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Jul 22 2008, Madhuri Katti

Millions of Columbian demonstrators all over the world took to streets on Sunday demanding the release of nearly 3,000 hostages held over many years by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela had also called for...

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Jul 22 2008 by AP0 Comments

Prosecutors dropped murder charges Tuesday but said they want a 78-year-old man committed to a mental hospital after he was found incompetent to stand trial for killing two South Carolina law officers.

 
 
Jul 22 2008 by AP0 Comments

A Republican state senator is being criticized for a post on his blog that shows photos of Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden wearing similar clothing, along with a line that says the difference between them is “a little B.S.”

 
 
Jul 21 2008 by AP0 Comments

A suburban South Carolina mother who admitted burning down four homes near her neighborhood has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison.

 
 
Jul 17 2008 by AP0 Comments

A gay pride organization said Thursday it plans to raise $5,000 to pay for an advertising campaign that proclaimed “South Carolina is so gay” after the state refused to pick up the tab.

 
 
Jul 17 2008 by AP0 Comments

Police in the District of Columbia are set to begin registering residents for handguns Thursday now that the district’s 32-year-old ban has been lifted.

 
 
Jul 16 2008 by AP0 Comments

The mayor of a South Carolina town was charged with insider trading on Wednesday for buying stock in a California biotech company after authorities say he learned confidential information about the firm, federal regulators said Wednesday.

 
 
Jul 16 2008 by AP0 Comments

Gov. Mark Sanford said Tuesday that a new push by the NAACP to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of South Carolina’s Statehouse won’t be a priority during his final years in office.

 
 
Jul 15 2008 by AP0 Comments

A Columbia University professor who was fired in June after allegations of plagiarism has appealed her termination.

 
 
Jul 15 2008 by AP0 Comments

A South Carolina tourism employee has resigned after an outcry over an ad campaign to attract gay tourists.

 
 
Jul 14 2008 by AP0 Comments

A South Carolina judge says an auction of James Brown’s belongings in New York can go forward as planned this week.

 
 
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Jul 22 2008 by Madhuri Katti0 Comments

Millions of Columbian demonstrators all over the world took to streets on Sunday demanding the release of nearly 3,000 hostages held over many years by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela had also called for...

 
 
Nov 23 2007 by Apabrita0 Comments

With the extremist groups taking over the world, you never know when a hostage crisis will evolve. In South America, a hostage situation has taken a turn for worse. The primary negotiator has been ‘fired’ from his job. Negotiator Chavez has been...

 
 
Sep 29 2007 by AMIT1 Comments

She hijacked a plane to escape her tumultuous life of kidnappings, abductions, killings and massacres. The guerrilla woman belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) said ‘no’ to her life as a rebel. Is it the beginning of the end...

 
 
May 10 2007 by Vinod0 Comments

Nine Colombian policemen were killed and six others injured by a roadside bomb in Santander province, 100 miles to the North of Bogota, the Columbian capital.

Rebels planted the bomb

According to the authorities, FARC left-wing rebel group planted...

 
 
Apr 7 2007 by Pooja0 Comments

We’re all familiar with the studies that show heavier women feel worse after seeing images of the ‘thin-ideal’ women portrayed on television and in magazines. However, a new study shows that even women at low weights are affected.

Recent survey...

 
 
Mar 10 2007 by Naresh Chauhan0 Comments

Setting up the biggest fight over gun rights in the modern history of the United States, a federal appeals court, rejecting the argument that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applied only to militias, in a 2-1 decision knocked over the District...

 
 
Jan 4 2007 by Pooja0 Comments

This space, dedicated to the issues related to the children of the world and the problems they are encountering, has been keeping tab of the pulse of our future harbingers, trying to do justice by giving voice to their cries. We highlighted major issues...

 
 
Dec 7 2006 by Pankaj0 Comments

Discovery is set for the first planned night launch in four years after two technical issues, one with the shuttle’s electrical system and the other with an adhesive used in the ship’s solid rocket boosters, that were resolved of course. But the...

 
 
Dec 1 2006 by Pooja0 Comments

Sunita Williams, the second woman after Kalpana Chawla is all ready to board for her space mission by seventh of December with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Flight engineer Williams will join six other crews as Discovery lifts...

 
 
Nov 30 2006 by Pankaj0 Comments

The third and final shuttle mission of the year 2006 is on its way, every mission depends on the success of its predecessor, we’re just another mission in a line of assembly, as important as the previous ones and as important as the ones of the...

 
 
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Convicted murderer Steven Rios, 30, left, talks with his attorney Gillis Leonard on Tuesday July 22, 2008 in the Boone County, Mo. courthouse during Rios’ pre-trial motions before Circuit Judge Frank Conley. Rios was convicted in 2005 for killing...