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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A roadside bomb killed 11 security personnel and two civilians on Thursday in southwestern Pakistan where separatist rebels have for decades been battling to control the region’s natural gas and other resources. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Torrential rain pounded the city for more than five hours early yesterday, causing landslides, flooding, traffic chaos and business disruptions. No injuries were reported, but more than 300 flights were delayed. A plane was struck by lightning but landed safely at Chek Lap Kok airport carrying 100 passengers and crew members. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An FBI agent on Wednesday fatally shot a Florida man who allegedly had ties to one of the Boston bombings suspects, US media reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JENNIFER MEDINA, on May 22nd, 2013 With low voter turnout, City Councilman Eric Garcetti beat City Controller Wendy Greuel, and takes over a city facing myriad problems.
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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 By MICHAEL BARBARO, on May 21st, 2013 Bill de Blasio is offering Brooklyn, trendy and dynamic, as a proxy for all four boroughs that he says have been slighted at City Hall.
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Senior marine staff would not be questioned as part of the internal investigation into the Lamma ferry tragedy unless new information came to light, the city’s transport chief insisted yesterday. His remarks came in the face of criticism about the limitations of the Marine Department investigating itself. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The city’s annual budget was passed in the Legislative Council last night by a safe margin after a month-long filibuster. The long-awaited legislative approval ends the prospect of the government running out of cash to operate. Since the financial year started in April, it has been functioning on an interim fund of HK$75.5 billion. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By KEN BELSON and CHARLES V. BAGLI, on May 21st, 2013 Manchester City and the Yankees teamed up to buy the club, which is expected to begin competing in 2015.
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Casino industry leaders met in Macau on Tuesday for the Global Gaming Expo Asia, a three-day fair of gambling innovations at the glitzy Venetian Macau hotel. The largest gaming event in Asia, showcasing the industry’s latest products, services and technologies, is taking place amid a decline in growth rates in Macau’s gaming industry as China’s economic boom slows. The gaming sector has, however, boomed in Asia over the past decade, led by Macau which now generates six times the gambling revenue of Las Vegas thanks mainly to high-rolling Chinese VIPs. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By John Avlon, on May 21st, 2013 Oklahoma City’s Mick Cornett has been here before—and asks for prayers for those in Moore. By John Avlon.
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Retired cricket great Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf party won a poll re-run in an upmarket constituency of Karachi, unofficial results showed. The vote came a day after gunmen killed a party leader, setting the stage for protests and counter-protests. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Big business and the Occupy Central movement clashed yesterday over the price the city would pay if the pro-democracy movement brought the heart of Hong Kong to a halt. Four business groups warned that Occupy Central could cost the city billions. But Dr Benny Tai Yiu-ting, a founder of Occupy Central, countered that the economic cost of failing to achieve universal suffrage in 2017 could be higher. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong’s unemployment rate in April was 3.5 per cent – same as the level in March, government figures released on Monday showed. Increases in the unemployment rate in April were mainly observed in retail, manufacturing, and accommodation and food services sectors, the Census and Statistics Department said, while decreases were mainly seen in the insurance, wholesale and construction sectors. The city’s jobless has largely remained stable so far this year. The figures for January and February were 3.4 per cent. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HONG KONG (AP) — A Macau lawyer assaulted in broad daylight in the Chinese gambling haven says the attack was an attempt to intimidate him. The two assailants used bricks to bash the lawyer, Jorge Menezes, on the head before fleeing in last week’s attack. The former Portuguese colony has largely shed its reputation for triad violence. Menezes said Monday he believed the attack was intended to intimidate him over his work but he wouldn’t say who he thought was behind it. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By SAM ROBERTS, on May 20th, 2013 The poverty rate in New York City and Newark declined over the last decade, but the suburbs have gotten poorer.
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By By SAM BORDEN, on May 20th, 2013 Wigan Athletic, the small club that stunned the soccer world by winning the F.A. Cup final against Manchester City, and its fans experienced mixed emotions on the team’s final day in England’s Premier League.
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Elsie Leung Oi-sie, deputy director of the Basic Law Committee that advises the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on the Basic Law’s implementation, told the South China Morning Post it would not be suitable for her to take up such a role because she did not hold any portfolio on constitutional reform, official or otherwise. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> You can stop one protest for a time, but you can’t stop another one from starting up if you don’t deal with the problem, says an eminent Buddhist monk. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A British woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said on Saturday. The woman, identified only by her initials AR, was arrested at a hotel in the city of Surabaya, East Java province, last month with 1.47 kilograms of the drug, the national narcotics agency said. “Because she smuggled drugs weighing more than five grams, she could face the death penalty,” agency spokesman Sumirat Dwiyanto said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Roadside bomb kills 13 in southwest Pakistan
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