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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A roadside bomb killed 11 security personnel and two civilians on Thursday in southwestern Pakistan where separatist rebels have for decades been battling to control the region’s natural gas and other resources. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Asia shares slide, Nikkei down 7.3 percent, as Japan bond yields rise, China factories weaken. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A former Wan Chai divisional commander was convicted on one count of misconduct in public office on Thursday for taking discounts from a restaurant. Titus Wong Koon-ho, 51, was found guilty of receiving gifts and discounts worth HK$5,500 from Chan Teen Bistro in exchange for turning a blind eye to liquor licence violations in 2011. Wong later approved its licence application, despite knowing that the Causeway Bay restaurant had illegally served alcohol, the Eastern Court heard. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Prosecutors will grill IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Thursday as they investigate whether she should be charged in connection with a state payout to a disgraced tycoon during her time as French finance minister. Lagarde has downplayed the investigation, but the stakes of the probe are huge for both her and the International Monetary Fund. Criminal charges against Lagarde, 57, would mark the second scandal in a row for an IMF chief, after her predecessor Dominique Strauss-Kahn, also from France, resigned in disgrace over an alleged assault on a New York hotel maid. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LONDON (AP) — 2 UK govt officials: London attack appears to be motivated by radical Islam. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LONDON (AP) — UK official: Violent attack in London could be terror-related. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> This is a major anniversary year for pianist-conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, the 75-year-old maestro who conducts the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra tomorrow and on Saturday. First of all, it marks the 50th anniversary of his debut recording with Decca. In March 1963, he recorded Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under conductor Anatole Fistoulari. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Some private clubs which have had their land leases renewed for another 15 years have promised to open their facilities to the public for up to a combined 3,320 hours per month, the home affairs chief said yesterday. The pledge is significantly higher than the minimum requirement of 50 hours, Secretary for Home Affairs Tsang Tak-sing said as he told lawmakers that at least seven of the 55 private clubs had their land lease-renewal procedures completed by April. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> On the day free-to-air television station TVB announced it would continue a fight to block the issuance of more free-TV licences, the other free-TV station ATV sent out a press statement that was equally eye-catching. The statement starts with this: “Over the past three years, everyone can see the change in ATV. It is held in high regard among the audience and our enemies.” Apparently it said “enemies” instead of “rivals”, a term used with extreme caution. (Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was accused of calling pan-democrats his enemy, but he denied the claims.) <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 61-year-old Irishman was charged in Britain yesterday, with the Irish Republican Army bombing of the queen’s ceremonial cavalry in Hyde Park in 1982, a strike at a top London tourist attraction that killed four soldiers and seven horses. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea has reappointed a hardline and loyal general as military chief in a move experts said was part of young leader Kim Jong-un’s attempt to tighten his grip on the armed forces. In a brief dispatch, the Korean Central News Agency referred to Kim Kyok-sik as chief of the Korean People’s Army general staff, a notch higher in the military hierarchy than his previous post of defence minister. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Until an outbreak of tornadoes in the past week, this year had been a relatively quiet one for twisters in the Midwest and Plains states. Weather experts said that had much to do with a weather phenomenon that also caused much of the east coast to shiver through colder-than-normal temperatures this spring. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two Michelin chefs will face off in a contest to lose their chef’s trademarks – big round bellies – in the next three months. Both will make donations to charity and the loser will dress as a waitress and work at the winner’s restaurant for a day. Harlan Goldstein and Alvin Leung, friends for more than 15 years, met last week and found that both of them had gained some kilograms. They then decided to put up a weight-loss challenge to make themselves healthier and to promote healthy eating habits. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The H7N9 virus appears to have been brought under control in China largely due to restrictions at bird markets, but caused some US$6.5 billion in losses to the economy, UN experts said. Health authorities worldwide must be on the lookout to detect the virus, which could still develop the ability to spread easily among humans and cause a deadly influenza pandemic, the experts said. <!– 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 –> 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 –> 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 –> 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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Roadside bomb kills 13 in southwest Pakistan
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