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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Twelve years after a customer revolt forced Monsanto to ditch its genetically engineered potato, another company aims to resurrect high-tech spuds. This month, tuber processing giant J.R. Simplot Co. asked the US government to approve five varieties of biotech potatoes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former Philippine president Joseph Estrada was proclaimed the new mayor of Manila yesterday, his first elected post since he was ousted in an anti-corruption revolt 12 years ago. Estrada, 76, capitalised on his movie-star popularity, particularly among the poor, and promised to reverse urban decay of the historic city along Manila Bay. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former President Joseph Estrada was declared the winner of Manila’s mayoral election on Tuesday, his first ballot victory since his ouster in a 2001 anti-corruption revolt and a possible prelude to a return to higher office. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was leading in the vote-count for mayor of Manila on Tuesday in what could be his first elected post since he was ousted in a 2001 revolt on corruption charges. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A car bomb exploded near a hospital in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi yesterday, killing at least 15 people, wounding dozens more and destroying a restaurant, a top official said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British Prime Minister David Cameron moved to end a revolt over European Union membership in his ruling Conservative party on Monday, saying all his ministers backed his strategy on the issue despite two expressing more sceptical views than his own. Cameron, who heads a two-party coalition, has promised to try to renegotiate Britain’s membership of the EU if he wins an election in 2015 and then call a referendum to decide whether his country remains a member of the bloc. He cannot act now because his junior coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, oppose such a move. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A bomb attack targeting an election candidate killed at least eleven people and wounded 36 others in Pakistan’s financial hub of Karachi as historic polls got under way on Saturday, a hospital doctor said. The bomb targeted a candidate seeking election to the Sindh provincial assembly for the Awami National Party (ANP), the main secular party for ethnic Pashtuns, police said. “We have received 11 dead bodies and 36 injured people. The condition of several of them is critical,” said doctor Semi Jamali, head of the emergency department at Jinnah Hospital in Karachi. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey would support a US-enforced no-fly zone in Syria, and also warned that Damascus crossed President Barack Obama’s “red line” on use of chemical weapons long ago. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Syrian army captured a strategic southern town from rebel fighters on Wednesday after a ferocious two-month bombardment, in an advance likely to result in President Bashar al-Assad’s forces regaining control of an international transit route, opposition sources said. The fall of Khirbet Ghazaleh, situated in the Hauran Plain on the highway to Jordan, came after a Jordanian-backed Syrian opposition military council failed to supply weapons to the town’s defenders. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned against escalating a fraught situation in Syria after Israel struck targets near Damascus on Sunday, targeting what its officials said were Iranian missiles bound for Hezbollah militants. Israeli officials said the raid, the second in 48 hours, was not connected to Syria’s civil war. It was aimed, rather, at stopping Lebanon’s Hezbollah, an ally of Iran, acquiring weapons that could be used to strike Tel Aviv if Israel followed through on threats to attack Iranian nuclear facilities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Ilana Glazer, on May 1st, 2013 A poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind finds that 29 percent of Americans believe an armed revolt will be necessary in the next few years, and 25 percent believe we’re not being told the truth about Sandy Hook.
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By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Malaysian businessman Stanley Thai says he’s joining thousands of fellow ethnic Chinese citizens in abandoning support for Prime Minister Najib Razak and voting for the opposition for the first time in an election next month. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> At least 20 pickup trucks loaded with anti-aircraft guns blocked the roads while men armed with AK-47 and sniper rifles directed the traffic away from the building, witnesses said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Italy’s new coalition government was sworn in on Sunday, bringing fresh hope to a country mired in recession after two months of bitter post-election deadlock watched closely by European partners. Prime Minister Enrico Letta was the first to take the oath of office at a ceremony led by President Giorgio Napolitano, who appointed him after the centre-left won February elections but without the majority needed to govern. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By CHARLIE SAVAGE, on April 25th, 2013 With any decision about closing down the prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, put on the back burner, inmates there have lost hope that they will ever be released.
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By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Local religious leaders have clashed over the Occupy Central movement in the battle for democracy, with one calling on Hongkongers to join in even as another argued against it. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syrian families have been burned in their homes, people bombed waiting for bread, children tortured, raped and murdered and cities reduced to rubble in Syria’s two-year-old war that has sparked a humanitarian catastrophe, the United Nations said on Thursday. The bleak assessment by top UN humanitarian officials motivated the Security Council, which has been deadlocked over how to deal with the crisis since it began, to reach agreement on a non-binding statement demanding an end to the escalating violence and condemning human rights abuses by all sides. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The judge in the retrial of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak recused himself on Saturday, in a chaotic opening hearing that lasted just seconds and saw a proud and combative Mubarak smile and wave in the dock. Judge Mostafa Hassan Abdallah told the court he would send the case to the Court of Appeal, which will then refer the trial to a new circuit, sending the fate of the ousted strongman back to square one. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 10th, 2013 
Asda is recalling all corned beef from its budget range after “low levels” of phenylbutazone were found, the first case involving the veterinary drug.
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By , on April 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LONDON (AP) — Milestones in the life and career of Britain’s former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: Oct. 13, 1925: Born in Grantham, central England. June 1947: Graduates from Oxford with chemistry degree. Dec. 13, 1951: Marries wealthy oil executive Denis Thatcher. Aug. 15, 1953: Gives birth to twins, Mark and Carol. June 1, 1954: Qualifies as lawyer.
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Supplier of potatoes to McDonald’s ‘risks ire of consumers’ with biotech spuds project
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Twelve years after a customer revolt forced Monsanto to ditch its genetically engineered potato, another company aims to resurrect high-tech spuds. This month, tuber processing giant J.R. Simplot Co. asked the US government to approve five varieties of biotech potatoes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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