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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars and drones line a police equipment and “anti-terrorism technology” trade fair in Beijing. The ruling Communist Party spends vast sums on ensuring order – more even than on its military. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll from the H7N9 virus to 36 from 131 confirmed cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. The United Nations health agency said the four deaths were from cases that had already been identified in laboratories. Since May 8, there have been no new cases of infection with H7N9, it added. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Authorities have arrested the suspect wanted in a Mother’s Day parade shooting that wounded 19 people in New Orleans, police said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A nurse who was ordered to pay her ex-boyfriend almost HK$1 million in compensation for harassing him for six years failed to appear in court on Thursday and cannot be found. Joey Yip Lai-kuen, 34, failed to attend Thursday’s High Court hearing in which her ex-boyfriend Lau Tat-wai, 30, was seeking court orders for the disclosure and freezing of her assets so that he could be paid the HK$946,673 she was ordered in April to pay him. Her assets include the proceeds from the sale of her HK$2.8 million property in Tsang Kwan O, the court heard on Thursday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A drone the size of a fighter jet has taken off from the deck of an American aircraft carrier for the first time in a test flight that could open the way for the US to launch unmanned aircraft from almost anywhere in the world. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Government measures and favourable weather may be limiting the spread of a deadly new bird flu, as the number of reported cases has dropped sharply this month, say health experts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Scientists unveiled an affordable vaccine against a deadly diarrhoea-causing virus that kills some 100,000 children in India every year on Tuesday. Rotavirus, which causes dehydration and severe diarrhoea, is globally responsible for some 453,000 deaths annually and is particularly threatening in Africa and Asia, where access to urgent healthcare is often out of reach. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> New Orleans police on Monday identified a suspect in connection with a shooting at a Mother’s Day parade that injured 19 people, including two children, as residents expressed outrage over the violence. Police said the suspect, 19-year-old Akein Scott, remained at large but had been identified by multiple people. “The time has come for him to turn himself in,” New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A schoolmaster and a government official in Hainan province have been arrested in connection with the sexual assault of six primary school girls, local authorities said yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A high school pupil has been arrested on suspicion of hiring hitmen to kill his father and elder sister because “they had given him too much pressure in study.” Neighbours called police after hearing sounds of housebreakers in the residence of Gao Tianfeng, a member of the judicial committee of the Intermediate People’s Court of Zhoukou City, at around 2am on Sunday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police surveillance footage said to show a young migrant worker moments before she fell to her death has sparked accusations of a cover-up after she appeared to be wearing different clothing to that photographed by witnesses at the scene. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Police footage of Beijing migrant worker ‘suicide’ sparks further controversy
By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> World Health Organisation officials said on Sunday it seemed likely a new coronavirus that has killed at least 18 people in the Middle East and Europe could be passed between humans, but only after prolonged contact. A virus from the same family triggered the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) that swept the world after emerging in Asia and killed 775 people in 2003. On Sunday, French authorities announced that a second man had been diagnosed with the disease after sharing a hospital room with France’s only other sufferer. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than 20 months after the bodies of a retired Northern Irish police officer and his girlfriend were found in a Philippine bedroom littered with bullet casings, authorities seeking the extradition of a former US marine say they have linked him to guns used in the killings and recovered blood-splattered jeans he tried to have burned. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> French health authorities said on Thursday they feared the country’s first case of a new Sars-like virus that has killed 18 people, mostly in Saudi Arabia, may have infected two other people. The 65-year-old man who returned to France from a holiday in Dubai was diagnosed with the deadly novel coronavirus, and is in intensive care in a hospital in the northern city of Douai, the health ministry said on Wednesday. “This is the first and only confirmed case in France to date,” it added. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The mysterious death of a 22-year-old Anhui woman in Beijing continued to draw sympathy and criticism on China’s social media on Thursday, while local newspapers avoided the story apparently because of censorship. The case came under national spotlight after hundreds of disgruntled migrant workers staged a mass protest in the capital on Wednesday to protest the handling of the case by police. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Surveillance equipment to actively monitor ships and warn them of hazards could soon be fitted to bridges as part of a system developed by a local researcher to prevent vessels from colliding with the structures. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> France’s health ministry on Wednesday reported the country’s first case of a Sars-like virus that has killed 18 people so far, mostly in Saudi Arabia. An unidentified person who came back to France from a trip to the United Arab Emirates was diagnosed with the deadly novel coronavirus, the ministry said. “This is the first and only confirmed case in France to date,” it added. The patient is currently in intensive care in hospital and has been placed in isolation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The risk of spillover to humans was “constant or growing”, according to one of the authors of a study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By CHARLIE SAVAGE, on May 8th, 2013 The Obama administration is on the verge of backing an F.B.I. plan for an overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate by Internet rather than phone.
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China earmarks billions for internal security, ‘stability maintenance’
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars and drones line a police equipment and “anti-terrorism technology” trade fair in Beijing. The ruling Communist Party spends vast sums on ensuring order – more even than on its military. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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