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  Cannes goes from bling to crisis with US road movie

  23 May 2013 : Cannes turned its back on bling Thursday with a road movie set in today's crisis-ravaged American Midwest, featuring the latest standout performance by a star from Hollywood's 1970s golden age.

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  UEFA approves 10-game racism ban, blood tests

  23 May 2013 : European football's governing body UEFA on Thursday formally ratified plans to impose 10-game European suspensions on players and officials found guilty of racism.

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  First China manufacturing shrinkage in 7 months: HSBC

  23 May 2013 : Manufacturing activity in China contracted in May for the first time in seven months, HSBC said Thursday, in another sign of the weakness of recovery in the world's second-largest economy.

• Ranger, militant die in far South clash

  23 May 2013 : A militant and a ranger were killed, and another ranger critically wounded, in a clash in Narathiwat’s Cho Airong district early Thursday morning, reports said.

• Baht weakens on Bernanke comment

  23 May 2013 : The baht fell by the most in almost two weeks as speculation the US Federal Reserve will scale back its bond-buying damped demand for emerging-market assets.

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  IRS unit head refuses to testify about targeting

  23 May 2013 : The head of the IRS office that oversees non-profit groups refused to testify at a congressional panel probing abuse at the US tax agency, but defiantly declared she had done nothing wrong.

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  US 'should act' on China intellectual property theft

  23 May 2013 : The United States should consider curbs on Chinese investment or even offensive operations against hackers to address the growing toll from intellectual property theft, a report said.

• Gold prices down 200 baht

  23 May 2013 : The Gold Traders Association this morning announced buying prices at 19,025.80 baht per baht-weight for gold ornaments and 19,300 baht per baht-weight for gold bar.

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  Daring Dortmund interrupt Bayern's feast

  23 May 2013 : The all-German Champions League final between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich on Saturday marks the culmination of an intensifying and increasingly bitter rivalry.

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  Kim Dotcom mulls suing tech giants for 'copyright breach'

  23 May 2013 : Internet mogul Kim Dotcom said Thursday he was considering taking legal action against tech giants such as Twitter, Google and Facebook for infringing copyright on a security measure he invented.

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  Ford to halt car production in Australia

  23 May 2013 : MELBOURNE - Car manufacturer Ford announced Thursday it will cease making vehicles in Australia in 2016 and axe 1,200 jobs, having produced its first car in the country in 1925.

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  Woman confronted London attackers to deflect danger

  23 May 2013 : A woman who challenged knife-wielding assailants suspected of hacking to death a British soldier in London on Wednesday said she intervened because "it was better having them (the weapons) aimed on one person".

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