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US police snare Boston bomb suspect after huge manhunt
BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 20 (AFP) – US police on Friday captured an ethnic Chechen teenager suspected of staging the Boston Marathon bombings after a desperate manhunt that paralyzed the city and its suburbs. Responding to a tip from a local resident, police found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, hiding in a boat in a suburban backyard in Watertown, [...]
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Indian police arrest suspect over rape of 5-year-old girl
NEW DELHI, April 20 (AFP) – A five-year-old Indian girl who was abducted, raped and tortured in New Delhi was alert and stable, doctors said today, as fresh protests erupted over sexual violence in the country. The attack evoked memories of the brutal gang-rape and death of a young female student last December which shook India [...]
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120 dead, thousands injured in China quake
YA’AN, China, April 20 (AFP) – More than 120 people were killed and 3,000 injured when a strong earthquake hit a mountainous part of southwestern China today, destroying thousands of homes and triggering landslides. The shallow earthquake struck Sichuan province on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau just after 8:00 am, prompting a major rescue operation [...]
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High drama as new Venezuelan president sworn in
CARACAS, April 19, (AFP) – Nicolas Maduro was sworn in as president of Venezuela on Friday, in a ceremony replete with drama as he replaced the late Hugo Chavez and urged dialogue with the opposition to build a better country. To cheers in the National Assembly, Maduro dedicated his oath of office to “the eternal memory [...]
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Pervez Musharraf’s doomed homecoming
By M Ilyas Khan Since his return to the Pakistan last month, former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has stumbled from one problem to another. His difficulties have gone from bad to worse. Days after he ended his self-imposed exile, he suffered the insult of having a shoe thrown at him in a crowded corridor of a [...]
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Global effort to combat wartime rape and sexual violence
By William Hague Too often, the world seeks to end a conflict and rebuild war-torn societies without addressing the very reasons that make reconciliation so difficult and which contribute to renewed violence. Wartime rape and sexual violence is one of those reasons. Two weeks ago I visited the Democratic Republic of Congo and was handed a [...]
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Egyptian democracy’s last chance?
By Álvaro de Vasconcelos CAIRO – Egypt’s upcoming general election could help to consolidate its nascent democracy and provide legitimacy to the government’s efforts to address the social, political, economic, and security challenges facing the country. But no election, however successfully conducted, will be enough: Unless Egypt overcomes its current political polarisation and builds a broad [...]
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Prof. Mendis sees link between Chinese dream and the American destiny
BEIJING, China – At the end of his two-month long study and lecture tour in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy has invited Prof. Patrick Mendis to speak about President Xi Jinping’s idea of the “Chinese dream” and emerging US-China relations. The new catchphrase that resonates with the “American [...]
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James Bond goes “Solo” in new book by William Boyd
LONDON (Reuters) – The latest James Bond novel is titled “Solo” and will see the world’s most famous fictional spy go on an unauthorized mission at the height of the Cold War, the author of the book said on Monday. The plot of the book focuses on Africa, but spans Europe and the United States, as [...]
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Thirty-three percent of world’s poorest live in India
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has 33 percent of the world’s poorest 1.2 billion people, even though the country’s poverty rate is half as high as it was three decades ago, according to a new World Bank report. India reduced the number of its poor from 429 million in 1981 to 400 million in 2010, and [...]
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China bird flu mutated “under the radar”
(Reuters) – The new strain of bird flu that has killed 17 people in China has been circulating widely “under the radar” and has acquired significant genetic diversity that makes it more of a threat, scientists said on Friday. Dutch and Chinese researchers who analyzed genetic data from seven samples of the new H7N9 strain say [...]
