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  • North Korea envoy hands over China's Xi a note of peace North Korea envoy hands over China's Xi a note of peace

    BEIJING - A senior North Korean envoy delivered a letter from his leader Kim Jong-un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him that Pyongyang was ready to take "positive action" to re-join stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks. The letter was handed over by envoy, Vice Marshal Choe Ryong-hae. Choe told Xi that North Korea is willing to take positive actions to solve problems ...

  • World becoming dangerous for refugees, warns Amnesty World becoming dangerous for refugees, warns Amnesty

    LONDON - Global rights body Amnesty International has said that the world is "increasingly" becoming "dangerous place" for refugees due to inaction on human rights. The London-based group in its annual report cited the increasing number of refugees around the world, and highlighted the lack of support for them, as the key human rights issue for the past year. It said that the number of ...

  • UN rights experts call for stronger protection of victims of caste-based discrimination UN rights experts call for stronger protection of victims of caste-based discrimination

    24 May 2013 150 More than 260 million people across the world are still victims of human rights abuses due to caste-based discrimination, United Nations independent experts warned today, urging South Asian countries to strengthen legislation to protect them. "Caste-based discrimination remains widespread and deeply rooted, its victims face structural discrimination, marginalization and ...

  • China clears Boeing 787s for commercial service

    Beijing, May 24 (Xinhua-ANI): The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) issued a certification for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner Thursday, a milestone for the 787 to begin commercial service in China. The CAAC presented Boeing with a Validation of Type Certification (VTC), indicating that the design of the 787 Dreamliner is compliant with China's aviation regulations and that China endorses ...

  • US push on Myanmar enters new phase

    After a landmark visit by Thein Sein, the United States is looking to a new phase of greater cooperation to encourage reform with Myanmar as it runs out of major symbolic ...

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Ratcatcher [DVD]

Ratcatcher [DVD]

Lynne Ramsey's feature debut Ratcatcher won't win any awards for originality of subject matterafter all, the pains of adolescence in the lower economic strata depicted in a social-realist manner is hardly new in British filmmakingbut it is done so deftly, with such a exquisitely poetic touch and keen understanding of the paradoxical coexistence of filth and beauty in the world, that you ca ... ...

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  • China woos Lanka with $580m loan

    BEIJING: China stepped up its efforts to win over another South Asian country, Sri Lanka, with its state-owned bank extending $580 million in loans days ahead of president Mahinda Rajapaksa's visit to Beijing on May 27-30. ...

  • Jet on fire shuts down Heathrow for an hour

    Heathrow , was thrown into chaos after a flight that took off for Oslo made a U-turn following an engine fire. As many as 75 passengers had a close shave ...

  • UK fighters escort Pak plane after midair scare

    Pakistan International Airlines pilot sent out an emergency call alarmed by two men trying to barge into the cockpit. Both the men were arrested after the plane was escorted by Royal Air Force fighters and diverted from Manchester to the ...

  • Kin mourn the death of big brother

    terrorist attack in Woolwich. The shattered family of Rigby recalled the soldier as a doting father who would do "anything for anybody". The soldier, who was married and had a two-year-old son, was described as a "loving son, husband, father, brother and uncle, and a friend to many". In a statement, Rigby's family said: "Lee was lovely. He would do anything for ...

  • 5 climbers feared dead on worlds third-highest peak in Nepal

    Five men who disappeared earlier this week trying to climb the world's third-highest mountain are feared dead, searchers leading the recovery effort in Nepal said on Friday, saying few could survive this ...

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