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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel military chief warns Syria against further attacks, says Assad will ‘bear consequences’ <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Moscow reacted angrily on Tuesday as its neighbour Azerbaijan admitted that its vote at the Eurovision Song Contest awarding “nul points” to Russia’s song appeared to have been falsified. The scandal topped the agenda at a televised briefing between the countries’ foreign ministers in Moscow, as Azerbaijan’s top diplomat admitted that the votes submitted for Russia via mobile phone had somehow been omitted from the final tally. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia’s federal guard service launched an investigation after photos appeared in the media of a disgraced former employee posing behind Vladimir Putin’s desk in the Kremlin, an official said on Tuesday. Pictures of the man, named Alexei Ustimchuk, sitting diminutively behind the giant desk in Putin’s Kremlin office, spread through the internet as people ridiculed the lack of security that permitted a simple employee such access. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and SUSANNE CRAIG, on May 21st, 2013 Jamie Dimon appears set to hold onto his title of chairman after JPMorgan Chase’s shareholders defeated a proposal to split the two top jobs, according to people who have seen the preliminary tallies.
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong on Tuesday joyfully welcomed the return of a giant inflatable rubber duck, which drew tens of thousands of visitors before it was abruptly deflated for maintenance for almost a week. The city has taken the 16.5-metre-tall yellow inflatable duck, conceived by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, to its heart since it was towed into the harbour on May 2 to cheering crowds. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Hundreds pack waterfront to cheer Rubber Duck’s return
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MOORE, Oklahoma (AP) — Medical examiner’s office revises death toll from Oklahoma tornado to at least 24. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 66-year-old Tunisian man has died from the new coronavirus following a visit to Saudi Arabia and two of his adult children were infected with it, the Tunisian Health Ministry reported. His sons were treated and have since recovered but the rest of the family remains under medical observation, the ministry said in a statement on Monday. The World Health Organisation confirmed the cases of the children, but said one of them was a daughter who was with her father for part of the trip to Saudi Arabia and Qatar. There was no immediate way to reconcile the differing reports. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Blind activist Chen Guangcheng has accused the British government of running scared from Beijing. Chen is in the UK to receive an award for exposing the plight of hundreds of thousands of Chinese women forced to undergo abortions and sterilisations as part of China’s strict one-child policy. But his request to meet with the Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague during his five-day visit has been snubbed because Downing Street fears “further punishment” from Beijing and that it will lose out on trade deals. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By David Frum, on May 21st, 2013 Years ago, Ben Stein published a sweet eulogy for his departed father, the economist Herb Stein. Ben wrote of the pang he felt when he saw his father's obsolete Cadillac land yacht parked in the basement of his apartment building, like a horse awaiting its rider.
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Pre-dawn emergency workers searched feverishly for survivors in the rubble of homes, primary schools and a hospital in an Oklahoma City suburb ravaged by a massive Monday afternoon tornado feared to have killed up to 91 people and injured well over 200 residents. The 3-km wide tornado tore through town of Moore outside Oklahoma City, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was destroyed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Justin Green, on May 21st, 2013 I took some time this weekend to read through some of our old posts here on the blog, and one thing rang true: my work is never finished, rarely clean and satisfying like deeply edited pieces, and always missing something.
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: KEANU REEVES STEPS BEHIND THE LENS The transition from actor to director was not an easy one for Keanu Reeves. Reeves, who showed clips from his upcoming film “Man of Tai Chi” to a select crowd on Monday, said it took him a while to get into the director’s mindset. “The first day of that was not too much fun,” he laughed during an interview. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Asia’s richest man Li Ka-shing said on Tuesday that even if he retired now, business at his companies would continue to do well. Li, 84, was speaking at an annual general meeting of his Cheung Kong conglomerate. A Cheung Kong company and another firm that is part of his other conglomerate Hutchison-Whampoa have been dogged with controversy recently. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Li Ka-shing says firms will be profitable with or without him
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Five people died when a 10 metre wide sinkhole opened up at the gates of an industrial estate in Shenzhen local authorities said on Tuesday. The Shenzhen Longgang district government said on its verified page on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, five people had died and added that it was investigating the incident. The sinkhole formed just outside the Huamao Industrial Park in Shenzhen on Monday evening, at a time when many factory workers would have been changing shifts, according to the website of Beijing-based newspaper the Guangming Daily. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Huge Shenzhen sinkhole kills five
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Tuesday announced a US$1.8-billion military upgrade to help defend his country’s maritime territory against “bullies”, amid an ever-worsening dispute with China. In thinly veiled comments referring to China, Aquino vowed during a speech to mark the navy’s 115th anniversary that the armed forces would be given the resources necessary to protect Philippine sovereignty. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Philippines boosts military to resist ‘bullies’
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taiwan on Tuesday released a satellite record of the route of a fishing boat fired on by Philippine coastguards, flatly rejecting Manila’s allegations that the boat intruded into Philippine waters. The killing of crew member Hung Shih-cheng, 65, sparked outrage in Taiwan, which has announced a series of economic sanctions against the Philippines. Taiwan’s Fisheries Agency said the voyage data recorder from the fishing boat showed it was not in Philippine waters when it came under fire on May 9. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Taipei releases satellite record of fishing boat route, refuting Manila’s claim
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Venezuelan opposition has released what it says is an audio tape revealing intrigue within the ruling socialist party of the late Hugo Chavez and Cuban meddling in the country’s affairs. The opposition says the tape is of a conversation between well-known state media presenter Mario Silva and a Colonel Aramis Palacios, identified as a Cuban intelligence agent, about a rift among Venezuela’s top leadership. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Video: The Vatican on Tuesday denied that Pope Francis had performed an exorcism after an Italian religious television channel said footage of the pontiff blessing a boy in a wheelchair showed he had. See for yourself here. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — World stock markets were mixed Tuesday as investors waited for the U.S. Federal Reserve to telegraph what it plans to do next with its economic stimulus program. The Fed is conducting its third round of massive bond purchases known as quantitative easing to help drive down interest rates and spur lending. But recently improving data on the U.S. economy has led to speculation that it might consider scaling back the program or winding it down earlier than expected. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s small traditional trade in carving uses ivory acquired through legal auctions and in no way encourages or worsens the problem of elephant poaching in Africa, a senior Chinese official said on Tuesday. Demand for ivory as an ornamental item is soaring in Asia and especially in China, driven by the rising purchasing power of the region’s newly affluent classes as well as growing Chinese investment in Africa and demand for its resources. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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