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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 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 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 , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US President Barack Obama on Monday saluted Myanmar President Thein Sein for his leadership in pushing through startling political reforms, but warned that violence against Muslims must stop. As his guest became the first leader of his country in almost 50 years to visit the White House, Obama praised Myanmar’s journey away from brutal junta rule and promised Washington would offer more political and economic support. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> T-shirts bearing images of President Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, hang side by side in the shops just off busy Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Yangon. It is a reminder of the history made in November when Obama became the first sitting United States president to set foot in Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma. A return trip to this former pariah state does not seem to be on Obama’s immediate itinerary. But US firms are on their way. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Mansfield Frazier, on May 19th, 2013 Unlike the ‘Real Housewives,’ prisoners aren’t really exercising free will when they sign up to exploited on TV.
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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 , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Jorge Rafael Videla, an austere former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a “dirty war” dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died on Friday at age 87. <!– 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 –> Pakistan on Friday said it would release 51 imprisoned Indian fishermen on humanitarian grounds, hoping that New Delhi will reciprocate the goodwill gesture as relations between the two nations warm. The decision was taken at a high level meeting chaired by caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, according to a statement from his office. Khoso “decided to release 51 Indian fishermen on humanitarian grounds as a gesture of goodwill. These prisoners have already served their sentences,” the statement said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Thein Sein’s historic invitation to the White House is an endorsement of “Myanmar’s Spring” and a further sign that the former pariah’s reforms are irreversible, a senior Myanmar official said. Washington will welcome the former general on Monday in a hugely symbolic reward for sweeping changes since he took power two years ago. He will be the first leader of the former military-ruled nation to visit since 1966. <!– 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 –> Major South Korean newspapers splashed a photo of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a military jet trainer on their front pages on Wednesday, saying it was a reminder of Japan’s colonial-era atrocities. The picture in question showed a smiling Abe giving a thumbs-up while sitting in the cockpit of an air force T-4 training jet emblazoned with the number 731. The number evoked memories of Unit 731 – a covert Japanese biological and chemical warfare research facility that carried out lethal human experiments during the 1937-45 Sino-Japanese War and World War II. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Andrew Roberts, on May 12th, 2013 Days after Hitler’s suicide a group of American soldiers, French prisoners, and, yes, German soldiers defended an Austrian castle against an SS division—the only time Germans and Allies fought together in World War II. Andrew Roberts on a story so wild that it has to be made into a movie.
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Skygazers were treated to an annular solar eclipse in remote areas of Australia yesterday, with the moon crossing in front of the sun to leave a “ring of fire” around its silhouette. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Japan has acknowledged that it conducted only a limited investigation before claiming there was no official evidence that its imperial troops coerced Asian women into sexual slavery before and during the second world war. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> About 20,000 protesters thronged Bolotnaya Square across from the Kremlin on Monday, a year after a protest at the same spot turned violent on the eve of President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration. Monday’s turnout – far less than the 100,000 or more who marched through Moscow with giddy optimism ahead of Putin’s election to a third term – reflected a wariness that has sapped energy from the protest movement. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By MATT FLEGENHEIMER, on May 6th, 2013 A handcuffed prisoner jumped out of a police car in Harlem, escaping into the transit system and prompting the shutdown of the B line and parts of the A, C and D.
Continue reading City Room: Chase for Escaped Prisoner Shuts Subway Lines
By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 93-year-old man deported from the US for lying about his Nazi past was arrested by German authorities yesterday over allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, Stuttgart prosecutors said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Obama shifts US from ‘perpetual war-footing’
<!– 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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