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At least five inmates have burned to death in a fire at a prison in north-eastern Brazil, officials say.
They said about 40 other prisoners were injured at the jail in the coastal town of Joao Pessoa.
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KENYA is the focus of attention of the football world as the coveted solid-gold Fifa World Cup trophy finally landed in the country yesterday. The trophy - the...
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Direct talks between arch foes, Israel and Iran, in 30 years, were held under the auspices of an initiative of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
According to...
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Well, I wanted submitting a newslink only, but a topic of computing addiction is really a rising issue in the USA.
As a next new centre to open in New York in a few...
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I just came back from a journey abroad. My travels took me to two continents. But it was one question that followed me all through: what happened to America?
Those...
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Calling all citizens young and old: Your country needs you and your children to be Swine Flu vaccine guinea pigs.
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The Plague was on her way to Baghdad when she came across an old man. He asked, “Where are you going”? The Plague answered, “To Baghdad to kill 10,000...
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And here is a new M. Kerjman publication “The X-Challenge: Realm of Senses”.
If even at the end it brings about just some solutions to tackling a pig flue and...
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This post is especially directed towards those who are in denial about the terror potential of Islam and continue to defend Muslims. It is true that there are numerous...
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The Gaza Strip is now the largest concentration camp in the world. The situation grows steadily more insufferable for the 1.5 million Palestinians who live there....
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I was a big fan of Oswald Spengler. I thought The Decline of the West was one of the most prescient books ever written. Everything does come and go in cycles. You can...
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The world has become an ugly, nasty place. I don’t think there is a single country that has been able to truly escape the wrath of the greed, violence,...
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Liberty rules!?!
One more proficient in social engineering than your author is, could suggest, by surely free and independent nations, a notion of a common culture...
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We have all heard of some pretty silly laws. Here are twenty-five of the craziest I have ever heard of. (With the exception of #25, I think it is an unwritten law...
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A group of rapists and date rapists in prison were interviewed on what they look for in a potential victim and here are some interesting facts:
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When your apartment gets to this point, I wonder if you even bother shitting in the toilet, or anywhere near the bathroom, for that matter. The moment you feel a dump...
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The populations of the world’s common birds are declining as a result of continued habitat loss, a global assessment has warned.
The survey by BirdLife...
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For centuries, restaurants have been making the same fiscal error time and time again: serving delicious food at reasonable prices.
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An Iranian man and a woman made the allegations in separate interviews with CNN. Both said they fled to Turkey from Iran after claiming to have been threatened by...
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A British prison says a bunch of inmates have been caught with their hands clean — using hand sanitizing gel to get drunk.
Peter McParlin of the Prison Officers...
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The circumstances were not promising. Mr. Scott, 20, was awaiting sentencing for drug possession and robbery, but he was allowed supervised release from jail in May to...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he would be willing to accept prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center, which U.S. President Barack Obama has said he...
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Pakistan will release 35 Indian prisoners as a goodwill gesture on Thursday while celebrating its 61st Independence Day.
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Israeli defense forces and agencies work hard to capture Palestinian terrorists. They do extensive field work, gather intelligence and risk their lives to apprehend...
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Hakeem Mohammad Yasin, the Kashmir transport minister who is reputed to be pro-Indian, has urged the Government of India to grant freedom to all prisoners from Kashmir...
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Pro-independence supporters hold some thousands of portraits of imprisoned members of the Basque armed group ETA during a rally against the Spanish Government and in support of freedom of prisoners in Bilbao northern Spain, Saturday Jan.3, 2009.
