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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The high court in Zhejiang province has ruled that two men wrongfully convicted of murder should each receive about 1.1 million yuan (HK$1.25 million) in compensation after serving 10 years in jail. In an online statement posted yesterday, the court said Zhang Gaoping his nephew, Zhang Hui , would each be awarded 656,000 yuan for loss of personal freedom, and 450,000 yuan for mental damage. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By RANDALL SMITH, on May 17th, 2013 Fred Eckert was once a star at Goldman Sachs, but by 2011 he was bankrupt, divorced and had spent two months in a coma. Today, he is planning a return to the arena.
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By David Frum, on April 25th, 2013 Today, April 25, is the anniversary of the first day of the Gallipoli campaign of 1915. In Australia and New Zealand, this day is honored as ANZAC Day, in remembrance of the heroic role of the armies of those two nations.
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By The Daily Beast, on April 15th, 2013 Two explosions went off near the finish line of today’s Boston Marathon, leaving at least two dead and dozens more injured.
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By David Bukszpan, on April 13th, 2013 Today is National Scrabble Day, so here’s a poem that will help you remember all 101 two-letter words that you can use.
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By , on April 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A roadside bomb in Afghanistan exploded under a bus on Monday, killing nine people and wounding at least 22 in an attack by suspected Taliban militants, officials said. “Today at around 8.00am an IED (improvised explosive device) hit a bus,” said Attaullah Khogyani, the governor’s spokesman in Wardak province, southwest of Kabul. “At least 22 people are wounded and nine others, including a woman, are dead.” Khogyani said Taliban militants who have been fighting for 11 years against the US-backed Kabul government were behind the attack <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Lara Friedman, on March 21st, 2013 Today President Obama made the most passionate, and compassionate, case for Israeli-Palestinian peace any U.S. leader has ever made, says Lara Friedman.
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By , on March 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> You may think it is an easy question to answer and people in many mainland cities can get it right, even without checking official weather forecast. But it is probably mission impossible for Beijing residents to make the right guess, giving the situation that they have been suffering four kinds of weather that almost completely different from each other in just four days. Saturday & Sunday: Bad smog <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Orly Halpern, on March 18th, 2013 “This insane law, which was only removed from the agenda in the past because of Tzipi Livni’s steadfastness, has now been resurrected due to the strange alliance between Naftali Bennett’s Habayit Hayehudi and Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid.” –Today’s Haaretz Editorial takes a look at the return of a bill to make democracy subservient to Judaism in the State of Israel.
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By Justin Green, on March 15th, 2013 Today, you’ll see a few posts in this space from Ben Jacobs, the managing editor of the Daily Download and a frequent contributor to the Daily Beast and the Atlantic. Ben’s here reporting at CPAC, and I figured a fresh perspective might be interesting.
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By By BRIAN STELTER, on March 14th, 2013 The last year for Matt Lauer, the once-popular host of the network’s “Today” show, is a lesson on how a combination of missteps can precipitate a star’s fall.
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By Justin Green, on March 8th, 2013 Today’s history nerd suggestion: DC Past, a blog of photos of Washington, DC during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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By Justin Green, on March 7th, 2013 Today’s entry in the category: “The French have assimilation problems that make America’s issues look benign.”
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The woman admitted the girl was her daughter and she recorded the video through a webcam installed on her daughter’s desk lamp. “…Today’s homeworkprogress is not bad, but she kept talking to herself, and was singing while doing homework,” the woman commented on the video. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The plan would also allocate additional security funds and require business owners to check the immigration status of any new hires within four years. The estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States could also apply for a “Lawful Prospective Immigrant” visa, a report from USA Today said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By David Frum, on February 17th, 2013 Today’s New York Times “T” magazine has a wonderful profile of Anne Applebaum and the cookbook she co-wrote with my wife, Danielle Crittenden:
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By , on January 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A co-ordinated attack involving at least three suicide bombers and a powerful car bomb took aim at the headquarters of the Kabul traffic department on Monday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By David Frum, on January 14th, 2013 The Wall Street Journal today defends CEO pay as worth every penny.
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By David Frum, on January 14th, 2013 A thick layer of toxic fog blankets Beijing. And what Beijingers breathe today will drift toward Los Angeles in time. This planet only has one atmosphere. China's brutal abuse of that air is not only China's problem.
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By The Daily Beast Video, on December 11th, 2012 Readers ask the author of ‘The End of Men: And the Rise of Women’ about the perils of today’s hook-up culture, whether discrimination is responsible for the wage gap, and whether the so-called ‘end of men’ is good for women.
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Pair get 1.1m yuan each after decade in jail for murder they didn’t commit
<!– google_ad_section_start –> The high court in Zhejiang province has ruled that two men wrongfully convicted of murder should each receive about 1.1 million yuan (HK$1.25 million) in compensation after serving 10 years in jail. In an online statement posted yesterday, the court said Zhang Gaoping his nephew, Zhang Hui , would each be awarded 656,000 yuan for loss of personal freedom, and 450,000 yuan for mental damage. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Pair get 1.1m yuan each after decade in jail for murder they didn’t commit
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