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| China investigates senior state TV official over bribery - Xinhua |
| Monday, June 02, 2014 2:55 AM | |
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| China's top prosecutor is investigating a senior executive with state broadcaster CCTV on suspicion of bribery, the official Xinhua news agency reported, as the government's anti-corruption campaign intensifies. The government has cracked down on official corruption and extravagance in China since President Xi Jinping's appointment last year. Public flaunting of personal, and often illicit, wealth had been common and had led to widespread criticism of the ruling Communist Party. |
| Republicans question U.S. prisoner swap with Taliban |
| Monday, June 02, 2014 2:52 AM | |
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 By Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. politicians questioned whether the deal that freed Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for five Taliban militants amounted to a negotiation with terrorists as the U.S. soldier was flown out of Afghanistan to a military hospital in Germany on Sunday. Army Sergeant Bergdahl, held for nearly five years in Afghanistan, was freed in a deal with the Taliban brokered by the Qatari government. Five Taliban militants, described by Senator John McCain as the "hardest of the hard core," were released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and flown to Qatar.
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| Nigeria bomb kills at least 14 at northeast football TV showing |
| Monday, June 02, 2014 2:37 AM | |
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| By Lanre Ola and Imma Ande MAIDUGURI/YOLA Nigeria (Reuters) - A bomb blast targeting a television viewing centre for football in northeast Nigeria killed at least 14 people and wounded 12 on Sunday, police and the military said. Islamist militant group Boko Haram, whose struggle for an Islamic state is concentrated in the Northeast, would be the prime suspect. "So far we have 14 dead while 12 are injured, some of them critically," police spokesman for Adamawa state Usman Abubakar said by telephone. The group has set off several bombs across north and central Nigeria over the past two months, repeatedly causing carnage. |
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