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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — A U.S. State Department spokeswoman says a man who ranted about national security and screamed “I’m dead” during a flight from Hong Kong once worked at the agency. The spokeswoman said Tuesday that the passenger ended his time at the department in 2006. She gave no details about his job or why he no longer works there. The man started screaming nine hours into a 15-hour flight Monday to Newark Liberty Airport outside New York City. At one point, a passenger says, the man claimed people were trying to poison him. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korea’s top envoy on North Korea left on Tuesday for a meeting in Washington with his US and Japanese counterparts, two days after Pyongyang proposed direct, high-level talks with the United States. After Washington, Cho Tae-yong will travel on to Beijing – where he is likely to overlap with a visit by North Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator, Kim Kye-gwan, to the Chinese capital. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JULIA WERDIGIER, on June 18th, 2013 David Green, the director of the Serious Fraud Office, plans to revive the agency’s reputation with a criminal investigation into the rigging of the Libor.
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A man loudly ranted about national security, the CIA and international spying while on a flight from Hong Kong to the US on Monday, causing passengers to tackle him and bind his hands and feet. Passengers said the FBI met United Airlines Flight 116 as it landed at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the major airports serving New York City, and escorted the man away. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By DALIA SUSSMAN, on June 17th, 2013 A majority of Americans oppose supplying military aid to Syrian rebels, but they are not paying much attention to the situation there, new national polls find.
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON — Edward Snowden, the former U.S. government contractor who leaked secret details of official surveillance programs, pledged Monday to release more information about U.S. intelligence-gathering methods that he described as “nakedly, aggressively criminal.” “All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me,” Snowden wrote in an online chat hosted by Britain’s Guardian newspaper. “Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US whistle-blower Edward Snowden says accusations from American politicians that he is a Chinese spy are a “predictable smear” designed to “distract from the issue of US government misconduct”. In only his second public comments since he admitted being behind a series of leaks exposing US cyber-surveillance, Snowden told readers of a Guardian webchat: “Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn’t I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thailand’s national Buddhism body said it was monitoring monks nationwide for any inappropriate behaviour following complaints ignited by a video showing Buddhist monks on a private jet. The YouTube video emerging recently showed one of the monks was wearing stylish aviator sunglasses, carrying a brand name travel bag and sporting a pair of modern-looking wireless headphones. It attracted criticism from Buddhists nationwide. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A young television anchor who exposed a philandering State Archives Administration official, has accused the Communist Party’s General Office, where the man previously worked, of trying to cover up the scandal. Ji Yingnan, a 25-year-old anchorwoman on the China Travel & Economic Channel, said yesterday the State Archives had passed on a message from the General Office asking her to “seek formal channels” to solve the case, instead of “expanding negative influence”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Air pollution from 196 coal-fired power stations in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei caused 9,900 premature deaths in 2011, with the province, a big coal consumer, deserving most of the blame, according to a new study. The study looked at the health impact of burning the fossil fuel to generate electricity. The research was co-authored by Greenpeace and American air pollution experts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By PAULA SPAN, on June 17th, 2013 An informal group discusses philosophical thoughts on dying at a monthly gathering in New York called Death Cafe, one of many such get-togethers around the country.
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By Miranda Green, on June 17th, 2013 A Brazilian group’s plan to treat suitcases like air hockey pucks beat out 617 other proposals to win Airbus’s student contest to promote more efficient air travel.
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An Afghan police chief survived a suicide car bomb attack on his convoy that wounded three officers early on Monday, officials said. It was the latest apparent attempt on a commander’s life in an intense Taliban assassination campaign. Broken glass and the charred remains of the bomber’s car were strewn in a main road in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah after the attack. Helmand provincial Police Chief Mohammad Nabi Elham sustained only minor injuries when the car bomber struck as he was on his way to his office at about 7am. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British Prime Minister David Cameron says leaders gathering on Monday for the G8 summit in Northern Ireland should reach speedy agreement on trade and tax reforms, and draw inspiration from the host country’s ability to resolve its own stubborn conflict. Speaking hours ahead of the summit’s official opening at a lakeside golf resort, Cameron said he expects formal agreement to launch negotiations on a European-American free trade agreement. He said a pact to slash tariffs on exports would boost employment and growth on both sides of the Atlantic. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By BEN RATLIFF, on June 17th, 2013 Swans came through with grooves in their Sunday afternoon performance at Bonnaroo. But they refused to be groovy, and that felt like healthy dissent.
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By By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED, on June 16th, 2013 Weyerhaeuser says it plans to buy 645,000 acres of timberland for about $2.65 billion, adding that it is weighing a sale or spinoff of its home-building unit.
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By By NICK BILTON, on June 16th, 2013 From the outside, most smartphones look the same, and technology companies seem to be making a bigger effort to distinguish themselves by the interface experience.
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By , on June 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> “Long live Rowhani,” tens of thousands of jubilant supporters chanted as security officials made no attempt to rein in crowds — joyous and even a bit bewildered by the scope of his victory with more than three times the votes of his nearest rival. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 15th, 2013 
A serving police officer and a woman are arrested as part of a probe into the “plebgate” row involving MP Andrew Mitchell.
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By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Iran’s reformist-backed presidential candidate surged to a wide lead in early vote counting on Saturday, a top official said, suggesting a flurry of late support could have swayed a race that once appeared solidly in the hands of Tehran’s ruling clerics. But the strong margin for former nuclear negotiator Hasan Rowhani was not yet enough to give him an outright victory and avoid a two-person runoff next Friday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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US: Unruly traveler had worked at State Department
<!– google_ad_section_start –> NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — A U.S. State Department spokeswoman says a man who ranted about national security and screamed “I’m dead” during a flight from Hong Kong once worked at the agency. The spokeswoman said Tuesday that the passenger ended his time at the department in 2006. She gave no details about his job or why he no longer works there. The man started screaming nine hours into a 15-hour flight Monday to Newark Liberty Airport outside New York City. At one point, a passenger says, the man claimed people were trying to poison him. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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