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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Boy Scouts of America voted on Thursday to lift a century-old ban on openly gay scouts in a major victory for gay rights activists, but the decision means a sea of change for an organisation that depends heavily on faith-based groups. More than 60 per cent of the group’s National Council, comprised of some 1,400 delegates, voted in favour of ending the ban, effective January 1, next year, the group said in a statement. A prohibition on openly gay adult leaders remains in place. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two South Korean women forcibly drafted into Japanese military brothels during World War II have cancelled a meeting with a Japanese mayor who sparked outrage by calling them a wartime necessity. Outspoken Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto and two former “comfort women” were to meet on Friday, but the elderly women reportedly changed their minds over fears of becoming political pawns in a long-running diplomatic dispute that has stoked tensions between Tokyo and Seoul. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Premier Li Keqiang has rejected an urbanisation proposal drafted by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Malaysian court on Thursday charged a student activist with sedition and three others, including two opposition politicians, were arrested on the same charge in what critics decried as a crackdown on dissent. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria’s main opposition group gathers on Thursday for a landmark conference in Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss peace talks with the regime, as rebels on the ground suffer a massive army onslaught. The National Coalition’s fresh round of talks is set to run for three days. It is the opposition group’s first meeting since the United States and Russia announced a peace initiative dubbed Geneva 2 to end the two-year conflict that has killed more than 90,000 people. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Until an outbreak of tornadoes in the past week, this year had been a relatively quiet one for twisters in the Midwest and Plains states. Weather experts said that had much to do with a weather phenomenon that also caused much of the east coast to shiver through colder-than-normal temperatures this spring. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria’s main opposition group is urging rebels to come from around the country to reinforce Qusair, a western town under attack by Syrian troops and members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group. George Sabra, the acting chief of the Syrian National Coalition, says in a statement that “forces from outside Syria” aim to destroy Qusair and that rebels should “rescue” it. Government troops were trying for a fourth day Wednesday to wrest control of Qusair from rebels. The town lies near the Lebanese border on land corridor linking the capital Damascus with the Mediterranean coast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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 –> Flying high above Europe’s economic crisis, a lightning-fast pigeon named Bolt became the world’s most expensive racing bird when his Belgian breeder sold it for €310,000 (HK$3.1 million) to a Chinese businessman. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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 Mark Krikorian takes up the question at National Review. In an editorial National Review published yesterday, multiple examples are listed of why conservatives are right to be concerned that this bill will set the stage for future waves of unauthorized immigration:
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An investigation by Spanish authorities on reports that “Chinese mafia” rigged a soccer game has turned into yet another high-profile case involving ethnic Chinese criminal gangs in the country. The match in the Primera Division was played on April 13, at which Valencia-based Levante lost 4-0 to Deportivo La Coruña on their home turf. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> No new human cases of the H7N9 virus have been recorded in China for a week, national health authorities said, for the first time since the outbreak began in March. One previously infected patient died in the week beginning between May 13, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said in a statement late on Monday, taking the total number of fatalities from the virus to 36. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The powerful tornado, rated the second highest strength level of EF4 and packing winds of up to 320km/h, touched down at midafternoon and devastated a wide area of the town. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain’s relationship with Beijing was set to chill further last night when the British Parliament gave a human rights award to blind activist Chen Guangcheng . Chen – who escaped extra-legal house arrest in Shandong last year before seeking refuge at the US embassy in Beijing and finally making it to New York – was handed the Westminster Award for his contribution to “human rights, human life and human dignity”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hunan’s high court agreed to hear an appeal by Tang Hui, the mother of a teenage girl who was raped and forced into prostitution by local officials. A lower court had dismissed her compensation claim last month against local authorities who sent her to a labour camp for protesting inappropriately. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Tornadoes ravaged portions of Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. The tornado in Shawnee was one of several that touched down in the nation’s midsection on Sunday. Twisters, hail and high winds also struck Iowa and Kansas as part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syrian troops backed by Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Sunday entered Qusayr, a strategic rebel stronghold linking Damascus to the coast, a day after President Bashar al-Assad insisted he would not step aside. The advance came as Assad’s opponents warned his regime’s “barbaric and destructive” assault on Qusayr could torpedo US-Russian attempts to organise a conference on ending more than two years of bloodshed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Prime Minister Shinzo Abe defended in an interview on Friday the right of Japan’s leaders to visit a controversial shrine to war dead but hit back at critics who accuse him of revisionism. Amid the latest flare-up with China and South Korea over history, Abe quoted a US scholar as comparing the Yasukuni shrine to Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, which has a section for Confederate Civil War dead. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Boy Scouts of America votes to end century-old ban on gay scouts
<!– google_ad_section_start –> The Boy Scouts of America voted on Thursday to lift a century-old ban on openly gay scouts in a major victory for gay rights activists, but the decision means a sea of change for an organisation that depends heavily on faith-based groups. More than 60 per cent of the group’s National Council, comprised of some 1,400 delegates, voted in favour of ending the ban, effective January 1, next year, the group said in a statement. A prohibition on openly gay adult leaders remains in place. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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