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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police evacuated Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral yesterday after a well-known far-right former activist committed suicide by shooting himself through his mouth in front of its main altar, a police source said. Dominique Venner, 78, a historian known in France for his political essays, was carrying a letter but did not say anything before he shot himself dead in the mid-afternoon, the source said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ELISABETH MALKIN, on May 21st, 2013 The decision, which rolled back the proceedings to April 19, when a decision by a pretrial judge sent the trial into disarray, is a dramatic legal victory for General Ríos Montt, 86, and a blow to human rights advocates.
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> No new human cases of the H7N9 virus have been recorded in China for a week, national health authorities said, for the first time since the outbreak began in March. One previously infected patient died in the week beginning between May 13, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said in a statement late on Monday, taking the total number of fatalities from the virus to 36. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Denmark, widely tipped to win the annual music competition, garnered 281 points at a glittering ceremony watched by millions of viewers, beating runner ups Azerbaijan (234 points) and Ukraine (214 points.) <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By TRIP GABRIEL, on May 18th, 2013 The drama includes an accusation that a $15,000 gift from a donor to the governor went unreported and a chef that calls himself a whistle-blower.
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two directors from countries with tough film censorship brought bold and probing movies to the Cannes Film Festival on Friday — one exploring China’s social problems, the other delving into the mysteries of the human heart. Jia Zhangke’s “A Touch of Sin” depicts facets of fast-changing China that the government prefers to avoid: corruption, greed, violent crime and the growing gap between economic winners and losers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A brutal murder case is gripping Beijing. On Thursday, a man’s headless, limbless body has been found in the Chinese capital, just one block south of the Tiananmen Square. The torso was found in the early morning hours of Thursday on the sidewalk at the intersection between Zhushi West Street and Meishi Street. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s television regulator has ordered a crack down on dramas about the country’s battles with Japan during and before World War II and demanded they be more serious, state media said on Friday, following viewer complaints about ludicrous storylines Ties have been shadowed for years by what Beijing says has been Tokyo’s refusal to admit to wartime atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in the country between 1937 and 1945, something taught to every Chinese school child and a staple of television dramas. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Mujib Mashal, on May 16th, 2013 Allegations reflecting the country’s deep levels of corruption surfaced in a dramatic session of the Afghan parliament. Mujib Mashal reports from Kabul.
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By Jace Lacob, on May 16th, 2013 Jace Lacob on The CW’s 2013-14 lineup, which includes five new dramas and significant schedule changes.
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A woman whose trial riveted viewers with details of sex and violence returns to court on Thursday, as the same jury that convicted her of first-degree murder last week in the death of her boyfriend now weighs whether the former waitress should be sentenced to life in prison or death. Jurors on Wednesday took less than three hours to determine that Jodi Arias should be eligible for the death penalty in the killing of her one-time lover after prosecutors proved the murder was especially cruel and heinous. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An angry President Barack Obama sacked the acting head of the US Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday over a fast moving scandal sparked when officials unfairly targeted conservative groups. Obama said Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had asked for and received the resignation of tax agency chief Steven Miller and promised a new system of checks and safeguards to make sure the episode was not repeated. “Given the controversy surrounding this audit, it’s important to institute new leadership that can help restore confidence going forward,” Obama said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Myanmar President Thein Sein’s landmark state visit to the United States could be delayed because of a cyclone threatening to strike his country’s northwest coast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The former deputy police chief of the Chinese megacity of Chongqing has been given a suspended death sentence for bribery, a court said on Wednesday, the latest episode in the scandal that brought down Bo Xilai. Tang Jianhua was condemned to death with two years’ reprieve for taking bribes, a Chongqing court official said. Under Chinese law the punishment is normally commuted to life imprisonment. He was found to have “possessed huge amounts of money from unidentified sources”, said the official, who refused to be named, without elaborating. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Jace Lacob, on May 14th, 2013 PBS announces the start date for Season 4 of ‘Downton Abbey,’ along with several other drama launches.
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng said on Tuesday that change in his country was “inevitable” but should be the work of the Chinese themselves rather than be imposed from the outside. “China will undergo a transformation, this is inevitable and in fact this has already begun,” said Chen, a blind self-taught lawyer who dramatically escaped house arrest last year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The brothers of the US man charged with kidnapping and raping three women, locking them in his home for a decade, said they hope he “rots” in jail, in an interview aired on Monday. He’s a “monster. Hateful. I hope he rots in that jail,” Onil Castro, 50, told CNN. “I don’t even want them to take his life like that,” he said, referring to a possible death penalty charge in the case. “I want him to suffer in that jail.” “I feel the same way,” added brother Pedro Castro, 54. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ben Whishaw was named best actor at Britain’s top TV awards on Sunday, cementing his status as one of the UK’s new leading men after starring in the James Bond movie “Skyfall”, while a satire lampooning London Olympic organisers won two awards. Whishaw, 32, who is currently performing with Judi Dench in London’s West End theatre district, won the award for playing Richard II in a TV film based on William Shakespeare’s play that was commissioned by Britain’s public broadcaster, the BBC. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Spanish police have arrested a British fugitive who had been on the run since he escaped from security guards during a 2009 armed robbery trial. Andrew Moran, 31, was seized on Friday afternoon in a dramatic raid at a luxury villa in Calpe, a resort on the Alicante coast. According to Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, armed officers swooped in on him as he relaxed beside a pool. They also seized two handguns, 60 rounds of ammunition and a machete. Moran had been on trial on allegations involving armed robbery and authorities described him as dangerous. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Throughout Chinese history, the expression ya nei originally meant palace guards but later referred generally to children of government officials. In traditional Chinese opera and drama, they are immortalised as the worst of the worst – vile, violent and corrupt. Dressed in silk and drooped in gold, ya nei roamed the streets, beating people for no particular reason or kidnapping young girls and forcing them to become concubines. They usually escape punishment thanks to their powerful fathers and relatives. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Far-right activist Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Police evacuated Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral yesterday after a well-known far-right former activist committed suicide by shooting himself through his mouth in front of its main altar, a police source said. Dominique Venner, 78, a historian known in France for his political essays, was carrying a letter but did not say anything before he shot himself dead in the mid-afternoon, the source said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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