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- Clinton leaves China while dissident Chen stays in hospital
- Chinese newspaper apologizes for anti-Chen, anti-U.S. editorial
- Conservative Johnson re-elected London mayor
- "Avengers" May Come In with $65Mil-$67Mil Friday Night
- Hundreds march as Japan goes without nuclear power
- Ahmadinejad rivals cement hold on Iran parliament
- Officials: US drone strike kills 8 in Pakistan
- VIDEO: 9/11 families seek justice in Cuba
- Big Google May Be Facing Bigger Fines ??? But at Who's Behest?
- China Offers Alternative To Facebook
- U.S. drone strike kills nine in Pakistan, officials say
- London re-elects Boris Johnson as mayor
- Walter Kwok Arrested Amid Probe
- U.S. drone strike kills nine in Pakistan, officials say
- From China Activist's Flight, a Diplomatic Crisis
- VIDEO: Beastie Boys' Yauch dies aged 47
- VIDEO: Tunisia's bid to boost tourism
- Crisis over blind activist Chen Guangcheng pushes U.S. and China down familiar path
- What lessons should the U.S. draw from Europe’s debacle?
- Dell Not Subject To Damage Claim For Collecting Too Much Sales Tax
| Clinton leaves China while dissident Chen stays in hospital Posted: 04 May 2012 11:10 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left Beijing on Saturday after tumultuous negotiations with China over the blind rights activist Chen Guangcheng, who plans to travel to the United States under a deal to end the standoff.
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| Chinese newspaper apologizes for anti-Chen, anti-U.S. editorial Posted: 05 May 2012 10:47 PM PDT BEIJING — In the fall of last year, when The Beijing News was taken over by the capital city's propaganda department, readers and journalists feared the once hard-hitting publication would tone down its coverage and become just another mouthpiece for local Communist Party branch. Read full article >>   
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| Conservative Johnson re-elected London mayor Posted: 04 May 2012 10:46 PM PDT Boris Johnson beats Labour rival, but his party and Liberal Democrats suffer crushing nationwide defeat in local polls.
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| "Avengers" May Come In with $65Mil-$67Mil Friday Night Posted: 04 May 2012 10:30 PM PDT ?The Avengers? hit the US on Friday night like thunder and lightning. The Marvel comics all star film looks like it well settle out between $65 million and $67 million just for Friday night. A $150 million weekend seems likely, maybe higher, depending on how Saturday and Sunday audiences turn out. There will be a ...
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| Hundreds march as Japan goes without nuclear power Posted: 04 May 2012 10:36 PM PDT
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| Ahmadinejad rivals cement hold on Iran parliament Posted: 04 May 2012 10:24 PM PDT Final results for many constituencies in Iran's parliamentary runoff elections show conservative rivals of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad winning a solid majority of seats and cementing their hold on the legislature.
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| Officials: US drone strike kills 8 in Pakistan Posted: 04 May 2012 08:10 PM PDT
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| VIDEO: 9/11 families seek justice in Cuba Posted: 04 May 2012 09:49 PM PDT Relatives of some of the victims of 9/11 have arrived in Cuba, ahead of the military tribunal of the man accused of masterminding the attacks.
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| Big Google May Be Facing Bigger Fines ??? But at Who's Behest? Posted: 04 May 2012 09:48 PM PDT Google is negotiating with the FTC over the amount of fines for its Apple Safari ad tracking breach. "The fine could amount to more than $10 million dollars, said the person, who declined to be identified because the talks are confidential. The fine would be the first by the FTC for a violation of Internet privacy as the agency steps up enforcement of consumers' online rights."
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| China Offers Alternative To Facebook Posted: 04 May 2012 09:32 PM PDT Here's something investors could consider buying as an alternative to Facebook: a big chunk of the Chinese Internet.
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| U.S. drone strike kills nine in Pakistan, officials say Posted: 04 May 2012 08:33 PM PDT MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone aircraft killed nine suspected militants on Saturday in Pakistan's North Waziristan region near the Afghan border, Pakistani security officials said. The controversial drone program, a key element in U.S. counter-terrorism efforts, is highly unpopular in Pakistan where it is considered a violation of sovereignty which causes unacceptable civilian casualties. In Saturday's strike, a drone fired missiles at a compound in the Shawal area of North Waziristan, killing the nine, said the officials who declined to be identified. ...
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| London re-elects Boris Johnson as mayor Posted: 04 May 2012 06:42 PM PDT
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| Walter Kwok Arrested Amid Probe Posted: 04 May 2012 08:00 PM PDT Hong Kong's Sun Hung Kai Properties said Walter Kwok, former chairman and the eldest son of the company's founding family, was arrested by the city's antigraft agency in connection with a bribery probe.
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| U.S. drone strike kills nine in Pakistan, officials say Posted: 04 May 2012 08:33 PM PDT MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone aircraft killed nine suspected militants on Saturday in Pakistan's North Waziristan region near the Afghan border, Pakistani security officials said.
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| From China Activist's Flight, a Diplomatic Crisis Posted: 04 May 2012 10:12 PM PDT The case of blind dissident Chen Guangcheng's harrowing escape from house arrest and tense U.S.-China negotiations reveals an episode that once seemed to promise a mature new phase in the two world powers' relations but turned into a crisis and a demonstration of how much misunderstanding remains.
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| VIDEO: Beastie Boys' Yauch dies aged 47 Posted: 04 May 2012 06:52 PM PDT Beastie Boys rapper Adam Yauch has died at the age of 47, three years after being diagnosed with cancer.
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| VIDEO: Tunisia's bid to boost tourism Posted: 04 May 2012 07:22 PM PDT Simon Atkinson reports on the state of Tunisia's tourist industry, more than one year after the start of the Arab Spring.
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| Crisis over blind activist Chen Guangcheng pushes U.S. and China down familiar path Posted: 04 May 2012 11:36 AM PDT HONG KONG — After days of diplomatic tumult triggered by the plight of Chen Guangcheng, the dissident lawyer who fled house arrest to find temporary sanctuary at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China and the United States are now in an uncomfortable but familiar place — struggling to contain an unforeseen upheaval that, like many others since Richard Nixon met Mao Zedong in 1972, has soured but is not expected to shatter a relationship each country considers too important to fail. Read full article >>
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| What lessons should the U.S. draw from Europe’s debacle? Posted: 04 May 2012 05:42 PM PDT Europe is a mess. But it's a peculiar mess that both the left and the right think validates everything they've been saying about what we should — and shouldn't — do here in the United States. "The right argues we have to cut deficits now, or we'll be like Greece," says Tom Gallagher, a principal at the Scowcroft Group. "The left argues we can't cut deficits now, or we'll be like Europe." Read full article >>
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| Dell Not Subject To Damage Claim For Collecting Too Much Sales Tax Posted: 04 May 2012 06:51 PM PDT Sometimes, it is not nearly as much fun to be a major corporation as those Occupy folks seem to think.?? Take sales tax for example.?? The states are all over Amazon to collect sales tax from its customers.?? Funny that the states do not think that their citizens can be trusted to pay over use ...
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