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Pipeline explosion halts gas supplies to southern China

Pipeline explosion halts gas supplies to southern China
Rockets hit south Beirut after Hezbollah vows Syria victory
Judge rules against ‘America’s toughest sheriff’
Hagel: Sexual assault is a scourge on US military
Will immigration reform get killed in Republican-led House?
Thousands watch murdered anti-Mafia priest beatified
Kerry presses Egypt on economic reform, says aid depends on it
Syrian opposition struggles for unity as battle rages
VIDEO: Tornado alley: Rebuilding Joplin
TV channels balk at 'paying for censorship' in Vietnam
Pipeline explosion halts gas supplies to southern China - Xinhua
MIC-IPF merger on the cards
Swiss democracy in its purest form in Appenzell
Thousands defy Malaysia govt to hold rally
Death toll in Indian Maoist attack rises to 23: police
Frankfurt weathers euro crisis better than rivals
Justin Bieber tops Singapore's Social Star Awards
French soldier stabbed on patrol in Paris
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Pipeline explosion halts gas supplies to southern China

Posted: 25 May 2013 10:47 PM PDT

BEIJING, May 26 — A section of a cross-country gas pipeline in China exploded today, injuring at least two people and halting gas supplies, local media said. The second west-east natural gas pipeline, which transports gas from central Asia to south China, exploded in an industrial zone in China's southeastern province of Jiangxi, state news ...

Rockets hit south Beirut after Hezbollah vows Syria victory

Posted: 25 May 2013 10:02 PM PDT

BEIRUT, May 26 — Two rockets hit a Shia Muslim district of southern Beirut today and wounded several people, residents said, a day after the leader of Lebanese Shia militant movement Hezbollah said his group would continue fighting in Syria until victory. It was the first attack to apparently target Hezbollah's stronghold in the south of the ...

Judge rules against ‘America’s toughest sheriff’

Posted: 25 May 2013 08:39 PM PDT

MARICOPA COUNTY, May 26 — Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio violated the constitutional rights of Latino drivers in his crackdown on illegal immigration, a federal judge found on Friday, and ordered him to stop using race as a factor in law enforcement decisions. The ruling against the Maricopa County sheriff came in response to a class-action lawsuit ...

Hagel: Sexual assault is a scourge on US military

Posted: 25 May 2013 08:29 PM PDT

WEST POINT, May 26 — Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel called sexual assault a "scourge" yesterday as he addressed graduates of the US Military Academy at West Point, where a sergeant stands accused of videotaping female cadets in the showers. "Sexual harassment and sexual assault in the military are a profound betrayal - a profound betrayal - of ...

Will immigration reform get killed in Republican-led House?

Posted: 25 May 2013 07:37 PM PDT

WASHINGTON, May 26 — The biggest overhaul of US immigration laws in a generation won bipartisan approval from a powerful US Senate committee last week, but there is a strong chance that Republicans in the House of Representatives will end up killing it. The problem: House Republicans are far from convinced by arguments from party leaders that ...

Thousands watch murdered anti-Mafia priest beatified

Posted: 25 May 2013 07:11 PM PDT

ROME, May 26 — A Sicilian priest gunned down by the Mafia twenty years ago outside his home in Palermo was beatified in a seafront ceremony yesterday attended by an estimated 100,000 people from all over Italy. Father Giuseppe Puglisi was shot in the back of the head in September 1993 in the crime-ridden Brancaccio district of the Sicilian ...

Kerry presses Egypt on economic reform, says aid depends on it

Posted: 25 May 2013 06:20 PM PDT

ADDIS ABABA, May 26 — US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Egypt to act swiftly on economic reforms to secure a US$4.8 billion (RM15 billion) International Monetary Fund loan, saying the measures were needed to get further aid from the US Congress, an American official said. Kerry met Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi for about an hour on the ...

Syrian opposition struggles for unity as battle rages

Posted: 25 May 2013 06:13 PM PDT

ISTANBUL, May 26 — Syria's opposition resumed talks yesterday aimed at closing their fractious ranks, as government forces launched a fierce onslaught on a rebel-held border town to try to gain the upper hand in the civil war. A failure of the opposition to unite could weaken the hand of Russia and the United States, co-sponsors of a proposed ...

VIDEO: Tornado alley: Rebuilding Joplin

Posted: 26 May 2013 12:26 AM PDT

Two years ago Mr Obama visited Joplin, Missouri, after it too suffered a deadly tornado strike. Tim Muffett has been finding out how residents there have been coping since.

TV channels balk at 'paying for censorship' in Vietnam

Posted: 25 May 2013 11:18 PM PDT

Not content with a 30-minute delay on broadcasts of foreign television channels, communist Vietnam has introduced a brazen new law which observers say could force media outlets such as the BBC and CNN to pay for their own censorship.

Pipeline explosion halts gas supplies to southern China - Xinhua

Posted: 25 May 2013 10:51 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - A section of a cross-country gas pipeline in China exploded on Sunday, injuring at least two people and halting gas supplies, local media said.

MIC-IPF merger on the cards

Posted: 25 May 2013 10:46 PM PDT

To increase its political strength and to maintain its position as the single voice of Malaysian Indians, the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) is said to be considering a merger with the Indian Progressive Front (IPF).

Swiss democracy in its purest form in Appenzell

Posted: 25 May 2013 10:09 PM PDT

Steffan Millius grips his sword and makes his way through the throngs of people crowding into Appenzell's central square to take part in Switzerland's famous direct democracy in perhaps its purest form.