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"Christmas greetings from the banana republic called Belgium."
The text message arrived on this correspondent's mobile phone on Monday, sent by a Belgian friend not normally characterized by her interest in politics.
And it put into words a widespread feeling of weariness and deja vu as the country found itself looking...
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Mountain gorillas living in a Congolese national park controlled by rebels battling the government are doing well despite the conflict, the director of the park said Tuesday after rangers gained access for the first time in 15 months.
Rangers have not been able to access the gorillas in the Virunga National Park, eastern Democratic...
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Dipping stock markets and property values brought on by the global financial crisis have knocked 60 per cent off the combined value of the 40 wealthiest Indians, the business magazine Forbes said in a report published Thursday.
The total net worth of the 40 richest Indians fell by 212 billion dollars from last year to 139 billion...
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The world's major powers have agreed on a resolution over Iran's nuclear programme that will be presented to the UN Security Council on Friday.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told reporters the resolution would "reaffirm" existing sanctions that have been placed on Iran over its refusal to comply with Security...
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Seven US soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed west of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the US army said Thursday.
The Chinook helicopter, which had been en route from Kuwait to the military base in Balad north of Baghdad, had not come under fire and the crash appeared to have been an accident, the army said in a...
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Russian combat forces began a slow withdrawal from Georgia on Friday but were still operating road checkpoints deep in the country despite a pledge to leave by the end of the day.
The Russian general staff said that troops were "in the final stage of pulling back," but they would continue to hold buffer zones and maintain...
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The SAS Group, the operator of the joint carrier Scandinavian Airlines, reported a second-quarter pre-tax loss over record high fuel costs and overcapacity, the group said Thursday as it announced new belt-tightening measures.
The SAS share, however, gained 4 per cent in opening trading on the report and slipped slightly under that...
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The near-eradication of the blue whale in the waters of the Antarctic during the early 20th century led to a paradoxical fall-off in krill, the small shrimp-like creatures on which they feed, a German report said Wednesday.
Marine biologist Victor Smetacek told the German weekly Die Zeit that blue whales had once consumed 180 million...
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German police arrested two men Wednesday in connection with a shooting at an ice cream parlour in the city of Ruesselsheim in which two men and a woman were killed, the prosecutor's office said.
Two of the victims in the killing, which took place at 8 pm Tuesday, were reported to be of Kurdish-Turkish origin and to be regulars at the...
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Nearly 50% of the world's primates are in danger of extinction as a result of human activity, reveals a report carried out by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).The burning and clearing of tropical forests for farmland, as well as the hunting of monkeys and apes for their meat, were the two greatest threats leading...
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Seven civilians were killed Thursday in fresh
clashes between government forces and Taliban fighters in Pakistan's
troubled Swat valley, media reports said. One mortar round
missed its target in the Deolai area of Swat and hit a house, killing
seven members of the same family, including five children. The house
was completely...
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 India-born surgeon Jayant Patel, nicknamed “Doctor Death,” returned to Australia to face charges relating to the deaths of more than a dozen patients. Patel was taken into police custody in the United States after being extradited. On Monday, he was granted a conditional bail by a Queensland court after arriving in a Qantas Airways...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday
efforts to end the ethnic conflict in Sudan's Darfur region have been
disappointing as the warring parties have chosen confrontation rather
than dialogue. 'I am deeply disappointed by the lack of
progress that has been made towards resolving the Darfur conflict,' Ban
told the UN...
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Children under five years old who often squint should be checked for possible eye cancer, a media report said Monday.
Frequent squinting or pupils that appear to be white could be signs of
a growing tumor, the Standard said, quoting a leading eye specialist.
Ophthalmologist Christopher Yu said parents should have infants...
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 According to a new study released today by a team of
scientists at the Kaiser Permanente Center
for Health Research in Portland,
Ore., a notebook and your
keenness in keeping the evidence of your daily meals may be the key to losing
weight and having a healthier lifestyle.
The report was published in the American Journal...
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 A report released on Thursday by the inspector general of
the State Department informed that employees may have unacceptably previewed
the electronic passport records of well-off people and celebrities far more
often than formerly supposed. One celebrity's files were violated more than 350
times by approximately six dozen...
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A woman suffering from a psychiatric disease died on the
floor, inside Kings County Hospital
Center in Brooklyn,
on June 19. A video tape that recorded the tragic event was handed over to the
attorneys of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
The death of Esman Green, 49, was graphically revealed
yesterday when the...
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The Federal Bureau of
Investigation arrested a Lake in the Hills
man, charging him with possession of tetrodotoxin, a poison found in puffer
fish, usually known as TTX . The culprit had a quantity that could kill almost
100 people, informs Chicago Tribune. "That's a lot. It doesn't take much
to kill," said FBI Special...
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The International Whaling
Commission rejected on Tuesday indigenous Greenland
fishermen proposal to enlarge their hunt. The fishermen proposed to renounce to
their rights to eight fin whales, but to be offered 10 humpbacks.
IWC’s decision is based on the
idea that Greenland and Denmark
(which possesses an Arctic estate)...
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 A UN report informed on Thursday that development in drug control efforts may be
threatened by an increase in narcotic supplies in parts of Afghanistan and Columbia.
Last year, Afghanistan had a record opium harvest
and Columbia
increased its coca leaf production with approximately 27 percent, according to
The World Drug Report...
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 According to an annual report organized
in 150 countries by the Amnesty International (AI), at least 81 countries are
closing their eyes when it comes to torture or bad treatment of their citizens.
The freedom of speak is not respected in at least 77 countries and unfair trial
has been reported in at least 54 nations.
How is this...
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 The government of the Canadian province of Quebec
rejected a proposal to remove a crucifix from above the speaker’s chair in the
parliament. According to Quebec Prime Minister Jean Charest said the crucifix
was related to 350 years of history that could not be erased.
The proposal was made in a report into how Quebec’s...
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the 144th day of 2008 with 222 to follow.The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, the father of modern systematic botany, in 1707; Austrian physician...
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 The Global Peace Index brought up a report which ranks each nation in terms of “peacefullness”. It took in consideration factors as a nation's
relations with its neighbors, arm sales, troop organization, respect for human
rights and number of homicides per 100,000 people. It is the second year when
the index was conducted and it rates...
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, the 140th day of 2008 with 226 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include American-born Nancy Astor, the first woman member of the British Parliament, in 1879; Vietnamese leader...
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the 132nd day of 2008 with 234 to follow. This is Mother's Day. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Ottmar Mergenthaler, inventor of the Linotype typesetting machine, in 1854;...
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the 126th day of 2008 with 240 to follow. The moon is new. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard in 1813; German political theorist Karl Marx in 1818; hatmaker John...
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 A powerful earthquake was registered in west Indonesia’s Sumatra Island
on Monday. Even though no great damages were discovered, the government
issued a tsunami warning. However, the warning was lifted just 45 minutes
later.
Hassanudin, a police officer in Bengkulu town, told Reuters
that “There are no reports of damages or...
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 A federal judge said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failed
to protect the city of New Orleans from flooding after Hurricane Katrina,
but dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the agency.
U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval threw out the
class-action suit Wednesday, saying the Corps was shielded from liability under
the Flood...
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A British terrorist suspect in an alleged plot to blow up
trans-Atlantic commercial jetliners managed to escape from a mosque
when his police escorts allowed him to say prayers on their way back to
the prison, police investigators said Monday.
Rashid Rauf, a British citizen of Pakistani origin, escaped from
guards on Saturday...
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A shadow of doubt has been thrown over the government’s
claim to have swiftly contained the first outbreak of foot and mouth disease,
after a new outbreak seems to share the same origin.
Scientists believe a second report of the virus a month after foot and mouth
was first confirmed was part of the same outbreak, suggesting the...
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 According to a report in the Journal of the American Medical
Association, although often prescribed, the antibiotic amoxicillin and the
topical steroid budesonide, either alone or in combination, are not effective
treatments for sinusitis.
The findings are based on a study of 240 adults who
developed an episode of sinusitis. The...
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 According to a government report released this morning the
rate of close calls between aircraft on the ground approached record highs in
recent years at Los Angeles International and airports around the nation. LAX
also recorded one of the largest total numbers of serious runway incursions.
The findings come despite much-touted...
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 According to local media reports on Monday, eight Turkish
soldiers who were released by the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) last
week after being taken hostage in an ambush were arrested and charged on Sunday
by an order of the Van Military Court.
The eight soldiers will now face
trial in custody based on "the...
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 According to a state-owned oil rig press release made public
on Wednesday regarding the death of at least 18 oil workers, the cause of the
incident was due to a drilling rig which struck an oil platform in stormy
weather, spilling gas and oil into the Gulf of Mexico Seven other workers were
still missing.
Rescuers have pulled 61...
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 According to local media, at least nine Turkish soldiers
were killed in fighting with Kurdish militants after midnight on Sunday, and
more soldiers were reported missing forcing Turkey’s prime minister to call an
emergency security summit The deaths dramatically increase the pressure on the
government to launch a military offensive...
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 According to a recent study released on Thursdays by
paleontologists, the carnivorous Velociraptor dinosaur had feathers.
Evidence to back up the statement came in the form of a
forearm bone of a Velociraptor found in Mongolia's
desolate Gobi desert retained structures, or quill
knobs, where a series of feathers were anchored to...
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 A report released by the US-based
group Human Rights Watch holds responsible Ethiopian, Somali, and insurgent
forces for severe violations of the laws of war that have resulted in
heavy civilian casualties.
The 113-page report called "Shell-Shocked:
Civilians under siege in Mogadishu" refers to the fights...
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Though accused by a political rival of tacit protection of
Iran-tied militia, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki expressed his optimism on his
government reconciliation on Sunday.
In the same time US military reported an attack that took
place on Saturday, causing the death of five soldiers and the injury of other
four troops. The...
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the 191st day of 2007 with 174 to follow.
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mercury, Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include Protestant theologian John Calvin in 1509; American painter James Whistler in 1834; brewer...
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 The Economist Intelligence Unit published with international businessman Steve Killelea a report on Wednesday called Global Peace Index, which ranks 121 countries according to their peacefulness. The ranking system used 24 indicators, such as the number of external and civil wars fought, the level of respect for human rights and the...
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US military commanders are planning to arm local militias to combat Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
The first such "local defence forces" would begin operating early next year in Wardak Province close to Kabul, an area where the resurgent Taliban had largely assumed...
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Filmmakers in Bollywood, India's prolific film industry based in Mumbai, have registered about 30 titles for movie projects about the November terrorist attacks, a news report said Thursday.
26 Taj, Operation 5 Star Mumbai and Bird's Point of View: Taj Terror are some of the titles that have been registered by film-makers planning...
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Investment bank Morgan Stanley on Wednesday reported sharp fourth-quarter losses and reductions in year-on-year income for the business year that ended November 30, continuing the fallout from the economic crisis.
The company reported that its income for the year came to 1.8 billion dollars, compared with 2.6 billion dollars the...
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Investment bank Morgan Stanley on Wednesday reported sharp fourth-quarter losses and reductions in year-on-year income for the business year that ended November 30, continuing the fallout from the economic crisis.
The company reported that its income for the year came to 1.8 billion dollars, compared with 2.6 billion dollars the...
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Troubled US web portal firm Yahoo! is in negotiations to buy Time Warner Inc.'s AOL business, the financial news agency Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
Yahoo!, which earlier in the week rejected a 47.5-billion-dollar takeover bid by Microsoft in a move that saw the resignation of CEO Jerry Yang, is according to Bloomberg bidding for...
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US aircraft manufacturer Boeing is to delay its deliveries by 10 weeks in the wake of a two-month strike by its mechanics, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
The first of its customers had already been informed, the newspaper said, quoting industry insiders. Orders for some 3,700 jetliners were affected.
Boeing has since...
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Unemployment in the United States rose to 6.5 per cent in October, after another 240,000 jobs were lost in a worsening sign for the economy, the US Labour Department reported Friday.
The jobless rate jumped from 6.1 per cent in the previous two months, and marked an increase of 1.7 per cent, or 2.8 million fewer jobs, over the last...
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US consumer confidence plummeted to a new low in October and housing prices plunged by the most on record this year as a financial meltdown appeared more and more likely to plunge the world's largest economy into recession.
The slew of depressing economic news will likely prompt the US Federal Reserve to further cut interest rates at...
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Dozens of cross-border strikes carried out by US forces from Afghanistan into Pakistan's lawless tribal region have killed 301 civilians and wounded more than 240 others so far in 2008, a media report said Tuesday.
Citing figures compiled by the Interior Ministry, the English-language daily The News said most of those killed in 32...
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The options for survival for US automotive giants General Motors and Chrysler are limited to bankruptcy protection, merger or a receipt of aid from the US government, the Wall Street Journal said Monday.
Citing sources inside GM and Chrysler, the respected financial daily said the two companies which are currently in merger...
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Ice in the Arctic summer sea has been melting at almost record levels amid general temperature increases, according to an expert report released late on Thursday.
The review by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warns that the Arctic's continued warming shows the dramatic effects of climate change even more...
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 The authorities released a report announcing that a man shot and killed his wife inside a hospital, in her bed. The 88-year-old man then shot himself. Michael Mastronardy, police chief, stated that the man was in a critical condition and immediately after he had shot his 87-year-old wife he was taken to the trauma center at Jersey Shore...
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The Department of Justice has released a report announcing that federal immigration agents made a criminal search warrant at a poultry processing plant in Greenville, South Carolina, and arrested nearly 300 workers. The federal agents went to the Columbia Farms at 9 a.m. after 10 months during which they tracked down numerous employment...
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A possible compromise in the takeover battle for ailing Wachovia bank was in the making, with the two takeover rivals, Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. considering a deal to divide up the the bank, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
The newspaper said the two banks, with officials of the Federal Reserve and the US...
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 A federal report released on Monday stated that almost 90% of the nursing homes violated federal health and safety standards last year. Among them, the for-profit homes are the ones to will suffer most of the federal punishments. Daniel R. Levinson, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, said that 17% of...
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The United States has transferred to Israel a high-powered radar system that will improve Israel's reaction time to a possible Iranian missile strike, the Defense News magazine reported over the weekend.
Quoting US and German sources, the magazine said that more than one dozen aircraft transferred the X-band radar system and some 120...
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 Jose A. Cruz, 34, from Clarksburg, West Virginia has been charged with battery on a police officer after he passed gas and fanned it toward a policeman. The man had been pulled over by a police officer on Tuesday because he was driving without headlights.The policeman reported that Cruz smelled of alcohol. Besides this, he wasn’t talking...
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 The National Hurricane Center in Miami has released a new report about Hurricane Ike, which seems to be the strongest hurricane this season. It grew its strength to Category 4 as it crossed a path from the Caribbean to Florida and Louisiana to Mexico, making everybody wonder where it would stop.Before heading to the warm waters of the...
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 CNN meteorologists released a report on Tropical Storm Hanna saying that it made a landfall at about 3:20 a.m. ET on Saturday near the Little River Inlet at the South Carolina-North Carolina border and "large and dangerous battering waves" will be expected east of Hanna’s center.The coastal storm surge will reach 5 feet above...
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James Bond actor Daniel Craig will donate about 12,000 dollars to buy new boats for a group of fishermen in Irrawaddy delta that was ravaged by Cyclone Nargis in May, a local media report said Monday.
Craig will donate four sea-going vessels and 21 smaller boats to fishermen in Ah-lai-thaung village of Pyin-kha-yaing town, Flower...
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 Snow swept away on Sunday on Mont Blanc before the morning broke the night. 10 climbers were missing on the route that is used to reach the highest peak in the Western Europe. At around 3 a.m. the avalanche began at an altitude of 11,800 feet and a big block of ice on the Mont Blanc du Tacul fell massively down the mountain.Three...
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 On Friday in central Oklahoma a train derailed and sent fireballs into the sky but the incident caused no injuries. Only two people were aboard the train, an engineer and the conductor, but they got off with no wounds. The train derailed near the 110-car Burlington Northern Santa Fe where about seven cars were carrying crude oil or...
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 Firefighters tried to call nearly 30 times from a burning skyscraper. Two firefighters died at the scene, as an official from the fire department has stated. The fire started at the former Deutsche Bank tower on August 18, 2007 and the Fire Department of New York said that communication breakdowns and fire hazards in the building stopped...
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 Heavy rain and winds came together with tropical storm Fay in the Florida Keys. Fay broke down trees and headed southwest Florida on Monday, after it had killed nearly 50 people in the Caribbean. This is the sixth storm this year in the Atlantic hurricane season and had hit Florida with winds reaching 60 mile per hour.Fay didn’t reach...
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 A study made by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center on Health Statistics has shown that American men with ages between 18 and 44 have adopted twice the number of children than the women in the same age group.More than 2002 National Survey of Family Growth’s reports have been used to fulfill the study....
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At least 12 people were reported killed Friday in the crash of a tour bus off a bridge in the US state of Texas, US media reported.
The accident occurred around 12:45 am (0545 GMT) when the bus carrying 55 people from Houston, Texas into the state of Missouri crashed around 100 kilometres north of Dallas, US broadcaster CNN...
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 Raymond Hunter Geisel, 22, is being held in police custody with no charges, but accused of threatening to kill Senator Barack Obama if he wins the presidential elections. Police thought the man was serious and they arrested him for precaution, especially because is the first threat toward Obama.Geisel made the threats against Obama while...
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Residents along the Texas coast on Monday were
bracing for Tropical Storm Edouard, as forecasters predicted the storm
could strengthen before making landfall. Edouard was predicted to make landfall near the Texas-Louisiana early Tuesday, the National Hurricane Centre in Miami said.
Monday afternoon it had sustained...
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 Jim Giuntoli found a large golden retriever mix, named Ben, together with another terrier-mix in the traffic on Interstate 5 near Kent, last month. Giuntoli took Ben at a King County animal shelter, but they wanted to euthanatize it. A non-profit animal-rescue organization saved the dog’s life.At Animals First Foundation in Seattle Ben...
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The Vermont Department of Health released its newest report on public health surveillance of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station. The report shows that the nuclear plant is currently releasing 30% more radiation since its power production increased 2 decades ago. William Irwin, radiological health safety leader of the health...
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A former police officer and a neighbor announced on
Wednesday that a Georgia grandmother who is now the widow of five attempted to
hire them to murder her fourth husband more than twenty years ago.
Ex police officer Allen Lawrence informed the Associated
Press that he had warned North
Carolina authorities repetitively for two...
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 Governor David Paterson agreed Monday to introduce a bill in next year's budget that will create a low-cost student loan program for students across the New York State. The Governor stated New York is the only state in the Northeast that doesn’t offer advantageous programs for students inhabiting there. With the economic depression,...
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 Detainees awaiting trial at the Cook County Jail, one of the
nation’s largest local penitentiaries, have undergone extremely ineffectual
medical care, maltreatments executed by jail employees and rundown, unsafe
building conditions often left unfixed for months, according to an announcement
released by federal authorities on...
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Caylee Marie Anthony, 2, from Florida, has been missing for more than a month. Her mother, Casey Anthony, waited all this time to report the disappearance of her child. She was charged with child neglect and lying to the police. Anthony is held under the Orange County police custody, in Florida, while her daughter is still...
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The New York Post reports that Carla Katz, the former girlfriend of New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, is under federal investigationHaving a subpoena, investigators from the Newark US Attorney's Strike Force unit hit the Washington DC head quarters of the Communications Workers of America, looking for the economic and management records...
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Barack Obama Wednesday charged that the Bush
administration has failed to confront the threat of nuclear terrorism
and vowed that if elected president, he would lead the effort to corral
errant nuclear materials and stay one step ahead of biological and
cyber threats. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for
president, aimed...
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 According to police, a burglary suspect in Southern California died Sunday in police custody after he was injured in a fight with private citizens. Los Angeles Times informs that Deshoun Kenyon Torrence, aged 18, of Victorville, had struggled with residents of an apartment building he was allegedly trying to rob. They held him until Long...
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A survey last year by LifeWay Research, a US
Christian think-tank, revealed that a majority of adults who said they
believed in God never went to church. The reason: 72 per cent of
non-churchgoers said they thought the church 'was full of hypocrites.'
Another survey by Barna Group, a Christian survey organization,
found that young...
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A report carried out by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration points to the alarming fact
that half of all US
coral reefs are in poor health and that responsibility belongs to human beings.
Today will take place the 11th
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