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By Rachel Cohen, on June 19th, 2013 Is the Jewish intermarriage conversation deficient? Alienating? Offensive? Rachel Cohen says yes.
Continue reading Why Jews Should Stop Worrying About Intermarriage
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A consultant advising the government on housing policy says that to meet growing demand it will need to build 221,800 public rental flats over the coming decade. That’s almost 25 per cent more than the current construction target. The consultant forecast demand for new private flats in the range of 128,700 to 191,000 over the same period. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In November 2008, Abid Naseer, a Pakistani student living in Manchester, England, began to e-mail a Yahoo account ultimately traced to his home country. The young man’s e-mails appeared to be about four women – Nadia, Huma, Gulnaz and Fozia – and which one would make a “faithful and loving wife”. Investigating terrorism is not an exact science. It’s like a mosaic SEAN JOYCE, FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR British investigators later determined that the four names were code for types of explosives. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading US defends surveillance tactics in war on terrorism
By By A. O. SCOTT, on June 19th, 2013 In film and television, work and wedded bliss are now synonymous: the harder marriage is, the more romantic it seems.
Continue reading Cross Cuts: The Hard Work in ‘Before Midnight,’ Amour’ and Other Films and Shows
By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The highly publicised divorce between News Corp chief executive Rupert Murdoch and his third wife, Wendi Deng, has divided the online community, especially after a BBC correspondent familiar with the matter revealed on Twitter that Murdoch’s reasons for divorce were “jaw dropping”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Wendi Deng called ‘evil’ and ‘admirable’ on China’s Weibo after Murdoch divorce news
By By BRIAN STELTER, on June 17th, 2013 The Pew Research Center assessment found a level of support in stories about same-sex marriage that went far beyond the level recorded in public opinion surveys.
Continue reading Media Decoder: Study Finds Supportive Tilt to Gay Marriage Coverage
By , on June 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The students, who had arrived in France only two months ago, were allegedly attacked by three local men who were visibly drunk and previously known to the police, a ministry statement said. Two of the alleged attackers have been detained and are now in police custody. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Six Chinese students in France attacked in violent ‘xenophobic’ act
By By TRIP GABRIEL, on June 15th, 2013 Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, both Republicans, have formed an odd-couple, scratch-my-back alliance that stretches from Washington to Louisville.
Continue reading Tea for 2? Kentucky Senators in a Marriage of Convenience
By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A landmark ruling in Britain, in which the Supreme Court found that company assets held by a spouse can be handed over as part of settlement claims, is likely to affect divorce proceedings in Hong Kong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading ‘Corporate veil’ cast aside as UK court rules on divorce settlement
By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Puffing on slim metal tubes loaded with pale yellow liquid, two London businessmen say they have between their lips a cure for what the UN calls “one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced”. Electronic cigarettes are the future, they argue. Cheaper, cleaner and cooler than smoking, “vaping” – using a vaporiser to inhale nicotine infused with exotic flavours ranging from pina colada to bubblegum – will spell the end of tobacco. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading No smoke, plenty of fire fuels e-cigarettes
By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An influential committee of British lawmakers accused search company Google of dodging its taxes on Thursday in a scathing report that said the US Internet company took on highly contrived arrangements serving no purpose other than to avoid paying its fair share. The report came after testimony by Google Vice President Matt Brittin, who tried to persuade members of parliament’s Public Accounts Committee that his company was transparent and fair. Committee chair Margaret Hodge rejected arguments that Google’s advertising sales take place in Ireland and not the UK. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Lawmaker accuses Google of dodging taxes
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Continue reading US prosecutors push for anti-phone theft measures
By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LOS ANGELES (AP) — News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from Wendi Deng Murdoch, his Chinese-born wife since 1999, citing a breakdown in the relationship. The matter doesn’t alter the succession plan for the media company, which the 82-year-old founder controls through a family trust. Murdoch filed a one-page document Thursday indicating that he was opening a divorce case in New York State Supreme Court. A News Corp. spokesperson confirmed the filing. The divorce filing comes just a week before News Corp. begins the process of splitting in two. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Rupert Murdoch files for divorce from Wendi Deng
By , on June 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Porous borders, corruption and the chance of riches have helped draw illegal gold miners to Ghana from as far away as China, prompting a crackdown that has so far netted over 150 Chinese, experts say. The continent’s second-largest producer of gold and a beacon of stability in turbulent west Africa, Ghana has been struggling with the impact of small-scale mining, which is illegal for foreigners and damages the environment. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Easy riches draw illegal Chinese miners to Ghana
By jbecker, on June 10th, 2013 
Young and vulnerable victims of crime are to be allowed to pre-record their evidence to avoid the trauma of appearing in court, ministers say.
Continue reading Victims given court video protection
By , on June 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The National Bureau of Statistics said China’s consumer inflation slowed to 2.1 per cent, the lowest in three months, while producer prices fell 2.9 per cent from a year earlier, the lowest since September. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading China inflation slows to 2.1pc, lending falls point to economic weakness
By , on June 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — US employers add 175K jobs in May, unemployment rate rises to 7.6 pct. as more seek jobs. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading US employers add 175K jobs in May, unemployment rate rises to 7.6 pct. as more seek jobs
By , on June 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping will seclude themselves in a desert oasis on Friday for an unusually relaxed US-China summit, called to forge some personal chemistry between the two men. Allegations of Chinese cyber hacking and espionage, North Korea’s nuclear defiance and constant trade niggles between the world’s two single largest economies and possible future superpower rivals will dominate the talks. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Xi Jinping, Obama set to meet in key California summit
By , on June 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Cambodia’s National Assembly has approved a bill making it a crime to deny that atrocities were committed by the genocidal 1970s communist Khmer Rouge regime. Critics say the law will be used as a weapon against the political opposition. The assembly passed the bill unanimously in the absence of opposition lawmakers, who were expelled from the legislature this week. A committee controlled by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party said the lawmakers must relinquish their seats under the law because they had joined a new party to contest this July’s general election. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Cambodia passes bill criminalising Khmer Rouge genocide denial
By , on June 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two young men received death sentences on Friday over a fatal shooting that exposed class divisions in Pakistan and led to an unusual social media campaign demanding that the country’s rich and powerful be held accountable. The suspects, Shahrukh Jatoi and Nawab Siraj Talpur, come from two of the wealthiest families in Karachi, a violent metropolis of 18 million people on Pakistan’s southern coast. They were convicted of killing 20-year-old Shahzeb Khan one late night in December after the university student had an argument with one of Talpur’s servants. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Target for construction of public rental flats too low, adviser says
<!– google_ad_section_start –> A consultant advising the government on housing policy says that to meet growing demand it will need to build 221,800 public rental flats over the coming decade. That’s almost 25 per cent more than the current construction target. The consultant forecast demand for new private flats in the range of 128,700 to 191,000 over the same period. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Target for construction of public rental flats too low, adviser says
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