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LONDON, May 20 — Thousands of children were physically and sexually abused by priests and nuns in orphanages and reform schools in Ireland from 1930 to 1990, a government commission said Wednesday in the first official accounting of the full magnitude of a scandal that has wrenched the deeply Roman Catholic nation. Read more
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, May 21 — Burma’s military rulers said Thursday that reporters and foreign diplomats would no longer be allowed to attend the widely criticized trial of democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi, even as the United Nations’ top diplomat said he was hoping to travel to Burma and urge the release [...]
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MEXICO CITY, May 2 — For seven tense days, the nation’s top epidemiologist, Miguel Ángel Lezana, waited for the answer to a deadly mystery. When the news finally came April 23, it was as bad as he had feared. Read more
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PORT GENTIL, Gabon — It took the Gabonese sailors days to get one of their small African country’s few patrol boats fueled up. But once they had zoomed out into the Atlantic, it was less than an hour before they spotted trouble. There on the horizon was a blue trawler, which they soon found was [...]
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BAGHDAD, May 21 — Three U.S. soldiers and 12 Iraqis were killed Thursday by a bomb at a crowded market in the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Doura, residents and U.S. and Iraqi officials said. Read more
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BEIJING (Reuters) – A former senior Chinese censor has claimed a major role in recording purged leader Zhao Ziyang’s memoirs that decry the quelling of pro-democracy protests in 1989, adding to calls for the government to repent the crackdown. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama sought on Thursday to quell a domestic backlash against his efforts to close the internationally condemned U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay and roll back some of the most divisive Bush-era anti-terrorism policies. Read more
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The US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay is a “misguided experiment” and a “mess” that must be cleaned up, US President Barack Obama has said. Read more
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LONDON (Reuters) – Oil fell more than a dollar to below $61 a barrel on Thursday, after hitting a six-month high in the previous session on expectations of a rebound in the world economy. Read more
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GENEVA – The World Health Organization says women in Japan have the highest life expectancy in the world with 86 years. Read more
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THE FORMER England cricketer Chris Lewis was sentenced to 13 years in prison yesterday for smuggling £140,000 of cocaine into Britain in his cricket bag. Read more
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JERUSALEM (May 20) – Archaeologists digging on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives have discovered a nearly 3,000-year-old jar handle bearing ancient Hebrew script, a find significantly older than most inscribed artifacts unearthed in the ancient city, an archaeologist said. The Iron Age handle is inscribed with the Hebrew name Menachem, which was the name of an [...]
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Mr Griffin would be on the Palace lawn as the guest of Richard Barnbrook, BNP member of the London Assembly. Read more
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Aussie woman jailed for Thai bar mat theft freed New 5:16PM Thursday May 21, 2009 MELBOURNE- An Australian woman arrested and jailed for stealing a bar mat from a Thailand nightspot was allowed to return home Thursday after pleading guilty to theft. Tourist Annice Smoel, who had faced up to five years in [...]
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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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1. We’re facing a budget crisis. 2. The public is demanding political reform. 3. The office is vacant and will remain vacant until January, 2011. Read more
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7:08pm UK, Wednesday May 20, 2009 US Senators have blocked Barack Obama’s plans to shut down Guantanamo Bay and transfer detainees to America. President Obama wants to close Guantanamo Bay by January [...]
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Carol Vorderman is to feature in a healthy living Nintendo DS game this summer. Read more
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Rubina Ali, who played young Latika in the Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire,” and who was reportedly offered “for sale” by her father (though it was later denied), has joined Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, the 10-year-old who played the character Jamal Malik as a child, in having her house demolished. Read full story from snafu-ed.blogspot.com Read more
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MUMBAI, India — The shanty home of another “Slumdog Millionaire” child star was torn down by Mumbai authorities Wednesday as they demolished part of a city slum where she lived. Read more