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Sierra Leone has launched an initiative to enlist boys as young as 10 as crime-fighting volunteers in Freetown.
Police chief Chris Charley said the capital, which is blighted by rampant criminality, would be divided into 860 zones with 10 youth...
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President Obama said yesterday he is still several weeks away from adopting a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
What’s taking so long? Obama wants his...
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The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind...
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Two Chicago men accused of developing what federal prosecutors call a blueprint for a terrorist assault on a Danish newspaper also are being investigated for possible...
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President Obama’s diplomatic outreach to Iran deserves some award for its schizophrenic nature. Obama claims he wants to reach out his hand to an uncleanched...
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President Obama campaigned on “Change” in Washington that would reject the cynicism, partisanship and the political gamesmanship that have long dominated...
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The question was a plausible one Monday when it was announced that the Pontiac Silverdome — once home to the NFL’s Detroit Lions — was sold for $583,000, or about...
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In nearly a dozen recent terrorism cases in the United States, Britain and Canada, investigators discovered the suspects had something in common: a devotion to the...
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The Texas Department of Public Safety is warning parents across the state to be aware of efforts by Mexican cartels and transnational gangs to recruit Texas youth in...
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President Obama has admitted for the first time that the deadline he set two days into his Administration for closing the Guantanamo Bay detainee camp in Cuba will be...
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Christmas seems to start earlier and earlier every year, and with it comes the idiotic fringe-media meme that’s come to be known as the “War On...
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Israel: Busy Ethnic Cleansing Muslims and Christians from Holy Jerusalem
Here’s the list that Obama administration calls a success in the Middle East
- Israel...
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Another hateful asshole at Fox
Here’s a recent exchange between Fox News host Shepard Smith and Texas Republican Senator (and Gubernatorial candidate) Kay Bailey...
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The horrific things some people do to their children is beyond belief. Parents who offer their kids up as suicide bombers, a spouse who kills their own child, or the...
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The Alaska hockey-mom and conservative starlet Sarah Palin is making a comeback. Previously resigned to publishing her political opinions via the reputable Washington...
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Since time immemorial birth control has been a preserve for women, and for decades birth control pills have been a women only affair but as it seems even men could also...
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Humanity needs a jolt to come out of the box we have locked ourselves in for generations. The rot has become so severe that mere paradigm shift is not enough to rescue...
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I am to be specific: Then and Now.
Any comments? Thank you in advance for sharing an American history in making.
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Investigators in the city raided offices for some of the nation’s largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a corruption probe into a powerful union that has long...
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After turning down Vogue during the presidential campaign for “fear of looking too feminine,” Hillary Clinton has finally granted Vogue the interview they...
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A paparazzo testified Tuesday that an Ohio police chief told him he had access to ultrasound photographs belonging to the woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica...
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A former leader of Congo’s Ninja militias has died in Paris, aged 76.
Bernard Kolelas was an MP in Congo at the time of his death and was a popular politician in...
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Some major cracks have emerged in the “Tea Party” movement’s leadership.
In October, Amy Kremer, a founder and top staffer for the Tea Party Patriots...
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Amid the ongoing financial regulation overhaul, the banking industry is hoping to pull off a quiet power grab that has eluded its grasp since the Great Depression, by...
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Yemen’s civil war spilled into neighbouring Saudi Arabia for the first time yesterday when Shia gunmen shot dead a Saudi security officer in a cross-border...
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The concerns have been triggered by Bosnian Serb leaders who have stepped up their demands for independence with a warning the country is no longer...
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Persistent violence and a prolonged drought have plunged Somalia into its worst humanitarian crisis since civil war erupted two decades ago, with a third of its 10...
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With the declaration of partial results of Presidential elections placing Hamid Karzai at the top while very closely followed by his main opponent the former foreign...
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The Leonardo DiCaprio film “Blood Diamonds” informed a whole generation of moviegoers how illicit trading in diamonds fuels oppression of native people in...
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Reports from southern Yemen say at least three people were killed when police broke up an unauthorised demonstration in Aden.
Others were injured, and dozens of...
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A few months ago when Secretary Gates and the Department of Defense listed Mexico as one of the countries in the future that face destabilization. At the time the...
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The international community now seems resigned to Somalia’s status as the world’s most failed state yet - almost unimaginably - the country is perilously close to a...
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Few stories I read in the press install in me fear, but this in the New York Times did.
Fears of New Ethnic Conflict in Bosnia
Civil war broke out in Bosnia when...
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It was 25 years ago this week that a minor insurgency in Sri Lanka began to turn into a full-scale civil war.
Sri Lankan soldier
The army is advancing in the north
An...
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More and more people are conversing through facebook. But if you really think about it, it’s a pretty weird way to communicate. So, our intern Scott decided he’d...
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Last night, at around 10.30 pm, the citizens of Tripoli, the second biggest city in Lebanon, started hearing gunshots, automatic weapons fire, and even rocket-propelled...
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Robert Mugabe has been threatening Civil War if he loses the looming Zimbabwe run-off election. What he means is that he is just itching for an excuse to kill everyone...
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A Singapore man was jailed for three years after he faked his own death in a civil war shoot-out in Sri Lanka in 1987 to escape his creditors and claim S$331,341
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History repeats itself in every nation and everywhere. No country is liberated with a peace treaty signature, this is considered as hypocrisy. But true liberation comes...
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As all of you are aware that Iraq is a country with many sectarian and ethnic groups. And in such countries it is very difficult to manage and administer the country...
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