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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON — Defiant and apparently unbowed by threats of prosecution, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden vowed Monday to release more secrets about U.S. intelligence surveillance systems that he described as “nakedly, aggressively criminal.” Snowden, who has been hiding in Hong Kong, said NSA analysts routinely obtain emails and other Internet communications of Americans as part of the cyberspying agency’s surveillance of global telecommunications and Internet traffic. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> “At around 1420 hrs today (1320 GMT) an EgyptAir aircraft flying from Cairo to New York was diverted to Prestwick Airport after a suspicious note was discovered on the aircraft,” said a statement from Police Scotland. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading British warplanes scrambled to divert US-bound flight after fire threat
By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BEIJING — Officially, the Chinese government has nothing to say about Edward Snowden. But unofficially, its representatives are happy to dump on the United States. Chinese state media have let loose with a barrage of criticism of the country’s rival world power, especially after former U.S. government contractor Snowden said widespread American Internet surveillance includes spying on people in China. The English-language China Daily on Thursday ran a large cartoon of a shadowed Statue of Liberty holding a tape recorder and microphone instead of a tablet and torch. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A comic of Bradley Manning’s trial, produced from the court, is being created by artist and WikiLeaks activist Clark Stoeckley and will be published in the autumn. Stoeckley, who drives a truck carrying the WikiLeaks logo to court in Fort Meade, Maryland, each day, said: “It the truck definitely turns heads. My feeling is that if they allow the Fox News truck on base they have to allow me here too, right?” He is meticulously recording every detail of the trial from the courtroom, drawing and writing down events as they happen. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The US government has recovered 400 pages from the long-lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a confidant of Adolf Hitler who played a central role in the extermination of millions of Jews and others during the second world war. A preliminary US government assessment asserts the diary could offer new insight into meetings Rosenberg had with Hitler and other top Nazi leaders, including Heinrich Himmler and Herman Göring. It also includes details about the German occupation of the Soviet Union, including plans for mass killings of Jews and other east Europeans. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Matthew Walther, on June 10th, 2013 Was she aware of her sex appeal? What did she make of Reagan? Matthew Walther talks to the author of the new authorized biography.
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By , on June 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The court in suburban Beijing issued the sentence in a brief hearing after finding Liu Hui guilty of fraud in a real estate dispute, said lawyer Shang Baojun. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Liu Xiaobo’s brother-in-law sentenced to 11 years prison
By , on June 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The latest edition of the liberal monthly Yanhuang ChuInqiu published the ad and two related letters to the editor from Liu Bocheng last week, prompting a wide discussion online. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Former Red Guard apologises to his victims of Cultural Revolution
By Scott BrownJesse Green, on June 7th, 2013 
Every Tony season it’s a perennial temptation to frame the race as an apocalyptic battle for the soul of a perpetually embattled art form. Which is exactly what our theater critics (who’ll also co-live-blog CBS’s Tonycast at 8 p.m. EST this Sunday here at Vulture) are prepared to do again … More »
Continue reading Our Critics on the Tonys’ Eight Most Telling Races
By , on June 7th, 2013 
Home Secretary Theresa May comes under pressure to investigate claims GCHQ has been gathering data on internet users through a secret US spy programme.
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By Margaret Lyons, on June 7th, 2013 
"I’m glad you’re here.""Well, I’m glad you’re here." Oh, Peggy and Joan, aren’t we all just so glad for one another? A few weeks ago, Peggy and Joan declared their mutual gladness when the SCDP/Cutler, Gleason and Chaough merger reunited them, but it rang just a tiny bit false. Yes, … More »
Continue reading Mad Men: Tracing the Troubled History of Peggy and Joan
By , on June 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British actor Stephen Fry attempted suicide last year, he said during a podcast interview on Wednesday in which he talked openly about his ongoing battle with mental illness. Fry, 55, told comedian Richard Herring in the interview in front of a live audience that he was “a victim of my own moods” and that he was required to take medication “so that I don’t get either too hyper or too depressed to the point of suicide.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The creation of an artificial beach near Tai Po at Lung Mei, the habitat of a protected species of seahorse, was given the go-ahead on Wednesday over the objections of a group of environmentalists. The decision has angered the Save Lung Mei Alliance, a concerned group that has vowed to take the government to court in an attempt to block the HK$200 million project. The group had earlier asked Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to put the project on hold by revoking a work permit issued for the scheme. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Lung Mei artificial beach gets go-ahead despite environmental concerns
By , on June 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Failed chief executive candidate Henry Tang Ying-yen said on Wednesday he and his wife were prepared to take any responsibility for any illegal basement construction at their Kowloon Tong luxury home. Tang, a former chief secretary, made the remark after he accompanied his wife Lisa Kuo Yu-chin to Kowloon City Court on Wednesday afternoon where she appeared to answer two charges of breaching building regulations. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading ‘We are prepared to take responsibility’ for illegal structure, says Henry Tang
By , on May 31st, 2013 A look at the season’s notable cooking, travel and gardening titles and more: books about Jewish humor, Jimmy Connors, and Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays.
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By , on May 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Similar in size and often referred to as twin planets, the earth and Venus evolved from common origins into two contrasting worlds – one dry and inhospitable, the other wet and teeming with life. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> About 1,000 new words and idioms have been added into the latest edition of Oxford University Press’ newly updated English-Chinese Dictionary. The Oxford Advanced Learner’s English-Chinese Dictionary released its eighth edition, complete with an interactive step-by-step writing guide on a CD-Rom. Newly added words include “Skype”, “smartphone”, “micro blogging” and more technology and computing related terms – one of the four categories which saw significant increase in new words, said publishing manager of the dictionaries publishing division Franky Lau Ho-yin. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Justin Green, on May 30th, 2013 As I wrote last week, it wouldn't be a terrible idea for Harry Reid to use the nuclear options to force a majority vote on appointments for cabinet positions and non-Supreme Court judicial appointments. Writing for The Daily Beast, Jamelle Bouie details what that would mean, and the fallout to be expected from such an action.
Continue reading The Senate’s Nuclear Option on Judicial Nominations
By , on May 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BEIJING — “Ding Jinhao was here.” It was a banal declaration scratched by a teenager into an artifact at a 3,500-year-old Egyptian temple that has launched a round of soul-searching about the bad behavior of Chinese tourists. The Chinese-language graffiti was discovered at Luxor this month by a Chinese tourist who posted a photograph on a microblog in which he deplored the behavior of his countrymen abroad. “I’m so embarrassed that I want to hide myself,” the microblogger wrote last week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Snowden vows more disclosures about US surveillance
<!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON — Defiant and apparently unbowed by threats of prosecution, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden vowed Monday to release more secrets about U.S. intelligence surveillance systems that he described as “nakedly, aggressively criminal.” Snowden, who has been hiding in Hong Kong, said NSA analysts routinely obtain emails and other Internet communications of Americans as part of the cyberspying agency’s surveillance of global telecommunications and Internet traffic. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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