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By By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, on May 25th, 2013 As Election Day nears in Massachusetts, the race between Gabriel Gomez and Representative Edward J. Mackey for the Senate seat vacated by John Kerry has focused on lesser issues.
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and Britain’s wartime prime minister Winston Churchill enjoyed an alcohol-fuelled all-nighter in Moscow as the second world war was in full swing, previously secret files have revealed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Premier Li Keqiang was to announce yesterday the conclusion of negotiations with Switzerland on a free-trade deal seen as a touchstone for China’s growing global ties. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Megan McArdle, on May 24th, 2013 Talk amongst yourselves
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By Ali Gharib, on May 24th, 2013 Ali Gharib on how badly John Kerry’s efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks are going.
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By By JANE PERLEZ, on May 24th, 2013 The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, made the blunt comments at a meeting with a personal envoy of President Kim Jong-un of North Korea.
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A North Korean envoy told China’s president on Friday that his reclusive country was willing to take “positive actions” to ensure peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, as China steps up diplomatic efforts to bring Pyongyang back to talks. But Choe Ryong-hae, a special envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, made no offer to abandon North Korea’s nuclear programme. The United States insists North Korea takes meaningful steps on denuclearisation before there can be dialogue. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> OSAKA, Japan (AP) — Two Korean former sex slaves demanded the resignation of an outspoken Japanese mayor and canceled a meeting with him Friday for justifying Japan’s wartime practice of forcing tens of thousands of Asian women into prostitution for its military. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, on May 24th, 2013 The United States and Russia had agreed to pull together the peace conference, with Russia responsible for bringing the government of President Bashar al-Assad to the table.
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By Kevin Fallon, on May 24th, 2013 Kevin Fallon talks to the ’90s folk-pop superstar about her comeback in Lifetime’s June Carter Cash movie.
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two South Korean women forcibly drafted into Japanese military brothels during World War II have cancelled a meeting with a Japanese mayor who sparked outrage by calling them a wartime necessity. Outspoken Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto and two former “comfort women” were to meet on Friday, but the elderly women reportedly changed their minds over fears of becoming political pawns in a long-running diplomatic dispute that has stoked tensions between Tokyo and Seoul. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China and the United States are hoping for a new chance to set the course for smoother relations through a secluded desert summit as the Asian power’s leader Xi Jinping projects a more confident style. Xi and Barack Obama will meet June 7-8 at the tony Sunnylands resort in Rancho Mirage, California, their first encounter since the Chinese president took power and three months ahead of their first scheduled run-in at the Group of 20 summit in Russia. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Switzerland on Thursday for talks set to focus on a landmark free trade deal with the Alpine country, which he has dubbed a touchstone for Beijing’s growing ties with foreign nations. Li, who is on the first stop of his debut visit to Europe since taking over in a once-in-a-decade power transfer in Beijing, flew in to Zurich late on Thursday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Today is Friday, May 31, the 151st day of 2013. There are 214 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1043 – Lady Godiva rides naked through the market square in Coventry, England. 1520 – After being a hostage in Denmark, young nobleman Gustav Vasa slips back into Sweden to start a rebellion against the Danes that will establish Swedish independence. 1790 – The U.S. copyright law is enacted
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Barack Obama outlined plans to limit the use of US drone strikes against extremists abroad and took steps aimed at breaking a deadlock on closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Islamist suicide bombers struck an army barracks and a French-run uranium mine in Niger on Thursday, officials said, killing 20 people and wounding dozens more in attacks that showed militant violence spreading across West Africa. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama: Journalists should not face legal risks for doing their jobs. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — CORRECTS: Obama: No drone strikes without ‘near certainty’ of no civilian casualties. (Corrects APNewsAlert ) <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama announces he’s lifting 2009 ban on transfers of Guantanamo detainees to Yemen. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Stalin, Churchill broke the ice in heavy-drinking session
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and Britain’s wartime prime minister Winston Churchill enjoyed an alcohol-fuelled all-nighter in Moscow as the second world war was in full swing, previously secret files have revealed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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