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Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior member of Imran Khan’s Movement for Justice party, has been shot dead in the city of Karachi.
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Cyclone Mahasen weakened late yesterday into a tropical storm, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed over coastal Bangladesh and spared Myanmar almost entirely. At least 18 deaths related to Mahasen were reported in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka, but officials had prepared for a far greater storm. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A ceiling collapse at a factory making Asics trainers in Cambodia killed two workers yesterday, fuelling concerns about workplace safety following last month’s industrial disaster in Bangladesh. Local rescue teams, helped by soldiers, scrambled to search through the rubble of the fallen structure, which appeared to have been on a mezzanine level laden with crates of trainers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Labour umbrella groups Industrial Global Union and UNI Global Union yesterday praised top retailers for joining their drive to make Bangladesh’s garment factories safer, after 1,127 people died in a factory collapse last month. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Marine Department insisted yesterday that its director had already expressed his remorse for the Lamma ferry tragedy following criticism from relatives of some of the 39 people who died. It added that Director of Marine Francis Liu Hon-por remained saddened by the October 1 disaster – which a commission of inquiry found had been caused in part by his department’s “serious systematic failings”. Yesterday’s statement did little to appease Ryan Tsui Chi-shing, whose older brother Tsui Chi-wai and 10-year-old nephew Tsui Hoi-ying died in the crash. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 
BP appeals to Prime Minister David Cameron to intervene over the escalating compensation costs of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — World stock markets were muted Thursday following dour European economic data that dampened hopes of a recovery there anytime soon. Losses were limited by another record session on Wall Street. The European Union statistics office said Wednesday that nine of the 17 countries that use the euro are in recession, including France. The combined economy of the 17 countries shrank by 0.2 percent in the first three months of 2013 compared to the prior quarter. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The outer bands of Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh on Thursday, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and fierce winds that flattened mud and straw huts and forced the evacuation of more than one million people. The eye of the storm was expected to reach land Thursday evening, but at least 18 deaths related to Mahasen already have been reported in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A trans-Atlantic divide between European and US retailers over how best to respond to fatal disasters in Bangladesh textile factories split wide open on Wednesday, with US retailers claiming their European counterparts are giving labour unions too much control over ensuring workplace safety. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two doves celebrated their freedom with a soaring flight over St Peter’s Square yesterday, all thanks to Pope Francis. As Francis toured the square in his open-topped popemobile at his weekly public audience, someone in the crowd thrust a white bird cage with two doves inside at him. Looking puzzled, his security detail took the cage and handed it to Francis. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A massive evacuation to clear low-lying camps ahead of a cyclone has run into a potentially deadly snag: Many members of the displaced Rohingya minority living in the camps have refused to leave, distrustful of Myanmar authorities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Families of the victims in last October’s Lamma ferry tragedy made public a letter criticising Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and other officials for not taking their concerns seriously. The families said they did so because Leung had been “bureaucratic” in his reply to questions over government responsibility in the accident that killed 39 people on National Day. They had written to Leung and his justice minister Rimsky Yuen on May 8 asking them to give a “sincere, responsible and just” answer to calls for further action on the fatal accident. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Experts judged on Wednesday that a reactor on Japan’s west coast is located on ground at high risk of an earthquake, setting in motion a process that will likely lead to the first permanent shutdown of a nuclear plant since the 2011 Fukushima crisis. Mothballing the reactor at Japan’s oldest nuclear station would be the most stringent measure adopted in Japan since the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station north of Tokyo exposed failings in nuclear oversight. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh and Myanmar were ordered on Wednesday to move to safety as a cyclone barrelled towards low-lying coastal areas. The United Nations has warned that more than eight million people could be at risk from Cyclone Mahasen, which is expected to make landfall on Thursday or Friday somewhere near the border between the two countries. Bangladesh told hundreds of thousands of people living in low-lying areas to move to cyclone shelters, while Myanmar announced plans to move roughly 166,000 people at risk on its northwest coast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Search for dead in Bangladesh collapse over; 1,127 killed in worst garment industry disaster. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Bangladesh’s army announced on Monday that it was wrapping up its search for bodies following last month’s collapse of a garment factory complex, saying that it now believed a total of 1,127 people were killed. The army general in charge of the marathon recovery effort said that he was now handing over operational control to civilian administrators and expected his troops to be back in their barracks within the next 24 hours. “The army’s recovery operation is almost over,” Brigadier General Siddiqul Alam said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Bangladesh’s government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a factory building focused attention on the textile industry’s dismal pay and hazardous working conditions. A new minimum wage board will issue recommendations for pay raises within three months, Textiles Minister Abdul Latif Siddiky said on Sunday. The cabinet will then decide whether to accept those proposals. The wage board will include representatives of factory owners, workers and the government, he said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Myanmar started moving people into emergency shelters as a cyclone threatened to batter a violence-wracked region home to tens of thousands of internal refugees. About 140,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in flimsy tents or makeshift housing are seen as particularly vulnerable to Cyclone Mahasen, which was gathering strength in the Bay of Bengal. The cyclone is expected to make landfall near the Myanmese-Bangladeshi border on Thursday morning, according to Myanmar’s Department of Meteorology and Hydrology. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A brazen gang of cybercriminals, who stole US$45 million from bank ATMs in 27 countries, exposes an Achilles heel in the global financial industry – prepaid debit cards. Cybersecurity experts and industry analysts say the burgeoning use of prepaid debit cards for everything from gift certificates to disaster relief handouts is making it easier for hackers to withdraw large amounts of money before detection. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Jamelle Bouie, on May 12th, 2013 Heritage found itself pushing a report authored in part by a modern-day phrenologist.
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Pakistani politician is shot dead
Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior member of Imran Khan’s Movement for Justice party, has been shot dead in the city of Karachi.
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