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Singapore researchers discover potential new drug to treat deadly cancer
SINGAPORE, June 17 (Xinhua) — Researchers in Singapore have discovered a potential new treatment that may bring some hope for cancer patients with a highly aggressive form of lymphoma, local media reported on Sunday. Even better news: The compound involved is already being tested on a different illness – to…
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Himalayas, The World’s Highest Garbage Dump
Photo taken on May 22, 2010 shows cleaners collecting wastes at the Sagarmatha (Mt. Qomolangma) National Park in Nepal. Since human beings first conquered Mt. Qomolangma, the world’s highest mountain, people have expressed concern about its environment as lots of human wastes, climbing gears and other rubbish were discarded on…
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Suu Kyi: “Nobel Peace Prize shattered my isolation”
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, holds her speech during the Peace Nobel Prize lecture at the city hall in Oslo, Saturday, June 16, 2012. Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Nobel peace prize laureate, formally accepts the prize that thrust her into the global limelight two decades…
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Lifestyle
Excerpts from Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize speech
Excerpts from Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize speech OSLO, Norway (AP) – in Oslo City Hall, Norway, on Saturday: “Often during my days of house arrest it felt as though I were no longer a part of the real world. There was the house which was my world,…
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World
[News in Pictures] Egypt Presidential Runoff
Egyptians gather to protest ongoing military rule in Cairo, Egypt on Friday, June 15, 2012. On the right, a man holds a defaced campaign poster of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik, a man widely believed to be an extension of Hosni Mubarak’s regime. On Thursday, Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court dissolved the…
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West Asia
Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Nayef Died
In this Monday, May 14, 2012 file photo, Saudi’s Crown Prince – Interior minister Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz attends to welcomes the Gulf Arab leaders as they arrive to the Saudi capital Riyadh to take part in the opening of Gulf Cooperation Council “GCC” summit, Saudi Arabia. The Saudi royal family…
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Stunt Man Walks Over Niagara Falls on Tightrope
Nik Wallenda walks over Niagara Falls on a tightrope in Niagara Falls, Ontario, on Friday, June 15, 2012. Wallenda has finished his attempt to become the first person to walk on a tightrope 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of roaring Niagara Falls. The seventh-generation member of the famed Flying…
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East Asia
Japanese Gov’t Approves Reactivation of Nuclear Plants
Japan’s Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yukio Edano reacts during a news conference at prime minister’s office in Tokyo, Saturday, June 16, 2012. Japan’s government on Saturday approved bringing the country’s first nuclear reactors back online since last year’s earthquake and tsunami led to a shutdown of reactors nationwide. <AP/NEWSis>…
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