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By David Frum, on May 23rd, 2013 Of course the Civil War was about slavery
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Four nights of rioting that has spread across Stockholm immigrant districts has raised fears that decades of integration efforts have gone dangerously awry. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Malaysian court on Thursday charged a student activist with sedition and three others, including two opposition politicians, were arrested on the same charge in what critics decried as a crackdown on dissent. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ROBERT MACKEY, on May 21st, 2013 Iran’s state television announced Tuesday that Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a two-term former president who called for greater freedom during protests in 2009, has been barred from running in next month’s election to succeed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Continue reading The Lede: Former President of Iran Disqualified From Race to Succeed Ahmadinejad, State TV Says
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Guatemala’s top court has overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, ordering that the trial be taken back to the middle of the proceedings. The ruling on Monday threw into disarray a process that had been hailed as historic for delivering the first guilty verdict for genocide against a former Latin American leader. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Guatemala court orders dictator to restand late part of trial
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Blind activist Chen Guangcheng has accused the British government of running scared from Beijing. Chen is in the UK to receive an award for exposing the plight of hundreds of thousands of Chinese women forced to undergo abortions and sterilisations as part of China’s strict one-child policy. But his request to meet with the Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague during his five-day visit has been snubbed because Downing Street fears “further punishment” from Beijing and that it will lose out on trade deals. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Chen Guangcheng says Cameron fears offending Beijing
By Kurt Wimmer, on May 20th, 2013 While some are criticizing Obama’s motives for resurrecting a media shield law, most journalists say it’s a good and necessary thing—and are demanding action.
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The filibuster has been part of the Hong Kong political scene for more than a decade, but despite the stalling tactic being used three times in the past year, the Legislative Council’s rules of procedure show little sign of catching up. Last week, when attempts to filibuster the budget bill were effectively ended by Legco president Jasper Tsang Yok-sing, he laid bare the fact that “there is no rule to follow” to end a filibuster when a bill is passing through the committee stage. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading No rule to follow to end filibusters in HK’s Legislative Council
By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hunan’s high court agreed to hear an appeal by Tang Hui, the mother of a teenage girl who was raped and forced into prostitution by local officials. A lower court had dismissed her compensation claim last month against local authorities who sent her to a labour camp for protesting inappropriately. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Rape victim’s petitioning mother Tang Hui wins court review
By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The high court in Zhejiang province has ruled that two men wrongfully convicted of murder should each receive about 1.1 million yuan (HK$1.25 million) in compensation after serving 10 years in jail. In an online statement posted yesterday, the court said Zhang Gaoping his nephew, Zhang Hui , would each be awarded 656,000 yuan for loss of personal freedom, and 450,000 yuan for mental damage. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Pair get 1.1m yuan each after decade in jail for murder they didn’t commit
By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Legislative Council president has sparked new controversy after he rejected pan-democrats’ suggestion that any bid to end a filibuster should require two-thirds of lawmakers’ votes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Legco chief rejects pan-dems’ two-thirds vote plan to end budget filibuster
By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Popular Vietnamese cable television provider VTV CAB has stopped providing foreign channels, including CNN and BBC, after a new media law that requires editing of programmes before broadcast came into effect on Wednesday last week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Another Vietnamese cable TV provider drops CNN, BBC
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 –>
Continue reading Iran’s Farhadi and China’s Jia make Cannes splash
By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Well-respected Malaysian graft buster, Paul Low Seng Kwan, 67, has his work cut out for him. Low – the president of Transparency International Malaysia (TI), an NGO that monitors political and corporate corruption – was appointed to the cabinet of Prime Minister Najib Razak in a surprise move that was greeted with applause and scepticism. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Graft buster Paul Low joins Najib’s cabinet
By Matt Kibbe, on May 17th, 2013 Congress needs to make sure the IRS never does this again, writes FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe.
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama defends leak probes as necessary for security, calls for balance with press freedom. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt surrendered on Thursday to serve three-and-a-half years in jail for illegal possession of weapons, in a case linked to deadly bombings in Mumbai 20 years ago. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Bollywood bad boy Sanjay Dutt heads to jail over guns case
By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A Russian-financed search engine seeking to challenge Google’s dominance in Vietnam is redirecting queries for some politically sensitive terms to the American company’s website, apparently as a way of avoiding government anger or legal liability for sending surfers to sites containing criticism of the ruling party. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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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Stockholm riots raise fresh debate on immigration
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