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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain scrambled fighter jets on Friday to intercept a commercial airliner carrying more than 300 people from Pakistan, diverting it to an isolated runway at an airport on the outskirts of London and arresting two passengers on suspicion of endangering the aircraft. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile blocks Pascua-Lama mine, fines Barrick $16 million for serious environmental violations. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Beijing’s rejection of international arbitration to resolve disputes over its claim to most of the South China Sea makes it look like a “bully” in the world community, a leading US expert on Chinese law said this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Proposals to vet future US drone strikes risk creating “kill courts”, according to human rights campaigners. They say President Barack Obama’s promise of new legal oversight does not go far enough to end what they regard as extrajudicial executions. The president has asked Congress to consider establishing a special court or oversight board to authorise lethal action outside war zones under a new counterterrorism doctrine he says will end the “boundless war on terror”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A kindergarten that closed last summer is still advertising its services and claiming membership of the American Montessori Society – a claim the society says is false. Until recently, the Montessori School of Hong Kong also had a section on its website for admission applications and purported to be operating from a site on Caine Road, although in fact it was in Pok Fu Lam when it closed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and Britain’s wartime prime minister Winston Churchill enjoyed an alcohol-fuelled all-nighter in Moscow as the second world war was in full swing, previously secret files have revealed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain is bracing not just for clashes with right-wing extremists but for possible copycat terror attacks after the brutal slaying of a young soldier on Wednesday. London’s Metropolitan Police said more than 1,000 officers will be sent to potential trouble spots with armed response units. Only a fraction of Britain’s police officers are armed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Premier Li Keqiang was to announce yesterday the conclusion of negotiations with Switzerland on a free-trade deal seen as a touchstone for China’s growing global ties. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Parents at Discovery College angry about hefty fee increases have urged the Education Bureau to conduct an independent review of the school’s finances. In a letter to Secretary for Education Eddie Ng Hak-kim, about 150 parents warned of an exodus of pupils from the school after a proposed rise of 12 to 14 per cent in tuition fees and a non-refundable building levy for next year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Explosions and gunfire rocked central Kabul on Friday as the Taliban launched a major attack close to an Afghan intelligence facility and the headquarters of a government force that protects foreign firms. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> People have been getting rid of cockroaches for decades by laying bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in the test kitchen of a flat in Florida, something went very wrong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Malay NGOs are demanding boycotts of Chinese businesses following Malaysia’s divisive election, to teach them “a lesson” for backing opposition candidates. More than 20 non-governmental organisations and the Muslim Consumers Association of Malaysia (PPIM) called upon the country’s Malays, who make up 60 per cent of the population, to boycott Chinese firms, according to a message posted on PPIM’s website. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> There is no need to reserve open space for a military berth on the new Central waterfront – bollards are all that is needed, counsel for a harbour-protection group says. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A British court has ruled that a tweet by a parliamentarian’s wife that pointed her 56,000 followers to online traffic wrongly naming a retired politician as a paedophile was defamatory, even though it did not spell out the allegation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A businessman, who was snatched from a New York street in broad daylight, was bound and burned with acid while being held captive for a month in a city warehouse for a US$3 million ransom his family in Ecuador did not have, US authorities said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Syrian-born Islamist cleric who taught one of the men accused of hacking to death an off-duty British soldier on a London street praised the attack for its “courage” and said Muslims would see it as a strike on a military target. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> International efforts to combat a new Sars-like virus that has killed 22 people are being slowed by the fact that a Dutch laboratory has patented copies of the pathogen in its search for potentially profitable rights to disease samples, the head of the World Health Organisation has warned. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Fears of a backlash against Muslims in Britain have intensified after dozens of Islamophobic incidents were reported in the wake of the grotesque murder of soldier Lee Rigby. The Tell Mama hotline for recording Islamophobic crimes detailed 38 incidents overnight on Wednesday, including attacks on three mosques. More were reported on Thursday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Tens of thousands of Hong Kong-born Canadian residents have returned to the SAR since 1996, according to an analysis by the South China Morning Post that helps establish the extent of an unprecedented phenomenon shaping both societies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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British police arrest two men on diverted Pakistan flight
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