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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence led by lawmakers sympathetic to the spying. The House Intelligence Committee hearing provided a venue for officials to defend the once-secret programs and did little probing of claims that the collection of people’s phone records and Internet usage has disrupted dozens of terrorist plots. Few details were volunteered. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — A U.S. State Department spokeswoman says a man who ranted about national security and screamed “I’m dead” during a flight from Hong Kong once worked at the agency. The spokeswoman said Tuesday that the passenger ended his time at the department in 2006. She gave no details about his job or why he no longer works there. The man started screaming nine hours into a 15-hour flight Monday to Newark Liberty Airport outside New York City. At one point, a passenger says, the man claimed people were trying to poison him. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MONTREAL (AP) — Montreal’s interim mayor resigns, a day after his arrest on fraud charges. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> DETROIT (AP) — Chrysler decides to go along with government request to recall 2.7 million older model Jeeps. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BERLIN (AP) — Obama opens trip to Germany; will meet with leaders and speak at iconic Brandenburg Gate. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Calif. city sues Major League Baseball, says it is dragging feet over Oakland A’s plan to move. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Rare is the witness who takes the stand and immediately tells the court that he committed eight murders for which he has never been charged. But amid the stack of murders to which John Martorano confessed, those eight might have been lost anyway. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong’s most iconic motor racing driver will be getting behind the wheel one more time as part of the Macau Grand Prix’s 60th anniversary. In 1964, Albert Poon became the first Hongkonger to win the race and he will be on the grid again this year in the Lotus Greater China Race. The last time 77-year-old Poon competed at Macau was 10 years ago at the event’s 50th anniversary. It’s a place that holds happy memories for him. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of people have voiced support for a boycott of a July 1 music festival featuring K-pop stars and local bands after it was condemned as a political tool to keep young people away from the annual pro-democracy rally. However, the Performance Industry Association (PIA) which is organising the Hong Kong Dome Festival, says it is in fact an alternative protest – against the city’s lack of major venues. Boycott campaign aside, the 18,000 tickets are now sold out. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> As many as 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil’s biggest cities in a swelling wave of protest tapping into widespread anger at poor public services, police violence and government corruption. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In a lonely corner of the Pacific, 1,740 kilometres south of Tokyo, a tiny but potentially crucial piece of Japanese territory is now rising from the waves. Photographs emerged this week showing that construction of a 160-metre dock on the atoll of Okinotorishima is well under way. The costly piece of infrastructure, which will dwarf the uninhabited land mass that it is designed to serve, is likely intended to help Japan argue for the extension of its exclusive economic zone a further 200 nautical miles into the Pacific. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Most of the flash and glitter will vanish from Hong Kong’s brightly lit commercial areas after midnight if a government task force’s recommendations are accepted. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> As soon as the decades-old Twin Otter landed at Lukla airport, passengers burst into applause. They do that for nearly every safe landing at the often terrifying airport at the gateway to Mount Everest. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Departing English Schools Foundation chief executive Heather Du Quesnay is encouraging her successor to consider developing a stronger Chinese curriculum. Du Quesnay, who ends her term in July after eight years, said that by 2047, when the 50-year handover transition period ends, ESF students will need Putonghua at a high standard to make a living in Hong Kong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The leading developed nations have called for the creation of a global system to automatically funnel financial information about individuals and companies using offshore tax havens, but Switzerland does not want to co-operate. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Fire Services Department has decided to shelve a controversial programme that would have allowed teenagers to go out with ambulance crews on duty as observers. Responding to concerns that the youngsters could be exposed to dangerous or gruesome scenes the department has decided to conduct a training camp instead of the proposed “ambulance pioneers on-car attachment scheme”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than a dozen 7-Eleven franchises took in more than US$180 million in revenue by running a “modern-day plantation system”, prosecutors in New York charged. The businesses were built on the unpaid labour of dozens of illegal immigrants hired using sham Social Security numbers, they argued. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Customs insists the city has not become a transit hub for drugs despite a 127 per cent rise in the amount seized in the first five months of this year – and two major busts by officers since then. Some 174.5 kg of illegal drugs worth HK$158 million were discovered up until the end of May, compared with 77 kg, worth HK$61 million, uncovered in the same period last year. Andy Hui Wai-ming, head of the Customs and Excise Department’s drug investigation bureau, said the increase was the result of improved detection. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan president says his armed forces now taking the lead for security around the country. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The family of an American scientist found hanged in Singapore last year dismissed on Tuesday the city-state’s findings that he committed suicide as “a sham and a cover-up” for a murder. “I am not surprised by the state’s findings because the state refused to consider murder, they only investigated suicide,” Mary Todd, mother of the late electronics engineer Shane Todd, told AFP by email from the United States. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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US spy chief: plot against Wall Street foiled
<!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence led by lawmakers sympathetic to the spying. The House Intelligence Committee hearing provided a venue for officials to defend the once-secret programs and did little probing of claims that the collection of people’s phone records and Internet usage has disrupted dozens of terrorist plots. Few details were volunteered. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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