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The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in New York’s State Supreme Court, was brought on behalf of former investors and seeks unspecified punitive damages and compensation.
Beyond that, it offers a look at what the plaintiffs’ attorneys say was once Madoff’s...
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African media leaders ended their meeting in Lagos yesterday with a call on owners and operators of media organisations to embrace the digital revolution for seamless...
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IN a move with damaging implications for investment, Zimbabwe plans to grab a 51% stake in foreign-owned firms within 60 days of the gazetting of the Indigenisation and...
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The reigning Miss England has relinquished her crown after being accused of a fight in a bar.
Pageant organizers say Rachel Christie has also withdrawn from next...
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SOMALI pirates have threatened to kill three crew members taken hostage from a Spanish fishing vessel if two suspected pirates being held in Spain are not freed, the...
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A RUSSIAN military plane crashed into the sea during a training exercise in Russia’s Far East region, leaving all eleven crew members missing and presumed dead,...
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The Democratic Republic of Congo army has used vaccination clinics as “bait” to attack civilians, says aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
Thousands...
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A SOUTH Korean woman has passed a written exam for a driver’s licence after 950 attempts.
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Kenyans have rarely been disappointed in the ability of their political leaders to be disappointing. So it’s not all that surprising that little has been done for...
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The UN’s nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the...
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I vividly recall the car journeys I would take as a teenager from Frankfurt to Berlin. In those days, the trip to the isolated city of West Berlin, which was located in...
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There was apparently not quite as much fun and games being played as expected by organizers at last year’s Beijing Olympics with news breaking that a stash of...
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When the U.S. last week finally brokered a deal between ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the man who replaced him following the June 28 coup, de facto...
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The naming of an honorary economic advisor to a small Southeast Asian country doesn’t usually make news. But Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s designation...
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While domestic insurgencies chip away at the control of Yemen’s central government and an Al Qaeda branch gains strength in regions beyond the government’s...
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Thousands had gathered under the shade of the trees by the airstrip in Akobo, waiting for the arrival of a United Nations helicopter packed with food aid.
Bony-armed...
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It is unclear from a story, whether this cabbie was this time a next “Indian student” victim of desperately seeking a place for morning sex-session, but attitude of...
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Sir, I represent the self employed urban middle class from services sector. I Have spent the 50 odd years of my existence in this country. Now when my descent has...
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The U.S. media will not notice and the U.S. government does not care - nor, in the case of the latter, should it. But Saudi Arabia - which is often outrageously...
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The annual pilgrimage to Mecca recently took place. Muslims are required - as part of the Five Pillars - to do the Hajj, as it is known, once in their life if health...
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Targeted killing in Baluchistan continues as a Professor of the University of Balochistan was shot dead outside his residence in Quetta on Thursday, November 05, 2009. ...
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Tangled in the front line trenches of Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s anti-narcotics campaign are the country’s growing legions of addicts, who find...
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Reporting from Buenaventura, Colombia - Two summers ago, drug gangs, leftist rebels and right-wing militias traded mortar and machine-gun fire daily as they vied for...
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Police were amazed to find the drug surgically implanted in the bloated birds in Peru.
Acting on a tip-off, officers stopped a Turismo Ejecutivo SRL bus outside the...
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It wasn’t supposed to be like this. As a little girl, I dreamt of having a pony. He would be strong and his coal black mane would glisten in the midwest sun.
As...
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When most people think of cocaine smuggling, they revert to images of the Colombian jungle, or perhaps the ongoing drug war in Mexico. What many people may not know is...
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The Mexican Navy says it has seized more than a tonne of cocaine hidden inside the carcasses of frozen sharks.
Armed officers found slabs of cocaine inside more than...
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Mexican police have arrested one of the country\’s most-wanted alleged drug traffickers, authorities have said.
Federal police said they arrested the suspect,...
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For a man who is everywhere and nowhere and on the Most Wanted list in at least two countries, today must be overwhelming.
Joaquin Guzman Loera, who passes himself...
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Do you live in Europe? Are finances a bit tight? Have you cut back on Starbucks, eating out, exspensive manicures, and cancelled your satellite TV? Have you, like many...
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I hate the way he breathes; after years of cocaine use he has a constant drip and whistle, much like a snot nosed child, but he is not cute.
I hate the way he comes...
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Once mainly a smuggling corridor for drugs heading to the United States, Mexico is grappling with the effects of a fast-rising addiction rate as relatively cheap...
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Mexico’s powerful drug cartels are buying cocaine directly from Colombia’s main rebel group, a senior Colombian defense official said Tuesday at a conference here...
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A number of jets connected to drug-trafficking, including a Gulfstream II carrying more than 3 tons of cocaine that crashed in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico last...
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Death from ‘middle class’ drugs glamorised by celebrities are at their highest level since records began, government figures revealed today.
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My eyes are fixated on the clock that’s suspended on the wall, seems like time itself is suspended, every tick and and every tock sends a jolt down my median nerves,...
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DEADLY drugs like heroin and crack cocaine are being peddled for LESS than a pint of lager.
One hit of heroin now costs as little as £2—that’s 70p less than a...
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A soft drink named Cocaine could be on the shelves within weeks.
Billed as the ‘legal alternative’ to the Class A drug, the high energy drink has three...
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A New Zealander’s plans to import the all-new energy drink “Cocaine” for sale in his country has now run into legal problems. The New Zealand Food Safety...
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A Quebec woman is feeling the heat after 12 kilos of cocaine were found in boxes of cake mix being brought into the country through Pearson Airport.
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