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A branch of city governments China set up to monitor everything from unlicensed street vendors to unauthorized construction is rife with abuse of power, stoking already high social tensions, a rights group said Wednesday.
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The monkey population of Delhi has grown large and aggressive, overwhelming the city’s efforts to control it, but Hindu tradition calls for feeding the monkeys twice a week.
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The CIA publicly acknowledges 15 of its operatives, some previously identified as State Department workers, who were killed in the last 30 years.WASHINGTON — The CIA on Tuesday disclosed the names of 15 of its operatives killed in the line of duty over the last 30...(more)
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A group of 18 people dressed in black, wearing masks, wielding steel batons and claiming to be extreme anti-racists allegedly stormed a Chicago family restaurant in broad daylight to assault a meeting of alleged white supremacists.
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The US could tip into recession if the government does not avert year-end tax hikes and federal spending cuts, auditors say.
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Investigators have closed the case in the deaths of a father and his three young children who were killed in an Ohio house fire two months ago, finding that the tragedy was actually a triple murder-suicide.
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The president must honour her pledge to protect the Amazon rainforest and block the pending land-use legislationA new land-use law proposed by a faction controlled by parochial and rural interests and passed by Brazilian legislators in April threatens to reverse 20 years of struggle to protect...(more)
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Father of the Flash-Matic, the first wireless TV remote controlOn his death at the age of 96, the US inventor Eugene Polley has received the accolade he wanted most: to be recognised as the father of the TV remote control. As he told the Baltimore Sun...(more)
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Notoriously reclusive Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong gives video interview to Certified Practicing Accountants of AustraliaAs the first person to walk on the moon, he is a man whose name will be remembered for generations to come. But perhaps one of the other well-known things about...(more)
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As Egypt votes for a new president, how are Syria, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Jordan doing?The transition to democracy is proving far from easy for countries affected by the Arab spring uprisings. As Egyptians savour an historic day, here is an updated region-wide democracy scorecard.SyriaThe facts:...(more)
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Greek public insurers' inability to pay bills combined with worsening shortage of prescription drugs is causing panicGreece is on the brink of a severe healthcare crisis with shortages of medicines being exacerbated by panic among patients unable to access cancer or cardiac drugs, pharmacists have warned.The...(more)
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Britain's companies are sitting on a huge cash mountain. Where are the 'growth friendly' policies the IMF speaks of?When IMF managing directors become household names, you know the economy is in crisis. That fate, which has been inflicted of hundreds of millions of people across the...(more)
