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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China warned blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng on Thursday to mind his language ahead of his trip next month to political rival Taiwan, on a visit which could infuriate Beijing if, as expected, Chen uses it to criticise Chinese rights abuses. China has been largely silent on the issue of Chen since he fled from house arrest and took refuge in the US embassy in Beijing last year, straining Sino-US relations, before he was allowed to leave for New York for study. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Kerry: Iranian fighters, Hezbollah helping perpetuate Assad’s ‘campaign of terror’ in Syria. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Kerry says Syrian opposition will get more support if Assad doesn’t come to peace talks. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — US home sales rise slightly to 4.97 million in April, highest in 3 ½ years; inventories jump. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An FBI agent on Wednesday fatally shot a Florida man who allegedly had ties to one of the Boston bombings suspects, US media reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Japanese cancer specialist said on Wednesday she has started the world’s first clinical trial of a powerful, non-surgical, short-term radiation therapy for breast cancer. The National Institute of Radiological Sciences has begun the trial using “heavy ion radiotherapy” which emits a pinpoint beam that can be accurately directed at malignant cells, said Kumiko Karasawa, radiation oncologist and breast cancer specialist. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday he was proud MPs had voted to back gay marriage but admitted the debate has been divisive and said his focus would now be on economic matters. The Conservative leader offered an olive branch to party activists opposed to the same-sex marriage bill by promising there would be no more laws on social issues before the next election in 2015. “If you are saying to me, ‘Is this the first of many other issues like that?’, no it isn’t,” Cameron told BBC radio, the day after the bill cleared a crucial parliamentary hurdle. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI: Man shot dead in Florida had become violent during questioning in Boston bombing case. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 58-year-old female patient with heart failure was given a heart from a person with an incompatible blood type during a transplant operation at Queen Mary Hospital, its officials said on Wednesday. Only near the end of the operation, which was performed on Tuesday, did a nurse realise that the heart donor’s blood was type AB and the patient’s type A. The patient is now in serious condition in the hospital’s intensive care unit where she is being given treatment to minimise the chance of her body rejecting the new heart. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> ROME (AP) — Judge in Italy orders trial for captain over shipwreck of Costa Concordia, which killed 32. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> EU leaders tackle tax fraud said to cost a trillion euros a year at a summit on Wednesday in the hope that tightening up the rules will help restore faith in European integration and raise revenue. But Austria and Luxembourg are both reluctant to sign up and share information on bank accounts automatically for fear of undermining their important financial services sectors. The one-day summit also takes place as revelations about the tax practices of some of the world’s biggest companies in their own backyard make it easy for critics to pick holes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria’s main opposition group is urging rebels to come from around the country to reinforce Qusair, a western town under attack by Syrian troops and members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group. George Sabra, the acting chief of the Syrian National Coalition, says in a statement that “forces from outside Syria” aim to destroy Qusair and that rebels should “rescue” it. Government troops were trying for a fourth day Wednesday to wrest control of Qusair from rebels. The town lies near the Lebanese border on land corridor linking the capital Damascus with the Mediterranean coast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Members of the Hong Kong government’s Pay Trend Survey Committee met on Wednesday afternoon to discuss whether or not to recognise a survey released last week that recommends civil servants get a pay rise below the inflation. All members of the committee are civil servants. Before entered the meeting venue, one member said that some of them were “very dissatisfied” with the the survey’s recommended pay rise and might sign off on it. The last time members of the committee refused to agree to survey’s pay recommendation was in 2009. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday he would take up the ban of his close aide from the June 14 presidential election with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian media reported. Iran’s electoral watchdog on Tuesday disqualified Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, Ahmadinejad’s former chief of staff, and moderate ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from running in the vote, eliminating two powerful and potentially disruptive candidates and leaving the field dominated by hardliners loyal to Khamenei. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A sweeping overhaul of the US immigration system took a major step toward viability on Tuesday when a Senate panel gave bipartisan approval to a landmark bill offering a path to citizenship for millions. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> TOKYO (AP) — A steady decline in the yen is proving a godsend for exporters such as Toyota and has won solid support from Japan’s main trading partners, who are betting the impact on their own currencies will be offset by gains from a recovery in the world’s third-largest economy. It’s not such good news for entrepreneurs like Thamonwan Thawornthaweewong, whose Angry Bird fish balls, squid rings and other products now cost more to sell in Japan. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Around 600 Afghan interpreters who served with British forces fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan will be allowed to stay in Britain, the government revealed on Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The accused man, identified by Taiwanese media as Li Pingshan, deputy secretary for Guangdong city’s Longgang district, was said to have molested a male waiter at a Taipei hotel. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday where he said China and Pakistan should make cooperation on power generation a priority. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese state media on Wednesday welcomed news of the first summit between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama, saying the meeting will help “reduce suspicions” in the relationship. The talks, the first since Xi was installed as Chinese leader and Obama began his second term, will be held in California on June 7 and 8, with ties strained by allegations of cyber spying, tensions in the Pacific and trade disputes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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China warns blind dissident Chen Guangcheng ahead of Taiwan trip
<!– google_ad_section_start –> China warned blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng on Thursday to mind his language ahead of his trip next month to political rival Taiwan, on a visit which could infuriate Beijing if, as expected, Chen uses it to criticise Chinese rights abuses. China has been largely silent on the issue of Chen since he fled from house arrest and took refuge in the US embassy in Beijing last year, straining Sino-US relations, before he was allowed to leave for New York for study. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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