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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 –> The world is unprepared for a massive virus outbreak, the deputy chief of the World Health Organisation warned on Tuesday, amid fears that H7N9 bird flu striking China could morph into a form that spreads easily among people. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Follow @SCMP_News Japan’s parliament on Wednesday approved an international treaty on child abductions after decades of pressure from the United States and other Western nations. Japan is the only member of the Group of Eight major industrialised nations that has not ratified the 1980 Hague Convention, which requires nations to return snatched children to the countries where they usually reside. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese students and parents are demanding an apology from US Vice-President Joe Biden for “insensitive” comments, weeks after he referred to China as the nation that cannot “think different” or “breathe free” during a commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — State media dispatch shows North Korea has named hardline general as new military chief. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets were mostly higher Wednesday after investor confidence was boosted by a Federal Reserve official’s comments that the U.S. central bank should stick with its super-easy monetary policy. Regional Fed chief James Bullard said in a speech Tuesday that the Fed should continue its monthly $85 billion in bond purchases, which drives down interest rates and thus encourages lending and spending, to help spur the U.S. economic recovery. <!– 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 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea has sent a top military official to China as a special envoy of leader Kim Jong-un, at a time of strained relations between Pyongyang and its allies in Beijing, state media reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ai Weiwei, China’s most renowned dissident artist, has released a new heavy metal song as the first part of his The Divine Comedy music album on Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says that a “special envoy” for leader Kim Jong Un has left for China. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> NEW YORK (AP) — Cleveland Cavaliers win NBA Draft lottery and No. 1 overall pick. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> May marks the start of the monsoon season, when umbrellas and wellington boots are everywhere and sunshine is a novelty. Tropical cyclones and typhoons will soon follow, dominating the skies and news channels. Here we look at some of the wettest and driest days since 1990. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Landslides and flooding were reported early on Wednesday as Hong Kong braced for more rainfall under a black rainstorm warning that was issued at 4.10am and will be in effect until 10am. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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 –> Ma Qiang is angry that mainland media have dubbed his Mars dream a hoax. The 39-year old former policeman from Dujiangyan, Sichuan, signed up for the Mars One project in the Netherlands last month, becoming one of the first volunteers to be screened for a journey of no return scheduled in a decade. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The city’s annual budget was passed in the Legislative Council last night by a safe margin after a month-long filibuster. The long-awaited legislative approval ends the prospect of the government running out of cash to operate. Since the financial year started in April, it has been functioning on an interim fund of HK$75.5 billion. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Faced with external and internal problems, Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou cancelled a long-planned event on Monday, marking the first anniversary of his second inauguration. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Senior marine staff would not be questioned as part of the internal investigation into the Lamma ferry tragedy unless new information came to light, the city’s transport chief insisted yesterday. His remarks came in the face of criticism about the limitations of the Marine Department investigating itself. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Moscow reacted angrily on Tuesday as its neighbour Azerbaijan admitted that its vote at the Eurovision Song Contest awarding “nul points” to Russia’s song appeared to have been falsified. The scandal topped the agenda at a televised briefing between the countries’ foreign ministers in Moscow, as Azerbaijan’s top diplomat admitted that the votes submitted for Russia via mobile phone had somehow been omitted from the final tally. <!– 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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Jodi Arias asks Arizona jury to spare her death penalty
<!– 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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