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he kidnappers holding an Iraqi auto mechanic’s 11-year-old son gave him just two days to come up with $100,000 in ransom. When he could not, they were just as quick to deliver their punishment: They chopped off the boy’s head and hands and...
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During a recent speech at the CDES - the Brazilian Social and Economic Development Council - the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said that he is not to blame for the nearly decade long postponing of the so-called “tax...
Cuba has accused US President Barack Obama of not doing enough to end the US trade embargo against the island despite his promise to improve ties.
Earlier this week, Mr Obama renewed the embargo for another year.
In the first official Cuban reaction,...
The Democrats’ health care plan costs half as much as the two major tax cuts pushed by the George W. Bush administration, according to a report issued Tuesday.
Enacted in 2001 and 2003, the Bush tax cuts are projected to cost about $2.1 trillion...
“There was what appeared to be feces on the table and on the floor,” assistant Hamilton County prosecutor David Prem said.
Prem was prosecuting Orr, 66, for robbery and kidnapping. The trial, without a jury before Common Pleas Court Judge...
President Barack Obama took office promising to pursue a diplomatic solution to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program, but so far, he’s gotten little out of Tehran. So little, in fact, that the President has given Iran a September 15...
Yolanda Espinosa’s eyes darted this way and that. Her hands trembled. For Ms. Espinosa, a cocaine and heroin addict in desperate need of a fix, a new Mexican law decriminalizing the possession of small quantities of drugs had a definite appeal.
This condition, known as intersex, is commonly referred to as hermaphroditism. (Some support groups say that the term “hermaphroditism” can be inaccurate and offensive, as it implies that someone is both fully male and fully female, which is...
A US man has been rejected in his bid to become a police officer for scoring too high on an intelligence test.
Robert Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took an exam to join the New London police, in Connecticut, in 1996 and scored 33 points, the...
Relatives of 80-year-old Kenneth “Tex” Roberts spent two hours greeting mourners at a South Philadelphia church on Tuesday before the funeral home admitted it had sent the wrong body. It then rushed to replace the casket.
The relatives had...
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