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VIEW:Dubai labourers stage rare strike for more pay
Reuters - 53 minutes agoBy Praveen Menon DUBAI (Reuters) - Thousands of workers employed by Dubai's largest construction firm, Arabtec, stayed away from work on Sunday to back wage demands, a rare labour protest in the Gulf emirate, where trade unions are banned, staff said. Most blue collar workers in the Gulf Arab states are migrant labourers hired on a contract basis from South Asian countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, and strikes are uncommon. ... More »Dubai labourers stage rare strike for more pay
Protesting Egyptian police block Israel border crossing
Reuters - 1 hour 49 minutes agoCAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula blocked a commercial border crossing with Israel on Sunday to pressure the Cairo government to help free the men, security sources said. A video posted online on Sunday showed seven blindfolded men, who said they were the hostages, begging President Mohamed Mursi to free political detainees in Sinai in exchange for their own release. ... More »Protesting Egyptian police block Israel border crossing
Indian cinema on a mission at Cannes to dispel Bollywood image
Reuters - 1 hour 52 minutes agoBy Belinda Goldsmith CANNES (Reuters) - Indian movie actors and a new wave of directors are on a mission at the Cannes film festival - to show that their industry, which turns 100 this year, is more than just Bollywood. The largest Indian contingent to date is on the French Riviera at the world's leading cinema showcase to promote their country, which has the world's biggest film industry, making over 1,000 films a year compared to about 600 in Hollywood. ... More »Indian cinema on a mission at Cannes to dispel Bollywood image
'Star Trek' sequel tops weekend box office in North America
Reuters - 1 hour 56 minutes ago(Reuters) - Sci-fi movie "Star Trek Into Darkness" journeyed to the top of weekend box office charts as the latest voyage of the Starship Enterprise pulled in $70.6 million (£46.5 million) at U.S. and Canadian theatres. The new 3D instalment in the "Star Trek" franchise knocked the mighty "Iron Man 3" to second place. The superhero sequel from Walt Disney Co's Marvel Studios grossed $35.2 million over the weekend. "Into Darkness" stars Chris Pine as Captain James T. Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock, the pointy-eared, human-Vulcan first officer. The film added $13. ... More »'Star Trek' sequel tops weekend box office in North America
Caernarfon: Plane Crash Leaves One Dead
Sky News - 2 hours 18 minutes agoA man has died and two others - including a child - are fighting for their lives after a light aircraft flipped on a runway in North Wales. More »Caernarfon: Plane Crash Leaves One Dead
Winning ticket for $590.5 million Powerball lottery sold in Florida
Reuters - 2 hours 23 minutes agoBy Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A single winning ticket for a record U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million (£389.3 million) was sold in Florida, organizers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won one of the largest jackpots in U.S. history. The winning numbers from Saturday night's drawing were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball number of 11. The odds of winning were put at 1 in 175 million. The winning ticket was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, a suburb of Tampa, according to the Florida Lottery. ... More »Winning ticket for $590.5 million Powerball lottery sold in Florida
China seeks release of fishing boat seized by North Korea
Reuters - 2 hours 32 minutes agoBy Adam Jourdan SHANGHAI (Reuters) - North Korean forces have seized a Chinese fishing boat, Chinese officials told state-run news agency Xinhua late on Sunday, creating a potential new irritant in ties between the two allies. Chinese counsellor to North Korea Jiang Yaxian said North Korea had "grabbed" the private vessel from the northern city of Dalian in waters between China and the Korean peninsula, according to the official news portal. Tensions have been mounting between North Korea and China, its most important economic and political backer. ... More »China seeks release of fishing boat seized by North Korea
Toddler taken to morgue in body bag
Press Association - 3 hours agoA toddler pulled from the wreckage of a car crash that killed five family members was sent to a morgue in a body bag in the belief he was dead. More »Toddler taken to morgue in body bag
With president ailing, Algeria prepares for end of an era
Reuters - 3 hours agoBy Lamine Chikhi and Myra MacDonald ALGIERS (Reuters) - Three weeks after being rushed to hospital in Paris, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has disappeared from sight, leaving behind a country preparing for a successor who for the first time will come from a generation too young to have fought in Algeria's war of independence against France. In a country run with Soviet-style secrecy, nobody is sure how sick Bouteflika is. ... More »With president ailing, Algeria prepares for end of an era
South Africa finds collusion, manipulation in Gupta scandal
Reuters - 3 hours agoBy Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's justice minister on Sunday accused an Indian High Commission official and some South Africans of colluding to obtain permission for a plane chartered by a rich family close to President Jacob Zuma to use an air force base to land. The affair - dubbed "Guptagate" after the influential Indian-born Gupta family - has transfixed South Africa since the private flight landed at Pretoria's Waterkloof Air Force base last month with nearly 200 guests for a lavish family wedding. ... More »South Africa finds collusion, manipulation in Gupta scandal
German energy shift faces headwinds
AFP - 4 hours agoAn employee stands between solar panels in the grounds of the airport in the Finowfurt city, eastern Germany on June 14, 2010. The hard-to-predict flow of renewable energies is one of the many challenges ... More »German energy shift faces headwinds
Two 'critical' after death crash
Press Association - 5 hours agoTwo men are critical in hospital after a car crash claimed the lives of two teenage girls. More »Two 'critical' after death crash
Germans blame euro zone crisis for Eurovision debacle
Reuters - 5 hours agoBERLIN (Reuters) - Germans lamented their unexpectedly poor showing at the Eurovision Song Contest, blaming Chancellor Angela Merkel's tough stance in the euro zone crisis for their failure to win any points from 34 of the 39 countries voting. Denmark's Emmelie de Forest won the event, watched by around 125 million people across Europe, with 281 points while German act Cascada was 21st out of 26 countries, getting just 18 points from Austria, Israel, Spain, Albania and Switzerland. ... More »Germans blame euro zone crisis for Eurovision debacle
Down-on-luck singer steals show in Coen brothers Cannes film
Reuters - 5 hours agoBy Alexandria Sage CANNES (Reuters) - Folk music, Greenwich Village and a quick-footed cat star in the new Coen brothers movie at the Cannes film festival on Sunday, kicking off the first of five U.S. entries with its engaging misadventures of a struggling singer. "Inside Llewyn Davis" by directing duo Ethan and Joel Coen is a delightful tale about the early 1960s folk music scene, a tribute to artists living hand to mouth, and an ode to New York all at once. ... More »Down-on-luck singer steals show in Coen brothers Cannes film
Hunt in GP call over A&E crisis
Press Association - 6 hours agoFamily doctors need a "closer personal relationship" with their patients as part of efforts to ease the crisis in hospital accident and emergency units, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said. More »Hunt in GP call over A&E crisis
Egyptian police block Israel border crossing in fury at kidnapping - sources
Reuters - 7 hours agoCAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula blocked a commercial border crossing with Israel on Sunday, security sources said. Police have been blocking another border post, the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, since Friday to press the government of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, who belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood, to help free the seven. ... More »Egyptian police block Israel border crossing in fury at kidnapping - sources
North Korea fires short-range missiles for two days in a row
Reuters - 8 hours agoBy Jane Chung SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast on Sunday, a day after launching three of these missiles, a South Korean news agency said, ignoring calls for restraint from Western powers. Launches by the North of short-range missiles are not uncommon but, after recent warnings from the communist state of impending nuclear war, such actions have raised concerns about the region's security. ... More »North Korea fires short-range missiles for two days in a row
U.N. chief Ban says worried over North Korea missile launch
Reuters - 8 hours agoMOSCOW (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon voiced concern on Sunday over North Korea's launch of short-range missiles, urging Pyonyang to refrain from further launches and return to stalled nuclear talks with world powers. Ban, who spoke to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti during a visit to Moscow, called North Korea's launch of three short-range missiles from its east coast on Saturday a "provocative action". "We are very worried over North Korea's provocative action," he told RIA in comments translated into Russian. ... More »U.N. chief Ban says worried over North Korea missile launch
Car Drives Into Crowd At Virginia Parade, 60 Hurt
Sky News - 10 hours agoUp to 60 people were injured when a car drove into a parade in a small Virginia mountain town. More »Car Drives Into Crowd At Virginia Parade, 60 Hurt
Upmarket Pakistan district votes again as Imran Khan decries killing
Reuters - 10 hours agoBy Katharine Houreld and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An upmarket constituency of Pakistan's violence-plagued city of Karachi voted again under tight security on Sunday, a day after gunmen killed a senior politician from a reformist party in the district and a week after general elections. It was not immediately clear who killed Zara Shahid Hussain, a leading member of the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) party of former cricket star Imran Khan. Imran blamed the killing on the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) party, which has a stranglehold on the city. ... More »Upmarket Pakistan district votes again as Imran Khan decries killing
Iran hangs two spies working for Israel and U.S. - report
Reuters - 10 hours agoDUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities executed two men on Sunday convicted of working for Israeli and U.S. spy agencies, Iran's Fars news agency reported. Mohammad Heidari, accused of passing security-related information and secrets to Israeli Mossad agents in exchange for money, and Kourosh Ahmadi, accused of gathering information for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, were hanged at dawn, it said. The sentence for their execution was handed down by Tehran's Revolutionary Court and confirmed by the country's Supreme Court. ... More »Iran hangs two spies working for Israel and U.S. - report
North Korea fires three short-range missiles
Reuters - 10 hours agoSEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired three short-range missiles from its east coast on Saturday, South Korea's Defence Ministry said, prompting Western powers to urge Pyongyang to exercise restraint. Launches by the North of short-range missiles are not uncommon but, after recent warnings from the communist state of impending nuclear war, such actions raise concerns about the region's security. "North Korea fired short-range guided missiles twice in the morning and once in the afternoon off its east coast," an official at the South Korean Defence Ministry spokesman's office said by telephone. ... More »North Korea fires three short-range missiles
Bieber Monkey: Deadline For Claiming Pet Expires
Sky News - 12 hours agoA deadline for Justin Bieber to reclaim his pet monkey has passed - meaning he may lose the pet to German officials. More »Bieber Monkey: Deadline For Claiming Pet Expires
Al-Jazeera in big gambit with planned US launch
AFP - 12 hours agoFile photo of the news room at the Al-Jazeera English (AJE) studio in Washington, DC. Al-Jazeera faces an uphill battle for viewers but could solidify its journalistic brand when it launches its US news ... More »Al-Jazeera in big gambit with planned US launch
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