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  IMF chief grilled in Paris court over 2007 payout scandal

  24 May 2013 : IMF chief Christine Lagarde faces another day of questioning after being grilled for hours Thursday by French prosecutors who are deciding if she should be charged over a state payout to a disgraced tycoon during her time as finance minister.

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  Obama tackles drones, Guantanamo in reset of war on terror

  24 May 2013 : President Barack Obama Thursday laid out new guidelines for drone strikes and launched a new bid to close Guantanamo Bay, warning that a "perpetual" US war on terror would be self defeating.

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  31 injured in Hong Kong ferry crash: police

  06 Apr 2013 : Thirty-one people were injured in a collision between a passenger ferry and another vessel off Hong Kong island late Friday, police said, in the latest accident to hit the city's frenetic waters.

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  Endangered Vietnam elephant 'skinned, disemboweled'

  06 Apr 2013 : The skinned and mutilated corpse of one of Vietnam's dwindling population of endangered wild elephants has been discovered in a forest in central Quang Binh province, state media said Friday.

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  Hong Kong girl tests negative for H7N9

  06 Apr 2013 : A seven-year-old Hong Kong girl has tested negative for the H7N9 flu virus, officials said Friday, after she became the city's first suspected case of the disease that has killed six killed on mainland China.

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  Jimmy Carter 'deeply concerned' by Myanmar unrest

  06 Apr 2013 : Former US president Jimmy Carter warned Friday that deadly religious violence in Myanmar was undermining the country's hard-won democratic reforms.

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  Boeing conducts final 787 battery test flight

  06 Apr 2013 : US aerospace giant Boeing conducted a final 787 Dreamliner test flight Friday to assess the proposed battery fix that it hopes will get the grounded jetliner back in the skies.

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  Player with Nazi salute gets light penalty

  06 Apr 2013 : AEK midfielder Giorgos Katidis was handed a relatively light penalty by the Greek football federation on Friday for his controversial Nazi salute after scoring a goal in a league match last month.

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  Deputy governor killed

  06 Apr 2013 : Yala deputy governor Issara Thongthawat and an assistant governor were killed and a driver critically injured yesterday in a roadside bomb attack in Bannang Sata district.

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  Thais accused of patrol massacre

  06 Apr 2013 : Myanmar authorities have asked Thailand to keep tabs on six Thais who are now receiving medical treatment at a hospital in Chumphon province for allegedly being involved in the killing of 13 Myanmar soldiers.

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  TELECOMS

  NBTC clears legality of True-CAT 3G contracts

  06 Apr 2013 : The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) voted overwhelmingly yesterday in favour of the contentious third-generation (3G) network contracts between True Corporation and CAT Telecom.

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  Lifetimes of achievements

  06 Apr 2013 : Issara Thongthawat was born on Jan 13, 1957 and his father, Akon, was former deputy governor of Nakhon Si Thammarat, the family's native province.

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