tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34991428158776573122024-03-21T02:09:55.822-07:00CKN International.....Best of African And International NewsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592096092631010058noreply@blogger.comBlogger288125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499142815877657312.post-48340054912313868162014-03-24T06:32:00.001-07:002014-03-24T06:32:43.911-07:00Australian Plane Spots New Objects in Hunt For Flight 370<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One object is "a grey or green circular object," and the other is "an orange rectangular object," the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said.</div>
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The reports have once again raised hopes of meaningful progress in the hunt for the plane, which has gone on for more than two weeks. Flight 370 vanished over Southeast Asia on March 8 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing. On board were 227 passengers and 12 crew.</div>
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Experts urged restraint.</div>
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"The fact that it's got color is really intriguing," said Colleen Keller, a senior analyst with Metron Inc., a defense contractor that helped with the search for Air France Flight 447. "But I've got to caution everybody, there's a lot of junk out there."<a name='more'></a><br />
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The objects are the latest in a series of sightings, including "suspicious objects" reported earlier Monday by a Chinese military plane that was involved in search efforts in the same region, authorities said.</div>
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So far, nothing has been definitively linked to Flight 370.</div>
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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's office said on Twitter that he would make a statement at 10 p.m. (10 a.m. ET). It was unclear what he planned to say.</div>
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Earlier, Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia's acting transportation minister, said only that "at the moment, there are new leads but nothing conclusive."</div>
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A reporter on board the Chinese plane for China's official Xinhua news agency said the search team saw "two relatively big floating objects with many white smaller ones scattered within a radius of several kilometers," the agency reported Monday.</div>
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The Chinese plane was flying at 33,000 feet on its way back to Australia's west coast when it made the sighting, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said.</div>
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But a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft, one of the military's most sophisticated reconnaissance planes, that was tasked to investigate the objects was unable to find them, the authority said.</div>
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With the search in its third week, authorities have so far been unable to establish where exactly the missing plane is or why it flew off course from its planned journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.</div>
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China has a particularly large stake in the search: Its citizens made up about two-thirds of the 227 passengers on the missing Boeing 777. Beijing has repeatedly called on Malaysian authorities, who are in charge of the overall search, to step up efforts to find the plane.</div>
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Malaysian and Australian authorities appeared to be more interested Monday in the two objects spotted by a Royal Australian Air Force P-3 Orion aircraft.</div>
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The Australian's navy's HMAS Success "is on scene and is attempting to locate the objects," the Australian maritime authority said.</div>
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Hishammuddin said Australian authorities had said the objects could be retrieved "within the next few hours, or by tomorrow morning at the latest."</div>
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<strong>Satellites focus search</strong></div>
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Recent information from satellites identifying objects in the water that could be related to the plane has focused search efforts on an area roughly 1,500 miles southwest of the Australian city of Perth.</div>
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A total of 10 aircraft -- from Australia, China the United States and Japan -- were tasked with combing the search area Monday.</div>
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The aerial searches have been trained on the isolated part of ocean since last week, when Australia first announced that satellite imagery had detected possible objects that could be connected to the search.</div>
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Since then, China and France have said they also have satellite information pointing to floating debris in a similar area. The Chinese information came from images, and the French data came from satellite radar.</div>
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But Australian officials have repeatedly warned that the objects detected in satellite images may not turn out to be from the missing plane -- they could be containers that have fallen off cargo ships, for example.</div>
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On Saturday, searchers found a wooden pallet as well as strapping belts, Australian authorities said. The use of wooden pallets is common in the airline industry, but also in the shipping industry.</div>
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Hishammuddin said Monday that Flight 370 was carrying wooden pallets, but that there was so far no evidence they are related to the ones sighted in the search area.</div>
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The investigation into the passenger jet's disappearance has already produced a wealth of false leads and speculative theories. Previously, when the hunt was focused on the South China Sea near where the plane dropped off civilian radar, a number of sightings of debris proved to be unrelated to the search.</div>
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<strong>Plane said to have flown low</strong></div>
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The sighting of the objects of interest by the Chinese plane came after a weekend during which other nuggets of information emerged about the movements of the errant jetliner on the night it vanished.</div>
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Military radar tracking shows that after making a sharp turn over the South China Sea, the plane changed altitude as it headed toward the Strait of Malacca, an official close to the investigation into the missing flight told CNN.</div>
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The plane flew as low as 12,000 feet at some point before it disappeared from radar, according to the official. It had reportedly been flying at a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet when contact was lost with air traffic control.</div>
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The sharp turn seemed to be intentional, the official said, because executing it would have taken the Boeing 777 two minutes -- a time period during which the pilot or co-pilot could have sent an emergency signal if there had been a fire or other emergency on board.</div>
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Authorities say the plane didn't send any emergency signals, though some analysts say it's still unclear whether the pilots tried but weren't able to communicate because of a catastrophic failure of the aircraft's systems.</div>
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The official, who is not authorized to speak to the media, told CNN that the area the plane flew in after the turn is a heavily trafficked air corridor and that flying at 12,000 feet would have kept the jet well out of the way of that traffic.</div>
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<strong>Malaysia disputes reprogramming</strong></div>
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Also over the weekend, Malaysian authorities said the last transmission from the missing aircraft's reporting system showed it heading to Beijing -- a revelation that appears to undercut the theory that someone reprogrammed the plane's flight path before the co-pilot signed off with air traffic controllers for the last time.</div>
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That reduces, but doesn't rule out, suspicions about foul play in the cockpit.</div>
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Last week, CNN and other news organizations, citing unnamed sources, reported that authorities believed someone had reprogrammed the aircraft's flight computer before the sign-off.</div>
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CNN cited sources who believed the plane's flight computer must have been reprogrammed because it flew directly over navigational way points. A plane controlled by a human probably would not have been so precise, the sources said.</div>
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Malaysian authorities never confirmed that account, saying last week that the plane's "documented flight path" had not been altered.</div>
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On Sunday, they clarified that statement further, saying the plane's automated data reporting system included no route changes in its last burst, sent at 1:07 a.m. -- 12 minutes before the last voice communication with flight controllers.</div>
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Analysts are divided about what the latest information could mean. Some argue it's a sign that mechanical failure sent the plane suddenly off course. Others say there are still too many unknowns to eliminate any possibilities.</div>
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CNN aviation analyst Miles O'Brien called the fresh details about the flight a "game changer."</div>
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"Now we have no evidence the crew did anything wrong," he said. "And in fact, now, we should be operating with the primary assumption being that something bad happened to that plane shortly after they said good night."</div>
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If a crisis on board caused the plane to lose pressure, he said, pilots could have chosen to deliberately fly lower to save passengers.</div>
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"You want to get down to 10,000 feet, because that is when you don't have to worry about pressurization. You have enough air in the atmosphere naturally to keep everybody alive," he said. "So part of the procedure for a rapid decompression ... it's called a high dive, and you go as quickly as you can down that to that altitude."</div>
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Authorities have said pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah was highly experienced. On Monday, Malaysian authorities said Flight 370 was co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid's sixth flight in a Boeing 777, and the first time when he was not traveling with an instructor pilot shadowing him.</div>
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"We do not see any problem with him," said Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya.</div>
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<strong>Flight makes emergency landing</strong></div>
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Adding to the negative publicity that has blighted Malaysia Airlines since news of Flight 370's disappearance, one of the carrier's passenger jets made <a href="http://cnn.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight-diverted/index.html">an emergency landing in Hong Kong on Monday.</a></div>
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The plane, scheduled to fly from Kuala Lumpur to Incheon, South Korea, was diverted to Hong Kong after its main electrical generator stopped working. Electrical power continued to be supplied by the plane's auxiliary power unit, Malaysia Airlines said</div>
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The Airbus A330-300 landed safely at Hong Kong airport around 3 a.m., and the 271 passengers on board were transferred onto flights with other airlines.</div>
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The riots took place after a deadly crackdown by security forces on two large sit-ins in Cairo, where demonstrators were supporting ousted President Mohammed Morsy.</div>
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While the official MENA news agency reported 528 death sentences, other Egyptian media said 529 people were sentenced to death.<a name='more'></a><br />
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The semiofficial Ahram Online news site said it was the largest set of death sentences handed to defendants in the modern history of Egypt.</div>
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court, says the BBC's Puma Fihlani at the court in Pretoria.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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which Ms Steenkamp was shot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on the location of shooter, the grouping of the shots and their trajectory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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defence team asked the forensic expert to kneel on his knees and lift his feet,
which caused him to wobble.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pistorius therefore would not have been able to balance on his stumps and break
down the door using a cricket bat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to demonstrate his findings <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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if Mr Pistorius was balanced enough to fire a gun, he could also break down a
door with a bat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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second week, and is expected to feature over 100 witnesses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Earlier on Wednesday, a friend of Mr
Pistorius claimed that the star had driven at 200 km/h (124mph) and that he had
taken a picture of the speedometer to prove it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fresco was himself driving at the time and had therefore fabricated evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">On Tuesday, Mr Pistorius' defence
team questioned a pathologist's finding that his girlfriend had eaten less than
two hours before he killed her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This contradicts the athlete's
account that the pair had been in bed for several hours before the shooting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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through a bathroom door <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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court that Mr Pistorius and Ms Steenkamp, a 29-year-old model, and reality TV
star, had an argument before the athlete fired the shots that killed her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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South Africa, and his fate will ultimately be decided by the judge, assisted by
two assessors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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national sporting hero dubbed the "blade runner" after having both
lower legs amputated, could face life imprisonment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592096092631010058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499142815877657312.post-61301510269398265252014-03-12T03:04:00.001-07:002014-03-12T03:04:10.956-07:00Man Released After 25 Years On Death Row In US<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">A man who spent more than 25 years on
death row in the US state of Louisiana has walked free from prison after his
murder conviction for the 1983 killing of a jeweller was overturned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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since August 1988.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">He had been found guilty of killing
56-year-old Isadore Rozeman, a jeweller for whom Mr Ford occasionally worked.</span><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">US media reports say that he is one
of the longest-serving death row inmates in modern US history to be exonerated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rozeman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">'Very pleased'</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Asked by a reporter how he was
feeling as he left the high security prison in Angola, Louisiana, Mr Ford said:
"My mind is going in all kinds of directions but it feels good." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Media reports say that there were
numerous serious flaws in the case against Mr Ford <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">He said that he did harbour some
resentment because he had been locked up for almost 30 years "for
something I didn't do" and had lost years of his life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">"Thirty years, 30 years of my
life if not all of it. I can't go back and do anything that I should've been
doing when I was 35, 38 and 40 - stuff like that. My son when I left was a
baby, now they're grown men with babies."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">State District Judge Ramona Emanuel
on Monday overturned Mr Ford's conviction and sentence because of new
information that supported his claim that he was not present or involved in Mr
Rozeman's death, Mr Ford's lawyers said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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killing and sentenced to death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">"We are very pleased to see
Glenn Ford finally exonerated, and we are particularly grateful that the
prosecution and the court moved ahead so decisively to set Mr Ford free,"
a statement by the freed man's lawyers said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"compromised by inexperienced counsel and by the unconstitutional
suppression of evidence, including information from an informant". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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said was a suppressed police report related to the time of the crime and
evidence involving the murder weapon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The family of the murder victim have
also welcomed his release, US media has reported.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ford have been listed by the US press:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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murder weapon was ever found and there were no eyewitnesses to the crime<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Ford was initially implicated in the killing by a woman who later
testified she had lied<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Ford's original court-appointed lawyers had never tried a murder case<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Ford, a black man, was convicted by an all-white jury who recommended the
death sentence <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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serving death sentences in Louisiana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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served time but are later exonerated to receive compensation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(£15,000) per year of wrongful incarceration up to a maximum of $250,000
(£150,000), plus up to $80,000 (£48,000) for loss of "life
opportunities".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592096092631010058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499142815877657312.post-2499695877523909772014-03-12T02:56:00.002-07:002014-03-12T02:56:59.357-07:00Controversies Trail Missing Malaysian Airline With 239 Passengers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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both sides of the Malaysian peninsula, amid confusion over a missing Malaysia
Airlines plane's last known location.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reports that the plane was tracked to the Malacca Strait in the west.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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investigate an eyewitness report of a possible object burning in the sky east
of Vietnam.</span><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
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Saturday. It had 239 people on board. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the plane, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, for the
past five days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the search for the missing plane amid conflicting reports on its last known
position. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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said flight MH370 disappeared about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur
International Airport, as it flew over the South China Sea, south of Vietnam's
Ca Mau peninsula. No distress signal or message was sent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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waters between Malaysia and Vietnam. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Malacca Strait and the Andaman Sea, off Malaysia's west coast, amid reports
that the plane could have turned back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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chief Rodzali Daud denied remarks attributed to him in local media that a
missing Malaysia Airlines plane was tracked by military radar to the Malacca
Strait, far west of its planned route.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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plane's last location as the search enters its fifth day <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the lack of information about the plane's fate <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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prior to a search for the missing plane <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not make any such statements", but the air force had "not ruled out
the possibility of an air turn-back".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">On Wednesday, authorities also began
searching the Andaman Sea, north of the Malacca Strait.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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chance. We have to look at every possibility," Malaysian civil aviation
chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman told AFP news agency, without indicating why the
search was expanded north.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from India in searching areas near the Andaman Sea, India's foreign ministry
said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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deployed aircraft to investigate a possible sighting of the plane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Vietnam's air traffic management, said: "We received an email from a
New Zealander who works on one of the oil rigs off Vung Tau. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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[object] at that location, some 300 km (200 miles) southeast of Vung Tau."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wrong with the aircraft, and several leads pursued so far have proven not to be
linked to the plane. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fruitless searching, there is an element of desperation creeping into this
operation, the BBC's Jonathan Head in Kuala Lumpur reports.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from several different countries are taking part in the search for the plane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the plane were Chinese. Some were from a range of other Asian countries, North
America or Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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contradictory reports over the plane's last known location<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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travelling on stolen passports on board the plane were Iranians with no
apparent links to terrorist groups, officials said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a statement that it was "shocked" by reports made against its First
Officer, Fariq Ab Hamid, who was the co-pilot of the missing flight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Australia's Channel Nine that she and her friend were invited to sit in the
cockpit with Fariq Ab Hamid and the pilot during a flight in 2011, in an apparent
breach of airline rules. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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confirm the validity of the pictures and videos of the alleged incident. As you
are aware, we are in the midst of a crisis, and we do not want our attention to
be diverted," it said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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spotted in the South China Sea or Malacca Strait so far have proved to be
linked to the disappearance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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said the possibility of a terror link could not be ruled out. But he said
"no claims of responsibility" over the missing jet had "been
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">A teenager hanged himself after racking up a bill of
hundreds of pounds on computer games, an inquest heard.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Henry Tattersall was told he would not get any Christmas
presents when he mistakenly downloaded Xbox games worth £420 last November.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Just minutes before hanging himself, the 13-year-old
spoke to his girlfriend on Facebook and said: ‘I’m going to kill myself.’</span><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">His mother, Eve, from Newchurch, Lancashire, told the
inquest her son was ‘genuinely stunned’ by the amount of money he had spent.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">‘He was very upset that I was upset,’ she said.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Coroner Richard Taylor, sitting in Burnley, said Henry’s
death was the ‘unexpected conclusion of an intended action’, with a verdict of
death by misadventure recorded.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592096092631010058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499142815877657312.post-67886886541631104382014-02-26T06:24:00.004-08:002014-02-26T06:24:52.098-08:0014 Years Boy Rapes Mum In UK<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A boy of 14
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The youngster is alleged to have committed the attack at
the family home in Blackpool, Lancashire, last weekend.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Judge Jeff Brailsford, sitting at the town’s magistrates’
court, called the alleged offence a ‘grave crime’, the <a data-track="inline-link" href="http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/crime/boy-14-charged-with-sex-attack-on-mum-1-6461350" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Blackpool Gazette</span></a> reports.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was
released on bail ahead of a hearing at Preston crown court on March 11.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">He is said to be the youngest in Britain to be charged
with the rape of a mother.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592096092631010058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499142815877657312.post-61065633570401201472014-02-26T06:20:00.002-08:002014-02-26T06:20:36.853-08:00Nigerian Man Stabs Wife In US Over Alleged Infidelity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">A jealous dad-of-two repeatedly stabbed his wife after
finding out she was having an affair from her phone.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Oluwabusayo Abegunde, 38, found out his wife had been
going out drinking and clubbing with another man after looking at photos and
messages on her Blackberry.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">He launched the savage knife attack just two days after
Valentine’s Day as wife Esther Abegunde, 33, lay asleep. She had earlier told
him their marriage was over and moved into the spare room.</span><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Businessman Abegunde repeatedly stabbed her with a large
kitchen knife while their two sons, aged eight and four, were downstairs in the
family home on Hollybank, <a href="http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/all-about/droylsden"><span style="color: blue;">Droylsden</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The wounds punctured his wife’s left lung, partially
severed a tendon in her right wrist and left her with other wounds to her chest
and arm.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">As she began to bleed to death Abegunde only agreed to
call an ambulance after making her promise she would tell police and doctors
she had inflicted the wounds on herself.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">He also offered to kill himself - but only made a small
cut in his own chest with the knife before emergency services arrived.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">His wife was rushed to hospital where she survived - and
a few days later told police the truth following the attack on February 16 last
year.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Abegunde, said to have been a respected member of
Manchester’s Nigerian community, was found not guilty of attempted murder at an
earlier trial.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">But the jury found him guilty of grevious bodily harm -
and he has now been jailed for 12 years at Manchester Crown Square.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The court heard Abegunde, who makes a living running
businesses in Nigeria, had been left ‘humiliated’ by his wife of ten years’
infidelity and sought revenge when she told him the marriage was over.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sentencing, judge Honourable Mr Justice Kenneth Parker
told Abegunde: “An attack on this nature upon a young woman and mother would
cause psychological harm in the short and possible longer term.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“She probably thought at one point that the children were
going to be left as orphans causing futher anguish.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“You paid no heed to the fact your children could have
been confronted with the truly horrific sight of a greviously injured mother.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“The risk was obvious that she could die but you carried
on and are fortunate indeed that she did not die and you are not facing a
charge of murder.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592096092631010058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499142815877657312.post-15924184327557182352014-02-26T06:03:00.002-08:002014-02-26T06:03:43.183-08:00Couple Found $10m Coins Buried In Backyard For Years<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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lucky couple literally struck gold when they found a rare coin stash worth an
estimated $10million (£6million) in their back garden.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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were out walking their dogs when they uncovered the Gold Rush-era coins
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dating from 1847 to 1894, are in uncirculated, mint condition, said David Hall,
co-founder of Professional Coin Grading Service of Santa Ana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Professional Coin Grading Service, poses with some of the gold coins (Picture:
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Although the face value of the
gold pieces only adds up to more than $28,000 (£16,000), some of them are so
rare that coin experts say they could fetch nearly $1million (£600,000) apiece.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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once-in-a-lifetime for anything, but you don’t get an opportunity to handle
this kind of material, a treasure like this, ever,’ said veteran numismatist
Don Kagin, who is representing the finders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stashed the coins at the back of the rural property where the anonymous couple
have lived for several years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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everyone else would look at them, and they’re pretty happy with the lifestyle
they have today,’ said chief numismatist David McCarthy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on selling most of the coins, found last year, on Amazon and will use the money
to pay off bills and donate some of it to charity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in near-perfect condition, experts believe whoever put them into the ground
likely did so as soon as they were put into circulation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Trotwood, Ohio, is recovering in hospital after remarkably surviving being shot
at point blank range in an unprovoked random attack seemingly linked to a gang
initiation ceremony.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was assaulted by three men while he stood beside his bus in the early hours of
Monday morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Three shots were fired
at Wagoner - one struck him in the right leg and two were fired at his chest. </span><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
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intervention: Rickey Wagoner, 49, survived being shot in the chest twice after
his copy of The Message, a contemporary version of the New Testament, took
the impact of the bullets <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The two bullets aimed
at his chest were stopped by a New Testament Bible that he kept in his chest
pocket, reports the <a href="http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/crime-law/police-investigate-shooting-involving-rta-bus-driv/ndZWp/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #0c0c0c;">Dayton Daily News</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">‘There was obviously
some kind of intervention involved in this incident, because he probably should
not be here,’ said Sgt. Michael Pauley of the Dayton Police Department. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> A police report indicates the rounds were nestled
inside The Message, a version of the New testament written in contemporary language,
which Wagoner kept in the left breast pocket of his shirt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Police believe the
shooting may have been a gang initiation after Wagoner told investigators that
one of the suspects said ‘we need to shot a polar bear to get in a club.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Wagoner, 49, was assaulted by three men while he stood beside his bus in the
early hours of Monday morning in Trotwood, Ohio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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gang slang for a random attack on an unsuspecting victim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Wagoner described the
attackers as young black males, likely in their late teens. He said they fled
in a dark-colored 1990s model Ford. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">According to Wagoner's
police statement, the suspects approached him as he was trying to repair a
malfunction with his bus. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at Wagoner's chest, then he wrestled the gun from the shooter but another round
fired into his leg during their struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">As they fought,
another suspect stabbed Wagoner in the left arm with a knife. Wagoner then
pulled an aluminum pen from his pocket and struck out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Wagoner
is recovering in hospital after remarkably surviving being shot at point blank
range in the unprovoked random attack seemingly linked to a gang initiation
ceremony<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">'I stabbed one in the
leg with my pen,' Wagoner told dispatchers. 'He hollered and that's when they
all ran.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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he fired at the suspects as they fled. No arrests have been made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Wagoner Jr. wrote on Facebook on Monday afternoon, ‘Dad is doing good now and
my family and I are just lucky he is still alive.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has pulled the plug on British host Piers Morgan's TV show after its ratings
plunge, ending the former tabloid editor's three year run on U.S. television.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Morgan, who irked U.S. gun
owners after launching a crusade for greater gun control, struggled after
stepping into the shoes of popular, down-to-earth host Larry King in the
coveted 9:00 p.m. primetime slot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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'Piers Morgan Live' is ending," CNN vice president of communications
Barbara Levin told AFP. "The date of the final program is still to be
determined."</span><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
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to connect immediately and easily with ordinary Americans, hosted "Larry
King Live" on CNN from 1985 to 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his trademark wide-rimmed glasses, shirt with rolled-up sleeves and suspenders
as he hosts a show broadcast on Hulu, Ora TV and Russia's RT television.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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British for U.S. TV?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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inherently British -- and it was not just his accent, which for many viewers
was grating, smug and condescending. Morgan made repeated references to
cricket, a sport with little US presence, and professed his ignorance about
American football and preference for the round football, soccer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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New York Times, Morgan said the show had "run its course," adding
that he and Zucker "have been talking for some time about different ways
of using me."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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show was underperforming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"It's been a painful period and lately we have taken a bath in the
ratings," Morgan said, adding that the show suffered especially on slow
news days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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guy debating American cultural issues, including guns, which has been very
polarizing, and there is no doubt that there are many in the audience who are
tired of me banging on about it," he added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in September, said he was weighing a different role at CNN where he would have
fewer, higher-impact appearances, such as through major interviews with
"big celebrities and powerful people."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an unbelievably stupid man'</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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attention when he took a tough gun-control stance following the December 2012
massacre at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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posted a petition on the White House website calling for Morgan to be deported
for allegedly attacking the Second Amendment rights of ordinary Americans after
making anti-gun comments. It gathered 109,334 signatures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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after Morgan told gun advocate Larry Pratt on his show: "You're an
unbelievably stupid man, aren't you?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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epidemic of gun violence over the last three decades. The vast majority of
weapons used have been semi-automatic weapons obtained legally by the killers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Daily Mirror newspaper from 1995 to 2004 and before that was editor of Rupert
Murdoch's News of the World, which closed amid a phone hacking scandal in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Morgan fans were drowned out by the flood of snide and nasty tweets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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read a typical tweet. "He was an idiot, boring, embarrassment."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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being dropped by CNN, a move likely to upset one or maybe even two people,”
read another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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commenting yet was blogger Andrew Sullivan, Morgan's British-born U.S.-based
nemesis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with Sullivan claiming that his rival was a relentless self-promoter tainted by
his role in the tabloid phone hacking scandal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, or published any
stories based on the hacking of a phone."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">After fruitlessly pursuing one of the world's top drug lords for
years, authorities finally drew close to Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman
using a cellphone found at a house where drugs were stored.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The phone belonging to a Guzman aide was recovered with clues from a
U.S. wiretap and provided a key break in the long chase to find Guzman,
officials told The Associated Press on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Another big leap forward came after police analyzed information from
a different wiretap that pointed them to a beachfront condo where the legendary
leader of the Sinaloa cartel was hiding, according to a U.S. government
official and a senior federal law enforcement official.</span><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">When he was at last taken into custody with his beauty-queen wife,
Guzman had a military-style assault rifle in the room, but he didn't go for it.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">A day after the arrest, it was not yet clear what would happen next
to Guzman, except that he would be the focus of a lengthy and complicated legal
process to decide which country gets to try him first.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The cellphone was found Feb. 16 at house Guzman had been using in
Culiacan. By early the next day, the Mexican military had captured one of
Guzman's top couriers, who promptly provided details of the stash houses Guzman
and his associates had been using, the officials said.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">At each house, the Mexican military found the same thing: steel
reinforced doors and an escape hatch below the bathtubs. Each hatch led to a
series of interconnected tunnels in the city's drainage system.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they
were not authorized to publicly discuss how Guzman was located, said troops who
raided Guzman's main house in Culiacan chased him through the drainage pipes
before losing him in the maze under the city.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">A day later, on Feb. 18, Guzman aide Manuel Lopez Ozorio was
arrested and told investigators that he had picked up Guzman, cartel
communications chief Carlos Manuel Ramirez and a woman from a drainage pipe and
helped them flee to Mazatlan.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">When he was finally in handcuffs, the man who eluded Mexican
authorities for more than a decade looked pudgy, bowed and middle-aged in a
white button-down shirt and beltless black jeans.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Now 56, he had successfully eluded authorities since escaping from
prison in 2001 in a laundry truck.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">He is likely to face a host of charges in Mexico related to his role
as the head of the cartel, which is believed to sell cocaine, marijuana, heroin
and methamphetamine in some 54 countries.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">He also faces extensive allegations in the United States, where
grand juries in at least seven federal district courts, including Chicago, San
Diego, New York and Texas, have indicted him.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Federal officials in Chicago were among the first to say they wanted
to try Guzman, followed by prosecutors in Brooklyn, N.Y.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">In an email Sunday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Tiscione in
Brooklyn said it would be up to Washington to make the final call.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">A Justice Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity
because it's a matter of sensitive diplomatic discussions, said no decisions
regarding extradition have been made.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Guzman had targeted Chicago in recent years. He had an army of
100,000 armed gang members to sell drugs and rub out rivals without regard to
the many innocents caught in the crossfire. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Jack Riley, who heads up the Chicago division of the Drug
Enforcement Administration, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-war-in-chicago/2/"><span style="color: #0c0c0c;">told “48 Hours” in
2013</span></a> that his city was targeted by Guzman for “the same reason there's many
fortune 500 companies here…it is a business logistic home run."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592096092631010058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499142815877657312.post-69012296101487213242014-02-19T14:47:00.001-08:002014-02-19T14:47:10.211-08:00Facebook Acquires WhatsApp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I’m excited to announce that we’ve agreed to acquire WhatsApp and that their entire team will be joining us at Facebook.<br /><br /> Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. We do this by building services that help people share any type of content with any group of people they want. WhatsApp will help us do this by continuing to develop a service that people around the world love to use ev</div>
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<a name='more'></a><br /><br /> WhatsApp is a simple, fast and reliable mobile messaging service that is used by over 450 million people on every major mobile platform. More than 1 million people sign up for WhatsApp every day and it is on its way to connecting one billion people. More and more people rely on WhatsApp to communicate with all of their contacts every day.<br /><br /> WhatsApp will continue to operate independently within Facebook. The product roadmap will remain unchanged and the team is going to stay in Mountain View. Over the next few years, we're going to work hard to help WhatsApp grow and connect the whole world. We also expect that WhatsApp will add to our efforts forInternet.org, our partnership to make basic internet services affordable for everyone. <br /><br /> WhatsApp will complement our existing chat and messaging services to provide new tools for our community. Facebook Messenger is widely used for chatting with your Facebook friends, and WhatsApp for communicating with all of your contacts and small groups of people. Since WhatsApp and Messenger serve such different and important uses, we will continue investing in both and making them each great products for everyone.<br /><br /> WhatsApp had every option in the world, so I’m thrilled that they chose to work with us. I’m looking forward to what Facebook and WhatsApp can do together, and to developing great new mobile services that give people even more options for connecting.<br /><br /> I've also known Jan for a long time, and I know that we both share the vision of making the world more open and connected. I'm particularly happy that Jan has agreed to join the Facebook board and partner with me to shape Facebook's future as well as WhatsApp's.<br /><br /> Jan and the WhatsApp team have done some amazing work to connect almost half a billion people. I can’t wait for them to join Facebook and help us connect the rest of the world..<br /></span> </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592096092631010058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499142815877657312.post-55169682641500961272014-02-17T07:28:00.002-08:002014-02-17T07:28:53.928-08:00Church Where People Worship Nude<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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church known as White Tail Chapel is doing the unthinkable by inviting all
worshippers to come as they are– exactly as God made them, that is, come and
worship naked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">According to
Huffington Post, an online publication, the church, located on the grounds of
the White Tail Resort in Ivor, Virginia, United States of America, focuses on
casting off material concerns, including clothes.</span><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
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Resort describes itself as a “Family Nudist Community,” where visitors can
enjoy all manner of activities, including spiritual worship, completely natural
or nude.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the church’s recourse to worshipping nude, Pastor Allen Parker told ABC 13 that
many of Jesus’ most important moments happened while he was naked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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born he was naked, when he was crucified he was naked and when he arose he left
his clothes in the tomb and he was naked,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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us that way, how can that be wrong?” he asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robert Church even got married in the church, with Robert saying his vows in
the nude.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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told NBC 12 that White Tail Chapel lacks the “pretence” sometimes found at
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more open as far as hearing the word of God, and speaking the word of God,”
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that nudity is a great equaliser, as it becomes impossible to judge someone
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caring, they’re understanding, and they’re community and family oriented. We
have one of the most involved chapels anyplace around. I’ll put our church up
against others around.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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controversial bill that will see homosexuals jailed for life despite
international pressure, a government spokesman said Monday.“He will ascend the
bill. This bill is very popular both within the parliament and Ugandan society.
The president is under strong domestic pressure to sign the bill,” Ofwono
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after its architects agreed to drop an extremely controversial death penalty
clause, although the bill still held that repeat offenders should be jailed for
life.Museveni, a key regional ally of the United States and the European Union,
has already been under fire from key Western donors over alleged rampant
corruption, and had been under pressure from diplomats and rights groups to
block the legislation.Last month a spokesman for Museveni said the president
believed that gays were “sick” and “abnormal”, but felt that sending them to
prison was not the right solution.However Opondo said the president had decided
to support the bill after seeking advice from a team of scientists who were
asked to “study homosexuality and genetics in human beings.”According to the
spokesman, the scientists concluded that “there is no definitive gene
responsible for homosexuality”, meaning that “homosexuality is not a disease
but merely an abnormal behaviour which may be learned through experiences in
life.”“The scientist team has shown that homosexuality is a learned behaviour,
that some people sometimes do for money, and that is what the president wants
to prevent,” Opondo said, without saying when Museveni, who is a devout
evangelical Christian, would sign off on the text.Homophobia is widespread in
Uganda, where American-style evangelical Christianity is on the rise.Gay men
and women in the country face frequent harassment and threats of violence, and
rights activists have reported cases of lesbians being subjected to
“corrective” rapes.In 2011, prominent Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato
was bludgeoned to death at his home after a newspaper splashed photos, names
and addresses of gays in Uganda on its front page along with a yellow banner
reading “Hang Them”.AIDS activists say that the bill, which also bans the
promotion of homosexuality, will prevent gays from having access to essential
public health information, such as how to protect themselves from HIV and how
to access life-saving treatment and support services.(AFP) </span></div>
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personnel received a call Saturday night that someone at a church, Full Gospel
Tabernacle in Jesus Name, had suffered a snake bite, Police Chief Jeff Sharpe
said in a statement. He said an ambulance crew went to the church, but the Rev.
Jamie Coots had left. The crew went to Coots’ home and found him suffering from
a bite to the hand.</span><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
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possible dangers if the wound was not treated, treatment and transport to the
hospital was refused,” Sharpe said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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police, emergency officials and a deputy coroner returned to the home to find
that Coots had died, Sharpe said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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profiled on The National Geographic show featuring Pentecostal,
serpent-handling preachers, pleaded guilty last year to violating Tennessee’s
exotic animals law and agreed to surrender his snakes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rev. Andrew Hamblin believe in a bible passage that suggests a poisonous
snakebite won’t harm them if they are anointed by God's power. They said they
believed that, if they did not practice the snake-handling ritual, they would
be condemned to hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1900s, a small number of believers in Tennessee, Kentucky and other parts of
Appalachia have practiced the so-called signs of the gospel, found in a
little-known passage in the King James Version of the Gospel of Mark:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall
take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them;
they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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metaphorically, serpent handlers follow it literally. Their intense faith
demands sinless living and rewards them with spiritual ecstasy — the chance to
hold life and death in their hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Salvation Facebook fan page featured a “Rest in Peace” cover photo on Sunday. A
Day Of Support and Remembering of Pastor Coots was announced for Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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posted. “He died doing what he felt led to do by God. Heaven gained a true
warrior tonight!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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young girl was stoned to death by sunni-militant groups in Syria for operating <a href="http://daily.bhaskar.com/trending-topics/facebook/" target="_blank" title="Facebook"><span style="color: #0c0c0c;">Facebook</span></a> account.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was taken to a Sharia court after she was caught using the social networking
website, in Rakka, Syria. The Sharia court declared that using a Facebook
account amounts to adultery and the girl should be punished by stoning,
according to a news report published in <b><u><a href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13921123000428"><span style="color: #0c0c0c;">Iran's FARS
news agency</span></a></u></b> which quoted a report published in Arabic-language
Al-Rai Al-Youm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The members of the <a href="http://daily.bhaskar.com/trending-topics/osama%20bin%20laden%20death/" target="_blank" title="Al-Qaeda"><span style="color: #0c0c0c;">Al-Qaeda</span></a> group in Iraq, also known as
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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, is an hardline Islamic group based in Iraq.
They have been fighting an active war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
in Syria and the government forces in Iraq.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Al-Nusra Front operates a Facebook account of its own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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woman has died from strangulation after her scarf and hair got caught in an
escalator at a Montreal train station. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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took place just after 9am Thursday morning at the Fabre metro station along
Montreal's blue line. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Workers remove the body of a 48-year-old woman after her scarf and hair got
caught in an escalator at a Montreal subway station<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to pull up her scarf from the escalator, her hair got caught too and from
there, everything got tied up at the end of the escalators,’ said Constable
Jean-Pierre Brabant, of the Montreal police.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Joubarani told <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-metro-scarf-tangling-leads-to-woman-s-death-1.2516971" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">CBC.ca </span></b></a>he saw two Good Samaritans rushing to the aid
of the 48-year-old woman, who was lying unconscious on her back at the bottom
of the moving stairs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seeing the trapped victim still breathing, with half of her body resting on the
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firefighters and EMS workers arrived on the scene, the unnamed woman went into
cardiac arrest and was pronounced dead at the scene. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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de Montréal (STM), the city's transportation authority, stated that all
escalators in Montreal’s subway stations are up to code. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Isabelle Tremblay told Radio Canada that Thursday's freak accident is the first
of its kind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by STM told<a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/a9tro+station/9449172/story.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;"> The Gazette</span></b></a> escalators are equipped with safety
mechanisms that are supposed to bring the moving stairs to a halt in case
someone falls or an object becomes lodged in the teeth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Each escalator in
Montreal’s subway stations features a pair of 'stop' buttons at the top and
bottom of the stairway. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hour death: The woman was strangled to death as she was descending an escalator
to the subway platform at the Febre station on the blue line<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this time if someone tried to disable the escalator as the woman was trying to
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planning to review surveillance video from the Fabre station to determine the
circumstances surrounding the accident. They are urging people who witnessed
the incident to come forward. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In 1989, a 2-year-old
girl lost four fingers when her hand got caught in the teeth of an escalator as
she was trying to pick up a bag of raisins at another Montreal subway stop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In 2004, 16 students
riding an escalator in a Montreal high school were injured when the moving
stairs abruptly stopped. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Seattle was strangled to death when his shirt got caught in an escalator at a
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10-year-old girl’s foot was maimed after being caught in an escalator at a
Macy’s department store in in Paramus, New Jersey.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A 20-year-old Forest Hill man was arrested
by Harford County Sheriff’s Office deputies early Thursday morning, hours after
police said he stabbed his mother to death in their home.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Isaac Anya Ojiabo Jr., 20, was taken into
custody without incident at approximately 4:30 a.m., when detectives canvassing
the Forest Hill area located him in his family’s white Lexus SUV at the
intersection of Crouse and Putnam Road, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Edward
Hopkins said.</span><a name='more'></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ojiabo was being held at the Harford
County Detention Center Thursday morning, awaiting an initial appearance before
a District Court Commissioner on charges of first and second degree murder and
assault with a deadly weapon.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">According to police, the body of Joy Ojiabo,
51, was found on the second floor of the family’s home shortly after 5 p.m.
Wednesday by her husband, Anya Ojiabo, who was returning home from work. At
that time, the younger Ojiabo was not present at the home, located in the 1600
block of Rushing Stream Court as part of the small, upscale development of
Morning Brook Farm off Morse Road just outside Jarrettsville.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The elder Ojiabo called 911, but Hopkins
said investigators later determined that his wife was already deceased at the
time she was found; it was not immediately clear when the crime had occurred.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A man who identified himself as Anya
Ojiabo answered the door of the family’s home Thursday morning, but declined
comment.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hopkins said deputies were called to the
home three times in the past year for domestic disturbances involving Joy
Ojiabo and her son, including visits in March, September, and December.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Just because we’re there a half-dozen
times doesn’t mean we’re going to arrest anyone, nor it is indicative that this
young man was going to do this,” Hopkins said. “Family situations are tough,
they can be tough to gauge.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The family’s troubles were known around their
small cul-de-sac, according to the Ojiabo’s next-door neighbor.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“I think there had been arguments between
the parents and the children,” said the neighbor, Lisa, who declined to give
her last name. “Someone in the neighborhood told me there had been arguments.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The neighbor said her family did not often
interact with the Ojiabos, who she said were Nigerian and had lived in the
neighborhood for approximately six years. She said she believed that Isaac
Ojiabo attended Fallston High School and had worked at a local Subway
restaurant, and that his mother was an attorney.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“It’s devastating, totally devastating,”
she said.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">According to state tax records, Isaac Ojiabo Sr. and
Joy Ojiabo acquired their 6,100-square-foot home from builder <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/economy-business-finance/toll-brothers-inc-ORCRP015357.topic" id="ORCRP015357" title="Toll Brothers Inc"><span style="color: blue;">Toll Brothers</span></a> in November
2007, paying $1,032,847 for the house and one-acre lot.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592096092631010058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499142815877657312.post-16803608352806290672014-01-30T23:53:00.002-08:002014-01-30T23:56:07.133-08:00Man Weds Dog In US<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">San Francisco,
CA — On Monday history was made at the <a href="http://www.presidio.gov/venues/Pages/Chapel-of-Our-Lady.aspx" target="_blank" title="Man and Dog were married: Chapel of Our Lady at the Presidio "><span style="color: blue;">Chapel of
Our Lady at the Presidio</span></a> in San Francisco as the first-ever state
recognized human-animal marriage took place.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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resident 35-year-old Paul Horner was the groom during the ceremony. Joining him
was his faithful dog Mac who is 36-years-old in dog years. Mac also decided to
be the groom but ended up wearing a white veil at the last moment.</span><br />
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who officiated the outdoor wedding told reporters he was extremely happy to be
a part of this joyous moment of life. “This is the definition of true love my
friends. There is nothing more sacred than the bond between a man and his
faithful dog,” McHale said. “Now, since it is recognized as a legally
binding marriage in the state of California, Mr. Horner and Mac will have all
the same tax benefits and everything else coming to them that a regular married
couple would receive. It’s a fantastic day to be alive!”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">So how could
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of California’s State Laws and Regulations there is a little known law that was
passed as the state was first forming in 1850. According to article 155,
paragraph 10, it clearly states:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<strong><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If a man and
a man can get married and a woman and a woman can get married, if ever comes
that day, then a human and animal will have the exact same rights to marriage
in every eye of the law. God help us if this ever is to happen!</span></i></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In attendance
was Horner’s entire family who flew in from Hawaii to witness the event. Mac
had her puppies on hand and making a special celebrity appearance was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_the_Dog" target="_blank" title="Alex From Stroh's"><span style="color: blue;">Alex from Stroh’s </span></a>and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spuds_MacKenzie" target="_blank" title="Spuds McKenzie"><span style="color: blue;">Spuds Mckenzie</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“I just love
my Mac so much, I can’t wait till we can finally get back to the honeymoon
sweet in Montana where bestiality is legal. Gosh, get with the times
California! We can marry here just fine, but love making is a big no-no,” said
Horner. “People keep asking me why I wanted to marry a dog. I told them I just
want the same god given rights that every person in California is allowed to
have. Don’t tell me I can’t marry my dog. I don’t tell you that you can’t marry
a 500 lb woman with gas issues. That’s your decision. Don’t tread on me. I love
my dog and I know he loves me a hundred times more than any gay wedding out
there.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">With this
wedding between a man and a male dog now on the books, one can only ask what is
in store next?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A man
marrying a toaster? A toaster marrying a dog? A toaster marrying a toaster?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Jong-Un have been put to death upon the orders of the North Korean leader, it
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accused of plotting to overthrow the Korean leader<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is said to have ordered that all relatives of his uncle Jang Song-Thaek, left,
were put to death following his order to execute his uncle last month</span><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
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has shown himself to be a brutal tyrant, having executed or demoted a long list
of people he has deemed a threat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Yong-chun, U Tong-chuk, and Kim Jong-gak, all part of his father Kim Jong-il's
inner circle, were handpicked to groom the 31-year-old leader, but have since
disappeared or been demoted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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high-ranking members of the military have been purged, including three defence
ministers and three chiefs of the army's general staff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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group, Unhasu Orchestra — which included his ex-girlfriend — were reportedly
publicly machine-gunned apparently for watching pornography and filming
themselves naked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it is unclear exactly when the family members were killed, but they are
believed to have been put to death after Jang's execution on December 12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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front of other people if they resisted while being dragged out of their
apartment homes,' a source told Yonhap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jang Kye-Sun, her husband and Ambassador to Cuba Jon Yong-Jin and Jang's nephew
and Ambassador to Malaysia Jang Yong-Chol, as well as his two sons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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brothers are also said to have been killed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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funded and has close links to the South Korean government: 'All relatives of
Jang have been put to death, including even children.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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relatives mean that no traces of him should be left.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the country by Ministry of State troops in early December before being killed,
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<span class="usercontent">It has now been revealed that the most heart-breaking
of Gaddafi’s victims include hundreds, possibly thousands of teenage girls who,
throughout his 42-year reign, were beaten, raped and forced to become his sex
slaves.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">Many were virgins kidnapped from schools and
universities and kept prisoner for years in a specially designed secret sex
lair hidden within Tripoli University or his many palaces. In the 26 months
since he was deposed, Gaddafi’s den – where he regularly raped girls as young
as 14 – has remained locked. But today its gaudy interior, where the colonel
brutalised his victims, can be seen for the first time in photographs from a
hard-hitting BBC4 documentary.</span></span><a name='more'></a><br />
<span class="usercontent">Inside the small, nondescript single-storey complex,
the girls were forced to watch pornography to ‘educate’ them for their
degrading treatment at the hands of Gaddafi. And even those who did manage to
escape were often shunned by their deeply religious Muslim families who
believed their family honour had been tainted.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">When the dictator’s body was dragged through the
streets by a baying mob, just hours after he was beaten and shot in the head,
the hastily convened transitional government moved swiftly to seal off the sex
dungeon. They feared the full extent of Gaddafi’s debased and lewd lifestyle
would horrify the Western world and cause deep embarrassment to Libya.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">One of the rooms holds little more than a double bed,
lit by an orange lamp. Its 1970s decor and grimy Jacuzzi – all left exactly as
they were when Gaddafi last used it – give it a seedy and gloomy air. But even
more chilling is the clinical gynaecological suite in an adjoining room. It was
here, on two beds fitted with stirrups behind a table laden with surgical
instruments, that Gaddafi’s young victims were examined to ensure they had no
sexually transmittable diseases. And here they were forced to undergo abortions
if they became pregnant.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">They, however, were the lucky ones. Other young victims
were so badly abused that they were dumped in car parks and on waste ground,
and left to die.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">Gaddafi’s modus operandi was to tour schools and
universities where female students were invited to his lectures.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">As he spoke before his hushed audience, he would
silently scan the room seeking out attractive girls. Before leaving he would
pat those he had ‘selected’ on the head.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">Within hours his private bodyguards would round up
those chosen and kidnap them. If their families tried to keep them from
Gaddafi’s clutches, they were gunned down.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">One teacher at a Tripoli school recalled how the girls
were all very young. ‘Some were only 14,’ she said. ‘They would simply take the
girl they wanted. They had no conscience, no morals, not an iota of mercy even
though she was a mere child.’</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">One mother, whose daughter was a student, said the
community around Tripoli University lived in fear when a visit from the colonel
was announced. ‘The girls he wanted would be rounded up and sent to him,’ she
said.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">‘One just disappeared and they never found her again,
despite her father and brothers searching for her. Another was found three
months later, cut, raped and lying in the middle of a park. She had been left
for dead.’</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">Even today, the Libyan people are afraid to speak
openly about Gaddafi’s depravity, fearing reprisals from his former henchmen.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">But one woman – who was repeatedly raped by the despot
over seven years from the age of 15 – has anonymously spoken of how he
terrorised and abused her.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">She had been chosen to present the colonel with a
bouquet when he toured her school in his home town of Sirte on the
Mediterranean coast, 350 miles east of Tripoli.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">When he patted her head afterwards, in an apparently
paternal gesture, she thought she had pleased the man she and her fellow
Libyans were forced to call ‘the Guide’.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">The next day three woman dressed in military uniform
arrived telling her parents she was needed to present more flowers. Instead,
she was driven at high speed to Gaddafi’s lair. Once there, he barked at his
women soldiers: ‘Get her ready.’</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">The girl was stripped, given a blood test and shaved of
all but her pubic hair. She was dressed in a G-string, forced into a low-cut
gown and had thick make-up plastered on her face. When she was shoved into
Gaddafi’s room, to her horror he was lying naked on the bed. When she tried to
run out, the women soldiers grabbed her and flung her back on the bed.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">She was raped repeatedly during the seven years she was
held captive, eventually escaping when a door was accidentally left unlocked.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">Fuelled by cocaine and alcohol – and often Viagra –
Gaddafi abused her horribly. ‘I will never forget that first time, that
moment,’ she says. ‘He violated my body and pierced my soul with a dagger. That
blade will never come out.’</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">It took the documentary-makers months of negotiations
to be allowed access to information on Gaddafi as Libya remains secretive and
hide-bound by bureaucracy.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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soon after midnight local time and was swamped with photographers as she made
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soldiers tried to keep the crowds back as Ms Trierweiler smiled broadly and
waived regally without commenting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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limousine by herself and continued to smile and waive as she was driven to the
five star Taj Majal Palace hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the airport by security<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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limousine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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president confirming his separation from the firebrand 48-year-old with a
brusque 18 word statement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Despite the split, Ms Trierweiler has made clear
she wants to remain on the world stage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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politicians, with former health minister Roselyne Bachelot tweeting: ‘Valerie –
the new Diana?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Despite losing her perks, Trierweiler (pictured
today) was driven to Charles de Gaulle airport in a limousine accompanied by
police outriders, and will have a bodyguard with her in India<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Francois Hollande announced yesterday that the couple have officially split<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hearts’ famously devoted herself to humanitarian and charitable causes
following her divorce from Prince Charles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ms Trierweiler, in contrast, has now officially lost her title of first lady,
and all the perks that go with it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Charles de Gaulle airport in a limousine accompanied by police outriders, and
will have a bodyguard and her old chief of staff, Patrice Biancone, with her in
India. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ensure they can ‘keep an eye’ on a woman who is now viewed as a loose cannon
who could do a great deal of harm to Mr Hollande. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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government support on a foreign trip, the aide insisted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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‘The Rottweiler’ has been briefing the media ever since photographs were
published on January 10th which proved the president was having an affair with
the actress Julie Gayet, 41.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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summer residence of La Lanterne in Versailles ahead of her trip<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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furniture on hearing of her then boyfriend’s cheating, and then spent eight
days in a public hospital suffering from stress<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Francois Hollande kisses Ms Trierweiler after his
election victory in Bastille Square in Paris, in May 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ms Trierweiler is thought to be behind reports in
today’s Le Parisien which contain ‘a friend’ saying: ‘What’s sad for her, is
not so much leaving the Elysee and all its decorum, but losing the man whom she
loves’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the split, leaving Mr Hollande to awkwardly announce it by himself in a phone
call to French news agency AFP on Saturday. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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furniture on hearing of her then boyfriend’s cheating, and then spent eight
days in a public hospital suffering from stress. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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presidential retreat in Versailles, west of Paris, which comes complete with
heated swimming pool and wine cellar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who have seen Mr Hollande’s Socialist policies plunge the country into economic
disaster. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to remain a 'bachelor president' for a while, while continuing with his
relationship with Ms Gayet outside the Elysee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Contre La Faim (Fight Against Hunger, ACF), the trip to India will see Ms
Trierweiler staying at the five star Taj Palace Hotel in Mumbai.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hospital, and her friend Charlotte Valandrey – who is accompanying her on the
trip – said today: ‘This is a strong woman, a woman of heart, who is engaged in
the ACF project since long before Francois Hollande became president’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had ‘no sympathy’ for Ms Trierweiler, and that the whole saga proved how much
the Socialist government was ‘prepared to lie’ to the people of France. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in turn said that Ms Trierweiler had not even divorced her second husband, and
attacked Mr Hollande for having four children out of wedlock. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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private – four children out of marriage and a non-divorced mistress whom he
couldn’t even be faithful to!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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giving him one of her kidneys now wants it back after he dumped her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Andy Lamb was dying of renal kidney failure and was
only being kept alive by weekly sessions of <br />
dialysis until his wife Samantha persuaded him to take one hers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The 41-year-old mother-of-one told the <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/donated-kidney-husband-dumped---3061867" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Sunday People</span></b></a>: 'He
needed a new kidney or he would die. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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he should go through with it. He had children from an earlier relationship and
he wanted to be there for them.' </span><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
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private ambulance firm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Samantha, who had been living in London, moved back to Ivybridge, in Devon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lamb, who is now waiting for her husband to sign divorce papers, says as soon
as she went through with the operation she regretted it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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couple tried to save their marriage for the sake of Samantha's daughter Beatrice
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photographed in 2009 before the operation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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moved his stuff out of their home including the TV and stereo before posting
the keys through the letter box without a note or letter, she claims. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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operation again - but I wouldn't give the kidney to <br />
him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Beatrice in May 2011<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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because it was a big risk. But she insisted and I'll <br />
always owe her my life'. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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doing all this for me and I'll never get over that. She is just amazing and
fantastic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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India's Tata Motors has died after he was believed to have fallen from a high
floor balcony of a hotel in Bangkok today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a business trip at the time of his death and had attended a board meeting of
the company's Thailand unit in the country's capital before plummeting from the
hotel building.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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firm, which owns Jaguar Land Rover, did not state the cause of the
51-year-old's death.</span><a name='more'></a><o:p></o:p><br />
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from Thailand suggested that he had accidentally fallen from a hotel balcony
having lost his balance, although few details are known at this time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wife Sally had accompanied him on the trip, and that he had been due to return
to India tonight. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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establish how he died is due to take place tomorrow, according to a Tata Motors
Ltd spokesman. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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October 2012, and was providing leadership to the company through a challenging
market environment, the company said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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'Karl joined us in October 2012 and was a valued colleague who was providing
strong leadership at a challenging time for the Indian auto industry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thoughts are with Karl's wife and family.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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revive flagging sales and market share in the domestic business of India's
biggest automaker, which is part of the Tata conglomerate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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when the company seems to be close to turning the corner, with new designs and
a new petrol engine family, which hasn't been Tata's strong point,' said Anil Sharma,
an analyst with IHS Automotive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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introduced a new petrol engine for its passenger vehicles and has been planning
to launch a new hatchback and compact sedan this year, its first new branded
passenger vehicles since 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his efforts bear fruit. We should be able to see the results of his work in a
year or two,' Sharma said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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operations in India and international markets including South Korea, Thailand
and South Africa, excluding the Jaguar and Land Rover luxury unit that it
acquired in 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in its passenger vehicle market as its domestic and foreign rivals rolled out
new models while it mostly tweaked existing models and offered heavy price
discounts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at home since its Indica launch in 1998. Sales of the Nano, the world's
cheapest car which it unveiled in 2008, have been lacklustre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Slym was executive vice president of SGMW Motors, China, a General Motors joint
venture. Prior to that he had been president, managing director and board
member of General Motors in India between 2007 and 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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