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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone journalist who triggered the 2010 downfall of US Afghanistan commander General Stanley McChrystal, died in a car crash on Tuesday, his employer announced. Hastings, whose profile of McChrystal quoted the four-star general as criticising President Barack Obama and his senior advisers, died in Los Angeles. He was 33, according to his current employer, BuzzFeed. “We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone,” said Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of the news website which the late reporter joined in February last year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview and called them transparent — even though they are authorised in secret. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Europe has pressed the US for greater detail on the Prism surveillance programme and was told that data collection on Europeans was not conducted in “bulk” but only in cases of strong suspicion of individual or group involvement in terrorism, cybercrime or nuclear proliferation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Singapore’s attorney-general on Friday issued a stern warning to an independent filmmaker over online videos in which two Chinese bus drivers accused police in the city-state of assaulting them. Lee Seng Lynn had released videos of her interviews with He Jun Ling, 32, and Liu Xiang Ying, 33, in January. The two were among four Chinese nationals subsequently sentenced to jail terms of up to seven weeks for organising Singapore’s first industrial strike in nearly three decades. They were out on bail when the videos were posted on Lee’s blog. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The central government has taken further steps to curb air pollution, with fresh measures outlined at a cabinet meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang yesterday. The State Council announced 10 new measures to fight air pollution in urban areas. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Puffing on slim metal tubes loaded with pale yellow liquid, two London businessmen say they have between their lips a cure for what the UN calls “one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced”. Electronic cigarettes are the future, they argue. Cheaper, cleaner and cooler than smoking, “vaping” – using a vaporiser to inhale nicotine infused with exotic flavours ranging from pina colada to bubblegum – will spell the end of tobacco. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Pope Francis lamented that a “gay lobby” was at work at the Vatican in private remarks to the leaders of a key Latin American church group, a stunning acknowledgment that appears to confirm reports of corruption and dysfunction in the Holy See. The Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious – the regional organisation for priests and nuns of religious orders – confirmed on Tuesday that its leaders had written a synthesis of Francis’ remarks after their June 6 audience. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> On a day that dragon boats made a splash at venues across the city one of the world’s biggest cruise liners was making much bigger waves as it docked at the Kai Tak cruise terminal. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A gynaecologist has been penalised by the Medical Council for prescribing amoxicillin to a patient who was allergic to it. Dr Lok Yee-ha prescribed the antibiotic while treating the patient for a bacterial infection at a Sha Tin medical centre in 2009. Lok was removed from the general register for one month and suspended for a year, meaning her name will not be removed if she does not commit further offences during the year. After taking the medicine, the patient developed a rash all over her body and bled under the skin. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Modi, chief minister of the thriving state of Gujarat for more than a decade, was chosen to head the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) election panel, despite opposition from some of his senior colleagues. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> At least 28 people were killed and 60 were wounded on Saturday when demonstrators attacked the headquarters in Benghazi of former rebels who had fought to oust Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The maze of corridors in the five, 17-storey blocks has sat in the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui for more than half a century. But it was the 1994 Wong Kar-wai movie Chungking Express that earned the buildings in Nathan Road their iconic status. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Dan Amira, on June 7th, 2013 On the left: Eric Holder, a man who has dedicated himself as attorney general to preventing crime and terrorism. On the right: Ayman al-Zawahiri, a man who as the leader of Al Qaeda has dedicated himself to destroying America. Who is the bigger threat? Take your time. … More »
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By , on June 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A suicide bomber detonated a small truck loaded with explosives in southern Afghanistan, killing seven Georgian soldiers, NATO and Georgian officials said on Friday, and the Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility. The attack happened on Thursday evening in Nawzad district in the battlefield province of Helmand, officials said. On May 13, three soldiers from the ex-Soviet state were killed in a similar attack in the same province. The explosives were detonated outside a Georgian military base in Nawzad, said chief of the Georgian army joint staff, General Irakli Dzneladze. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> But the apology was blasted by online users, who pointed out that blind people wouldn’t be able to read it on the internet because even if they had text-to-speech software, the post showed a photograph that the technology would be unable to read. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Computer experts in Hong Kong are racing against time to stop a virus that could put “a considerable number” of computers under the control of hackers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Jilin Governor Bayanqolu has apologised for the first time for the deadly fire at a poultry slaughterhouse in Dehui, Changchun, on Monday as pressure builds on authorities to bring those responsible for the tragedy to justice. Also yesterday, Changchun Mayor Jiang Zhiying engaged in self-criticism, pledging not to ignore his mistakes and skirt problems, as a State Council investigation team decried gross violations of workplace safety and labour rules at the Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry slaughterhouse in the town of Mishazi, where staff worked behind locked doors. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s top internet security official says he has “mountains of data” pointing to extensive US hacking aimed at China, but it would be irresponsible to blame Washington for such attacks, and called for greater co-operation to fight hacking. Cyber security is a major concern for the US government and is expected to be at the top of the agenda when US President Barack Obama meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in California on Thursday and Friday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JONATHAN WEISMAN, on June 4th, 2013 The inspector general reported that the tax agency paid for luxury suites and spent thousands of dollars on gifts at a 2010 meeting in Anaheim, Calif.
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By , on June 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Graft-busting agency ICAC, stung by revelations that it had paid for huge amounts of liquor under its free-spending former chief, Timothy Tong Hin-ming, has suspended alcohol purchases and may sell its remaining supplies. Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption Simon Peh Yun-lu said that when alcohol was required for a reception, it would be taken from existing stocks and all the hard liquor would be put up for sale through a government auction after the investigation into Tong’s entertainment spending was over. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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US reporter who brought down General McChrystal dies in car crash
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone journalist who triggered the 2010 downfall of US Afghanistan commander General Stanley McChrystal, died in a car crash on Tuesday, his employer announced. Hastings, whose profile of McChrystal quoted the four-star general as criticising President Barack Obama and his senior advisers, died in Los Angeles. He was 33, according to his current employer, BuzzFeed. “We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone,” said Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of the news website which the late reporter joined in February last year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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