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  • Multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling ring with terror links busted Multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling ring with terror links busted

    NEW YORK - Authorities in New York are claiming to have busted a multi-million cigarette smuggling ring and arrested at least 16 Palestinian immigrants having alleged links with known terror organisations. Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly Thursday said that the 16 members of the criminal ring in New York City, Albany County and Schenectady County ...

  • Russian cruise missiles sent to Syria Russian cruise missiles sent to Syria

    WASHINGTON - Russia has sent advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria in a move that underscores its support to the beleaguered regime of President Bashar Al Assad in the war-torn Arab nation, officials citing credible intelligence reports said here. The New York Times reported Friday that the new missiles sent to Syria have an advanced radar system that makes them "more effective". ...

  • Philippines rejects Taiwan murder claims

    The Philippines Saturday rejected Taiwan's allegations that its coastguards had intentionally murdered a Taiwanese fisherman whose death has triggered a major diplomatic ...

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    Indigo airlines' Rs 100 extra charge for middle seat irks flyers IndiGo is perhaps the only airline in the world that charges a fee for that uncomfortable seat sandwiched between the window and aisle ...

  • Canada’s NDP denounces China signals support for Obama’s “Asia Pivot”

    Canada's Official Opposition, the trade union-backed New Democratic Party (NDP), brought forward a motion last month to scuttle the recently negotiated Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA).Though their motion was doomed to be overwhelmingly defeated and quickly forgotten, the social democrats used the occasion to repeatedly denounce the ...

Movie Review

Bad Boys (1983) [DVD]

Bad Boys (1983) [DVD]

Bad Boys is a well-made juvenile delinquent melodrama set primarily in a tough reform school for boys. The general plot outline could have been taken from any number of generic late '50s-era JD exploitations filmseven the self-descriptive title, with its duel emphasis on dangerousness ("bad") and youth ("boys," not "men") is reminiscent of films such as Young and Wild (1958), The ... ...

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  • Workers Struggles Asia Australia and the Pacific

    Jasper Auto Services workers in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh demonstrated outside the company's premises on May 14 to oppose the sacking of 50 employees and the transfer of four others. Almost all workers had been at the car sales outlet for 25 years. They claimed to have been victimised for demanding a wage rise. The protest was organised by the Stalinist CPI-affiliated All India Trade ...

  • US proposes $75.4 million aid to Myanmar

    Myanmar government to continue with its reforms, US has proposed USD 75.4 million for fiscal 2014 in aid to the South East Asian country, a substantial increase of USD 28.8 million from 2012. However, some US lawmakers have expressed concerns over such a decision by the Obama administration arguing that this increase in US aid to Myanmar is premature given the plight of the Rohingya Muslims in ...

  • China arrests man over fake plane bomb threats

    BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese aviation industry news website says a man has been arrested for allegedly making fake bomb threats against several domestic flights bound for ...

  • Southern China rains kill 55 leave 14 missing

    The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs website says at least nine provinces have had storms and some flooding and landslides since Tuesday. It says Guangdong province has been hit the hardest, with 36 deaths and 10 missing people, followed by Jiangxi province, where six people are reported dead and four more ...

  • Sperm donation gaining greater acceptance in India

    Sperm donation is starting to gain greater acceptance in India, as some young men in India have found that it is a way to earn some easy pocket ...

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