Rain, floods leave 35 Chinese dead
BEIJING: Fresh rain and floods battered China on Thursday night and on Friday, killing at least 35 people in central China’s Hubei and Hunan provinces.
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Frustration rises after Japan disaster
TOKYO: Three months after Japan’s March 11 quake and tsunami disaster, frustration is growing as the nuclear crisis shows no sign of abating and nearly 100,000 evacuees remain holed up in crowded shelters.
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Malaysia arrests terror suspect
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has re-arrested an Indonesian who slipped back into the country after being deported for harboring one of Southeast Asia’s most wanted terror suspects, police said on Friday.
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Saudi nabs five women for driving
RIYADH: Police in Saudi Arabia arrested five women on Thursday for breaking a ban on female drivers in the conservative kingdom, one of the women said.
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Yemen braces for rival rallies
SANAA: Pro- and anti-regime activists in Yemen began gathering for fresh rallies on Friday as state media said that the country’s president was out of intensive care in Saudi Arabia after treatment for bomb blast wounds.
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Powers unlock $1 billion for Libya rebels
TRIPOLI: Key powers have vowed to unlock a billion dollars for hard-pressed Libyan rebels in talks to map out a “post-Qaddafi Libya” as a fresh volley of North Atlantic Treaty Organization air strikes rocked the capital on Friday morning.
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sprouts source of killer bacteria
BERLIN: Germany has identified contaminated sprouts as the source of a killer bacteria outbreak that has claimed the lives of at least 30 people, the head of the national public health institute said on Friday.
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Prince Philip celebrates 90th birthday
LONDON: Prince Philip, the husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, turns 90 on Friday but will keep the celebrations at a minimum in keeping with the no-nonsense style that has defined a life behind the throne.
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Peru’s Alberto Fujimori hospitalized
LIMA: Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year jail term for corruption and rights abuses, was hospitalized on Thursday (Friday in Manila) due to a relapse in his tongue cancer, his doctor said.
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Morgan Freeman honored
LOS ANGELES: Film actor Morgan Freeman was honored with the American Film Institute (AFI) Life Achievement Award on Thursday, capping a career which saw the actor garnering an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild award.
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