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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday where he said China and Pakistan should make cooperation on power generation a priority. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 48-year-old divorced Briton locked in a bitter custody battle has confessed to killing his two young children by slitting their throats near the eastern French city of Lyons. The bodies of a five-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy were discovered on Saturday afternoon in the man’s apartment in Saint-Priest, a suburb of Lyons. Witnesses said the man, covered in blood, fled the scene of the crime on roller skates. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Bangladesh’s government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a factory building focused attention on the textile industry’s dismal pay and hazardous working conditions. A new minimum wage board will issue recommendations for pay raises within three months, Textiles Minister Abdul Latif Siddiky said on Sunday. The cabinet will then decide whether to accept those proposals. The wage board will include representatives of factory owners, workers and the government, he said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> On April 24, Reshma Begum was working in a factory on the second floor of Rana Plaza when the building began collapsing around her. She raced down a stairwell into the basement, where she became trapped near a Muslim prayer room in a wide space that allowed her to survive. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Miracle survivor of Bangladesh collapse lost track of day and night in rubble
By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> London’s Heathrow Airport, Europe’s busiest, should be expanded with the addition of a third and even a fourth runway, a cross-party panel of British lawmakers said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading MPs support building third runway at London’s Heathrow airport
By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A buttoned-down Prince Harry joined Michelle Obama in honouring military families on Thursday and toured an exhibition in Congress about land-mines, opening a weeklong US visit devoted to the wounded victims of war. Shrieking onlookers gave him the pop-star treatment, but he was all royal business. The British soldier-prince had one of America’s most storied wounded warriors, the wisecracking Senator John McCain, at his side as he viewed a display of land-mine photos, maps and mine-detection equipment, staged by a charity held dear by his late mother, Princess Diana. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A US soldier who killed five fellow servicemen in a shooting spree at a combat stress centre in Iraq acted with the tactical precision of a trained soldier as he moved through the clinic, an Army crime scene expert testified on Thursday. US Army Sergeant John Russell pleaded guilty last month to killing two medical staff officers and three soldiers at Camp Liberty in Baghdad in a 2009 shooting the military has said could have been triggered by combat stress. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading US soldier ‘methodical’ in Iraq clinic shooting spree, says expert
By , on May 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The mysterious death of a 22-year-old Anhui woman in Beijing continued to draw sympathy and criticism on China’s social media on Thursday, while local newspapers avoided the story apparently because of censorship. The case came under national spotlight after hundreds of disgruntled migrant workers staged a mass protest in the capital on Wednesday to protest the handling of the case by police. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A bomb tore through a Pakistan political rally on Monday, killing 14 people and wounding 56 in one of the deadliest attacks of the campaign for Pakistan’s historic elections on Saturday. The killings bring to 83 the number of people killed in such attacks since April 11, according to an AFP tally. The device targeted the right-wing Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI), a religious party in the outgoing government coalition. It exploded in Kurram, part of Pakistan’s Taliban-infested tribal belt on the Afghan border. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Masood Reza, a leading Bangladesh architect and a professor at a state-run university, said he felt “pain and anguish” when he saw footage of the garment workers trapped under the pancaked floors, crying desperately for help. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Collapsed Bangladesh building not ‘designed’ for factory-use, says architect
By , on May 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The death toll from Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster rose to 540 on Saturday after 15 bodies were overnight pulled from the wreckage of an eight-storey building housing garment factories, the army said. Major Sazzad Hossain of the army control room, which was set up to coordinate the rescue operation following the disaster last month, said that recovery efforts had gathered pace and the “death toll now stands at 540”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain’s Prince Charles has used money from people who die without wills or family in Cornwall, southwest England, to fund his own charities and to support bursaries at his old private school in Scotland. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Prince Charles uses cash from unclaimed legacies to aid his charities
By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of workers paraded through central Dhaka on May Day to demand safer work conditions and the death penalty for the owner of a building housing garment factories that collapsed last week in the country’s worst industrial disaster, killing at least 402 people and injuring 2,500. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A powerful blast in an abandoned university laboratory in Nanjing left one person dead and three injured yesterday. The explosion destroyed the lab at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology and shattered windows in nearby homes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Bangladesh on Tuesday defended its decision to snub foreign aid after the collapse of a factory complex as anger flared at the recovery operation and towards the building’s owner when he appeared in court. With the death toll from the country’s worst ever industrial disaster now standing at 382, Western retailers offered compensation to the victims of last Wednesday’s tragedy on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By CHARLES V. BAGLI and JULIE CRESWELL, on April 29th, 2013 A venomous public battle over a $5.2 billion proposal by the Empire State Building’s managing family will face a crucial legal test beginning on Monday.
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By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> When the cracks in the building appeared early last Tuesday afternoon, a stocky man in his early 30s – a feared political operative who a neighbour says dropped out of school in seventh grade – quickly arrived at the scene in Savar, a crowded industrial suburb of Bangladesh’s capital. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Bangladesh building collapse exposes greed in garment trade
By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> At least two people died and 10 were hurt on Sunday when part of an apartment block in the French city of Reims collapsed after a suspected gas blast. Firefighters were hunting for victims trapped under debris of the council estate building, where the extremity of a long strip of flats collapsed, taking around 10 apartments down. Local authorities said the “probable” cause of the accident at the four-storey building in the heart of the Champagne region was a gas explosion. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two factory bosses and two engineers were arrested in Bangladesh on Saturday, 72 hours after the collapse of a building where low-cost garments were made for Western brands, as the death toll rose to 340 but many were still being found alive. The owner of the eight-storey building that fell like a pack of cards around more than 3,000 workers was still on the run. As many as 900 people could still be missing, police said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Four arrested as Bangladesh building toll rises to 340
By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two suspected pranks in the lifts of the legislature building yesterday almost added to a delay in budget debates, which are just starting to be dragged out by radical lawmakers’ filibustering. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Li Keqiang offers to help end Pakistan’s energy crisis
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday where he said China and Pakistan should make cooperation on power generation a priority. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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