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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 –> An Arizona jury failed on Thursday to reach a unanimous verdict on whether Jodi Arias should be put to death for the murder of her ex-boyfriend, prompting the judge to order a rerun of the sentencing phase of the trial. Arias, a former waitress from California, was found guilty this month of murdering Travis Alexander, whose body was found slumped in the shower of his Phoenix-area home in June 2008. He had been stabbed 27 times, had his throat slashed and been shot in the face. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By KAREN CROUSE, on May 24th, 2013 Kelly Davies Currin, whose former swimming coach Rick Curl was sentenced to prison Thursday for child sex abuse, sought the resignation of national leaders of the sport.
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Barack Obama on Thursday shifted the United States away from a “boundless global war on terror,” restricting deadly drone strikes abroad and signaling that America’s long struggle against al Qaeda will one day end. In a major policy speech, Obama narrowed the scope of the US targeted-killing campaign against al Qaeda and its allies and took new steps toward closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison – controversial elements of the US counterterrorism fight that have drawn condemnation at home and abroad. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Today is Friday, May 31, the 151st day of 2013. There are 214 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1043 – Lady Godiva rides naked through the market square in Coventry, England. 1520 – After being a hostage in Denmark, young nobleman Gustav Vasa slips back into Sweden to start a rebellion against the Danes that will establish Swedish independence. 1790 – The U.S. copyright law is enacted
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By Daniel Klaidman, on May 23rd, 2013 Will the president have the political wherewithal to get the prison closed this time? By Daniel Klaidman
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Barack Obama outlined plans to limit the use of US drone strikes against extremists abroad and took steps aimed at breaking a deadlock on closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Shinzo Abe arrives in Myanmar today for a three-day visit intended to boost trade between the countries, the first time a Japanese leader will have visited the country in more than 35 years. With China’s influence over the democratic Myanmese government slipping, Japan is hoping to develop economic and security ties. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A former Wan Chai divisional commander was convicted on one count of misconduct in public office on Thursday for taking discounts from a restaurant. Titus Wong Koon-ho, 51, was found guilty of receiving gifts and discounts worth HK$5,500 from Chan Teen Bistro in exchange for turning a blind eye to liquor licence violations in 2011. Wong later approved its licence application, despite knowing that the Causeway Bay restaurant had illegally served alcohol, the Eastern Court heard. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Prosecutors will grill IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Thursday as they investigate whether she should be charged in connection with a state payout to a disgraced tycoon during her time as French finance minister. Lagarde has downplayed the investigation, but the stakes of the probe are huge for both her and the International Monetary Fund. Criminal charges against Lagarde, 57, would mark the second scandal in a row for an IMF chief, after her predecessor Dominique Strauss-Kahn, also from France, resigned in disgrace over an alleged assault on a New York hotel maid. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British police shot and wounded two men after a man thought to be a serving soldier was killed outside a London barracks, in an attack Prime Minister David Cameron called “truly shocking”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police forced their way into the home of horse-racing commentator Rita Chan Sze-ki in Sha Tin yesterday and used pepper spray to subdue a man who is known to her after she was illegally detained for about 12 hours. Police were alerted at 8.15pm on Tuesday when Chan, 33, called police on her mobile phone saying she was being locked up at her home in Sha Tin Centre Street. She told police that she was being illegally detained and had not left her apartment since 2pm that day. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US federal prosecutors have charged a New York art dealer with tax fraud in connection with the sale of paintings she claimed to be the works of celebrated artists, but some of which the government said were fakes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 61-year-old Irishman was charged in Britain yesterday, with the Irish Republican Army bombing of the queen’s ceremonial cavalry in Hyde Park in 1982, a strike at a top London tourist attraction that killed four soldiers and seven horses. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Convicted killer Jodi Arias pleaded with an Arizona jury on Tuesday to spare her the death penalty for the sake of her family and sentence her instead to life in prison for killing her ex-boyfriend. Arias, 32, was found guilty earlier this month in the murder of Travis Alexander, whose body was found slumped in the shower of his Phoenix-area home in June 2008. He had been stabbed 27 times, had his throat slashed and been shot in the face. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Low-cost European airline Ryanair is looking at introducing flights between Israel and Poland to cater for Israeli schoolchildren visiting the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. “It seems that every Israeli child has to go to Poland to go and see Auschwitz. We can help them with that,” said the carrier’s deputy chief executive, Howard Millar. Although Ryanair is based in Dublin, it has expanded across Europe and has in the last 12 months become Poland’s number-one airline, according to a results statement published on Monday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By TONY GERVINO, on May 21st, 2013 Steelers wide receiver Plaxico Burress, who spent nearly two years in prison after accidentally shooting himself in a New York nightclub, is launching a men’s luxury hosiery line.
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Guatemala’s top court has overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, ordering that the trial be taken back to the middle of the proceedings. The ruling on Monday threw into disarray a process that had been hailed as historic for delivering the first guilty verdict for genocide against a former Latin American leader. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia’s federal guard service launched an investigation after photos appeared in the media of a disgraced former employee posing behind Vladimir Putin’s desk in the Kremlin, an official said on Tuesday. Pictures of the man, named Alexei Ustimchuk, sitting diminutively behind the giant desk in Putin’s Kremlin office, spread through the internet as people ridiculed the lack of security that permitted a simple employee such access. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Blind activist Chen Guangcheng has accused the British government of running scared from Beijing. Chen is in the UK to receive an award for exposing the plight of hundreds of thousands of Chinese women forced to undergo abortions and sterilisations as part of China’s strict one-child policy. But his request to meet with the Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague during his five-day visit has been snubbed because Downing Street fears “further punishment” from Beijing and that it will lose out on trade deals. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Businessman burned with acid in month-long kidnap ordeal in New York
<!– 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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