President Obama signs Hiroshima memorial guestbook with message of peace and other top stories.

• President Obama signs Hiroshima memorial guestbook with message of peace

  President Barack Obama paid tribute to victims of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima on Friday, the first American leader to visit the city devastated by the bomb that helped end World War II.Obama laid a wreath at the site of the world's first atomic bombing, a symbolic gesture that Tokyo and Washington hope will highlight their alliance and breathe life into efforts to abolish nuclear arms.He also signed the guestbook at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, writing: 'We have known the agony of war.'L..

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• IS militants fight rebels in north Syria strongholds

  

  IS militants fight rebels in north Syria strongholds By Associated Press Published: 05:31 EST, 28 May 2016 | Updated: 05:31 EST, 28 May 2016 BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants entered a Syrian opposition stronghold in the country's north on Saturday, clashing with rebels on the edges of the town as the extremist group built on its most significant advance near the Turkish border in two years, Syrian opposition groups and IS media said.More than 160,000 civilians are trapped in th..

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• South China Sea: Managing shared resources the key

  

  Kota Kinabalu: Managing shared resources can be key to finding a solution to the political issues concerning the South China Sea, says a China expert Dr Carla Park Freeman (pic). She believes this is an area where Malaysia can take the lead on the ...

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• Ukraine fights paying Russian loan

  

  Ukraine fights paying Russian loan

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• Children forced to scale mountainside to get to school

  

  Footage of children in southwest China climbing an 800m cliff to reach their school has prompted authorities to take action. The only way for the children from Atuler village in Sichuan province to reach their classroom is to scale an 800m rock face using old wooden ladders and ropes. An elevator which used to ferry the children and other villagers to the mountain's base was shut down due to the cost of power and maintenance with most of the local population living on as little as a $1 a day. ..

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• Littered with bodies, it's a risky effort to recover the dead from Mount Everest

  

  Kathmandu: The mountain is speckled with corpses.Nearly 300 people have died on Mount Everest in the century or so since climbers have been trying to reach its summit. At least 100 of them are still on the mountain, perhaps 200. Most of the bodies are hidden in deep crevasses or covered by snow and ice, but some are visible to every climber who passes by, landmarks in heavy plastic climbing boots and colorful parkas that fade a little more every year.The most famous corpses get nicknames — "Gree..

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• Greece says sanctions against Russia not productive

  

   Reuters International May 27, 2016 - 21:04 Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (R) welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece, May 27, 2016. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis (reuters_tickers) ATHENS (Reuters) - Western sanctions against Russia are not productive, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Friday, weeks before the European Union is on track to renew them. The EU slapped sanctions on Russia after Moscow annexed Crimea..

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• 145-Year-Old Coffin Of Little Girl With Rose In Hand Found Under San Francisco Home

  

  The well-preserved body of a little girl of around three years of age, lying in a lead and bronze coffin, has been found by San Francisco construction workers. The unidentified girl has reportedly been dead for around 145 years, has long blond hair, and appears to have been from a family of means. The high end lead and bronze coffin and the undertaker’s fancy sealing job have preserved the little girl’s skin and hair, along with her burial flowers. As reported by the SFGate, when looking at her..

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• Turkey slams US 'hypocrisy' for backing Kurdish militia in Syria

  ANTALYA: Turkey on Friday accused the United States of hypocrisy after US commandos in Syria were pictured supporting a major ground offensive led by a Kurdish militia branded a terror group by Ankara. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said it was “unacceptable” that US troops had been seen in images taken by an AFP photographer wearing insignia of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). Ankara regards the YPG as a terror group, accusing it of carrying out attacks inside Turkey and being t..

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• Brazil police issue warrants for alleged gang-rape posted online

  

  A woman wearing a female gender symbol at a protest against the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in Rio de Janeiro last weekend. Photo: AP The 16-year-old girl arrived at her 19-year-old boyfriend's house in Rio de Janeiro at around 1 am last weekend. She remembers being alone with him there. The girl says her next memory is waking up in a different house surrounded by more than 30 men, many of them armed. All, or at least some, of them may have raped her. Na..

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