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Report Iran hangs 2 men convicted of spying for Mossad CIA
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA spy agency. Sunday's report says Mohammad Heidari, who was accused of providing Mossad with classified information in return of money, and Kourosh Ahmadi, who allegedly gave the CIA intelligence on Iran, were hanged. The report didn't say ...
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RI govt ready to take over Inalum
The Indonesian government is ready to take full control of PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (Inalum) after Japanese consortium Nippon Asahan Aluminum's 30-year contract to manage Inalum expires on Oct.30, an official says."We no longer depend on Japan and are ready to continue developing PT Inalum as a state-owned enterprise company [BUMN] as of Nov.1," Inalum's director of ...
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Pakistan politician shot dead in Karachi
Gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party. Zahra Shahid Hussain was shot dead outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. Ms Hussain was the vice president of former cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (Movement for Justice) in Sindh. No one has claimed responsibility for the killing. ...
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PTI Leader Gunned Down in Karachi
Islamabad, May 19 (BNA) - Just hours before re-elections in some polling stations of NA-250 were due to begin, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf central vice president was shot dead outside her house in Karachi. Zara Shahid Hussain was shot dead outside her house in Defence Phase IV late on Saturday evening, according to Pakistan's (Dunya News). The motive of the attack could not be immediately ...
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Leading Pakistani politician killed
The body of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior female politician from cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, is carried at a hospital in Karachi, in this still image taken from video footage. Photograph: Reuters ...
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Upmarket Pakistan district votes again as Imran Khan decries killing
The body of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior female politician from cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, is carried at a hospital in Karachi, in this still image taken from video footage, May 18, 2013. Hussain was shot and killed by unidentified assailants on Saturday, according to ...
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Tanzania Shein Roots for Strong Ties With Indonesia Denmark
President Ali Mohamed Shein has said that Zanzibar needs stronger relations with development partners including Indonesia and Demark to achieve its development goals. In separate meeting with Indonesia ambassador Mr Zakaria Anshar, and Denmark envoy Mr Johnny Flento, Shein said Zanzibar has been recording admirable progress in development programmes but support remains important. According to ...
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Pakistan holds re-polling after election fraud claims
The Election Commission of Pakistan had ordered re-polling after political parties alleged that election officials had been forcibly stopped from reaching the polling stations on May 11 polling ...
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Zara Shahid Hussain Senior Member Of Pakistan Party Led By Imran Khan Killed By Gunmen
ISLAMABAD, May 19 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition ...
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Asian Five Nations A step backward may help UAE rugby move forward
The UAE's Gareth Armstrong tries to advance the ball against the Philippines Volcanoes in their Asian Five Nations closer at Manila on Saturday ...
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Universal ideals camaraderie bind Indo-StarTrek
Growing up with the Cold War, the space race and watching men landing on the Moon, Berthold Sinaulan found himself captivated when he first saw Star Trek on television."I was a junior high school student when I saw the show, then aired by [government broadcast company] TVRI. It was on a black-and-white television, but it was very colorful to me," 54-year-old Berthold told The Jakarta ...
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W. Tanjungjabung allocates Rp 400m to HIVAIDS control
West Tanjungjabung administration in Jambi province is providing Rp 400 million (US$40,996) worth of funds to combat HIV/AIDS in 2013 due to the large number of cases reported in the regency this year."All of the HIV/AIDS control funds come from the West Tanjungjabung regional budget because there has been no financial assistance provided by the central government for that purpose this ...
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Four arrested for hotel blast in souther Thailand
Four suspects were arrested yesterday in connection with an explosion at a Narathiwat hotel in the morning that left six people injured. The bombing took place at around 11am at Asia Hotel, in Sungai Kolok district of the southernmost Muslim-majority province. Room Nos 306 and 307 on the third floor of the hotel were severely damaged. The impact of the explosion brought down the ceilings of ...
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Asia’s sex imbalance is going to have huge consequences
Paper Edition | Page: 4 Asia will one day be filled with "millions of men desperate for women", Chinese government researchers warned last week.You mean it isn't now? These guys should look out the windows a bit more. Being desperate for women is pretty much the default state for guys aged 13 up.Already, Tianmen city in China's Hubei province is like a World of Warcraft ...
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The week in review The ‘Yes’ answer from Maharani
Paper Edition | Page: 4 The confession by a young woman that she was paid Rp 10 million (US$1,050) to have sex with a flamboyant defendant in a corruption scandal that has rocked a political party, which itself claimed to be corruption-free and based on religious ethics, was a startling relevation for millions of television viewers during a broadcast trial hearing on Friday.The 20-year-old ...
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Global calls to save Aceh forest
Paper Edition | Page: 1 More than a million people worldwide have joined online calls for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to block the Aceh administration's plan to open protected forests for commercial exploitation.Rudi Putra, an Acehnese activist who won the 2013 Future for Nature Award, initiated an online petition on Avaaz.org on May 7, demanding the President step in to the plan. ...
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Finding the quiet side of Thailand’s party island
The monthly full-moon party on Ko Phangan draws tens of thousands of tourists, but there’s much more to the Thai island than hard partying - and a new airport may bring far-reaching ...
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Chinese held in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir over Quran abuse
Muzaffarabad (Pakistan): A Chinese man working on an energy project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) was being held today after hundreds of protesters attacked his company offices over the alleged desecration of a Quran, officials said.Lee Ping, administration manager of a Chinese consortium building the Neelum Jhelum Hydropower project, was accused by co-Pakistani workers of throwing the ...
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Chinese premier heads to India to boost ties
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier is heading to India on his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to expedite efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ...
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Pakistan politician from Khan party gunned down
KARACHI (AFP) - Gunmen have killed a Pakistani politician from Imran Khan's party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of a partial re-run of May 11 polls that were marked by more than 150 killings.Zohra Hussain, 59, vice president of the women's wing of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the province of Sindh, was targeted by three gunmen on a motorcycle outside her home in ...
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In the fast lane
It's more than just muscle cars and packed racing scenes -- Indonesian action star Joe Taslim is giving the latest Fast & Furious 6 action flick some of his own kicks.The judo athlete-turned-actor admitted he was nervous at times during the filming but thrilled to become part of the famous Hollywood franchise, sharing the big screen with names like Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. ...
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Joe Taslim His fast furious moment
Getting a role in Hollywood's blockbuster Fast & Furious 6 is a life-changing moment for actor Johannes "Joe" Taslim."My life has been great. I cannot complain," said the man when summing up the latest development in his five-year acting career.His rise to fame came following his successful role in The Raid action flick by Welsh Gareth Evans in 2011. A year later, ...
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by the way ... Turn on the curiosity spark for the joy of learning
Paper Edition | Page: 1 "What kind of light should an educator share with his or her students?" This is the million dollar question that keeps bothering me.In the hope of easing my mind, I asked third year university students in my class: "What do you want to take home from this class?" Their replies varied from an A to a pass. No one said he or she was there to learn. I ...
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Police Fatal NYC shooting an anti-gay hate crime
A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, in a neighborhood long known as a bedrock of the gay rights movement. New York's police commissioner called the killing a hate crime.Before opening fire early Saturday, the gunman confronted the victim and his companion in Greenwich Village ...
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Jakarta needs more interactive museums
Ramadian, 30, rushed out of the Bank Indonesia museum in the historic Old Town area in West Jakarta on Saturday when his three-year-old son started crying. "He became scared because some of the rooms at the museum were too dark," he said, adding that he had not managed to see all the collections at the museum because of his son's outburst. Ramadian, who visited the Old Town with ...
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Pakistan's darkest hour
What began as the normal monsoon season has turned into the greatest disaster, the greatest humanitarian crisis and the worst floods ever seen in the history of Pakistan. According to the UN, the disaster in Pakistan from 2010 floods is now worse than the 2005 earthquake in the country and the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia combined.
It is a catastrophe of mammoth proportions and the challenge faced by a centrally weak government is how to get food aid to the some 6 million in need of help and provide relief facilities to the 20 million people impacted by the disaster. Read more
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