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Police arrest two in new anti-Muslim unrest in Myanmar
YANGON (AFP) - Two Buddhists have been arrested after Muslim shops were destroyed in northern Kachin State, police said Saturday, in a new outbreak of religious violence.
May 5, 2013, 5:59 am
Chinese boat damaged Philippine reef: marine official
MANILA (AFP) - A Chinese fishing vessel that crashed into one of the Philippines' most famous reefs damaged almost 4,000 square metres of centuries-old coral, the marine park said on Saturday.
May 5, 2013, 5:37 am
France wants to boost Japan relations, maintain China ties
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) - France wants to boost its relations with Japan all the while maintaining strong ties with China, despite simmering diplomatic tensions between the two Asian giants, France's top diplomat said in an interview published on Saturday.
May 5, 2013, 5:37 am
Australia's Barrier Reef set for heritage downgrade: UNESCO
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia insisted it was committed to protecting the Great Barrier Reef on Saturday after the UN warned that the natural wonder's world heritage status could be in downgraded in 2014.
May 5, 2013, 5:13 am
39 die in Nigerian religious violence: police
KANO, Nigeria (AFP) - Thirty-nine people died and 30 were injured in fierce fighting between Christian and Muslim mobs in central Nigeria's Taraba state on Friday, prompting a round-the-clock curfew, police said.
May 5, 2013, 5:05 am
EU slams Hypo restructuring, threatens aid recovery
VIENNA (Reuters) - Nationalised Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria
May 5, 2013, 4:40 amhas failed to justify the state aid it has received and may have to pay it back if it does not improve on its latest rest... 
At least 62 bodies found in Syria's Banias: watchdog
BEIRUT (AFP) - The bodies of at least 62 murdered residents have been found in a Sunni neighbourhood of the Syrian city of Banias, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday.
May 5, 2013, 4:03 am
Anwar says only fraud can stop Malaysia opposition
PERMATANG PAUH, Malaysia (AFP) - Anwar Ibrahim said only fraud can stop his Malaysian opposition from scoring a historic election win as the rival sides launched a last-ditch campaign blitz Saturday on the eve of a tense vote.
May 5, 2013, 3:51 am
Bomb 'kills five US troops in southern Afghanistan'
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - A huge roadside bomb killed five US troops in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, in the deadliest attack on NATO-led forces this year.
May 5, 2013, 3:13 am
France spurns call to take over Saint-Nazaire shipyard
PARIS (Reuters) - France dismissed on Saturday calls to nationalise the Saint-Nazaire shipyard in the western part of the country after South Korea's STX Offshore & Shipbuilding <067250.KS> ...
May 5, 2013, 3:11 am
Buffett devotees stick by him even as growth slows
By Jonathan Stempel and Jennifer Ablan
May 5, 2013, 3:06 am
OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Short-seller Douglas Kass, Warren Buffett's handpicked bear, raised a concern on the minds of many shareholders at the...
UN urges Bangladesh to close unsafe factories
DHAKA (AFP) - The UN's labour agency urged Bangladesh to close unsafe factories as search teams on Saturday pulled more bodies from the wreckage of the nation's worst industrial disaster, pushing the death toll to at least 550.
May 5, 2013, 2:54 am
Hungarian far-right decries "Israeli plot" before Jewish meeting
By Tom Heneghan and Gergely Szakacs
May 5, 2013, 2:34 am
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Leaders of a far-right Hungarian party accused Israelis of plotting to buy up the country as several hundred nationalists protes...
Dubai aims to treble tourism income by 2020
By Matt Smith
May 5, 2013, 2:29 am
DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai aims to treble its annual income from tourism to 300 billion dirhams (52.65 billion pounds) by 2020, which would involve doubling the number of its...
Hundreds protest proposed China chemical plant
BEIJING (AFP) - Hundreds of people protested against a proposed chemical plant in southwest China on Saturday, state media said, while residents in another city accused authorities of preventing a similar protest.
May 5, 2013, 2:27 am
Maduro accuses ex-Colombian leader of plotting assassination
CARACAS (AFP) - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has accused Colombian ex-president Alvaro Uribe of plotting his assassination with sectors of the right wing he says are seeking his overthrow.
May 5, 2013, 2:20 am
Syrian Sunnis flee coastal town after night of killing
By Erika Solomon
May 5, 2013, 12:56 am
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hundreds of Sunni Muslim families fled the Syrian coastal town of Banias on Saturday after fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad killed at leas...
No chance Swiss tax deal can be renegotiated - German finance minister
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's finance minister sees no chance of renegotiating a failed bilateral deal with Switzerland that would have sought to sweep Swiss accounts clean of German tax dodgers, even ...
May 5, 2013, 12:34 am
Former Finmeccanica chief released from jail
MILAN (Reuters) - Former Finmeccanica Chairman and CEO Giuseppe Orsi, who faces a trial in June over allegations of corruption in a helicopter deal with India, was released from jail on Saturday, his ...
May 4, 2013, 11:55 pm
Obama does 'not foresee' US troops in Syria
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AFP) - President Barack Obama came close to ruling out deploying US troops to Syria, saying he did not foresee a scenario in which that would be beneficial to the United States or Syria.
May 4, 2013, 11:45 pm
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Ken Ring
May 14, 11:46 amWhy climate is unlikely to be changingHumans walk at about three miles an hour, and run at around five. It is the shape and musculature of the human body that determines this. We are nei...
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James Robins
May 15, 2:33 pmAP, DOJ, GCSBI've joined Twitter. Follow me here: @James_ARobins“Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose” – G...
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On the radar
May 10, 8:59 amSoldier gets sucked out of planeThis video captures the split-second moment a US soldier is sucked out of a plane.When his parachute ripcord is triggered as he crouches on the open ...
