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| Part of Cleveland comic book icon's CD collection up for auction | |  By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The widow of underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar, whose life story was told in the movie "American Splendor," is auctioning part of his extensive jazz CD collection to raise money for the family of a restaurant owner killed in June. Joyce Brabner, Pekar's widow and overseer of his estate, put 200 CDs owned by the comic book author, noted jazz critic and collector, for sale on eBay on Monday. Jim Brennan, 61, was shot and killed in the basement of the Brennan's Colony restaurant in Cleveland Heights in a robbery on June 30. Pekar chronicled his struggles in working class Cleveland in his comic books, gaining acclaim and making multiple appearances on Late Night with David Letterman in the 1980s.
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| China to hold public trial of foreign couple who worked for GSK | | | By Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - China will try in public a foreign couple linked to drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline Plc on charges of illegally obtaining private information, state media said, after the United States and Britain raised concerns about access to the trial. Chinese prosecutors announced charges against British investigator Peter Humphrey and his U.S. wife on Monday. The couple were detained last year following work they did for the British pharmaceutical firm. Two family friends with knowledge of the matter told Reuters this month that the trial was set for Aug. ... |
| UK coalition strained as Deputy PM likens Cameron's policies to Putin's | |  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Strains in Britain's two-party coalition surfaced on Thursday as David Cameron's governing partner likened the prime minister's policies to those of Russian President Vladimir Putin and other "tyrants". Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, leader of the junior coalition partner the Liberal Democrats, made the comparison when criticising plans by Cameron's Conservatives to limit the power of the European Convention on Human Rights in Britain if re-elected next year. Clegg said he had been "blindsided" by comments from Justice Secretary Chris Grayling that the Conservatives would lay out plans to "curtail" the role of the convention in Britain and to replace the legislation which enshrines it into British law.
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| Three Israelis charged with revenge murder of Palestinian teen | |  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - First they removed the baby seat to make room in the car, and then three Israelis searched for an Arab to kidnap and kill to avenge the deaths of three Jewish teenagers, according to a murder indictment released on Thursday. Mohammed Abu Khudair's death stoked Palestinian street protests in Jerusalem and in Israeli Arab villages, and served as a trigger for warfare between Israel and rocket-firing militants in the Gaza Strip now in its 10th day. Two weeks after Mohammed, 16, was dragged screaming into a Honda vehicle outside his East Jerusalem home, his final minutes were described in graphic detail in a 10-page charge sheet issued by Israel's Justice Ministry. The teen was still alive, but unconscious, it said, when he was doused with fuel in a Jerusalem forest and set alight.
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| Hong Kong's leader says Chinese rules to prevail in 2017 vote | |  By Greg Torode and Clare Baldwin HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's leader told Beijing on Tuesday that the city's residents wanted a full election in 2017, but said the financial hub would have to abide by the restrictive framework set down by China's Communist authorities. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying offered no firm proposal, but said the contest would be run according to the "Basic Law", or mini-constitution, that has governed Hong Kong since Britain returned it to Chinese rule in 1997, rather than international standards. Hundreds of thousands marched through Hong Kong on July 1 in support of full democracy. Leung said the principle of universal suffrage in the 2017 poll "will be an important milestone of the democratic development of Hong Kong's political system, with significant real impact and historic meaning".
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| Cambodia arrests more opposition members after violent clashes | |  By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian police arrested two more opposition members of parliament on Thursday on charges of leading an insurrection, taking to eight the number of government opponents being held on accusations that rights groups say are politically motivated. The arrests are the latest twist in a year-long political crisis over a disputed election which has exposed a rift between long-serving authoritarian Prime Minister Hun Sen and many young, urban voters yearning for change. Six members of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), five of them members of parliament and one an activist, were ordered detained in prison pending trial on Wednesday on charges of leading an insurrection, which carries a penalty of up to 30 years in prison. Two more members of parliament for the party were picked up on Thursday.
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