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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A nuclear research laboratory in northern Japan has reported a radiation leak that may have affected 55 people, though none were hospitalised and no impact was expected outside the facility. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said on Saturday that the accident occurred on Thursday at a nuclear physics lab in Tokaimura, the site of at least two previous radiation accidents. Four researchers were tested afterward, with the highest radiation dose found to be 2 millisieverts. Nuclear workers generally are limited to 100 millisieverts of exposure over five years. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police say that overnight violence in suburban districts of Stockholm was less intense than previous nights but as many as 25 cars had been burned. A police officer was slightly injured west of the Swedish capital. Stockholm police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said Saturday 19 people were detained on the sixth straight night of violence, but there had been no hurling of rocks against officers as in previous days. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — Russian police: Female suicide bomber injures at least 11 in Caucasus region of Dagestan. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By SALMAN MASOOD, on May 25th, 2013 A deadly accident highlighted concerns about the use of compressed natural gas kits in vehicles in Pakistan.
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Japan’s premier agreed on Saturday to press on with work on a major industrial zone near Yangon on a visit to Myanmar aimed at deepening economic ties with the former junta-ruled nation. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Myanmar officials at the Thilawa project on the first day of a trip promoting Japanese business in a country which desperately needs investment and infrastructure to drive a much-anticipated economic revival. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JANE PERLEZ, on May 25th, 2013 A blunt call by China’s leader for Pyongyang to enter nuclear negotiations did not find its way into reports in North Korea’s state media, suggesting the challenge ahead in restarting talks.
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By Noah Charney, on May 25th, 2013 How did Renaissance masterpieces survive the carnage of World War II? Noah Charney on America’s art historian war heroes.
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By Pranay Gupte, on May 25th, 2013 Pranay Gupte remembers legendary New York Times editor A.M. Rosenthal on the sixth anniversary of his death.
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By Ken Stern, on May 25th, 2013 What’s so bad about the IRS investigating nonprofit applications?
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By Richard Porton, on May 25th, 2013 Richard Porton on James Gray’s stunning film, ‘The Immigrant,’ one of the strongest films at Cannes.
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By Kate Dischino, on May 25th, 2013 An expert in emergencies describes what aid groups do after disaster strikes.
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Japanese politician who drew fire for calling “comfort women” a wartime necessity has been forced to apologise for suggesting US soldiers in Okinawa visit brothels to vent their violent frustrations. Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto had suggested that US servicemen in the southern prefecture of Okinawa, where relations are frequently tested by violent crimes including rapes and assaults, patronise legal sex businesses there. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Eleven people were killed in the southern Philippines early on Saturday as troops clashed with a militant group blamed for the country’s deadliest terror attacks, the military said. The fighting left seven Filipino marines dead and nine others wounded on the island of Jolo, said Colonel Jose Cenabre, a local military commander. Four members of the Abu Sayyaf group were also killed in the firefight, Cenabre, the commander of a marine brigade in the area, said in a report. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A telephone call on Friday has again delayed a decision in a murder trial in coastal China, which the nation’s highest court called flawed, and has exposed the worrying consequences of a hasty high-profile crime investigation. In the summer of 2008, Nian Bin, then 30, worked as a food stall owner in Woqian village in Pingtan county, an island in Fujian province. On August 1, he was arrested for the murder of two children, who had died after eating rice porridge containing rat poison only six days earlier. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A top North Korean envoy has delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing’s efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions. North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae’s three-day visit was seen as a fence-mending mission after Pyongyang angered Beijing with recent snubs and moves to develop its nuclear program. Choe returned to North Korea late Friday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese media reports suggest Hu Haifeng, the son of China’s ex-President Hu Jintao, might have been appointed deputy party secretary of Jiaxing, a prefectural-level city in Zhejiang province. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Seventeen Pakistani children burnt to death on Saturday when a gas cylinder on the bus taking them to school exploded, media said. Ten children were injured in the blaze on the outskirts of Gujirat 170km southeast of Islamabad, DawnNews said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By HOWARD BECK, on May 25th, 2013 LeBron James scored 36 points, but his two late turnovers helped Indiana beat Miami to tie the Eastern Conference finals at one game each.
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By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, on May 25th, 2013 A faulty gas cylinder exploded on a bus taking children to school in eastern Pakistan, the police said.
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By By SIMON ROMERO, on May 25th, 2013 A recent wave of rapes in Rio de Janeiro has cast a spotlight on the conflicted attitudes toward women in a country where many hold positions of power.
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Radiation leak reported at Japan lab
<!– google_ad_section_start –> A nuclear research laboratory in northern Japan has reported a radiation leak that may have affected 55 people, though none were hospitalised and no impact was expected outside the facility. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said on Saturday that the accident occurred on Thursday at a nuclear physics lab in Tokaimura, the site of at least two previous radiation accidents. Four researchers were tested afterward, with the highest radiation dose found to be 2 millisieverts. Nuclear workers generally are limited to 100 millisieverts of exposure over five years. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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