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Veteran Journalist Gao Yu Detained by Chinese Authorities
May 16, 2014

Gao Yu, a 70-year-old famous journalist in China, has been detained recently according to national news agency, Xinhua. The charge for the detainment is that Ms. Gao Yu had leaked a confidential document to a foreign website which was learned to be reposted by the broadcasters in the website. Ms. Gao Yu was a government critic being an insider of communist country. Family and friends of Gao Yu have found her missing since April 24. But, authorities confirmed that they detained her on the same date. It...

Kenya Arrests Over Illegal Alcohol Deaths
May 16, 2014

At least 70 people died and about 181 people were admitted in the hospital for treatment following consumption of methanol mixed alcohol in illicit way. The deaths happened with the producers of the brew belonging to counties such as: Embu, Kiambu, Kitui, Makueni and Murang'a counties. According to a reporter of BBC, many villages in Kenya are habitual in brewing homemade alcohol as the consumers cannot afford to purchase standardized alcohol. More so, the consumers would like to purchase methanol...

UK Education is Second Best in Europe
May 16, 2014

Economist Intelligence Unit of Pearson, an education and publishing firm, has released an analysis result in respect of world’s best countries that are having best education system and studies. The results are: Top five countries; South Korea Japan Singapore Hong Kong Finland UK has reached the sixth position in the world’s better education system possessing countries. The study is based on the international tests which include OECD’s Pisa tests and two major US-based studies, Trends in International...

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Supreme Court Rejects Anti-Abortion Activists’ ‘Personhood’ Plea

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On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the challenge brought against the decision of the Oklahoma Supreme Court striking down an attempt to place a “personhood” amendment to ballot in Oklahoma. The challenge was brought by anti-abortion group Personhood Oklahoma, which supported the movement for a measure to be put to ballot for declaring that […]

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