Australia PM in talks with Indonesian president on asylum-seekers

San Diego Union-Tribune - Friday 5th July, 2013

In this photo taken Thursday, July 4, 2013, an overweight traffic police officer Sgt. Wanchat Wongnothong performs his duty on a street in Bangkok, Thailand. As part of a national effort to reduce the numbers of overweight officers, Thailand has opened a 12-day boot camp to get police into shape. This week, 60 overweight officers from around the country were sent to a police training center for ...

Philippines aims to nearly halve poverty by 2015

Miami Herald - Friday 5th July, 2013

MANILA, Philippines -- The Philippines' top economic official said Friday the government aims to sustain growth at a rate high enough to nearly halve poverty by 2015.Nearly 28 percent of the country's 97 million people live below the poverty line and the government's aim is to reduce that to 16.6 percent within the next two years.Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan ...

Australia PM in talks with Indonesian president on asylum-seekers

Channel News Asia - Friday 5th July, 2013

Newly reinstated Prime Minister Kevin Rudd held talks on asylum-seekers with Indonesia's president on Friday, with thousands each year defying deadly perils to try to reach Australia by ...

HK billionaires lover gets 12 years for fake will

Associated Press - Friday 5th July, 2013

HONG KONG (AP) -- The former lover and fortune teller of quirky billionaire Nina Wang was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison after a Hong Kong court found him guilty of forging a will to claim her multibillion-dollar ...

China Russia hold largest-ever joint naval drills

San Diego Union-Tribune - Friday 5th July, 2013

BEIJING -; China and Russia are holding their largest-ever joint naval drills in the Sea of Japan in a sign of warming ties between the former Cold War ...

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CNBC - Friday 5th July, 2013

Lei Lei Song, Senior Economist at Asian Development Bank says there hasn't been sudden stops or reversals in capital inflows in the region despite Fed tapering ...

Ex-fortune teller jailed for forging will in Hong Kong

Times of India - Friday 5th July, 2013

Hong Kong court Friday sentenced a former fortune teller who claimed to be the lover of late billionaire Nina Wang to 12 years in jail after finding him guilty of forging her will. ...

Egypt Muslim Brotherhood calls for protests as military arrests leader Mohammed Badie

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Fresh from toppling the country's first democratically elected leader, Egypt's military risked further outrage from the Muslim Brotherhood by arresting the group's Supreme Guide as he was staying in a resort by the Mediterranean ...

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Associated Press - Friday 5th July, 2013

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Rescue teams have abandoned a search for a U.S. schooner carrying seven people that disappeared in the South ...

SE Asia Stocks-Mostly higher Indonesia poised for loss on week

Reuters - Friday 5th July, 2013

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Pakistan-China set sights on transport link from northwest China to Arabian Sea port of Gwadar

Star Tribune - Friday 5th July, 2013

BEIJING -- China and Pakistan have set their sights on a transport link from northwestern China to the Arabian Sea that they hope will boost economic growth and slash shipping times. The broad agreement was among eight pacts signed Friday following a meeting in Beijing between Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The transport link was described it as a ...

Reports China investigating drug prices

San Diego Union-Tribune - Friday 5th July, 2013

BEIJING -; China has launched an investigation into drug prices set by 60 foreign and domestic manufacturers, according to news reports Friday, in a possible move to lower ...

Asian athletics Pune Mayookha Johny battlling pain settles for bronze

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Asian Athletics PT Usha sure Luka needs more international exposure

KeralaNext - Friday 5th July, 2013

Kerala News: Legendary Indian athlete PT Usha is determined that Luka should take part in next month's World Championships in Moscow and do well there. Each of the winner in the ongoing Asian Championships will book an automatic berth in the World ...

Oil dips in Asian trade

IOL - Friday 5th July, 2013

Tokyo - Oil prices dipped in Asian trade on Friday as investors keep an eye on Egypt while also awaiting US jobs data that could provide a clue to when the Federal Reserve will end its massive stimulus programme, analysts ...

Japan utility hires nuclear safety advocate

eTaiwan News - Friday 5th July, 2013

Japan has hired a British-American woman to oversee its safety campaign.Lady Barbara Judge has worked as a lawyer, banker, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissioner and with the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority.She told The Associated Press on Friday that Tokyo Electric Power Co. has changed its culture to one of safety, not efficiency, so it can now restart its reactors.Judge says her appointment ...

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eTaiwan News - Friday 5th July, 2013

China is ready to discuss strengthening cybersecurity at a high-level forum with U.S. officials next week and wants Washington to help settle territorial disputes in East Asia, officials said. Moved. AP Photos.WORLD MARKETSBANGKOK -- Optimism that easy European and U.S. monetary policy will continue boosted Asian stock markets Friday as investors awaited a key American jobs report later in the ...

China-Pakistan friendship sweeter than honey Sharif

Channel News Asia - Friday 5th July, 2013

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday told his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang their countries' relationship was "sweeter than honey", during a visit to Beijing with economic ties at the top of the ...

Fukushima operator rebuked over nuclear restart plan

Channel News Asia - Friday 5th July, 2013

The boss of Fukushima operator TEPCO on Friday met local leaders to ask for their blessing to restart the world's biggest nuclear plant after a public tongue-lashing for bypassing them this ...

Concern rises over Pakistan plan to halt extremism

Yahoo News - Friday 5th July, 2013

Pakistani government 's first month in office, fueling concern that the country's leaders lack a coherent strategy to fight the pervasive problem of violent extremism. The ...

2 killed in suicide attack at Afghan border

Associated Press - Friday 5th July, 2013

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Authorities say a suicide bomber blew himself up at a border checkpoint entering Afghanistan from Pakistan, killing at least two people and wounding eight ...

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Former Gamecock baseball players rally to help Powell

Former USC star and major leaguer Landon Powell, left, takes part in an exhibition game that helped raise money for his family, which recently lost their 5-month-old daughter to a rare autoimmune disease.

The (Columbia) State

Published: Friday, July 5, 2013 at 10:37 p.m.

Last Modified: Friday, July 5, 2013 at 10:37 p.m.

The Columbia Blowfish defeated a team made up of Gamecock Alumni 8-6 in an exhibition game earlier this week, but in reality everybody associated with the event won.

The game coincided with a silent auction featuring Gamecock memorabilia, with the proceeds going to help Landon Powell and his wife, Allyson, deal with the cost of medical bills accumulated when their daughter Izzy was battling a rare autoimmune disease that ultimately cost her her life.

Izzy, who was born last September, died in January.

Trey Dyson, a former teammate of Landon's at USC, helped organize the game and auction as a way to give back to his friend.

The Blowfish and Gamecock Alumni have played annually each of the past seven years, but when Landon informed Dyson that he would play in the game, Dyson immediately began working to figure out ways to raise money and make this year's game special.

His first call was to the Blowfish's owner as Dyson wanted to convince him to hold the game in remembrance of Izzy with the proceeds going to the Powell family.

?I called Bill Shanahan and before I could finish telling him the story he said it's done. We're doing it. From that Monday around 5 or so I started getting on the airwaves and calling my friends at local TV stations to try and get the word out and it really came together in two days,? Dyson said.

Former players currently playing professional baseball such as Michael Roth, Christian Walker, Jackie Bradley Jr., Evan Marzilli and Adam Matthews donated signed memorabilia for the silent auction.

Other former Gamecocks that played in the exhibition game, like Dyson, Bryan Triplett, Kip Bouknight and Brian Buscher, also offered signed items.

John Taylor, who was part of USC's back-to-back national titles in 2010 and 2011, offered his cleats worn during the College World Series for the silent auction.

?The outpouring of support that was shown really, in my opinion, was not surprising; it's just what we do as Gamecocks. Gamecocks help out other Gamecocks,? Dyson said. ?It just warms the heart to see an event come together like that in such a short notice. It was great for Landon's family.?

In total the event raised about $6,000 for the Powell family.

Landon said the outpouring of support from the Gamecock community was overwhelming.

?Trey told me they were going to play the game in my daughter's honor and donate all the money for her and her bills, and I'm very humbled by that,? he said. ?I know I have a lot of great friends and teammates and when guys rally around you like that in tough times it shows you how much goodness is in people's hearts. I was very happy and proud to be a Gamecock that day.?

Dyson said the show of support is an example of the togetherness of the USC program.

?The Gamecock baseball program is a family and Coach (Ray) Tanner and Coach (Chad) Holbrook, their leadership is the reason why the Gamecock baseball family is so strong,? he said.

Landon added that there is a special bond between guys that have played baseball at USC.

?All of us that played in that uniform and wore the garnet and black, it's a family. A lot of us know each other whether or not we spent a lot of time together. We all know each other pretty well. You are kind of like a brotherhood,? he said.

Landon said right now there is some unknown as to how much he and his family still owe in medical bills.

They are resubmitting bills to the insurance companies to try and get as much of the bills covered as possible.

?We've got some pretty big bills that we don't think we'll be able to cover, and that's why we're trying to resubmit them. Overall we're OK,? he said.

In the meantime, he and his family are dealing with the loss of their daughter Izzy by spending as much time together as they can.

Landon and Allyson have two kids, a son, Holden, and Izzy's twin, Ellie.

?We're trying to just be a family and be around each other and spend time with our kids. I think everything that we went through put a lot of things in perspective about life and about family,? Landon said. ?I think that's what we're trying to do; we're trying to enjoy our kids and our family time as much as possible and take all of that other stuff kind of day-by-day.?

Landon was in the New York Mets organization earlier this season but recently retired to spend more time with his family.

The 30-year-old catcher played three seasons in the major leagues with the Oakland Athletics, totaling 10 home runs and 45 RBIs in 123 games.

Landon said he has been contacted by other teams about joining their organizations but he is ready to move on from playing baseball.

He has received offers to coach and business offers and is currently weighing his next move.

?I'm ready to be home and start that next step of my life. I played professionally for over 10 years. I had a lot of success and a good career,? Landon said. ?For me it's just a time to move on, especially with everything that I went through losing my daughter. It makes it more important right now to be home than ever before.?

Source: http://www.goupstate.com/article/20130705/articles/130709793

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Northern family struggles to save home - Star Phoenix

Renee and Solomon Carriere never received a formal evacuation order.

But on June 22, after they had finished planting their garden, Renee heard on the radio that Cumberland House was being evacuated.

The Carrieres live in a wilderness home about 60 kilometres from the village. Renee went outside to her husband and said, "We'd better get out of here."

The couple started to make some initial preparations. By 5 a.m., their garden was under water and the flood was raging through their property. So began a whirlwind 48 hours, as they tried to save their home of 31 years and their livelihood - they offer dog sledding and canoe expeditions, and live a traditional lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping.

The Carrieres own 25 Alaskan huskies. Renee and Solomon each drove some to a ranch near Nipawin before friends arrived from Yorkton

with a boat to help secure their belongings as fast as they could.

Within the first 24 hours, they cut logs and used them to raise each of their 10 buildings by about 15 inches. They also packed as many of their goods, bedding and photographs as possible into their home's loft.

The Carrieres had previously harvested another 150 logs for a second home.

They broke up the beginnings of that building and fashioned the logs into a "Tom Sawyer-style" raft, Renee said, which they then lashed to the biggest trees they had. They loaded it with their most crucial equipment - a quad, snowmobile and doghouses, hoping it would float on the flood waters.

When they checked the raft on June 30, it was working.

But there was one thing they couldn't protect from the water: a small graveyard on their property that contains the remains of their daughter and each of their fathers. Their daughter's headstone is fixed in the ground. Renee's father's gravestone was loose, so they pried it off, and also removed an Italian Virgin Mary statue from Solomon's father's grave and stored it in their loft.

"That's what absolutely broke my heart, when I saw three feet of water over the graves, it just ... that's your home and that's just terrible," Renee said.

While residents of Cumberland House started returning home Wednesday, Renee said it will be a month before the water recedes from her home and the neighbouring 60 kilometres.

"It's a massive, massive area. And we're not talking two inches. We're talking, when you step out it's up to your waist," she said.

For now the couple, their three grown children and their two puppies are staying at a motel in Nipawin.

Renee called the flood a man-made disaster, arguing that had Highway 123 into Cumberland House been properly maintained over the years, some water could have been released from the E.B. Campbell dam earlier without fear of breaching the road.

She said there has to be accountability for both the damage to her property and to wildlife habitat.

"We have the data," she said. "We have the knowledge. So when all hell is breaking loose in Calgary, which was a natural phenomenon, we already have that data here in Saskatchewan ... they know how much water to be letting go."

Source: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/saskatchewan/Northern+family+struggles+save+home/8614177/story.html

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Fireworks shoot into crowd of 8,000 when platform tips at California Independence Day display

A Fourth of July fireworks display ended explosively Thursday in Simi Valley, Calif., when a platform holding the pyrotechnics tipped, sending skyrockets hurtling across the ground at spectators.

At least 28 people were hurt, four of them seriously, but none of the injuries was considered life-threatening, the Associated Press reported.

Simi Valley, home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, is about 40 miles north of Los Angeles. Between 8,000 and 10,000 spectators had gathered at a park for the fireworks show put on annually by the local Rotary club. About two minutes into it, something went dramatically wrong.

Justice Allen, 17, of Simi Valley, told the Los Angeles Times she had just arrived at the park from work when rockets began flying over fences:

"There was a big boom. Everybody started running down the street. People were screaming . . . Everybody was just terrified. People hid in bushes."

Annisa Wynn told KTLA-TV Channel 5 that fireworks began shooting sideways along the ground into the crowd:

"The fireworks were so close, you could see them on the ground . . . It never happens this way. People were screaming."

Ventura County firefighters set up a triage center at the scene. Besides the four people seriously injured, 16 people were taken to hospitals with minor to moderate injuries. Others were treated at the park.

Investigators are looking into what caused the platform to collapse, Simi Valley police Cmdr. Stephanie Shannon told AP.

On the other side of the continent, a worker at a fireworks show in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., was hurt Thursday when a shell exploded prematurely.

CNN reported two other fireworks-related accidents:

• In Windsor, Colo., fireworks touched off a fire in a parched field that sent flames 10 feet into the air.


• In Seattle, an illegal firework landed on a boat cover at a boat storage yard, igniting a blaze that torched 14 boats in seven minutes. Authorities estimated damages at $1,5 million.

Said Washington Times communties columnist Eric Golub:

Police across the nation have been cracking down hard on illegal fireworks displays due to the high risk of injuries. The Simi Valley debacle was a sober reminder that even with professionally managed displays, accidents can happen.

Here's a specatator-eye view of the Simi Valley accident posted on YouTube:

Source: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/07/fireworks_shoot_into_crowd_of.html

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