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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Japan’s nuclear watchdog has formally approved new safety requirements for atomic plants, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster. The new requirements for the first time make it compulsory that plants take steps to guard against radiation leaks in the case of severe accidents, install emergency command centres and enact anti-terrorist measures. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Superman visited China on Wednesday as actor Henry Cavill arrived in Shanghai for the mainland premiere of Man of Steel, the new reboot of Warner Bros’ long-running film franchise. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan president suspends talks with US on security deal to protest US-Taliban negotiations. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Philippines has deployed a fresh batch of marines and supplies to a shoal in the disputed South China Sea, where a Chinese warship and surveillance vessels appeared last month and triggered a new standoff in the strategic waters, the Philippine defence secretary said on Wednesday. The new contingent of Filipino marines replaced troops at the Second Thomas Shoal, where the arrival last month of Chinese ships sparked diplomatic protests from the Philippines. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Negotiators from North Korea and China held strategic talks in Beijing on Wednesday following a rough patch in relations between the communist allies and Pyongyang’s surprise weekend call for dialogue with the US North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan arrived for talks at the Foreign Ministry with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui that were expected to focus on bilateral relations and the situation on the Korean Peninsula. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Taliban claimed responsibility on Wednesday for an attack in Afghanistan that killed four American troops just hours after the insurgent group announced it would hold talks with the US on finding a political solution to ending the nearly 12-year war in the country. The deadly attack underscores the challenges ahead in trying to end the violence roiling Afghanistan through peace negotiations in Qatar with militants still fighting on the ground. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Edward Snowden would not be given preferential treatment if he were to apply for asylum in Hong Kong, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. “We would prioritise older cases,” said Nazneen Farooqi, a protection officer at the UNHCR office in Hong Kong, at a press conference on Wednesday ahead of World Refugee Day on Thursday. Farooqi added that she was speaking hypothetically as the UNHCR has a strict policy to neither confirm nor deny the existence of an individual asylum claim. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By CHARLIE SAVAGE and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, on June 19th, 2013 Critics say the fact that no agent in the past two decades has been disciplined for deliberately shooting someone raises questions about the bureau’s internal investigations.
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence led by lawmakers sympathetic to the spying. The House Intelligence Committee hearing provided a venue for officials to defend the once-secret programs and did little probing of claims that the collection of people’s phone records and Internet usage has disrupted dozens of terrorist plots. Few details were volunteered. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — A U.S. State Department spokeswoman says a man who ranted about national security and screamed “I’m dead” during a flight from Hong Kong once worked at the agency. The spokeswoman said Tuesday that the passenger ended his time at the department in 2006. She gave no details about his job or why he no longer works there. The man started screaming nine hours into a 15-hour flight Monday to Newark Liberty Airport outside New York City. At one point, a passenger says, the man claimed people were trying to poison him. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MONTREAL (AP) — Montreal’s interim mayor resigns, a day after his arrest on fraud charges. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> DETROIT (AP) — Chrysler decides to go along with government request to recall 2.7 million older model Jeeps. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BERLIN (AP) — Obama opens trip to Germany; will meet with leaders and speak at iconic Brandenburg Gate. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Calif. city sues Major League Baseball, says it is dragging feet over Oakland A’s plan to move. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> As soon as the decades-old Twin Otter landed at Lukla airport, passengers burst into applause. They do that for nearly every safe landing at the often terrifying airport at the gateway to Mount Everest. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Departing English Schools Foundation chief executive Heather Du Quesnay is encouraging her successor to consider developing a stronger Chinese curriculum. Du Quesnay, who ends her term in July after eight years, said that by 2047, when the 50-year handover transition period ends, ESF students will need Putonghua at a high standard to make a living in Hong Kong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The leading developed nations have called for the creation of a global system to automatically funnel financial information about individuals and companies using offshore tax havens, but Switzerland does not want to co-operate. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Fire Services Department has decided to shelve a controversial programme that would have allowed teenagers to go out with ambulance crews on duty as observers. Responding to concerns that the youngsters could be exposed to dangerous or gruesome scenes the department has decided to conduct a training camp instead of the proposed “ambulance pioneers on-car attachment scheme”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than a dozen 7-Eleven franchises took in more than US$180 million in revenue by running a “modern-day plantation system”, prosecutors in New York charged. The businesses were built on the unpaid labour of dozens of illegal immigrants hired using sham Social Security numbers, they argued. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Customs insists the city has not become a transit hub for drugs despite a 127 per cent rise in the amount seized in the first five months of this year – and two major busts by officers since then. Some 174.5 kg of illegal drugs worth HK$158 million were discovered up until the end of May, compared with 77 kg, worth HK$61 million, uncovered in the same period last year. Andy Hui Wai-ming, head of the Customs and Excise Department’s drug investigation bureau, said the increase was the result of improved detection. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Japan formally accepts new nuclear safety requirements
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Japan’s nuclear watchdog has formally approved new safety requirements for atomic plants, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster. The new requirements for the first time make it compulsory that plants take steps to guard against radiation leaks in the case of severe accidents, install emergency command centres and enact anti-terrorist measures. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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