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In a statement, the police said their patrol car had been attacked by about 30 youths and responded, with one officer firing a stun grenade and another shooting and fatally wounding the boy. Read more
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NEW DELHI (AFP) – India on Sunday announced an extra four billion dollars in spending to help shield the country’s economy from the impact of the global financial crisis. Read more
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AP – Rows of destroyed Humvees and military trucks are seen at the Portward Logistic Terminal in Peshawar, … Slideshow: Pakistan Play Video Video: Heroic Nanny FOX News Play Video Video: McCain in Pakistan to discuss India crisis AP PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Militants torched 160 vehicles, including [...]
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FURY and revulsion followed the release of a report last night that found a chain of serious errors that resulted in a five-month-old baby’s death at the hands of her father. Read more
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ATHENS, Greece (Dec. 7) – Rioters rampaged through Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki Sunday, hurling Molotov cocktails, burning stores and blocking city streets with flaming barricades after protests against the fatal police shooting of a teenager erupted into chaos. Read more
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The bank that precipitated the credit collapse and was taken over by the Government has been accused of selling off job lots of repossessed homes at knockdown prices. Read more
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Boy, 14, shot dead in Sydney 1:00PM Sunday Dec 07, 2008 A 14-year-old boy is dead after a shooting at Orangeville in Sydney’s south-west. Police say they were called to an address in Silverdale Road at 10.15pm AEDT on Saturday night after the boy was shot. Ambulance officers treated him but he [...]
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details: “The couple [...]
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So drivers in Chicago are looking at a 400 percent increase — from 25 cents an hour to $1 an hour — at most parking meters in the city starting next year, and an 800 percent increase over current rates — to $2 an hour — in five years. (story) Read more
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9:46am UK, Sunday December 07, 2008 Riots have erupted in Greece after police shot dead a 16-year-old boy in the capital Athens. Greek policemen run next to burning barricades during riots [...]
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Rex Features Kiefer Sutherland is to be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. The 24 actor’s name will be the 2,377th to be displayed on Hollywood Boulevard at a ceremony outside the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, which will be attended by his father Donald. Also in attendance will be movie director Joel [...]
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Martha “Sunny” von Bulow died Saturday at the age of 77 in a New York nursing home. She spent the last 28 years of her life in a coma after what prosecutors alleged were two murder attempts by her husband, Claus. Read full story from snafu-ed.blogspot.com Read more
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One of the two Indian men arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen in the Mumbai attacks was a counterinsurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission, security officials said Saturday, demanding his release. Read more
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From the Opium of the People Department comes the news, incredible as it may seem to some ideologues of certain political persuasions, that, last Saturday, in Cuba, a Roman Catholic beatification ceremony was publicly held for José Olallo Valdés (1820-1889), “a member of the Hospitallier Order of Saint John of God, [who] helped the sick [...]
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NEW YORK — Lengthy presidential transitions rank among the oddest of America’s political traditions. In the 21st century, they are also among the most dangerous. The fast start that President-elect Barack Obama is engineering for his economic and foreign policy teams must become a model for his successors. Read more
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The leader of the U.S. Strategic Command said yesterday that “time is not on our side” to modernize the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile, particularly as China and Russia upgrade their nuclear warheads and delivery systems. Read more
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MUMBAI, Dec. 5 — A week after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, Indian officials on Friday stepped up their efforts to draw a connection between the violence and Pakistani government agencies. Read more
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SAO PAULO, Brazil, Nov. 8 — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told international finance ministers Saturday that developing countries must be given a greater role in finding solutions to the world’s financial crisis. Read more
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NYABIONDO, Congo — The couple had spent three hard years in a militia camp deep in the forests around this eastern Congolese village when they finally decided to escape. Read more