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“No Pains, No Gains”
Filipino boys use their faces to move a coin close to their mouth during a game as part of celebrations of the feast day of Saint Rita de Cascia in suburban Paranaque, south of Manila, Philippines Sunday May 20, 2012. Philippine fiestas, a festive time for family and friendly reunions,…
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San Francisco Marks 75th Anniversary Of Golden Gate Bridge
File – In this May 24, 1987 file photo, a crowd estimated at several hundred thousand jams the deck of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco during a walk to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the bridge. The bridge was heralded as an engineering marvel when it opened in…
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Society
Strike lessens chicken consumption by 33% in Katmandu
Protesters gather after the motorcycle of a journalist is torched during a general strike called by Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities in Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, May 20, 2012. The group had called for businesses to close and vehicles to stay off the streets to support their demand that states proposed…
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Politics
G8 Leaders gather at Camp David
MARYLANDㅡ The leaders of the G8 nations meeting at Camp David on Friday-Saturday agreed that Iran needed to take concrete steps to prove the claim that its nuclear program was peaceful, a U.S. official said. The onus is on the government in Tehran to disclose more about its nuclear activities,…
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Myanmar seeks compromise with armed ethnic group
Delegaters of Myanmar government’s peace-making group talk at central level with the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) and its military wing the Shan State Army South (RCSS/SSA) during the second round of peace talks between the two sides, in Kengtung, Myanmar, May 19, 2012. (Photo=Xinhua/Ding Lingling) KENGTUNG, Myanmar, May…
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Column
Lebanese painter looks for lost Utopia
*Editor’s note: This is the third installment of six-part stories about six Arab women artists devoting themselves to creating different style of art and innovating their methods of expression for “revolutionary” change. Artist Fatima Alhajj stands in the heart of a triangle whose three academic sides are the universities of Beirut, Moscow and Paris, where she specialized…
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Business
Alibaba Group to become Yahoo’s major shareholder
In this Aug. 11, 2005, file photo, a man walks past a screen displaying the Yahoo and Ali Baba.com logos before a joint news conference by the companies at the China World hotel in Beijing. (File Photo=AP/NEWSis) HANGZHOU, May 21 (Xinhua) — The Alibaba Group, a leading Chinese e-commerce company,…
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Society
Turkey Marks Youth & Sports Day
ISTANBULㅡ Turkey is celebrating May 19 Commemoration of Ataturk, and Youth and Sports Day on Saturday. Students carried Turkish flags during the celebration across Turkey. They also sang anthems, and chanted slogans supporting Turkey and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the Founder of Republic of Turkey. May 19 Commemoration of Ataturk, and Youth…
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Major news in Turkey on May 21
Top news in <Todays Zaman>: Turkey marks first ‘civilian’ May 19 with joyful festivities news@theasian.asia
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