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21 May 2012, 4:54 am |
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rudolf timaar [ mail: rudolf.timaar[at]about-warren.com | homepage: rudolf.about-warren.com ]
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Blind Chinese activist Chen rests in NYC |
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 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng soaked up the sun in New York City on Sunday as his children played in a garden, a break in a day of meetings to arrange his studies at New York University. "(Chen) said he hadn't sat in the sun for many, many years," said Jerome Cohen, a China law expert and professor at New York University's law school, where Chen will study. "He wanted to go out in the garden ... his kids went out first and then he went out," Cohen, who has become a confidante of Chen's, told Reuters. ...
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21 May 2012, 4:44 am |
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beatrice atin [ mail: beatrice.atin[at]an-neuss.de | homepage: beatrice.an-neuss.de ]
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Nasdaq 'embarrassed' by glitch |
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 The chief executive of Nasdaq said the stock exchange is "humbly embarrassed" by its bungling of Facebook's hugely anticipated debut as a public company on Friday.
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21 May 2012, 3:37 am |
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hugo nigdri [ mail: hugo.nigdri[at]fickschlitten.com | homepage: hugo.fickschlitten.com ]
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Ruling party headed for first round win in Dominican election |
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 Santo Domingo (Reuters) - Early results in presidential elections in the Dominican Republic show ruling party candidate Danilo Medina headed for revenge 12 years after he lost in a landslide to opposition candidate Hipolito Mejia. With 30 percent of votes counted Medina, the candidate for the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), held nearly a 5 percentage point lead (51.4 percent-46.7 percent) over Mejia and the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), according to official election results. That would be enough for Medina, 60, to secure an outright first-round victory. ...
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21 May 2012, 3:30 am |
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hanne arwludat [ mail: hanne.arwludat[at]brasei.de | homepage: hanne.brasei.de ]
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Pakistan restores access to Twitter |
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 Pakistan restored access to Twitter after briefly blocking the microblog over "blasphemous" posts about a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
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21 May 2012, 3:09 am |
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birgit nehzi [ mail: birgit.nehzi[at]an-neuss.de | homepage: birgit.an-neuss.de ]
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NATO to hand combat role to Afghans as it seeks way out of war |
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 CHICAGO (Reuters) - NATO will hand over the lead role in combat operations to Afghan forces across the country by mid-2013, alliance leaders said on Sunday as they charted a path out of a war that has lost public support and strained budgets in Western nations. A NATO summit in Chicago on Monday will formally endorse a U.S.-backed strategy for a gradual exit from Afghanistan, a move aimed at holding together an allied force scrambling to cope with France's decision to withdraw its troops early. ...
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