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By By JENNIFER MEDINA, on May 22nd, 2013 With low voter turnout, City Councilman Eric Garcetti beat City Controller Wendy Greuel, and takes over a city facing myriad problems.
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korean soldiers were guilty of abusing women in wartime, a Japanese mayor said in comments reported on Tuesday, days after he provoked a storm by labelling second world war sex slaves a military necessity. In a remark that provoked a sharp response from Seoul, further stoking tensions, Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto said the South Korean military used women for sex during the Vietnam war. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A large majority of Japanese people disagree with a high-profile politician who said women forced to provide sex during the second world war were a military necessity, polls issued on Monday said. Up to 200,000 “comfort women” from Korea, China, the Philippines and elsewhere were forcibly drafted into brothels catering to the Japanese military during the second world war, mainstream historians say. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll from the H7N9 virus to 36 from 131 confirmed cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. The United Nations health agency said the four deaths were from cases that had already been identified in laboratories. Since May 8, there have been no new cases of infection with H7N9, it added. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Prime Minister Shinzo Abe defended in an interview on Friday the right of Japan’s leaders to visit a controversial shrine to war dead but hit back at critics who accuse him of revisionism. Amid the latest flare-up with China and South Korea over history, Abe quoted a US scholar as comparing the Yasukuni shrine to Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, which has a section for Confederate Civil War dead. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two directors from countries with tough film censorship brought bold and probing movies to the Cannes Film Festival on Friday — one exploring China’s social problems, the other delving into the mysteries of the human heart. Jia Zhangke’s “A Touch of Sin” depicts facets of fast-changing China that the government prefers to avoid: corruption, greed, violent crime and the growing gap between economic winners and losers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China is phasing out its reliance on executed prisoners for donated organs, but an architect of the country’s transplant system said on Friday that ingrained cultural attitudes are impeding the rise of donations among the general population. Almost all donated organs in China used to come from executed prisoners. A growing proportion now come from ordinary people, but the government is seeking to eliminate prisoner donations altogether. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ and AL BAKER, on May 18th, 2013 Dennis M. Walcott, in a speech to administrators, will defend Michael R. Bloomberg’s record on issues like charter schools against harsh campaign criticism from Democrats.
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By By IAN AUSTEN, on May 18th, 2013 A video being shopped by two men with drug connections apparently shows Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto smoking a crack pipe.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials: bomb strikes a Sunni area in Baghdad, raising overall daily death toll to 58. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan official says car bomb kills 9, wounds 70 inside elite housing complex. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Maybe you’ve heard this story before. Or dreamt it. Man cleans out old lottery tickets from cookie jar and, instead of throwing them away, takes them to the 7-Eleven to check them out. And finds one of them is worth millions. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia has shipped advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad, US officials said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two prominent Saudi princes are involved in a London-registered company that supposedly facilitated “money laundering” for Hezbollah in Lebanon and helped smuggle precious stones out of Congo, according to allegations in court documents. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A mother whose four-year-old daughter had been abducted chased the suspect down and crashed her vehicle into his car, leading to his arrest, police said. The girl was playing in her yard in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at about 6.30pm on Wednesday when a group of teenagers saw the kidnapping and ran to alert the girl’s mother, police said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taiwan may impose new sanctions on the Philippines after Manila toughened its stand over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by its coastguard last week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Time was running out for New Year celebrations in a darkened Kwun Tong housing development a few years ago. Electricity supply to Tsui Ping Estate had been cut shortly after 9pm when smoke was seen coming from switches in the ground-floor transformer room. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The US Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave presidents to wage a war on terror after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how President Barack Obama has used the power to target suspected terrorists with lethal drone strikes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Sichuan man, abducted and taken to Fujian province at the age of five, has finally found his way home after spending years trying to work out where he came from. And he says he could not have done it without the help of Google Maps, Fujian’s news portal nhaidu.com reports. Luo Gang, who was born in a small town in Guangan city, disappeared on his way to kindergarten 23 years ago, said his parents. Heartbroken, they did everything they could to find him, but to no avail. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Huge demand and big profits are tempting smugglers to sneak high-end electronics gadgets across the border. The police netted 23 boxes of undeclared electronics products, including digital cameras, camera lenses and digital video recorders, just before they were loaded into high-powered speedboats moored at Sai Kung on Thursday night. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Osaka mayor says South Korean troops guilty of sex abuse
<!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korean soldiers were guilty of abusing women in wartime, a Japanese mayor said in comments reported on Tuesday, days after he provoked a storm by labelling second world war sex slaves a military necessity. In a remark that provoked a sharp response from Seoul, further stoking tensions, Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto said the South Korean military used women for sex during the Vietnam war. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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