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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A joint army and air force operation has evacuated nearly 12,000 Hindu pilgrims stranded in a mountainous area by torrential monsoon rains and landslides in northern India, but nearly 63,000 people remain cut off, a senior official said on Wednesday. The death toll in the affected region totalled 86, according to official statements. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The family of an American scientist found hanged in Singapore last year dismissed on Tuesday the city-state’s findings that he committed suicide as “a sham and a cover-up” for a murder. “I am not surprised by the state’s findings because the state refused to consider murder, they only investigated suicide,” Mary Todd, mother of the late electronics engineer Shane Todd, told AFP by email from the United States. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Air pollution from 196 coal-fired power stations in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei caused 9,900 premature deaths in 2011, with the province, a big coal consumer, deserving most of the blame, according to a new study. The study looked at the health impact of burning the fossil fuel to generate electricity. The research was co-authored by Greenpeace and American air pollution experts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By PAULA SPAN, on June 17th, 2013 An informal group discusses philosophical thoughts on dying at a monthly gathering in New York called Death Cafe, one of many such get-togethers around the country.
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An Afghan police chief survived a suicide car bomb attack on his convoy that wounded three officers early on Monday, officials said. It was the latest apparent attempt on a commander’s life in an intense Taliban assassination campaign. Broken glass and the charred remains of the bomber’s car were strewn in a main road in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah after the attack. Helmand provincial Police Chief Mohammad Nabi Elham sustained only minor injuries when the car bomber struck as he was on his way to his office at about 7am. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Lawyers for the Singapore government told a coroner’s inquest on Monday that an American scientist found hanged in the city-state last year killed himself and was not murdered as his family claims. Summing up state agencies’ findings on the death of electronics engineer Shane Todd in June last year, they said “it is clear from the medical forensic evidence that the medical cause of Shane’s death was asphyxia due to hanging.” The coroner’s verdict, which cannot be appealed, is scheduled to be handed down on July 8. Public hearings on the case were held from May 13-27. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than 7 per cent of the world’s elephants were killed for their tusks in the space of a year – the “worst in history”, according to one researcher. And with over 40 per cent of the ivory haul bound for China, the biggest market for tusks, Joyce Poole, co-director of conservation group Elephant Voices, is urging Beijing to step in and ban the trade. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, on June 16th, 2013 Violence has spiked in Iraq, with the death toll rising to levels not seen since 2008. Nearly 2,000 have been killed since the start of April.
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By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thirty companies producing preserved eggs have been closed by authorities in Jiangxi province after a media exposé that toxic chemicals were used to speed up production, the country’s latest food-safety scandal. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> At least 25 people were killed in troubled southwest Pakistan yesterday when militants blew up a bus carrying women students and attacked a hospital treating survivors. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ten bedridden terminal cancer patients lie in the dimly lit, quiet hospice ward at the Jingan Temple Community Hospital in Shanghai. Most are cared for by auxiliary workers, who look after a few at a time. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Shanghai’s hospice wards offer terminal patients a better last stop
By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Singapore’s attorney-general on Friday issued a stern warning to an independent filmmaker over online videos in which two Chinese bus drivers accused police in the city-state of assaulting them. Lee Seng Lynn had released videos of her interviews with He Jun Ling, 32, and Liu Xiang Ying, 33, in January. The two were among four Chinese nationals subsequently sentenced to jail terms of up to seven weeks for organising Singapore’s first industrial strike in nearly three decades. They were out on bail when the videos were posted on Lee’s blog. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Christine Pelisek, on June 14th, 2013 Shelly Ramirez on growing up in the shadow of a serial murderer.
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Six months after a gunman killed 26 children and adults at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school, families and local officials will mark the day by honouring the victims and renewing the fight for stricter gun control. The ceremony on Friday morning will include a moment of silence and a reading of the names of victims of the massacre that launched a new US debate on guns. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Puffing on slim metal tubes loaded with pale yellow liquid, two London businessmen say they have between their lips a cure for what the UN calls “one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced”. Electronic cigarettes are the future, they argue. Cheaper, cleaner and cooler than smoking, “vaping” – using a vaporiser to inhale nicotine infused with exotic flavours ranging from pina colada to bubblegum – will spell the end of tobacco. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Britain tells airlines NSA leaker Snowden not welcome, should not be allowed on flights to UK. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An Australian radio presenter was sacked Friday after sparking outrage by pressing embattled Prime Minister Julia Gillard on air whether her hairdresser boyfriend Tim Mathieson is gay. The startling exchange came with Gillard’s Labor Party far behind in the polls ahead of September elections. Personal attacks are mounting against her, including a recent menu item at an opposition party fundraiser that she called “grossly sexist and offensive”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Myanmar’s President Thein Sein will visit Britain and France next month, an official said on Friday, as the international community continues to embrace his nation’s democratic reforms. Thein Sein will travel to up to four countries on his second trip to Europe in months, a government official said requesting anonymity. “Our President Thein Sein will visit about three or four countries in mid July…. he will visit the UK and Paris in France for sure,” a Myanmar government official told AFP, adding detailed information of who will accompany him has not been released. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MIAMI (AP) — Official: Fla. sports bar deck collapses as fans watch NBA Finals, sending dozens into water . <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran state TV: Polling stations open to voters who will decide successor to Ahmadinejad. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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India floods kills 86 and strands thousands of pilgrims
<!– google_ad_section_start –> A joint army and air force operation has evacuated nearly 12,000 Hindu pilgrims stranded in a mountainous area by torrential monsoon rains and landslides in northern India, but nearly 63,000 people remain cut off, a senior official said on Wednesday. The death toll in the affected region totalled 86, according to official statements. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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