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A suicide bomb and grenade attack kills at least 22 people and injures about 50 at a campaign rally in the eastern Iraqi city of Baquba.
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Talks between world powers and Iran on its nuclear programme end without agreement, with the EU saying their positions “remain far apart”.
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By , on March 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of dead pigs in a Shanghai river have cast a spotlight on China’s poorly regulated farm production, with the country’s favourite meat joining a long list of food scares. As of Friday, the number of carcasses recovered in recent days from the Huangpu river – which cuts through the commercial hub and supplies over 20 per cent of its drinking water – had reached more than 7,500. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An ethnic Uighur man has been charged with murder in the knifing of five people last week in China’s restive northwestern region of Xinjiang. The regional government’s website said on Friday that Aizitiaili Mamuti knifed passers-by outside a supermarket in the city of Korla after an argument with his family. It said the 27-year-old had a history of gambling and had been punished for three earlier knife attacks. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Barack Obama took mounting US concerns about computer hacking straight to China’s president on Thursday in a sign of how seriously the United States takes the threat of cyber attacks emanating from China. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> French President Francois Hollande on Thursday called on Europe’s leaders to lift an arms embargo on Syria to help insurgents fighting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LOS ANGELES (AP) — Philip Anschutz says sports and entertainment company AEG is no longer for sale. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Barely 12 hours after his election, Pope Francis quietly slipped out of the Vatican on Thursday to pray for guidance at one of Rome’s great basilicas as he prepared to usher in a new age of simplicity and humility in a Church mired in scandal. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Myanmar Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi faced the wrath of hundreds of villagers on Thursday angered by her defence of an independent report that backed expansion of a copper mine they say was built on illegally seized land. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Businesses may be wasting billions of dollars a year buying up keyword advertising on search engines such as Google, a new report claims. The study by auction website eBay claimed that most of the money spent buying up search terms was a waste of time and had little effect on sales. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A British cancer network known for its centres’ architecture has opened its first overseas branch in Hong Kong with a design fitted to the city’s limited space and Chinese culture. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Victims of clergy sexual abuse urged newly-elected Pope Francis to reform the Catholic Church and declare “zero tolerance” for sex crimes as his first official act. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In one of the first detailed studies of the virus – which emerged in the Middle East and has so far infected 15 people worldwide, killing nine of them – Dutch researchers identified a cell surface protein it uses to enter and infect human cells. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Dutch thriller APP, about a mysterious personal assistant application that takes over mobile phones, requires viewers for the first time to look at their smartphones in the cinema to view extra footage. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In addition to being the first non-European pope for almost 13 centuries, the new pope’s choice of name sets him apart – and establishes a link to the South China coast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hu Jintao maintained his poker face and remained an enigma to many on the last day in power yesterday as he handed over his last two top posts – state president and head of the state’s Central Military Commission – to Xi Jinping. When Hu appeared on the presidium in the Great Hall of the People yesterday, 21 National People’s Congress deputies from the third row stood up and shook hands with him, one by one. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Twenty minutes passed, maybe 30, and the white smoke finally stopped billowing out of the smokestack atop the Sistine Chapel. The bells had stopped clanging. Outside St Peter’s Basilica, thousands of people huddled under umbrellas, ensnared in a strange limbo, waiting to learn the identity of their new pope. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Like most of those in Argentina, he is a soccer fan, his favourite team being the underdogs San Lorenzo. Known for his outreach to the country’s poor, he gave up a palace for a small apartment, used public transport instead of a chauffeur-driven car and cooked his own meals. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Displaced New Territories villagers have offered HK$500,000 to a neighbouring Pat Heung village for access rights to the land where they want to build new homes. But up to last night, it remained in doubt whether their offer would be accepted, as representatives of Yuen Kong San Tsuen, which controls the road with a private company, responded with a chilly reception. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A woman believed by her doctors to be the first five-organ transplant patient to become a mother told of her joy yesterday. Fatema al-Ansari, 26, was given a new liver, pancreas, stomach and small and large intestine in Miami in 2007. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Deadly blast at Iraq political rally
A suicide bomb and grenade attack kills at least 22 people and injures about 50 at a campaign rally in the eastern Iraqi city of Baquba.
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