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Legendary country music singer Eddy Arnold died on Thursday at 89 in Nashville after a lengthy illness, the Associated Press reports. He died at a care facility, said Don Cusic, a professor at... |
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 A military judge has postponed the trial of Osama bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, saying the Supreme Court should first rule on the rights of inmates to contest their detention and to see if that ruling affects the detainees’ cases. The Supreme Court is expected to rule by 30 June.Hamdan was to be the first prisoner tried...
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More than 20 people were riding the carnival raid, called the Yo-Yo, when it collapsed shortly after 6 p.m. Friday at the Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee in Angels Camp in the Gold Country, authorities said.24 people were injured, including three seriously. The three seriously inured were airlifted, one each to UC Davis...
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 US President George W. Bush arrived
on 16th May in Saudi Arabia, in order to discuss two major issues
with the king Abdullah: the increase of oil output towards the United States and
the growing power of Iran.
Regarding the first issue, it is
a general truth that Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest supplier of oil and
also the...
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 Michael Ambrose was arrested Thursday night after a great
number of explosive devices was found in his house. The 41-year-old man, who
lives on 188 East Street in East Bridgewater, was charged with multiple counts
of possession of explosive and is due to be arraigned on Friday in Brockton District Court. The neighbors
were shocked...
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 A U.S. Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old Japanese girl at a U.S. military base in the island of Okinawa was sentenced by the martial court to four years in prison on Friday, Reuters reports.38-year-old Tyrone Hadnott was arrested by Japanese police on suspicion of rape following the incident in February, when he was released after...
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 Former US President Bill Clinton held a 35-minute
speech Thursday at Butler Traditional
High School in Louisville,
in which he discussed about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s position if she
became the next US
President. Another point of the speech was to advise people to ignore the
media and the ones who sustain that Hillary would...
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Roxanna Brown, a 62-year-old
American director of a museum in Thailand
was found dead Wednesday night in a detention center in Seattle. The cause
of her death has not been yet established. The Seattle
Times indicated that she might have suffered a heart attack. But has she
received all the medical care that she needed?
Maggie...
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 Sen. John McCain said Thursday that most American troops
would be home from Iraq
by 2013 and that Osama bin Laden would be captured.
“By January 2013, America
has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly
so that America
might be secure in her freedom. The Iraq War has been won,” Mc Cain told...
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 According to a criminal complaint, on May 7, Eder H. Rojas, 19,
started a fire in the restroom of a Northwest Airlines flight, traveling from Minneapolis to Regina,
Sask. A flight attendant
discovered the fire and flight 2040 was forced to make an emergency landing in Fargo, N.D, authorities
said.
He allegedly smuggled a lighter...
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 State senators ratified the Great Lakes Compact as a part of
an eight-state effort aimed at protecting the largest regional source of water.
“The federal law isn't strong enough. We need a new law and
that's the compact,” said Sen. Robert Cowles, R-Allouez.
A new local study compiled by a group at Michigan State
University...
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 “Reprise,” A Story of Friendship and Art
Directed by the young Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier, “Reprise” tells the story of two young aspiring writers. Philip (Anders Danielsen Lie) and Erik (Espen...
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US Delays Bin Laden’s Driver Trial
A military judge has postponed the trial of Osama bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, saying the Supreme Court should first rule on the rights of inmates to...
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Today is Wednesday, May 14
, the 135th day of 2008 with 231 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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