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Envoy hands over Pyongyang peace missive to Chinese president
BEIJING - A senior North Korean envoy delivered a letter from his leader Kim Jong-un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him that Pyongyang was ready to take "positive action" to re-join stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks. The letter was handed over by envoy, Vice Marshal Choe Ryong-hae. Choe told Xi that North Korea is willing to take positive actions to solve problems ...
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UK spy agencies defended over drummer soldier murder
LONDON - The British government has defended its spy agencies for failing to prevent murder of a soldier in London despite signs and revelations that the two suspects were well known to MI5. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said it was impossible to control everyone all the time. "Peers and MPs will do a thorough investigation in terms of what the security forces knew but I've seen ...
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Vehicles, people plunge into river after bridge collapse
WASHINGTON - A handful of vehicles and some people plunged into a river after a more than half a century old bridge that links Seattle in the US with Canada collapsed, throwing the movement on the highway into disarray. Authorities said there were no deaths in the bridge collapse on the Skagit River in the US state of Washington. Three people were rescued and taken to hospitals, they ...
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Another jewellery heist hits Cannes as $2.6 mn necklace stolen
CANNES - A second suspected jewellery heist was reported at the Cannes Film Festival, with a single necklace by Swiss jeweller De Grisogono worth nearly $2.6 million reported missing. In the case of the first gem loot at the Cannes Film Festival, thieves literally tore out a safe filled with roughly $1 million-worth of jewels from a hotel room. The second time around the event took place ...
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Amnesty laments lack of support for refugees globally
LONDON - Global rights body Amnesty International has said that the world is "increasingly" becoming "dangerous place" for refugees due to inaction on human rights. The London-based group in its annual report cited the increasing number of refugees around the world, and highlighted the lack of support for them, as the key human rights issue for the past year. It said that the number of ...
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June 28 to see News Corp split into two companies
WASHINGTON - Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation Friday announced the planned separation of the $76-billion conglomerate into two distinct publicly traded companies, with one to be renamed 21st Century Fox and the publishing firm to retain the News Corp brand. The split has been formally approved by the Board of Directors. The Company announced appointments to the Boards of Directors of both ...
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Audit records of Chinese firms to be made accessible to US regulators
BEIJING - Chinese regulators Friday announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding with their US counterparts giving American authorities increased access to documents from Chinese audit firms. The signing of the MOU between China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) is a significant ...
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Investments being sought by Croatia for oil exploration in Adriatic Sea
ZAGREB/LONDON - Croatia, soon to become the 28th member of the European Union,- is looking to undiscovered oil and gas fields in the Adriatic Sea to revive its ailing economy, according to the country's president. Ivo Josipovic told CNN that Croatia is searching for partners in the energy sector to help reveal oil and gas "green fields" in the waters that separate the Balkan nations and ...
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Fan fiction authors to find platform on Amazon
WASHINGTON - Amazon, the largest online retailer of books, movies, music and games, Friday offered its Kindle e-book platform to fan fiction authors to sell some of their work. Fan fiction is literature inspired by popular books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games. Publication outside of blogs and online fanzines is often difficult because of copyright issues. Amazon Publishing has ...
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Central bank of China to push forward market oriented reforms
BEIJING - China is planning to steadily push forward market-oriented reform in its interest rates and exchange rates mechanisms this year as part of the financial sector reforms to better serve the real economy, a central bank report said on Friday. The "China Financial Stability Report (2013) released by the People's Bank of China stressed that it would be steadily promoting the interest ...
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IMF warns UK against continuing austerity programme
LONDON - In a critique of the United Kingdom's austerity programme, the International Monetary Fund Wednesday urged the Europe's third largest economy to rebalance the policy to make the transition to a high-investment and more export-oriented economy. "The UK could boost growth by bringing forward measures already included in its fiscal plan, such as spending on infrastructure and job ...
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Philippine troops in deadly clash with rebels
At least 12 people have been killed, including seven government troops, in fresh clashes as military stepped up offensive against rebels in the southern Philippines, officials say.The fighting on Saturday in Sulu province's coastal town of Patikul between the military and members of Abu Sayyaf, an al-Qaeda-linked group, also wounded nine other marines and 10 fighters. Jose Canbre, a local ...
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Rioting spreads outside calmer Stockholm
A nearly week-long spate of rioting has spread outside Stockholm but authorities said police reinforcements sent to the Swedish capital have reduced the violence there. The rioting continued for a sixth night on Friday in mainly immigrant areas in Stockholm. Dozens of youths set cars and a recycling station ablaze. Two cars were torched in Stockholm but the city appeared to have had its ...
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Leaders in Addis Ababa for AU summit
African leaders have gathered to witness celebrations in Addis Ababa for the 50th jubilee of the continental bloc, with its many problems set aside for a day to mark the progress that has been made. Mass dancing troupes were performing musical dramas on Friday to about 10,000 guests in a giant hall in the Ethiopian capital, home to the African Union. Today's 54-member AU is the successor ...
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African Unions track record under scrutiny
African leaders have been arriving in Addis Ababa to mark the 50th anniversary of the organisation which became the African Union. While the bloc's principles stipulate respect for the rule of law, human rights and democracy, many criticise it for its failure to stop regional conflicts and its support for controversial leaders. Amid the celebrations of union this week, the group will also ...
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At least 17 children burned in blast
At least 17 children were burned to death in eastern Pakistan when a faulty gas cylinder exploded on the bus taking them to school, police said. Police officer Mohammed Rasheed said seven children were also injured in the explosion on the outskirts of the city of Gujrat. "This is a very sad incident. According to our information, at least 17 children were burned to death," he ...
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Bosnia President Freed From Jail
The president of Bosnia's Muslim-Croat federation has been freed from jail following his arrest last month on corruption charges. The Constitutional Court ruled on May 24 that Zivko Budimir and four co-accused aides all be released immediately. Budimir was arrested along with 19 other officials in late April in the most high-profile anti-corruption drive in Bosnia since independence ...
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Anti-Israel activists crash London UEFA event
UEFA: Israel to host tourney despite PA pressure The UEFA dinner was attended by prominent figures including David Beckham and Sir Alex Ferguson, who were reportedly stunned by the incident. Earlier in the day, pro-Palestinian activists from a group called "Red Card Israeli Racism" protested outside a UEFA Congress meeting at a London hotel, according to the report. Friday's ...
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In Syrias shadow Iraq violence presents new test for U.S.
Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama (R) hold a joint news conference in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, December 12, ...
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Children killed in Pakistan explosion
Pakistani police say a gas-cylinder explosion inside a school bus has killed at least 17 children in eastern Pakistan. Mohammed Rasheed, a police officer, said seven children were also injured on Saturday when the faulty gas cylinder exploded on the outskirts of the city of Gujrat. He says the dead and injured children were going to school at the time. Gujrat is located about 200km southeast ...
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Guatemalas ex-president extradited to US
Guatemala has extradited ex-president Alfonso Portillo to the United States to face charges of laundering $70m. Portillo was put on a plane on Friday under the escort of US agents. "Hasta luego (see you later), people of Guatemala," Portillo, 61, said, after describing his extradition as a "kidnapping" and accusing the Guatemalan government of breaking the law. "They ...
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Life in the cross hairs
>Editor's note: John Sutter, the human rights columnist for CNN Opinion, is from Oklahoma City. Follow him on Twitter -- @jdsutter -- for continued updates about the tornado. E-mail him at ctl@cnn.com. Oklahoma City (CNN) -- Nancy ...
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Life in the cross hairs
>Editor's note: John Sutter, the human rights columnist for CNN Opinion, is from Oklahoma City. Follow him on Twitter -- @jdsutter -- for continued updates about the tornado. E-mail him at ctl@cnn.com. Oklahoma City (CNN) -- Nancy ...
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The Other Benghazi Scandal
Thanks to the solid reporting of The Weekly Standard's Stephen F. Hayes among others, we now have a pretty good picture of how the CIA-prepared "talking points" about the events in Benghazi evolved. A document that initially fingered extremist Islamist groups eventually transmogrified into pabulum that would not contradict Rice's storyline about an attack triggered by ...
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Starving for a Beer
takes in its write-up is glib: Headlined "Kim Jong-Ale," it begins by tossing off a reference to North Korea as a country that "commonly experiences famines." But Thomas, the beer-o-phile, is the real scoundrel here. The first warning sign is that throughout the piece, he refers to North Korea as the "DPRK," the regime's preferred name for the country. (It ...
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London bike sharing a success
London in July of 2010 became one of over 44 cities in the world to introduce an aspect of communal consumerism into its public transport system with the implementation of a bike-sharing network and just ten weeks later had recorded over 1 million trips taken, proving the initiative to be feasible and sustainable.
Bike-sharing has been around since as early as the 1960s when the first community bike-sharing scheme was introduced in the Netherlands, but it lacked formal sharing systems and was overly-reliant on the good nature of the public, leading to mass theft, which ultimately destroyed the system. Read more
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