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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy. The two suspects, aged 22 and 28, are under guard in hospitals after being shot and arrested by police following the murder of 25-year-old Afghan war veteran Lee Rigby on Wednesday in broad daylight. They have not yet been charged. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Four nights of rioting that has spread across Stockholm immigrant districts has raised fears that decades of integration efforts have gone dangerously awry. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — The price of oil fell below $93 per barrel Thursday after a survey showed manufacturing activity in China falling to its lowest level in seven months, a sign that the recovery in the world’s No. 2 economy is fading. Benchmark oil for July delivery was down $1.37 to $92.91 per barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract declined $1.90 to close at $94.28 a barrel on Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Malaysian court on Thursday charged a student activist with sedition and three others, including two opposition politicians, were arrested on the same charge in what critics decried as a crackdown on dissent. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — The price of oil fell below $94 per barrel Thursday after a private survey showed manufacturing activity in China falling to its lowest level in seven months, a sign that the recovery in the world’s No. 2 economy is fading. Benchmark oil for July delivery was down 81 cents to $93.47 per barrel at midafternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract declined $1.90 to close at $94.28 a barrel on Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Amnesty International said on Thursday millions of people who have fled conflict or persecution, and migrants who have left home in search of work, have suffered abuses at the hands of state authorities or employers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets slid Thursday, pulled down by a contraction in China’s manufacturing that adds to signs that the shaky recovery in the world’s No. 2 economy is slowing. HSBC Corp. said its preliminary Purchasing Managers Index fell to a seven-month low of 49.6 in May from April’s 50.4. Numbers below 50 indicate that activity is contracting. Analysts had expected a slight decline to 50.3 for the most recent month
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By By LIZ ALDERMAN, on May 22nd, 2013 In Greece, the perils of a drawn-out debt crisis are imprinted on its younger population — whose unemployment numbers are soaring — who turn to selling their bodies for money and to a dangerous, cheap new street drug for escape.
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The personal data of more than 2,800 people who voted online for the sports stars of the year last year were leaked by hackers, police revealed last night. The Commercial Crime Bureau found information on the voters as well as an undisclosed number of the sports star nominees on a website that they did not name. Officers believe the information was obtained by hacking the website of the Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, the host of the awards, a police spokesman said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A blast at an explosives plant in China has left 13 people dead and another 20 missing, state media said on Tuesday, compounding the country’s poor industrial safety record. Another 19 people were injured in the explosion on Monday at a three-storey workshop owned by Poly Explosives (Jinan), a state-owned company in the eastern province of Shandong, the Xinhua news agency reported. Rescuers were still searching for the missing on Tuesday but clean-up efforts had also started, the report said, citing the rescue headquarters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 
Young children should hear about the dangers of pornography as soon as they have access to the internet, head teachers say.
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A single winning ticket for a record US Powerball lottery jackpot worth US$590.5 million was sold in Florida, organisers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won or where in the state the ticket was bought. The winning numbers from Saturday night’s drawing were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball number of 11, and the odds of winning were put at one in 175 million. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars and drones line a police equipment and “anti-terrorism technology” trade fair in Beijing. The ruling Communist Party spends vast sums on ensuring order – more even than on its military. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The MTR Corporation could be fined as much as HK$15 million over the derailment of a light-rail train in Yuen Long on Friday that landed 77 passengers in hospital, the transport chief said. The MTR apologised on Saturday for the accident – the most serious derailment in the light-rail network’s 25-year history. A recently revised fare-adjustment mechanism that penalises any suspension of services lasting more than eight hours made such a fine possible, Secretary for Transport and Housing Professor Anthony Cheung Bing-leung said at the site of the crash. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 
The widow of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko calls for the inquest into his death to be abandoned and replaced with a public inquiry.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> People who struggle with maths fare better after a course of gentle electric shocks to the brain, British scientists have claimed. Psychologists at Oxford University found that students scored higher on mental arithmetic tasks after a five-day course of brain stimulation. <!– 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 –> A system of donor cards indicating consent for organ transplants will not work in China as families will insist on having the final say, and many people see nothing wrong in using organs from executed prisoners, an official said on Friday. Nearly 1.5 million people in China need transplants every year, but only 10,000 can get organs, according to the Health Ministry. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Philippine envoy to Taiwan on Thursday advised thousands of Filipino workers there to eat at home and avoid the streets while emotions run high on the island over the shooting death of a fisherman by the Philippine coast guard. Philippine representative Amadeo Perez said after returning to Manila from Taipei that his government has verified at least one attack, in which a Filipino was beaten with a bat. “He was brought to a hospital and police are investigating. We are documenting the cases,” he said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Japan’s premier will on Friday unveil the next stage of his plan to reboot the economy, reports said, as he seeks to capitalise on the feel-good mood of a booming stock market and a plunging yen. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to announce broadbrush outlines of the third of his “three arrows” of a plan dubbed “Abenomics”, which is intended to turn around years of deflation in the world’s third-largest economy. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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British police investigate conspiracy after London soldier’s murder
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy. The two suspects, aged 22 and 28, are under guard in hospitals after being shot and arrested by police following the murder of 25-year-old Afghan war veteran Lee Rigby on Wednesday in broad daylight. They have not yet been charged. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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