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Tunisians Fear Growing Threat of Radical Islamists
PARIS -- Police in Tunisia fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing Islamists in two cities after the government banned the hardline Ansar al-Shariah group from staging its annual congress Sunday. The events underscore the growing clout of Muslim extremists in the once staunchly secular North African country. The assassination of secular opposition leader Chokri Belaid in February sparked ...
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Nigeria Government Encouraged with Military Offensive Progress
An advisor to Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan says the government is encouraged by the progress of the ongoing military offensive against the Islamic militant sect, Boko Haram. "The majority of the various camps where the terrorists have converted into their hideouts have been heavily bombarded, both by air and on land. And I’m just receiving a report that about 55 ...
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UMY students invent blood vessel-detecting device
Three students of Yogyakarta Muhammadiyah University (UMY) have invented a device that can help detect blood vessels on children under five and reduce the risk of inaccurate needle insertion which can damage blood vessels."Children's blood vessels are very fragile and they can be damaged by failure in inserting the injection needle," said Ade Pajar Pirdianto, a student of the ...
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Mexico has faith in Asian-Pacific future
Mexico is in a great moment. Macroeconomic stability and a low debt rate are part of our strengths as one of the top 15 economies in the world. We are an economy with a broad social perspective fully inserted into international trade, with an exchange of goods and services that amounts more than $700 billion each year. We offer a secure and trustworthy environment for foreign investment. Our ...
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Gunmen Kill Khans Senior Official Ahead of Pakistan Recount
was shot dead on Saturday outside the gates of her home in Karachi, Pakistan, hours before several re-elections were scheduled to take place in the country on ...
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Garment factory owner barred from leaving Bangladesh
Bangladesh's top court on Sunday ordered police to prevent the owner of a garmentfactory that catered to top Western retailers from leaving the country, six months after 111 of his employees died in a ...
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Singapore’s Changi Airport Seeks Growth With Gold Tuna
Changi Airport , Southeast Asia's largest freight airfield, plans to attract more gold bars, tuna and vaccines to Singapore as it seeks to increase handling of high-value cargo to make up for slowing trade. The airport may process 7 percent more cargo by volume for pharmaceutical products such as vaccine and test drugs, as well as perishable goods including tuna and meat this year, ...
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Sri Lanka sexes up Ceylon tea’s image
KANDANA, SRI LANKA - A hot cup of Ceylon tea is better known as being soothing and relaxing, but Sri Lanka is now marketing its most profitable export as a luxury boost for the libido. The tea industry is increasingly plugging Ceylon’s supposed aphrodisiac qualities in a bid to radically change perceptions of the brew, which manufacturers say can sell for less than water in some markets. ...
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Thai Super League Wrap Muangthong extend their lead at the top
Michael Byrne grabbed the crucial goal after 74 minutes to wrap it up. Mid-table duo Army United and Songkhla played out a 1-1 draw in Sunday's other ...
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Report Says Iran Hangs 2 Spies Working for Israel US
DUBAI, UAE -- Iranian authorities executed two men on Sunday convicted of working for Israeli and U.S. spy agencies, Iran's Fars news agency reported. Mohammad Heidari, accused of passing security-related information and secrets to Israeli Mossad agents in exchange for money, and Kourosh Ahmadi, accused of gathering information for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, were hanged at ...
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Military Attack wins Singapore Airlines Cup to make it Hong Kongs night
Military Attack and Zac Purton are led in after the Singapore Airlines International Cup by George Moore, son of trainer John Moore. Photograph: Neville ...
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Asian-American Pentecostal Theologian on Transnational Character of Evangelicalism Racialization in the Church
Editor's Note: This is the second part of a four-part series based on the new book, "Aliens in the Promised Land: Why Minority Leadership Is Overlooked in White Christian Churches and Institutions." The Christian Post series looks at racism and multi-ethnicity in the church from the perspective of African-American, Hispanic and Asian-American Christian leaders. Part One, an ...
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Cabrera Asian Karting Open junior champ
TEEN karter Gabe Tayao-Cabrera triumphed by just a fraction of a second to capture the Formula 125 Open Junior crown and emerge as the top Filipino finisher in the Philippine leg of the 2013 Asian Karting Open Championships held over the weekend at Carmona Racetrack in Cavite. Cabrera completed the 22-lap final race in 16 minutes and 12.090 seconds, just 0.424 ticks ahead of Singaporean Jon Lee ...
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Nawaz Sharifs party gets majority in Pakistan parliament
Several independent candidates belonging to influential political families of Punjab and Sindh provinces are among those who have joined the PML-N, which emerged the single largest party in the May 11 general election by winning 124 ...
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Syrian TV Troops Enter Rebel Stronghold of Qusair
Syrian state television says government troops have entered the rebel town of Qusair as part of a weeks-long offensive to recapture the strategic area connecting Damascus to the Mediterranean ...
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Pakistan holds repeat poll despite killing
KARACHI (AFP) - Under tight security, Pakistani officials Sunday held a repeat election in a district of violence-plagued Karachi, despite the killing of a senior politician in the city the day before.Troops, police and paramilitary rangers backed up by armoured personnel carriers guarded the 43 polling stations in the NA-250 constituency, following claims of ballot-stuffing there during the May ...
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Four more bodies recovered from collapsed tunnel
The bodies of four more victims of a tunnel collapse at the Big Gossan underground training facility at the PT Freeport Indonesia mine have been recovered by the company's Emergency Response Group (ERG).The victims were identified as Aris Tikupasang, Hengki Hendambo, Jhoni Tulak and Viktor Sanger.Jhoni's body was brought out at around 10 p.m. local time on Saturday; it was subsequently ...
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Egypt police close Israel border to protest kidnap
Scores of Egyptian police have blocked a commercial border crossing with Israel to protest the abduction of their colleagues in the volatile Sinai peninsula.The closure Sunday left around 40 trucks stranded at Awja crossing, according to Ahmed Osman, a civil servant there.Suspected militants abducted seven Egyptian policemen on Thursday. Security officials said the kidnappers are demanding the ...
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Violence against children becoming more prevalent in Riau Islands
Regional Commission on Children Monitoring and Protection (KPPAD) in Riau Islands says violence against children in the province continues to increase and most the cases are sexual.KPPAD commissioner Erry Syahrial said on Sunday that the commission dealt with 152 cases of violence against children in 2012, up from 110 the previous year."The biggest number was of sexual violence against ...
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Bangladesh court orders action against factory owner in Nov fire
Delwar Hossain, owner of the Tazreen Fashions garment factory, where 112 workers died in a devastating fire last month, speaks during an interview at the office of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers & Exporters Association (BGMEA) in Dhaka November 29, ...
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Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio is endemic
Pakistan: Doctors wanted the family to pay a bribe to get into the Intensive Care Unit – corrupt system contribute to unnecessary ...
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Serena Williams beats Azarenka to win Italian Open
US Serena Williams returns the ball to Belarus' Victoria Azarenka during their final match at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, Sunday, May 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew ...
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Islamists Riot in Tunisia After Major Rally is Banned
Radical Islamists in Tunisia have engaged in street battles with police after authorities banned thousands of them from holding an annual conference in the center of the country. The radical activists, also known as Salafists, threw stones at Tunisian police who deployed heavily in the central town of Kairouan to prevent them from gathering on Sunday. Police responded to the stone throwers by ...
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Military impresses in Singapore Cup
Military Attack ran out an ultra-impressive winner of the Singapore Airlines International Cup at Kranji. Raced under the name of Rave for John Hills in Britain, Military Attack has developed a new lease of life as a five-year-old in Hong Kong and put this race to bed within a matter of strides. Ed Dunlop's globetrotter Red Cadeaux was forced to concede plenty of ground by making his move ...
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Pope warns Church against closing in on itself
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis warned the Catholic Church to not close in on itself at a Mass to mark Pentecost Sunday attended by more than 200,000 people, urging the faithful to be open and present in a new and changing ...
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Sri Lanka sees major tourism industry investment
Sri Lanka’s tourism industry, especially the cruising scene, is getting back on its feet following the war, with significant interest being shown by major cruise lines wanting to schedule Sri Lankan ports on Indian Ocean Cruises, while the local yachting scene is seeing exciting growth and a local cruise industry may be emerging from infancy.
Sri Lanka, following the long and devastating civil war, which lasted around two and a half decades, is now making renewed attempts to redevelop its tourist industry. The industry is extremely import to the economy of Sri Lanka and is a vital part of the country’s access to foreign currency reserves, but saw marked declines in tourist arrivals during periods in which the ongoing civil war was perceived to be increasing in intensity and violence. Read more
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