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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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Alleged arms dealer in America following extradition
Richard Chichakli, who has been tied to convicted international arms dealer Viktor Bout, has been extradited from Australia to the US. The 53 year old alleged financial muscle behind the Bout gun-running organisation had been living in Melbourne under an alias before authorities arrested him in January. Syrian-born Chichakli had managed to evade police while working as a cleaner in the ...
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Police make more arrests in London murder
Three men have been arrested in London over the murder of the British soldier, Lee Rigby, 25, who was allegedly hacked to death by Islamist extremists. Two men aged 28 and 24 were arrested at their home in southeast London, while a 21-year-old man was arrested in a London street. Police are considering laying conspiracy to murder charges against the trio. They are being held by Counter ...
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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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Arizona sheriff told to stop profiling Latinos
A US court in Maricopa County, Arizona has found that high-profile sheriff Joe Arpaio violated the constitutional rights of Latino men and women in his attempt to stop illegal immigration. Judge Murray Snow ruled that Arpaio's office would have to stop using race or Latino ancestry as a factor in stopping vehicles carrying Latino occupants. Arpaio had been sued by several Hispanic drivers ...
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Pakistani children die as bus explodes
At least 17 children have died in eastern Pakistan following an explosion on a school bus. Other children were also injured when a faulty gas cylinder on board the bus exploded. The incident occurred on the outskirts of the city of Gujrat, which is located about 200km southeast of the capital, Islamabad. Police have confirmed the children were on their way to school when the bus was ...
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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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Church objects to gay march in Kiev
A court in Kiev has banned Ukraine's first gay pride event. The court ruled the march, would have attracted anti-gay activists into the centre of the city, where annual Kiev Day celebrations would also have been taking place. A group of opponents led by the Orthodox Church led the objections to the march. The Church, through its Archpriest Georgy Kovalenko, issued the grounds for ...
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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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Why I think were wasting billions on global warming by top British climate scientist
Last week, I was part of a group of academics who published a paper saying that the faster, more alarming, projections of the rate at which the globe is warming look less likely than previously ...
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Revealed The EUs great green U-turn on policy that is sending energy bills soaring across the continent
It is now urging members to restore Europe’s competitiveness by ‘fracking’ for cheap natural gas from shale, instead of pushing ‘renewable’ energy subsidies which cost consumers billions of ...
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Bud Britains bravest police horse returns to duty after being punched by football thug
Bud, who belongs to the West Yorkshire force, was hit by a Newcastle United fan following the team’s defeat to arch-rivals Sunderland last ...
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PETER HITCHENS For once a stupid insult is more important than brutal murder
By far the most important event of the week is the attempt to conceal the truth – that the leadership of the Tory Party hate their members and their ...
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Rachel Johnson My generation is soft Tell that to a Cub leader from Cornwall
But Mrs Loyau-Kennett was trained not just in first aid as a Brownie and Cub Scout leader, but in attitude, too. She had clearly taken to heart the Scout ...
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How COULD you boycott my daughters wedding Mothers fury as Lady Bath snubs wedding of her only son to bride set to become Britains first Black marchioness
The mother of Emma McQuiston, who will become Britain’s first black marchioness, has lambasted Lord and Lady Bath for refusing to attend her daughter’s wedding to their only ...
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The wrath of Widdy Ann Widdecombe brands Michael Howard a gloating bully and blasts Cameron for being obsessed with his image in explosive new book
Perhaps the most famous example was when I attacked Michael Howard as having something of the night about him and thereby ruined his hopes of the Tory leadership in ...
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Sunday paper of the year Judges praise us for more scoops must-read columnists and riveting exposes at top awards
The Mail on Sunday last week scooped one of the newspaper industry’s most coveted honours, being named Sunday Newspaper of the Year at the London Press Club ...
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Key witness in bizarre trial of Alexander Lebedev backs media tycoon as the victim goes missing AGAIN
Mr Lebedev, 53, faces up to five years in jail if convicted of ‘politically motivated hooliganism’ in a case some observers say is driven by the Kremlin or other powerful figures seeking to jail him in revenge for his anti-corruption campaigns. The move came as a picture was released allegedly showing Mr Polonsky, 40, relaxing by the sea in Israel, despite claiming he could not leave ...
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El Salvadorian village getting outside help with water needs
A non-profit organization, the Minnesota State Mankato chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) has set their sights on El Salvador and will be travelling to a small village in Piedras Azules to help the local community with their water access needs.
The problem is that in the village in Piedras Azules there is just one water source with unreliable water access as the water table changes depending on the time of year and the weather. This leads to long queues at the well, with some residents sometimes waking up at midnight to beat the water rush. Read more
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