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  • Iran allows eight candidates for presidential race Iran allows eight candidates for presidential race

    TEHRAN - Iran has approved eight candidates for the presidential election due next month, rejecting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's top aide in a major setback to the hawkish leader of the Islamic republic. Ahmadinejad criticised the decision to remove Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from the final candidate list and said it was an act of "oppression". He announced plans to take up the case with ...

  • North Korean special envoy visits China to win confidence North Korean special envoy visits China to win confidence

    PYONGYANG, North Korea - In an indication that North Korea may give diplomacy a chance to end regional tension, its leader Kim Jong Un Wednesday sent a special envoy to China to win the confidence of its most important ally. The trip by Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, a senior Workers' Party official and the military's top political officer, comes after months of ignoring Chinese warnings to ...

  • Breakthrough research shows Vit C kills drug resistant TB Breakthrough research shows Vit C kills drug resistant TB

    WASHINGTON - Adding vitamin C to existing tuberculosis drugs regime could shorten the therapy for drug resistant TB, claims new research findings published in the online scientific journal Nature Communications. The striking discovery, by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, has determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB bacteria in laboratory ...

  • Building materials blamed in Bangladesh disaster

    DHAKA, Bangladesh -; A government investigation found poor quality construction materials and building code violations were among the "series of irregularities" that caused the collapse of a building housing garment factories last month in Bangladesh, the committee head said ...

  • Asian Markets Trade Lower On Economic Worries

    economy following a weak manufacturing report from China. The overnight weak close on Wall Street amid doubts about further monetary stimulus from the U.S. Federal Reserve is also contributing to the weakness in the Asian region.The Australian stock market is trading sharply lower with investors pressing sales at several counters. Financial, consumer staples, industrial, mining and property ...

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Vanishing Point [Blu-Ray]

Vanishing Point [Blu-Ray]

Although it is probably now best known as the film that inspired Quentin Tarantinos Death Proof (2007)--or at least was the film most frequently named-checked--Vanishing Point should be seen as a particularly charged variant of a ... ...

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  • Amnesty International urges governments to do more for refugees

    LONDON: Human rights group Amnesty International has launched its 2013 annual report into global welfare.The organisation, which focuses mainly on dangers faced by refugees, displaced people and migrants, is now calling on global governments to do ...

  • South Korean girl killed by suicide jumper

    A seven-year-old South Korean girl was killedafter being struck by the body of a man as he plunged from his tenth-floor apartment in an apparent suicide, a report said on ...

  • Three Chinese ships in disputed waters Japan coastguard

    A Chinese marine surveillance ship cruises near the disputed islets on April 23, 2013. Three Chinese government ships have entered the waters of disputed islands on Thursday, Japan's coastguard said. ...

  • Asian movies with Western style

    movie s in Taiwan is that I will always see things from a different perspective. My films are about Taiwanese people, but there is a Western sense of humour and film-making style," says the second-generation American. "And there will always be things that only I will notice about the daily lives of Taiwanese, because I find them unique and different. I think the same will happen if I ...

  • Japanese climber 80 becomes oldest atop Everest

    KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- A Nepalese official says 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura has become the oldest man to reach the top of Mount ...

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