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By Ali Gharib, on May 24th, 2013 Ali Gharib on how badly John Kerry’s efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks are going.
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LONDON (AP) — UK police: 2 men arrested after flight from Pakistan to England diverted. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Caroline Linton, on May 24th, 2013 Medea Benjamin on being admonished by the president—and what she would have said if she could have finished on Thursday.
Continue reading The Lady Who Heckled Obama
By By JANE PERLEZ, on May 24th, 2013 The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, made the blunt comments at a meeting with a personal envoy of President Kim Jong-un of North Korea.
Continue reading China Tells North Korea to Return to Nuclear Talks
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The trial of fung shui guru Peter Chan Chun-chuen who is accused of forging the will of Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum opened in the Court of First Instance on Friday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Orly Halpern, on May 24th, 2013 "I have treated thousands of Jews and tomorrow I could treat the mother of one of those who expelled me or I could save his brother." –Dr. Aref Khirallah, an Israeli Arab doctor who was among those attacked by settlers during a fun day for Clalit HMO doctors.
Continue reading Jerusalem ‘Price Taggers’ Damage Jewish, Arab Cars
By Justin Green, on May 24th, 2013 This Douthat riff on tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg is quite illuminating:
Continue reading Elites Against Their Own People
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LONDON (AP) — UK defense ministry: Typhoon jet launched to investigate incident with civilian plane. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A North Korean envoy told China’s president on Friday that his reclusive country was willing to take “positive actions” to ensure peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, as China steps up diplomatic efforts to bring Pyongyang back to talks. But Choe Ryong-hae, a special envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, made no offer to abandon North Korea’s nuclear programme. The United States insists North Korea takes meaningful steps on denuclearisation before there can be dialogue. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Justin Green, on May 24th, 2013 The Senate Majority Leader is laying the groundwork for the next Republican administration:
Continue reading Mitch McConnell’s Quiet Campaign
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Sri Lankan monk set himself on fire on Friday to protest the slaughter of cattle, in the country’s first attempt at self-immolation by a monk, police said. The monk doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself ablaze near a temple in the central town of Kandy during an important Buddhist festival, police said. “Policemen near the temple doused the flames and rushed the monk to hospital,” police spokesman Buddhika Siriwardena said. “Just before setting himself alight, he shouted that his action was to protest the slaughter of cattle.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JENNIFER PRESTON, on May 24th, 2013 A bridge collapse north of Seattle sent two vehicles and three people into the Skagit River.
Continue reading The Lede: Video of Bridge Collapse North of Seattle
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — US orders for durable goods up 3.3 percent in April, helped by gain in business investment. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain’s intelligence services came under pressure on Friday to explain how they let two Islamic extremists suspected of hacking a soldier to death in the streets of London slip through their net. Both of the men, under armed guard in London hospitals after being shot by police at the scene, were previously known to the intelligence services but were reportedly assessed as not posing a deadly threat. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> OSAKA, Japan (AP) — Two Korean former sex slaves demanded the resignation of an outspoken Japanese mayor and canceled a meeting with him Friday for justifying Japan’s wartime practice of forcing tens of thousands of Asian women into prostitution for its military. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, on May 24th, 2013 The United States and Russia had agreed to pull together the peace conference, with Russia responsible for bringing the government of President Bashar al-Assad to the table.
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Explosion shakes Afghan capital, sends smoke rising over downtown Kabul . <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Justin Green, on May 24th, 2013 As of 2014, gay members will be permitted in the Boy Scouts of America:
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of Chinese Catholics gathered in Shanghai on Friday for a celebration to honour the Virgin Mary, in a show of religious fervour permitted by the Communist-ruled state. China exercises strict control over religion, requiring followers to worship in state-approved churches. In an annual tradition dating back more than a hundred years, pilgrims walked up Sheshan – or She Mountain – the site of two churches and the seminary for Shanghai’s Catholic Diocese in the city’s southwest. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Interview by ANDREW GOLDMAN, on May 24th, 2013 And not caring what Elton John says about any of it.
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UK police: 2 men arrested after flight from Pakistan to England diverted
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