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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taiwan on Sunday repeated calls for a joint investigation into the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by Philippine coastguards, an incident which has ignited a major diplomatic dispute. A team of Taiwanese investigators returned to the island Saturday, accusing the Philippine government of failing to honour its agreement to conduct a joint probe. “The decision to send the investigators to Manila came only after the Philippine government had agreed to let us to do so,” deputy justice minister Chen Ming-tang told reporters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea on Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, despite pleas from South Korea and the UN chief to halt the launches at a time of high tensions. The guided missile was fired into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) on Sunday afternoon, a defence ministry spokesman said without elaborating. On Saturday the North fired three short-range missiles off its east coast, apparently as part of a military drill. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A single winning ticket for a record US Powerball lottery jackpot worth US$590.5 million was sold in Florida, organisers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won or where in the state the ticket was bought. The winning numbers from Saturday night’s drawing were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball number of 11, and the odds of winning were put at one in 175 million. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korea on Sunday condemned North Korea’s latest short-range missile launches as “provocative” and again urged it to hold talks about a suspended jointly run industrial park. The North on Saturday launched three short-range guided missiles off its east coast, apparently as part of a military drill, at a time when cross-border relations remain icy after months of simmering tension. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese authorities were on Sunday investigating claims that unidentified North Koreans hijacked a Chinese fishing boat, kidnapping 16 sailors and demanding a ransom, local media and an official said. Armed North Koreans on May 6 hijacked the boat and escorted it towards North Korea while it was sailing in waters around 70 kilometres from North Korea’s western coast, reports and the boat’s owner Yu Xuejun said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery official: 1 winning ticket sold in US for record Powerball jackpot of more than $590M. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Angelina Jolie recently revealed that due to her defective gene BRCA1, she has undergone a preventive double mastectomy to reduce the risk of getting breast cancer from 87 per cent to 5 per cent. In Hong Kong, breast cancer is the most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer deaths among women. Here we look at some facts, figures and fixes on breast cancer and its effect on the female population. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Speaking in Syria with the newspaper Clarin, Assad said he was doubtful that mediation the United States and Russia have proposed could settle a deadly conflict that has convulsed the country for two years. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Washington County director of emergency management Pokey Harris said no fatalities had been reported but about 50 to 60 people are injured. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> It is a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women’s sports are severely restricted, her proud father said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Denmark, widely tipped to win the annual music competition, garnered 281 points at a glittering ceremony watched by millions of viewers, beating runner ups Azerbaijan (234 points) and Ukraine (214 points.) <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> French actor and newly minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu yesterday compared President Vladimir Putin with the late Pope John Paul II and said the ex-KGB agent was what Russia needed as a leader. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest wins Eurovision song contest . <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BALTIMORE (AP) — Oxbow has won the Preakness Stakes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> DAMASCUS, Virginia (AP) — Emergency official: 50 to 60 injured in US parade crash, 3 flown by helicopter; no fatalities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Singer Bonnie Tyler is set to make her Eurovision debut on Saturday when she performs UK entry Believe In Me at the annual contest in Malmo, Sweden.
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A “squeezed generation” of middle-aged Europeans are convinced they are going to be poorer in retirement than their parents, according to a global survey that found the Chinese the most confident about their future and the French, Germans and Spanish the most pessimistic. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In a continuing effort to address concerns that reporters at Bloomberg News looked at terminal subscribers’ data, parent company Bloomberg appointed Samuel Palmisano, a former chairman and chief executive of IBM, to review its privacy and data standards. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Three Foxconn workers have committed suicide at a factory in China in the past three weeks, a labour rights group said on Saturday. All three jumped to their deaths at a plant in the central city of Zhengzhou run by the Taiwanese electronics giant. A 30-year-old married man killed himself on Tuesday following the similar deaths of a 23-year-old woman on April 27 and a 24-year-old man three days earlier, media reports said. “The reasons for these building jumpings are unclear,” the New York-based China Labor Watch rights group said in a statement. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Taiwan seeks joint investigation into fisherman’s death
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Taiwan on Sunday repeated calls for a joint investigation into the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by Philippine coastguards, an incident which has ignited a major diplomatic dispute. A team of Taiwanese investigators returned to the island Saturday, accusing the Philippine government of failing to honour its agreement to conduct a joint probe. “The decision to send the investigators to Manila came only after the Philippine government had agreed to let us to do so,” deputy justice minister Chen Ming-tang told reporters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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