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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 The author of “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” calls Franzen her “big daddy” — “My favorite kind of book is a domestic drama that’s grounded in reality yet slightly unhinged.”
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Amnesty International said on Thursday millions of people who have fled conflict or persecution, and migrants who have left home in search of work, have suffered abuses at the hands of state authorities or employers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Convicted killer Jodi Arias pleaded with an Arizona jury on Tuesday to spare her the death penalty for the sake of her family and sentence her instead to life in prison for killing her ex-boyfriend. Arias, 32, was found guilty earlier this month in the murder of Travis Alexander, whose body was found slumped in the shower of his Phoenix-area home in June 2008. He had been stabbed 27 times, had his throat slashed and been shot in the face. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Follow @SCMP_News Japan’s parliament on Wednesday approved an international treaty on child abductions after decades of pressure from the United States and other Western nations. Japan is the only member of the Group of Eight major industrialised nations that has not ratified the 1980 Hague Convention, which requires nations to return snatched children to the countries where they usually reside. <!– 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 , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong’s unemployment rate in April was 3.5 per cent – same as the level in March, government figures released on Monday showed. Increases in the unemployment rate in April were mainly observed in retail, manufacturing, and accommodation and food services sectors, the Census and Statistics Department said, while decreases were mainly seen in the insurance, wholesale and construction sectors. The city’s jobless has largely remained stable so far this year. The figures for January and February were 3.4 per cent. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013
Young children should hear about the dangers of pornography as soon as they have access to the internet, head teachers say.
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By , on May 20th, 2013
A 48-year-old British man living in France is expected to be formally charged later with killing his two children, aged five and 10.
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By , on May 20th, 2013
UK astronaut Tim Peake is to fly to the International Space Station, launching on a Soyuz rocket in November or December 2015.
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A man and a woman are found dead at the scene of a suspected gas explosion at a Nottinghamshire house.
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars and drones line a police equipment and “anti-terrorism technology” trade fair in Beijing. The ruling Communist Party spends vast sums on ensuring order – more even than on its military. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013
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 18th, 2013
Singer Bonnie Tyler is set to make her Eurovision debut on Saturday when she performs UK entry Believe In Me at the annual contest in Malmo, Sweden.
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Thousands of protesters, led by trade unionists, rally in the Italian capital Rome against the policies of the new coalition government.
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A 25-year-old Saudi woman makes history by reaching the summit of the world’s highest mountain.
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No 10 denies that “anyone in Downing Street” made comments reported in several newspapers describing Tory activists as “mad, swivel-eyed loons”.
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By Miranda Green, on May 18th, 2013 What could the police use—and when? Miranda Green reports from the House hearings on domestic drones.
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The widow of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko calls for the inquest into his death to be abandoned and replaced with a public inquiry.
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By , on May 18th, 2013
The education secretary is like a “fanatical personal trainer” who urges schools to jump higher and run faster, a head teachers’ leader is to say.
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Obama limits use of US drone strikes, offers steps to close Guantanamo
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