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NUEVO CASAS GRANDES, Mexico, July 14 — Mexican authorities said Tuesday that a super-violent drug cartel called La Familia was responsible for torturing and killing 12 federal agents whose bodies were found dumped alongside a mountain road in the western state of Michoacan late Monday. Read more
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PARIS, July 14 — Two French security advisers posing as journalists were abducted from their hotel in Mogadishu on Tuesday by Somali gunmen, according to the Foreign Ministry and reports from the chaotic Somali capital. Read more
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WOOTTON BASSETT, England, July 14 — As one coffin after another passed by, silence descended on a crowd of thousands who had come to pay their respects to eight British soldiers who recently died in Afghanistan. Read more
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JANNAT ABAD, Iran (Reuters) – A Tupolev aircraft crashed in Iran on Wednesday on its way to Armenia after catching fire in mid-air and plowing into farmland, killing all 168 people on board just 16 minutes after take-off. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans kept pressure on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday, hoping to use her confirmation hearing in Congress to paint her as judicial activist who will help President Barack Obama stamp the court with a liberal agenda. Read more
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All 168 passengers and crew have died in a Caspian Airlines plane crash in northern Iran, officials say. Read more
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BRUSSELS (AFP) – The European Union and Canada signed an agreement on Wednesday ending a dispute over genetically modified and crops that Canada had taken to the World Trade Organisation. Read more
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TEHRAN, Iran – A Russian-made Iranian passenger plane carrying 168 people crashed shortly after takeoff Wednesday, smashing into a field northwest of the capital and shattering into flaming pieces. All on board were killed in Iran’s worst air disaster in six years, officials said. Before crashing, the plane’s tail was on fire as it circled [...]
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Thousands of people lined the streets yesterday to pay their respects to eight soldiers killed during the British army’s bloodiest 24 hours in Afghanistan. Read more
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(July 15) — A British backpacker has been rescued after spending nearly two weeks missing in the mountains of eastern Australia, authorities said Wednesday. Read more
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HOW SHORT WALK TURNED INTO A NIGHTMARE Monday 22 June: Jamie Neale arrives in Australia for start of gap year with plans to travel on to South-East Asia Thursday 2 July: Tthe teenager checks into a youth hostel in Katoomba, New South Wales, 70 miles west of Sydney Friday 3 July: Jamie tells staff at [...]
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SYDNEY – The father of a missing British backpacker found alive after 12 days in rugged bushland had apparently given up hope of his son being found and was about to board a plane back to England. Read more
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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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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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Bringing, the Sunday Times says menacingly, “droughts, floods, crop failures and social unrest.” Being a Los Angeles native, I just thought that El Nino also meant that L.A. would finally get rain and hopefully not as many wildfires. But here’s better insight on the warming in the Pacific Ocean: “According to [...]
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If the techies on CSI: Miami can whip up toxicological statements in no time, why does it take so darn long in the real world? Because there’s a backlog. … toxicologists often serve two masters; when they’re not in the lab, they’re at court offering expert testimony. …(The)Â whole process, barring glitches or lengthy tests [...]
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British backpacker Jamie Neale has been found alive and well after going missing in Australia’s Blue Mountains 12 days ago. Jamie Neale’s father travelled from Britain to help in the search for [...]
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A judge has denied Richard Hatch the ability to partake in a 10th anniversary edition of Survivor. Read more
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In 1995 British doctors implanted a donor heart directly onto Hannah Clark’s failing one, rather than risk a heart – lung transplant. Now, after 10 years with 2 hearts, and the donor heart removed, her original heart has healed. Read full story from snafu-ed.blogspot.com Read more
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