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Arizona sheriff told to stop profiling Latinos
A US court in Maricopa County, Arizona has found that high-profile sheriff Joe Arpaio violated the constitutional rights of Latino men and women in his attempt to stop illegal immigration. Judge Murray Snow ruled that Arpaio's office would have to stop using race or Latino ancestry as a factor in stopping vehicles carrying Latino occupants. Arpaio had been sued by several Hispanic drivers ...
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Hezbollah Chief Confirms Fighting in Syria
The chief of Lebanon's Hezbollah says his group will not stand by while the neighboring government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is attacked. Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech Saturday Hezbollah was fighting in Syria to protect Lebanon from the threat of radical Islamists. It was the first time Nasrallah has publicly confirmed Hezbollah's fighting presence in Syria. The speech was ...
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US Defense Chief Calls for End to Military Sex Assaults
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called for an end to sexual assaults in the military Saturday in a commencement speech to graduates of the West Point military academy in New York state. Hagel called sexual harassment and sexual assault in the military a "profound betrayal" of sacred oaths and trusts and a "scourge" that must be stamped out. A day earlier, President Barack Obama ...
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Maoists Attack India Congress Party Convoy
Police say suspected Maoist rebels have attacked a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India's ruling Congress party in eastern India, killing at least 16 people and wounding many others. Suspected insurgents fired at the vehicles on Saturday in the Sukma area of Chhattisgarh state. View Larger Map Local reports say some senior party leaders were among ...
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Russia Cracks Down on Gay Activism
Russian police arrested at least 30 gay rights activists and their opponents in the capital, Moscow, Saturday, enforcing the city's ban on gay rights demonstrations. The arrests coincided with the first-ever gay rights rally in neighboring Ukraine, which was allowed by authorities and protected by police. The demonstrators in Russia gathered in front of the nation's lower house of ...
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Leadership Questions Could Hamper Syria Peace Talks
ISTANBUL Next month's Washington - Moscow talks to end the Syrian conflict appear in doubt. The Syrian opposition, at a meeting in Istanbul, remains divided on electing new leadership and it is still unclear if the opposition will attend the talks. Western backers of the opposition are pushing for a broader and more diverse leadership. But attempts to weaken the power of the Islamist ...
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French Soldier Attacked Near Paris
A man wielding a knife or box cutter has stabbed a French soldier in the neck near Paris. Police union spokesman Christophe Crepin released a description of the suspect to the public Saturday. ''We know that he is tall, athletic, we think he was wearing a white tunic and sneakers. Things are evolving, in any case everything has been recorded on video and we will find him.'' French ...
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African Leaders Condemn Ongoing Use of Cluster Bombs
Thirty-six African countries have formally condemned the use of cluster bombs and urged all of Africa to join a global ban on the deadly weapons. Delegates at a conference in Lome, Togo say they are gravely concerned about the ongoing use of cluster munitions and the mounting number of victims, including women and children. They say 14 African countries have a cluster bomb problem, ...
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Bolivia to boost incentives for gas exploration
Bolivia's government, which asserted greater state control over the Andean nation's natural gas sector seven years ago, says it will issue a decree to encourage investment in exploration. Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera made the announcement at the inauguration of a gas and oil congress in the eastern city of Santa Cruz, where energy experts from nine countries have gathered. The ...
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Brazil oil firm sells partial stake in Tanzania block
Brazilian state-controlled energy giant Petrobras said Friday it sold a 12 percent stake in an oil block off Tanzania's coast to Norway's Statoil. The transaction, whose value was not disclosed, is part of a $9.9 billion divestment program Petrobras announced earlier this year. Petrobras will remain the operator of Block 6, a 5,549-sq. km area in the Mafia offshore basin, with a 38 percent ...
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Sao Paulo eyes former Villarreal forward Nilmar
Brazil football club Sao Paulo are reportedly in talks to sign former Villarreal and Brazil international striker Nilmar. The 28-year-old, currently playing with Al Rayyan in Qatar, hopes a return to Brazil could lead to an international recall ahead of next year's World Cup, reports Xinhua. Nilmar has scored 17 goals in 26 appearances for Al Rayyan since joining the club July last year. Sao ...
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Floods Hit San Antonio Texas
Nearly 40 centimeters of rain has fallen in some parts of the city since early Saturday. Rescuers have spent much of the past several hours pulling more than 200 people from their flooded cars and homes. San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro is imploring people to stay off the ...
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Brazils Neymar to sign with Barcelona on Monday
Neymar of Santos reacts during their Paulista Championship final first leg soccer match against Corinthians at Pacaembu stadium in Sao Paulo May 12, 2013. REUTERS/Nacho ...
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Argentinas industrial production up 1.7 last month
(MENAFN) Argentina's INDEC national statistics institute announced that the country's industrial output grew by 1.7 percent last month on annual basis, reported Reuters.From a month before, the production went up by 0.1 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis.Automobile output jumped by 38.8 percent in April from a year ago, and that of non-metallic minerals, including glass and cement, ...
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China to continue developing strategic partnership with Ecuador special envoy
The Chinese government's Special Envoy Chen Lei said Saturday that his country is willing to further develop bilateral strategic partnership with Ecuador during a meeting with Ecuadorian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ricardo Patino in Quito, the capital city of the South American country.Chen, also the minister of water resources, was here to attend Friday's inauguration ceremony of ...
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Fake Psy Party Crashes in Cannes
CANNES -- A man pretending to be South Korean rapper Psy talked his way into glitzy parties at the Cannes film festival and posed with fans until he was spotted drinking champagne by the real Psy's manager. Psy, in Singapore on Thursday night to perform at the inaugural Social Star awards, said that Scooter Braun spotted the imposter, took a photo and sent it to ...
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Rogers Signs Multi-Year Contract with Los Angeles Galaxy
Former U.S. soccer international Robbie Rogers has joined Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy, the team said on Saturday, making him the latest openly gay male athlete in an American professional team sport. Rogers, who came out in February on the same day he retired from the game, will be on the Galaxy's roster for Sunday's home match against the Seattle Sounders if his ...
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In Mexico fears for democracy as threatened journalists curtail coverage
Rogelio Elizondo’s son went to buy a used car in Nuevo Laredo two years ago. He never came back. In much of Mexico, Elizondo’s tragedy would remain the anguish of a solitary family in a country where the problem of ‘disappeared’ people is worse than anyplace else in the Western Hemisphere. But a slightly more positive story is unfolding. Elizondo joined with scores of ...
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Fr. Lombardi Brazil Expected to Be Popes Only 2013 International Trip
Spokesman Also Confirms Benedict XVI's Move Back to the VaticanVATICAN CITY, April 25, 2013 (Zenit.org) - During a press conference at the Foreign Press Association headquarters in Rome, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office, stated that the Pope's upcoming trip to Brazil for World Youth Day will be the only international trip for Pope Francis this ...
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Flash Flood Warning Issued in San Antonio Texas
The city of San Antonio, Texas is under a flash flood warning with more heavy rain expected Saturday night in the already flooded area. As much as 39 centimeters of rain has fallen in some parts of the city since early Saturday. At least one person was killed when floodwaters swept away her car. Rescuers have spent much of the day pulling more than 100 people from their flooded cars and ...
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Obama to Console Oklahoma Tornado Victims
U.S. President Barack Obama makes a poignant visit Sunday to the city of Moore, Oklahoma which is just starting to recover from last week's deadly tornado. President Obama will meet with and console residents of the midwestern town where 24 people were killed and more than 200 others hurt. Some people lost everything they owned when the twister obliterated entire neighborhoods. The ...
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Cambodian Documentary Wins Cannes Prize for Innovative Cinema
CANNES -- A documentary using small clay figurines to tell the story of how Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh's family perished under the Khmer Rouge regime won the top prize in the second most important competition at ...
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British Police Arrest 3 New Suspects in Soldiers Killing
British police have arrested three new suspects in connection with Wednesday's murder of a British soldier in London. Scotland Yard issued a statement saying three men in their 20's were arrested Saturday, two of them at a residential address in southeast London and one on a London street. Officers used stun guns in two of the arrests, but no one was hospitalized. All three were ...
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Colombia to Have Its 1st Canonized Saint on Sunday
Mother Laura Montoya Defended Human Dignity of Indigenous PeoplesBy H. Sergio MoraROME, May 10, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Dialogue, the ability to forgive, national unity, and great charity were the main charisms of Mother Laura Montoya (1874-1949), the first Colombian canonized saint.The founder of the Institute of Mary Immaculate and Saint Catherine of Siena, will be canonized on Sunday, May 12, by ...
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Wave of public rapes in Brazil stirs outrage
RIO DE JANEIRO: The attacks have stunned this city. In one, an assailant held a gun to the head of a 30-year-old woman while raping her in front of passengers on a bus. In another, a 14-year-old girl from a slum was raped on one of Rio's most famous beach stretches. In yet another case, men abducted and raped a working-class woman in a transit van as it wended through densely populated ...
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Chemical castration in Argentina for rapists?
Chemical castration of rapists seems a good way to prevent them from re-offending. But, if the 'treatment' is reversible by simply not taking the medicine anymore, and if taking the treatment get the rapist a light sentence, is it fair that the victim still has to carry his child if he makes her pregnant in the attack?
It was announced by officials in Argentina’s Mendoza province on the 21st of March, 2010, that chemical castration has been authorized for rapists convicted in the province. The move came after what the authorities called, a “significant rise” in the number of sexual assaults last year. Read more
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