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In a new book, Chen Xitong denies years of accusations that he turned Deng Xiaoping against students and then played a key role in organizing the military assault.

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden faced accusations of corruption and other wrongdoing long before he was captured by Pakistani intelligence agents and then jailed for 33 years for treason. In interviews over the weekend, several current and former Pakistani officials described the doctor, Shakil Afridi, as a hard-drinking womanizer who had faced accusations of sexual assault, harassment and stealing. They said his main obsession was making easy money. …

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We’ll show you the money — or at least a plan for making some.
After commanding big bucks from investors and enlisting legions of users, the next generation of tech startups is focused on revving up the revenue engine. Companies like Foursquare, Tumblr and Pinterest have all in recent weeks…

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Dumb, Drunk and Racist – Joe Hildebrand, writer for the Daily Telegraph in Sydney, has a new TV show coming up on Australian TV, called “Dumb, Drunk and Racist”, which was the phrase famously used during a training session in an Indian call centre about Australians. The show features four Indians from varying backgrounds visiting Australia – looks like very uncomfortable viewing (if you’re Australian). (Slightly NSFW because of drunken boob-showing).

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Greece’s radical left party has upended the country’s politics with an idea as simple as it is seductive: Athens can renege on the deals it made in exchange for a bailout, and still remain in the euro.

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Tonight Mitt Romney said that he doesn’t agree with all of his supporters, but he still appreciates their help in his eventual victory. The elephant in the room is that one of his loudest (and richest) supporters, Donald Trump, is once again spouting his birther nonsense about President Obama.

Recently Trump again insisted that Obama was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia, despite the fact that Obama answered Trump’s previous accusations with his long-form Hawaiian birth certificate. That was over a year ago, so it’s possible Trump has forgotten. Or he may — like so many other conspiracy theorists — believe Obama’s birth certificate is an elaborate con.

Either way, Romney refused to address that particular claim, nearly a day before he appears at a Trump-hosted fundraised in Las Vegas. Perhaps the vague acknowledgment that he doesn’t agree with the opinions of everyone who supports him is enough of a rebuttal.

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CARMEL, Calif. — Clint Eastwood’s teenage daughter has incurred the ire of fashion fans and the general public alike by destroying a Hermes Birkin…

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The financial industry had hoped that Facebook, the highly anticipated and biggest-ever tech offering, would rekindle ordinary investors’ excitement in stocks.

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