Deadly tick-borne virus precaution – The Jeju Weekly

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Deadly tick-borne virus precaution – The Jeju Weekly Deadly tick-borne virus precautionThe Jeju WeeklySevere fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease recently discovered in northeast and central China. It is a tick-borne virus that is potentially lethal and can be trasmitted through a tick bite. The Health Ministry …Disease control agency confirms second tick-virus victimYonhap NewsSixty-nine-year-old man… Read more →

Google mapping Waze takeover, says report – CNET

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Indian Express Google mapping Waze takeover, says reportCNETGoogle is considering a bid for the mobile mapping and navigation company, Bloomberg reports. Could this be a play to keep Facebook out of its domain? Jennifer Van Grove. by Jennifer Van Grove. May 23, 2013 6:06 PM PDT Follow @jbruin. Waze for …Google Said to Consider Buying Waze Presaging Bidding WarBloombergReport: Google… Read more →

Google Said to Face New Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads – Bloomberg

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Times of India Google Said to Face New Antitrust Probe Over Display AdsBloombergGoogle Inc. (GOOG) is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said. The fresh …FTC Investigating Google (GOOG) Over Display Ads, Anti-Trust… Read more →

China says hopes visit of North Korean envoy can ease tension – Reuters

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China Daily China says hopes visit of North Korean envoy can ease tensionReutersBEIJING | Fri May 24, 2013 3:51am EDT. BEIJING (Reuters) – China hopes that a visit by a senior North Korean envoy can ease tension in the region and help spur efforts to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman …China media: Li… Read more →

British police ponder conspiracy after soldier murder

British police ponder conspiracy after soldier murder

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By Guy Faulconbridge and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy. The two suspects, aged 22 and 28, are under guard in hospitals after being shot… Read more →

Woolwich attack: live – Telegraph – Telegraph.co.uk

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Telegraph.co.uk Woolwich attack: live – TelegraphTelegraph.co.ukWoolwich attack: why was he free to kill? ‘Woolwich angels’ who cradled dead soldier deny being brave · Second suspect named by The Times as Michael Adebowale · Baroness Warsi: do not give hate preachers airtime · Police appeal for calm following ‘ …Woolwich attack ‘incredibly hard’ to stop BBC NewsEric Pickles: Law ‘couldn’t have… Read more →

Russia's oldest human rights group fights "foreign agent" tag

Russia's oldest human rights group fights "foreign agent" tag

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s oldest human rights group went to court on Friday to try to stop state prosecutors forcing it to register as a “foreign agent” under a law it says is intended by President Vladimir Putin to silence dissent. Memorial, which has fought political repression since Soviet times, refuses to comply with the law which critics describe as… Read more →