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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ray Manzarek, a founding member and keyboardist of 1960s rock group The Doors, died on Monday at a medical clinic in Germany at age 74 following a battle with cancer, the group’s manager Tom Vitorino said. Manzarek, who lived in Northern California’s Napa Valley wine country for the past decade, had been seeking treatment in Germany for bile duct cancer, Vitorino said. He died in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his wife and brothers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Big business and the Occupy Central movement clashed yesterday over the price the city would pay if the pro-democracy movement brought the heart of Hong Kong to a halt. Four business groups warned that Occupy Central could cost the city billions. But Dr Benny Tai Yiu-ting, a founder of Occupy Central, countered that the economic cost of failing to achieve universal suffrage in 2017 could be higher. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain’s relationship with Beijing was set to chill further last night when the British Parliament gave a human rights award to blind activist Chen Guangcheng . Chen – who escaped extra-legal house arrest in Shandong last year before seeking refuge at the US embassy in Beijing and finally making it to New York – was handed the Westminster Award for his contribution to “human rights, human life and human dignity”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A brutal murder case is gripping Beijing. On Thursday, a man’s headless, limbless body has been found in the Chinese capital, just one block south of the Tiananmen Square. The torso was found in the early morning hours of Thursday on the sidewalk at the intersection between Zhushi West Street and Meishi Street. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In the wake of its apparent aversion to virgins – as expressed in its recent article “Never Sleep With a Virgin”, China’s nationalist newspaper, the Global Times, seems enthusiastic about lesbians – at least when former US secretary Hillary Clinton is suspected of being one. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The mayor of Kunming, Li Wenrong, has posted his first message on a Sina Weibo microblog in a move aimed at showing government transparency in the Yunnan provincial capital. Li had promised to open the account on Thursday, when he met with hundreds of protesters on Kunming’s streets. The angry crowd had ignored official intimidation to voice their opposition against a petrochemical project on the city’s outskirts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Thais’ deep affection for ghost stories and laughter has brought a new phenomenon to movie theaters — comic touches added to an oft-told tragedy of true love, which have made the latest adaptation of the Mae Nak legend into the all-time highest-grossing Thai film. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Scottish cardinal who resigned as archbishop after admitting to sexual misconduct will leave Scotland for months of prayer and atonement, the Vatican said yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul on Wednesday met officials at the foreign ministry after being summoned to explain the presence of an alleged CIA agent working undercover at the embassy who was detained this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia expelled a US diplomat yesterday after saying he had been caught red-handed with disguises, special equipment and wads of cash as he tried to recruit a Russian intelligence agent to work for the CIA. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The State Bureau for Letters and Calls that oversees petitioners has stopped compiling a controversial monthly ranking table that was originally intended as a measure of local officials’ performance but instead has been blamed for prompting acts of abuse and the illegal detention of people seeking redress from senior leaders. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Faced with what one official called a “gut-wrenching” decision, a task force has voted to tear down the site of the Sandy Hook school shooting and build a new school in its place. The committee of 28 officials in Newtown, Connecticut, unanimously recommended the plan after weeks of discussion. Other options included renovating the current Sandy Hook Elementary School or building a new one in a different location. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on Saturday to face a new trial for complicity in the murder of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising, as well as for corruption. The 85-year-old Mubarak, who was taken into court in a wheelchair dressed in white and wearing sunglasses, is on trial along with his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, and six security chiefs. He also faces corruption charges with his two sons, Alaa and Gamal. All defendants pleaded “not guilty” to the charges levelled against them. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Relatives of the Cleveland man who allegedly held three women captive for nearly a decade recounted claims of his unnerving paranoia and violent outbursts as DNA testing confirmed he is the father of a 6-year-old girl who also escaped from the house. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Less than a week after Malaysia’s opposition led by the charismatic Anwar Ibrahim posted its best election performance yet, dissent has broken out within his People’s Justice Party (PKR), worrying his coalition partners. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The leader of Tibet’s exiled government said on Wednesday he would accept the Chinese Communist Party’s rule in the territory, assuring Beijing it faced no threat to its sovereignty if it eases its grip. Lobsang Sangay, who was elected in 2011 to a new position of prime minister in exile after the Dalai Lama gave up political duties, appealed to China for new talks on the grievances that have triggered a wave of self-immolations. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain does not support a Tibetan state independent of China, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday amid reports of Chinese anger at his meeting with the Dalai Lama last year. Cameron told parliament that Britain respected China’s sovereignty and ministers recognised Tibet as part of China. Britain officials deny that Chinese anger at the meeting between Cameron and the Tibetan spiritual leader in May last year could scupper the prime minister’s plans to visit China by the end of this year. <!– 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 , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak began a second term on Monday after the coalition which has ruled for 56 years held on to power in elections branded as fraudulent by a bitter opposition. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim called for a rally in two days’ time to protest at a victory he said was achieved via the “worst electoral fraud in our history” and which saw the ruling camp win with a minority of the vote. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Keyboardist Ray Manzarek of The Doors dies at age 74
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Ray Manzarek, a founding member and keyboardist of 1960s rock group The Doors, died on Monday at a medical clinic in Germany at age 74 following a battle with cancer, the group’s manager Tom Vitorino said. Manzarek, who lived in Northern California’s Napa Valley wine country for the past decade, had been seeking treatment in Germany for bile duct cancer, Vitorino said. He died in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his wife and brothers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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