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By By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED, on May 24th, 2013 If completed, a transaction would be one of the biggest health care deals of the year. And it could reap a sizable profit for Bausch & Lomb’s current owner, Warburg Pincus.
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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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By By LUKE SHARRETT, on May 24th, 2013 During assignments at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, Luke Sharrett, whose cousin was killed in Iraq, began to notice the mementos left by friends and family.
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A British court has ruled that a tweet by a parliamentarian’s wife that pointed her 56,000 followers to online traffic wrongly naming a retired politician as a paedophile was defamatory, even though it did not spell out the allegation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than 60,000 people packed into Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta on a recent Saturday night to see the national soccer team play. Another 100 million tuned in to television to watch the match, underlining the appeal of soccer in Indonesia where attendance rivals the top English and German soccer leagues. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> People have been getting rid of cockroaches for decades by laying bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in the test kitchen of a flat in Florida, something went very wrong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ERIC LIPTON and BEN PROTESS, on May 24th, 2013 In a sign of Wall Street’s resurgent influence in Washington, bank lobbyists are aiding lawmakers in preparing legislation that softens financial regulations.
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By By JENNIFER PRESTON, on May 24th, 2013 A bridge collapse north of Seattle sent two vehicles and three people into the Skagit River.
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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 –> 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 –> 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 –> China and the United States are hoping for a new chance to set the course for smoother relations through a secluded desert summit as the Asian power’s leader Xi Jinping projects a more confident style. Xi and Barack Obama will meet June 7-8 at the tony Sunnylands resort in Rancho Mirage, California, their first encounter since the Chinese president took power and three months ahead of their first scheduled run-in at the Group of 20 summit in Russia. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China has offered to contribute troops to the new UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, where Islamist jihadists controlled the country’s north until French-led troops launched an offensive in January to oust them, a UN official said on Thursday. Andre-Michel Essoungou, a spokesman for the UN peacekeeping department, said that it “has received pledges and offers of contributions from a number of countries from around the world, including China.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Barack Obama on Thursday shifted the United States away from a “boundless global war on terror,” restricting deadly drone strikes abroad and signaling that America’s long struggle against al Qaeda will one day end. In a major policy speech, Obama narrowed the scope of the US targeted-killing campaign against al Qaeda and its allies and took new steps toward closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison – controversial elements of the US counterterrorism fight that have drawn condemnation at home and abroad. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By MARK MAZZETTI, on May 23rd, 2013 One outstanding question is how transparent the Obama administration will be about drone strikes in the future.
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Barack Obama outlined plans to limit the use of US drone strikes against extremists abroad and took steps aimed at breaking a deadlock on closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Islamist suicide bombers struck an army barracks and a French-run uranium mine in Niger on Thursday, officials said, killing 20 people and wounding dozens more in attacks that showed militant violence spreading across West Africa. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A man from rural France impersonated South Korean “Gangnam Style” entertainer Psy at the Cannes Film Festival, eating, drinking and partying with the stars in Cannes for two days, press reports said yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Daniel Klaidman, on May 23rd, 2013 How the military tried to get more control over drone targeting decisions—and lost. By Daniel Klaidman.
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By By PETER EAVIS, on May 23rd, 2013 The company, using money it raised last week in the markets, is repaying the government nine years before its loan was due.
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British police arrest two men on diverted Pakistan flight
<!– 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 –>
Continue reading British police arrest two men on diverted Pakistan flight
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