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The Queen's lunch for monarchs attracts controversy 2012-05-18
BBC News

The King of Bahrain and Swaziland's King Mswati III are among controversial monarchs expected at a Windsor Castle lunch being hosted by the Queen later. Critics accuse Bahrain of human rights abuses and say King Mswati lives in luxury while his people starve. Campaigner Peter Tatchell...

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Donna Summer, queen of disco, dies of cancer at 63 2012-05-18
Austin American Statesman

Donna Summer, the multimillion-selling singer and songwriter whose hits captured both the giddy hedonism of the 1970s disco era and the feisty female solidarity of the early 1980s, died of lung cancer Thursday at her home in Naples, Fla. She was 63. With her doe eyes, cascade of hair and sinuous...

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Why I won't be going to the London Olympics 2012-05-17
The Guardian

Iran's president stays away but other controversial national leaders will attend, causing a headache for David Cameron President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad applauded Iran's athletes but said he would not be going to London to watch them. Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images...

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Infants' death sparks protest in Kashmir 2012-05-17
Newstrack India

Srinagar, May 17 (ANI): Locals in Jammu and Kashmir protested here on Thursday against increasing crib deaths due to negligence of the hospital authorities. Reportedly, over 300 infants have died in the...

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Greek caretaker government sworn in 2012-05-17
Zeenews

Athens: The Greek caretaker government, which will lead the country to the second round of national polls in June, was sworn in on Thursday morning at a ceremony held at the Presidential mansion in Athens. Headed by Panayiotis Pikrammenos, top judge of the Greek Supreme Administrative Court until...

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We risk being shut out of financial markets, warns Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy 2012-05-17
The Independent

As Madrid's borrowing costs spiked to levels widely seen as unsustainable, Mariano Rajoy warned that there is a "a serious risk that [investors] will not lend us money or they will do so at an astronomical rate." His comments came as investors and policymakers, mindful of the threat of...

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North Korea 'resuming work' on nuclear reactor 2012-05-17
The Daily Telegraph

Satellite imagery has revealed that North Korea has resumed work on a light water reactor that analysts believe indicates Pyongyang's intention to push ahead with efforts to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons. The Yongbyon nuclear facility in Yongbyon, North Korea in November 2010 (left) and in...

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Kashmir horror: 358 kids die in hospital in five months 2012-05-17
The Siasat Daily

May 17: Rattled by large number of children’s death in Srinagar’s GB Pant children hospital, Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday ordered a high-level enquiry to probe the alarming death rate in the hospital. The government appointed director of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences...

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Non-White U.S. Births Become the Majority for First Time 2012-05-17
Bloomberg

Minority babies outnumbered white newborns in 2011 for the first time in U.S. history, the latest milestone in a demographic shift that’s transforming the nation. The percentage of white newborns fell to 49.6 percent of children younger than a year old from April 2010 to July 2011, the U.S. Census...

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JLo tops list of world's most powerful celebrities 2012-05-17
Newstrack India

New York, May 17 (IANS/EFE) Jennifer Lopez dethroned Lady Gaga as the world's most powerful celebrity, according to a list published Wednesday by Forbes magazine in which the queen of US television Oprah Winfrey...

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