Armenia and Turkey have agreed to establish diplomatic ties and reopen their border under a plan to end nearly a century of hostility. The neighbours, whose history of animosity stems from the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during the First World War, said on Monday that they would hold domestic consultations before setting [...]
On August 27, 2009 a Texel Tup named “Deveronvale Perfection” was auctioned with the price of $375,000 making it the most expensive sheep in the World. The big and strong six-month-old Tup was born in Scotland in February this year.
A girl parades at Notting Hill Carnival in West London on August 30, 2009. Europe’s largest street party got under way on Sunday as festivities began with hundreds of thousands of visitors coming to enjoy the first day of the annual Carnival. Originally started as an offshoot of the Trinidad Carnival in 1964, the Notting [...]
Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, states that much of Africa’s violence is due to foreign meddling, pointing the accusing finger at Israel. Gaddafi, who is Chairman of the African Union (AU), was speaking on Monday at a special summit of the group, which is coinciding with the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the coup that brought [...]
Tang Jun, the former Microsoft China chief executive officer and the only known Chinese victim in the Bernard Madoff scandal, has decided that Chinese private banks are a much safer place to invest his assets. Tang consigned his investments abroad to four U.S. and Swiss professional financial companies, which entrusted large parts of their portfolios [...]
The Israeli Navy set fire to a Palestinian fishing boat off the Gaza shore this morning, injuring a fisherman, Palestinian sources and witnesses said. The fire was caused by a shell fired by an Israeli gunboat, the sources said. The Hamas Ministry of Agriculture said the fisherman was moderately burned and that his colleagues had succeeded [...]
An Egyptian businesswoman, on the run for 22 years, is arraigned for trial on charges of a multi-million dollar fraud. Hoda Abdel Moneim, 62, nicknamed “The Iron Lady”, appeared in court on Sunday, two days after being captured re-entering Egypt through Cairo airport. Abdel Moneim had been living in Greece since escaping charges of forgery and embezzlement [...]
With winds of 135 mph, Hurricane Jimena was approaching Mexico’s BajaCalifornia peninsula on Sunday as a Category 4 storm, forecasters said. “There’s a good chance this system could be a Category 5 in the next 24 hours,” said Dave Roberts, a hurricane specialist with the National Hurricane Center. As of midday Sunday, Jimena was located [...]
Kimi Raikkonen managed to keep Force India’s Giancarlo Fisichella at bay to clinch Ferrari’s first win of 2009 at an incident-packed Belgian Grand Prix. World champion Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button crashed out early on, although the Brawn man’s championship lead was cut by only two points to 16. The incident saw the safety car [...]
Israeli authorities have charged Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister,with corruption. The indictments include illegal acceptance of funds from an American supporter and double-billing for foreign trips, the attorney-general’s office said on Sunday. “The attorney-general … has decided to press charges against former prime minister Ehud Olmert,” a statement from the office of Menahem Mazuz [...]
A wildfire in the mountains above Los Angeles is threatening some 12,000 homes, California officials have said. The fire almost tripled in size yesterday, fuelled by hot weather and dry brush, firefighters said. About 10,000 homes have been evacuated and a handful in Big Tujunga Canyon have been destroyed by the flames. Two firefighters have [...]
The city of Venice is ready to celebrate the famous Venice International Film Festival. The 2009 edition of the Festival, organized by the Venice Biennale, will run at Venice Lido from 2nd to 12th of September and it is one of the greatest events in the world dedicated to cinema. The aim of the Festival [...]
Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old resident of Miami, Florida who stole more than 130 Million credit card numbers from a variety of retail businesses and payment processors, pleaded guilty to the charges in Massachusetts today. Gonzalez is facing 15-25 years in federal prison for the crime plus the forfeiture of $2.7 Million in cash, a Miami [...]
IBM scientists have been able to image the “anatomy”—or chemical structure—inside a molecule with unprecedented resolution, using a complex technique known as noncontact atomic force microscopy. The results push the exploration of using molecules and atoms at the smallest scale and could greatly impact the field of nanotechnology, which seeks to understand and control some [...]
In an incredible upsurge of exam takers, the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CICPA) is expecting over 550,000 people to take the exam during 4 days of examinations. 66,000 are registered to take the exam on August 28-29th and another 490,000 are registered to take the exam on September 19-20th. The present membership of [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama provided Michael Morrison, Editor of the Morning Post with his comments which he asked that we publish in their entirety; Michael — Michelle and I were heartbroken to learn this morning of the death of our dear friend, Senator Ted Kennedy. For nearly five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation [...]
French Police reported today that they have discovered more than 1,800 lbs, or 800kg, of explosives contained in 12 ammunition bunkers operated by the Basque separatist group ETA. The storehouses, located in remote areas, contained ammonium nitrate and chlorate for explosives, guns and detonators. The French police also arrested several ETA leaders and destroyed the [...]
U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, a towering figure in the Democratic Party who took the helm of one of America’s most fabled political families after two older brothers were assassinated, has died at age 77, his family said on Wednesday. “Edward M. Kennedy, the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply, died late Tuesday night [...]
After Morrison World News published an article in The Morning Post regarding the poisoning of Chinese children by the Shaanxi Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Factory located in the Changqing Industrial Park in Fengxiang County, the local authorities banned all journalists from the area. Madaokou Village is now surrounded by police cars preventing anyone from [...]
The Supreme Court of Argentina has ruled that it is unconstitutional to punish people for using marijuana for personal consumption. The decision follows a case of five young men who were arrested with a few marijuana cigarettes in their pockets. The Court said that use of marijuana must not harm others and made it clear [...]
The freighter the Artic Sea left Finland in late July heading for Algeria with a crew of 15 and a cargo of lumber. On July 24th the ship was boarded by ten armed men who proclaimed that they were police. They conducted a thorough search of the ship over a 12 hour period and then [...]
Immediately the first election results for the Afghan presidency were announced, a massive truck bomb exploded killing 50 people, mostly women and children at a wedding hall in the center of Kandahar. Buildings adjacent to the wedding hall collapsed burying dozens of people under the rubble. Local police with the help of residents are desperately [...]
This weekend The X Factor, which is the British version of American Idol, premiered in the U.K. switching to the even more dramatic live-audition format of Simon Cowell’s other big across-the-pond reality hit, Britain’s Got Talent. Auditioning Saturday night, non-coincidentally in the all-important “pimp slot,” was likable schoolteacher Danyl Johnson. Danyl managed to accomplish the unthinkable. [...]
NASA has fuelled the space shuttle Discovery and it is expected to lift off for the International Space Station at 1:36am (05:36 GMT) on Tuesday from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The mission is scheduled to last 13 days to deliver laboratory gear and mice for bone-loss experiments to the space station and supply [...]
The Los Angeles Coroner’s report indicates that pop star Michael Jackson dies as a result of an overdose of propofol, commonly called Diprivan. Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, admitted that he administered Diprivan to Jackson at approximately 10:30 A.M. on the morning Jackson died. Murray was away from Jackson’s room “not more than two minutes” and [...]
Miss Venezuela was the fairest of them all, again. Venezuelan Stefania Fernandez won the 2009 Miss Universe pageant in the Bahamas on Sunday night. Dressed in a flowing red gown, Fernandez embraced runner up Miss Dominican Republic as the announcement was made, and received the crown from last year’s winner, Dayana Mendoza, of Venezuela. The sparkling tiara fell [...]
In progress this weekend, the MAKS-2009 International Air Show in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, August 22, 2009, has participants from all over Europe. Especially endearing to the enormous crowds are the French and Italian air force displays with multi-colored exhaust streaming as they race across the sky in perfect formation. MiG-29 “Strizhi” fighter planes fly in [...]
Fidel Castro Ruz, former President of Cuba, and Rafael Correa Delgado, current President of Ecuador, met in Havana, Cuba this weekend. Castro, who was 83 on August 14th, appeared to be in good health and in a good mood during his meeting with Correa. Correa was in Havana for a medical check-up and a short [...]
The recovery from global economic recession is under way, the International Monetary Fund’s chief economist has said. Olivier Blanchard said in an IMF article on Tuesday: “The recovery has started,” but warned, “the turnaround will not be simple”. He said countries would need to rebalance their economies to make sure it was sustainable. “The crisis [...]
A spokesman for Pakistani’s Ansar-ul-Islam armed group and his driver have been killed by a remote-controlled bomb in Peshawar, Pakistani police have said. Five people were also injured in the attack on Mubeen Afridi on Saturday in the northwestern city, police said. “Two people were killed and five others were injured in the car bombing,” [...]
Nigeria’s largest militant group has said it is to end its ceasefire and resume attacks against Africa’s biggest oil and gas industry. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said the move to end the truce on September 15th was in response to the government’s 60-day amnesty program. The government has invited [...]
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has begun for most of the world’s 1.2 billion Muslims. Ramadan, the month when Muslims traditionally fast from sunrise to sunset, began on Saturday for most in the Middle East and Asia. Fasting began a day earlier in Libya, Turkey and for some Lebanese Shias. Muslims in France, which [...]
Wildfires across the rural outskirts of Athens, Greece, have forced citizens to abandon their homes as firefighters struggle with fires that are burning out of control. Minor fires broke out on Friday and developed overnight, fed by gale-force winds that kept shifting direction, fire officials said on Saturday. The government declared a state of emergency [...]
A rare event in Southern Ontario, but devastating to endure, a tornado or tornado’s struck the northern part of the city causing widespread damage to property and leaving over 50,000 residents without electricity. Hurricane Bill is sweeping in from the Atlantic Ocean and it is feared that it will cause severe damage again in the [...]
Chinese Muslims pray at the Dongguan Great Mosque in Xining, capital of northwest China’s Qinghai Province Aug. 21, 2009, on the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. After a month of riots and demonstrations in the region, the Uighur population has set aside its [...]
Cantel Medical Corporation, in a corporate press release dated August 20, 2009, stated that Betsy McCaughey, a corporate director who created the myth that U.S. healthcare reform would lead to the formation of “Death Panels“, allowing doctors to decide who would live and who would die based on the cost of end-of-life care, had resigned [...]
Image via Wikipedia Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has been accused by the Government of Honduras of the theft of over $2.7 Million in cash from the Central Bank of Honduras prior to his enforced exile from Honduras. Zelaya apparently ordered the cash to be delivered on June 24, 2009 to the office of [...]
Suaad Hagi Mohamud has filed a $2.5 Million lawsuit against the government of Canada for the wrongful rejection of her Canadian Citizenship while she was traveling in Kenya to visit her mother. Suaad Hagi was questioned by a KLM airline employee in Kenya who disputed her contention that her Canadian Passport was in fact hers [...]
Image via Wikipedia Bradley Birkenfeld, a U.S. citizen residing in Florida, was sentenced today to 40 months in a federal penitentiary for his role as an agent of Swiss banking giant UBS AG. UBS signed a “Qualified Intermediary” agreement with the IRS in which UBS was required to disclose the identity of any [...]
Image via Wikipedia Abdel Basset al-Megrahi landed in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, on Thursday, hours after being freed from prison on the orders of Scotland’s justice minister Kenny MacAskill. MacAskill made the decision to release the 57-year-old Libyan agent, who is dying of prostate cancer, on compassionate grounds. He had served eight years [...]
The Chinese government has revealed that it plans to punish Facebook for allowing a resistance group to form a networking group on the website. The “Xinjiang Independence Activists” are using Facebook to communicate worldwide, alleges the Chinese, and as a result 80% of Chinese internet users agree that Facebook should be punished. “Facebook is allowing [...]
China is in the midst of a country-wide military exercise named “STRIDE- 2009” which is intended to increase the flexibility and experience of The People’s Liberation Army troops in all forms of civil unrest and military deployment. Troops have commandeered civilian aircraft, trains, trucks, and automobiles in order to replicate the actual conditions that might [...]
After 300 parents complained that their children were becoming ill from the emissions at the Shaanxi Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Factory located in the Changqing Industrial Park in Fengxiang County, doctors at the Xi’an Central Hospital diagnosed lead poisoning at levels three times the maximum safe level.In 2006, the factory was ordered to help [...]
The bodies of Zarema Sadulayeva and Alik Dzhabrailov, her husband, were found in Grozny, the Chechen capital, on Tuesday in the trunk of their car, shot to death. They had been kidnapped a day earlier by five armed masked men from the offices of the “Save the Generation” charity, which provides medical and psychological help [...]
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has posted 14 large size posters in Washington D.C.’s Union Station in order to attract the attention of Congressional Staffers who walk through the station every day. The message is clear and well presented yet some Whitehouse staff members are concerned that the ad copy references the President’s [...]
Image by jpellgen via Flickr Downtown Tokyo shook in the 6.5 magnitude earthquake that hit early Tuesday morning, buckling roadways, toppling small buildings and causing low level damage throughout the city. 50 people reportedly were injured in early estimates, however no fatalities have been reported. This is the third large earthquake in the last [...]
Image via Wikipedia Saudi Arabia’s arcane, even bizarre, quasi-pious belief that sex should never be discussed openly in any forum, on penalty of death, is the driving force behind the closure of the Lebanese broadcast television channel in Saudi Arabia. Shocking television viewers with accounts of foreplay and casual sex, Mazen Abdul-Jawad [...]
Image via Wikipedia An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale rocked India’s Andaman Islands on Monday, triggering a tsunami watch for all coastal regions in the Indian Ocean. The quake epicenter is located 160 miles north of Port Blair in the Andaman Islands and 20 miles deep in the Indian Ocean but there [...]
Image via Wikipedia A moderate earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale rocked eastern parts of Indonesia on Monday, but there were no reports of damage or casualties, according to the country’s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency. The quake struck at 20:12 Jakarta time (1312 GMT) with an epicenter at 80 miles northwest of Kupang [...]
Image via Wikipedia China and India have disputed the 2000 mile border between the two countries for 50 years and this weeks meeting to resolve the issue appears to be simply a rehash of old demands. India refuses to give China the Arunachal Pradesh area because it is inhabited by Indian nationals, and always [...]
Image via Wikipedia Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today threatened to “severely punish” the United States for its role in attempting a “velvet coup” following the June 12, 2009 presidential elections. “The new government will slam those bullying powers, which fanned the flames of Iran’s post-election unrest. The West irresponsibly interfered in Iran’s internal [...]
Karlheinz Schreiber was extradited today from Canada to Germany to face criminal charges of tax evasion, bribery, and fraud in his dealings with former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl which involved illegal political financing. Schreiber was also implicated in a political corruption scheme in Canada involving former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Hearings on Schreiber’s dealings [...]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Striking 200 miles south of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean, the 6.9 Earthquake caused buildings to sway and roads to buckle as residents sought cover throughout Eastern Japan. No immediate reports of injuries were received and the extent of the damage is unknown. No tsunami warnings were [...]
Thousands of prison inmates are held at a prison compound in Chino California, packed together in some of the worst overcrowding you can imagine. 60 inmates packed into a space built for 15. No air conditioning. No ice. Dilapidated buildings, broken glass and trash everywhere. Not damage caused by inmates, but gradually decaying structures built [...]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife In preparation for what is described as the worst typhoon in 50 years, over one million Chinese citizens have been evacuated from the southern coast of China to inland towns. In an effort to prevent the destruction of their fishing boats locals have transported over 40,000 boats to inland [...]
Despite the efforts of the Parliament of Haiti to increase the minimum wage for workers to $6.00 per day, Haiti’s President Rene Preval has refused to permit the wage increase on the basis that garment workers should not receive more than $3.00 per day maximum. Preval says that this will ensure garment [...]
Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr The Iranian government has prosecuted every lawyer, journalist, teacher, professor, activist, embassy employee, media employee and corporate employee that it can all on the theory that one or more of them conspired to cause the protests following the June 12th presidential elections. Every one is at fault, [...]
Image by nrv75 via Flickr Frank DiPascali was the Chief Financial Officer at Bernard Madoff Securities and essentially ran the business on a daily basis. Seemingly untouched by the Madoff criminal investigation, DiPascali provided the information prosecutors needed to generate the evidence of Madoff’s fraud.
Image via Wikipedia Warren Buffett’s investment firm, Berkshire Hathaway, reports a profit of $3.3 Billion for the months of April through June 2009. That so called “profit” is actually the result of U.S. government bailouts of every company that Buffett had invested in. Without the government bailout’s Buffett would be bankrupt today.
Image by kr4gin via Flickr The highest unemployment rate in the United States is in one state, and that is California. Currently topping 11.5%, higher than anywhere else in the nation, California’s economic outlook remains bleak with no new start-up technologies, factories, or industrial developments to lead the way. The largest growing demographic segment [...]
Image by talkradionews via Flickr The U.S. Senate confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor, in a 68-31 vote, as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court. Nine Republicans backed her nomination. The 55-year-old federal appeals court judge becomes the 111th person to sit on the high court, and the third female justice. [...]
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin today signed numerous agreements with Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for construction of a pipeline through Turkish waters in the Black Sea and for the construction of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant. Putin said the negotiations would “open the road to new major projects in the energy sector. Such [...]
In a case which some might consider extraordinary, even bizarre, in the 21st century, Zambia is in the process of prosecuting Chansa Kabwela, the editor of Zambia’s influential ‘The Post’ newspaper for “pornography”. Kabwela distributed three photographs of women giving birth in the parking lot of the main Lusaka hospital after being refused admission [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama today announced the US Government will invest $2.4 Billion in developing hybrid and electric fuel-source vehicles. The investment into new technology is aimed at rebuilding the US economy and protecting jobs, Barack Obama told employees on the factory floor of a vehicle builder in Wakarusa, Indiana on Wednesday. “For far too [...]
In an effort to break-up the two month old occupation of a car factory by 600 of its terminated employees, Korean riot police staged an aerial attack using helicopters to lower police onto the factory roof. Car manufacturer Ssangyong is located at Pyeongtaek about 150 miles south of the South Korean capital, Seoul. The company [...]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton announced today that he will resign as Chief of Police, effective immediately, to join an international security firm called “Altegrity” located in Falls Church, Virginia where he will take the position of Chief Executive Officer consulting with police departments worldwide. Bratton leaves [...]
Image via Wikipedia The State of California has been playing Russian-roulette for decades with its prison system. Filling the prisons to double their intended capacity with citizens who have committed the most heinous of crimes, such as eating food on the bus, and jaywalking.Thirty-seven percent (37%) of California’s prison inmates are non-serious, non-violent offenders who [...]
Image via Wikipedia Erik Prince, the owner of Blackwater which is now known as Xe Services LLC, is accused of murder, fraud, and illegal arms smuggling, all while engaged in providing protective services in Iraq. Blackwater contracted with the U.S. State Department to provide protection for US employees in Iraq. Not only [...]
Effective immediately, the United States Marine Corp is prohibiting the use of internet social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. “These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries,” reads the [...]
Former US President Bill Clinton met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang, North Korea on Tuesday, North Korea’s state-run news agency KCNA reported. Clinton arrived in Korea earlier in the day on a mission to negotiate the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, both reporters for California-based Current TV, a media venture [...]
Image by ToastyKen via Flickr Centered 76 miles north east of Santa Isabel in Baja California, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake caused extensive damage to the numerous fishing villages along the coast of the Gulf of California in Mexico. Striking at 12:59 A.M. local time, the earthquake was felt as far north as Phoenix, Arizona. Several [...]
Image by jpellgen via Flickr The Attorney General for the State of New York published at 22-page report entitled “No Rhyme Or Reason: The Heads I Win, Tales You Lose Bank Bonus Culture”.
Think globally, act locally,” the saying goes. New Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, has done both, acting “locally” by instituting one of the strongest tobacco control programs in the country as New York City health commissioner, and globally, through leadership of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use. [...]
Image via Wikipedia An apartment management company in Illinois has sued a tenant for libel over a “malicious and defamatory” tweet about the state of her apartment to her 20 followers on Twitter. The Horizon Group Management filed a lawsuit against Amanda Bonnen, who was a tenant in one of its Chicago buildings. The complaint [...]
Toronto’s Angell Gallery is presenting the amazing art of Toronto based digital artist Alex McLeod. The exhibition runs from August 8th to August 29th.
Another New Jersey mayor snared in a federal corruption sting is stepping down after his arrest.
A federal judge has ruled that a Boston University student violated copyright infringement laws when he swapped music online. Joel Tenenbaum, of Providence, R.I., admitted on the witness stand Thursday that he downloaded and distributed 30 songs. U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner ruled late Thursday that the only issue for the jury is whether his [...]
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Space shuttle Endeavour and a crew of seven astronauts touched down at 10:48 a.m. EDT at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bringing an end to a complex mission to install the final section of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kibo laboratory on the International Space Station. All of the STS-127 crew members are doing [...]
Image via Wikipedia Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez has made a list of mandatory reading for all Venezuelan’s and to ensure the books are being read the government is providing them free of charge.
The Columbian Army turned 15 soldiers over to civilian courts for prosecution for the murder of two civilian restaurant workers in Medellin in 2006. Finally, the case has come to trial and the court has sentenced each of the soldiers to terms of from 4 to 30 years for murder. The soldiers killed the two [...]
Image by True Russian Vodka via Flickr Russian’s preoccupation with drinking their favorite domestic beverage, vodka, results in some of the highest drunk-driving statistics in the world. This week alone over 100 Russian’s died in collisions caused by drunk drivers. So far this year over 10,000 Russian’s have died on Russia’s highways. [...]
The actions taken by the Iranian government to prosecute 100 protestors arrested during the demonstrations following the June 12, 2009 presidential election have taken a bizarre turn, unusual even for the arcane judicial system employed in Iran. All 100 defendants and their lawyers have been denied any opportunity to review the criminal charges made against [...]
The Two Palestinian families evicted from their homes today in East Jerusalem were accused of “harboring international activists”, a term which could be applied to anyone who is politically active or merely engaging in their profession, such as a journalist. Palestinian’s claim that this is an effort by Israel to gradually remove each resident from [...]
Image via Wikipedia Three US citizens, Sarah Shourd, Joshua Fattal, and Shane Bauer were arrested as they inadvertently crossed over an unmarked border from Kurdistan into Iran near the town of Marivan. Iran’s Al-Alam Television has confirmed the identity of the three hikers who were warned by local citizens not to descend the east [...]
Image via Wikipedia There are more shipping containers loaded and unloaded off the coasts and rivers of China, than travel to or from all other territories in the world put together. It is in China that more than three-quarters of this activity takes place. The majority of China’s shipping by implication is ‘domestic’. The rest [...]
Image by rogimmi via Flickr In an unprecedented move to quash freedom of speech in Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez has revoked the permits of 230 radio stations in the nation, with more to follow. This effectively eliminates any media opposition to Chavez’s method of governing Venezuela. Extending his actions to television stations, Chavez has [...]
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Russian Performers Drop Fish-Eating Circus Act
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North Korea Marks 62nd Founding Day
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Rachel Corrie Trial: During War There Are No Civilians
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US Soldiers ‘Kept Afghan Body Parts’
China’s Blind Activist Lawyer Released From Prison
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Mexican Mayor Gunned Down Inside Own Office
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United Nations ‘Failed’ Congo Rape Victims
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French Unions Stage Nationwide Strike
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Mexican Soldiers Open Fire On Family’s Car At Checkpoint, Killing 15-Year-Old And Father
U.S. Considers Boosting Funds For Mexico Drug War
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The Arrest And Trial Of Human Rights Activist Shiva Nazar-Ahari
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