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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 –> Two bombs near a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad killed 38 people and wounded 55 on Friday, police and a doctor said, after two days of attacks targeting Iraqi Shiites in which dozens died. One bomb exploded as worshippers were departing the Saria mosque in the city of Baquba while a second detonated after people gathered at the scene of the first blast, the sources said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 
The Boston bombing suspect wrote a message in a boat where he hid, describing victims of the attack as “collateral damage”, US media report.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note before his capture in which he called the victims “collateral damage” for US action in Afghanistan and Iraq, local media reported on Thursday. “When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims,” Tsarnaev also scribbled on the inside wall of the boat where he hid from police during a massive manhunt in the days after the April 15 blasts, according to CBS News. The twin explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded more than 260. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., on May 16th, 2013 A note scrawled inside the boat where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding cited the killing of Muslims, an official said.
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt surrendered on Thursday to serve three-and-a-half years in jail for illegal possession of weapons, in a case linked to deadly bombings in Mumbai 20 years ago. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The outer bands of Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh on Thursday, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and fierce winds that flattened mud and straw huts and forced the evacuation of more than one million people. The eye of the storm was expected to reach land Thursday evening, but at least 18 deaths related to Mahasen already have been reported in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Myanmar President Thein Sein’s landmark state visit to the United States could be delayed because of a cyclone threatening to strike his country’s northwest coast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A massive evacuation to clear low-lying camps ahead of a cyclone has run into a potentially deadly snag: Many members of the displaced Rohingya minority living in the camps have refused to leave, distrustful of Myanmar authorities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh and Myanmar were ordered on Wednesday to move to safety as a cyclone barrelled towards low-lying coastal areas. The United Nations has warned that more than eight million people could be at risk from Cyclone Mahasen, which is expected to make landfall on Thursday or Friday somewhere near the border between the two countries. Bangladesh told hundreds of thousands of people living in low-lying areas to move to cyclone shelters, while Myanmar announced plans to move roughly 166,000 people at risk on its northwest coast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Several overcrowded boats carrying more than 100 Rohingya Muslims capsized off the coast of western Myanmar while trying to escape an approaching cyclone, and only 42 were known to have survived, the United Nations said yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By REUTERS, on May 14th, 2013 The vessel was carrying about 100 Rohingya Muslims at the start of a mass evacuation from low-lying regions ahead of Cyclone Mahasen, a United Nations official said.
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Myanmar started moving people into emergency shelters as a cyclone threatened to batter a violence-wracked region home to tens of thousands of internal refugees. About 140,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in flimsy tents or makeshift housing are seen as particularly vulnerable to Cyclone Mahasen, which was gathering strength in the Bay of Bengal. The cyclone is expected to make landfall near the Myanmese-Bangladeshi border on Thursday morning, according to Myanmar’s Department of Meteorology and Hydrology. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A hot cup of Ceylon tea considered soothing and relaxing, but Sri Lanka is now marketing its most profitable export as a luxury boost for the libido. The tea industry is increasingly plugging Ceylon’s supposed aphrodisiac qualities in a bid to radically change perceptions of the brew, which manufacturers say can sell for less than water in some markets. “We are highlighting the properties of tea that can give you an edge in the bedroom,” said Rohan Fernando, whose firm HVA Foods sells a 60-gram jar of premium Ceylon for US$350. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The arrival of the 11 women, who will begin working tomorrow after a two-day orientation, marks the beginning of the official importation of maids from the country, which it is hoped will ease a shortage of domestic workers in Hong Kong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Security concerns will probably delay the first shipments of gas and oil from the Myanmar coast to China through a new pipeline that runs across territory under the control of ethnic militia groups, a Myanmar energy official said yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Simran Jeet Singh, on May 10th, 2013 Despite granting waivers to allow minorities to maintain their religious dress while serving, military policy still keeps most of them out. But the successes of the waivers have proved that ending the discrimination will give us stronger, more diverse armed forces.
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By , on May 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Indonesia’s elite anti-terrorism unit went on a busy 24-hour spree to root out suspected Islamic militants, killing seven and arresting six others in three separate operations that may have links to a foiled plot to bomb the Myanmar Embassy. In the latest raid, police shot and killed three suspected militants early on Thursday after an all-night standoff at a house in the Central Java town of Kebumen. Four others were arrested, said National Police spokesman Brigadier-General Boy Rafli Amar. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Dalai Lama has implored Buddhist monks in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to put an end to a series of recent attacks on Muslims in their countries. The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader spoke on Tuesday night about religious violence when asked questions following a speech he delivered to 15,000 people at the University of Maryland in the United States. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ANNE BARNARD, on May 8th, 2013 Trained to battle Israel, Hezbollah’s Lebanese Shiite guerrillas are pushing into a very different fight, against fellow Arab Muslims trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
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Hezbollah link in court dispute leaves Saudi princes red-faced
<!– 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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