japanese naval vessel off the California coast. The aircraft flew from San Diego to the Japanese ship Hyuga on Friday as part of an 18-day drill aimed at improving Japan’s amphibious capabilities. The Osprey has sparked protests in Japan over concerns about its safety record. There were two crashes last year, in Florida and Morocco. The Japanese government approved the deployment of 12 Ospreys last year to Okinawa after receiving additional assurances from the Pentagon. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Gaining some “face” isn’t worth your job, your pension and a jail term. That’s the message the police force has sent to its members after the jailing of former Wan Chai divisional commander Titus Wong Koon-ho for receiving discounts and whisky from a restaurant. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Barack Obama has authorised sending US weapons to Syrian rebels for the first time, a US official said on Thursday after the White House said it has proof that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons against opposition forces fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 13th, 2013 
Thousands of children have been killed in unrest in Syria since March 2011, according to a new UN report on children and armed conflict.
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By , on June 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Lebanon’s army warned on Wednesday it will hit back against any new attacks from Syria after a helicopter gunship struck an eastern town, ratcheting up tensions amid US-British talks on the conflict. In Washington, Secretary of State John Kerry and his British counterpart William Hague met on Wednesday, a day after President Barack Obama asked his security team to “look at all options” to help the Syrian opposition. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Muslim man whose attack on a Buddhist woman set off sectarian rioting in Myanmar’s northeast has been sentenced to 26 years in prison, a local politician said. The court sentenced 48-year-old Ne Win on Tuesday after he was convicted of attempted murder, causing serious injury and possession and use of illegal drugs, said National League for Democracy member Sai Myint Maung, who attended the trial. The rioting in Lashio in Shan state marked the extension of deadly anti-Muslim violence from areas in western and central Myanmar. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The photocopies of the manual lay in heaps on the floor, in stacks that scaled one wall, like handouts for a class. Except that the students in this case were al-Qaeda fighters in Mali. And the manual was a detailed guide, with diagrams and photographs, on how to use a weapon that worries anti-terror agencies worldwide: a surface-to-air missile capable of downing a commercial airplane. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Taliban suicide bomber struck outside Afghanistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, killing 17 people in the deadliest attack in Kabul in over a year and a half. It was also the second consecutive day of attacks in the Afghan capital, undermining the ability of Afghan forces to keep security without help from NATO troops. The attacker rammed his SUV into buses carrying court employees at the end of the day’s work. All of the dead were civilians, including women and children, police said, and at least 39 people were wounded. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Yousef Munayyer, on June 11th, 2013 Yousef Munayyer argues that unless Washington abandons its Pro-Israel favoritism, its ability to “mediate” a peace process will only prolong occupation and conflict.
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By By KAREEM FAHIM and HWAIDA SAAD, on June 11th, 2013 At least 14 people were killed on Tuesday after two bombs were detonated in a square in the Syrian capital, according to the state news agency.
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By , on June 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Insurgents attacked cities across Iraq on Monday with car bombs, suicide blasts and gun battles that killed more than 70 people in unrest that has deepened fears of a return to civil war. No group claimed responsibility for the day-long attacks, most of them in northern Iraq, but officials blame much of the violence that has killed nearly 2,000 people since April on Sunni Islamist insurgents linked to al-Qaeda’s local wing. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Oil prices stay steady before 2-day US Fed meeting
<!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — The price of U.S. benchmark oil rose slightly Tuesday, a day after briefly touching a nine-month high, as traders awaited the start of a Federal Reserve policy meeting. Benchmark oil for July delivery rose 5 cents to $97.82 per barrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Monday, the contract fell slightly after it climbed to $98.74, its highest level since mid-September, as stock and commodity markets wait for Fed policymakers to meet this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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