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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday he was proud MPs had voted to back gay marriage but admitted the debate has been divisive and said his focus would now be on economic matters. The Conservative leader offered an olive branch to party activists opposed to the same-sex marriage bill by promising there would be no more laws on social issues before the next election in 2015. “If you are saying to me, ‘Is this the first of many other issues like that?’, no it isn’t,” Cameron told BBC radio, the day after the bill cleared a crucial parliamentary hurdle. <!– 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 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Venezuelan opposition has released what it says is an audio tape revealing intrigue within the ruling socialist party of the late Hugo Chavez and Cuban meddling in the country’s affairs. The opposition says the tape is of a conversation between well-known state media presenter Mario Silva and a Colonel Aramis Palacios, identified as a Cuban intelligence agent, about a rift among Venezuela’s top leadership. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ADAM LIPTAK, on May 20th, 2013 A federal appeals court found that though the prayer at meetings in Greece, N.Y., could be given by members of all faiths and atheists, in practice almost all of the chaplains were Christian.
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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 –> An Australian man who raped and strangled his Indian student neighbour and threw her body into a canal in a suitcase was jailed on Friday for 45 years for the “horrifying” murder. Daniel Stani-Reginald, 21, had plotted to rape and murder a woman for years before choosing Tosha Thakkar, a 24-year-old accounting student who lived in an adjoining room at his Sydney boarding house, the Supreme Court heard. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A businesswoman in Zhejing province has been sentenced to death for defrauding her clients of around US$70 million in an investment scam, state media reported on Friday as authorities crack down on illegal banking. Lin Haiyan, 39, from the eastern city of Wenzhou, a free-wheeling business hub, was condemned after illegally raising US$104 million from relatives, friends and other investors, the National Business Daily reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> New York’s Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a 93-year-old trust earmarked for white students from Iowa. The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship stipulates that money be given only to “a person of the Caucasian race” from Iowa. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt surrendered on Thursday to serve three-and-a-half years in jail for illegal possession of weapons, in a case linked to deadly bombings in Mumbai 20 years ago. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> New Zealand’s highest court ruled on Thursday that it will hear an appeal by Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three colleagues as they seek to avoid extradition to the United States. The appeal to the New Zealand Supreme Court involves a ruling on evidence and represents one strand of the complex legal case against executives from the file-sharing site. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now said on Thursday that the government wants to give retroactive approval to four West Bank settlement outposts it had previously pledged to at least partially demolish. In a written response to a petition Peace Now submitted to Israel’s Supreme Court against the outposts, the state attorney’s office said that settlers had now purchased the private Palestinian land on which they built, paving the way for the government to give its blessing. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Paul Campos, on May 16th, 2013 The Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of Monsanto’s soybean patent is a victory for the protection of intellectual property.
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Cancer campaigners have applauded actress Angelina Jolie for going public about her double mastectomy, but warned women against rushing out to be tested for the gene mutation that threatened her life. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A jury on Tuesday dealt another defeat to casino mogul Sheldon Adelson in his nine-year fight with a Hong Kong businessman, awarding the former consultant US$70 million for helping Las Vegas Sands secure a lucrative gambling licence in Macau. But Las Vegas Sands says it won’t be paying up anytime soon. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LAS VEGAS — A Hong Kong businessman hit a $70 million court-awarded jackpot Tuesday when a jury agreed that he had helped the casino empire run by billionaire Sheldon Adelson get a gambling foothold in the People’s Republic of China. This is the second time in five years that jurors have awarded consultant Richard Suen a sizable sum in the bitter dispute. A jury’s 2008 finding for Suen was thrown out on appeal. Adelson’s lawyers vowed Tuesday to appeal the latest verdict. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LAS VEGAS (AP) — A jury on Tuesday awarded a Hong Kong businessman a $70 million judgment against Las Vegas Sands Corp., the casino giant run by billionaire Sheldon Adelson. Richard Suen claimed he was owed up to $328 million for helping the Las Vegas-based company secure a lucrative gambling license in Macau, the only place in China where casino gambling is legal. Las Vegas Sands attorneys argued Suen was owed nothing because he didn’t make good on a promise to aid company executives. The case was a retrial; a jury’s 2008 finding for Suen was thrown out on appeal. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ADAM LIPTAK, on May 13th, 2013 The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that farmers could not use the company’s patented genetically altered soybeans to create new seeds without paying the company a fee.
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By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, on May 13th, 2013 The Supreme Court has sustained Monsanto Co.’s claim that an Indiana farmer violated the company’s patents on soybean seeds that are resistant to its weed-killer.
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Speculation that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may have to call an early election increased after two ministers embroiled in scandals quit. The furore paralysed Parliament, delaying economic reforms. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jurors have begun deliberations in a breach of contract case against casino giant Las Vegas Sands after hearing conflicting stories from lawyers about the role a Hong Kong businessman played in helping the company enter the lucrative Chinese gambling enclave of Macau. Sands attorney Richard Sauber said in his closing argument that the company knew about opportunities in Macau in the early 2000s and did not need the help of plaintiff Richard Suen. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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British PM David Cameron ‘proud’ of gay marriage bill but economy now focus
<!– google_ad_section_start –> British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday he was proud MPs had voted to back gay marriage but admitted the debate has been divisive and said his focus would now be on economic matters. The Conservative leader offered an olive branch to party activists opposed to the same-sex marriage bill by promising there would be no more laws on social issues before the next election in 2015. “If you are saying to me, ‘Is this the first of many other issues like that?’, no it isn’t,” Cameron told BBC radio, the day after the bill cleared a crucial parliamentary hurdle. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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