Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Egypt military rulers vow no more virginity tests

Egypt military rulers vow no more virginity tests

Egypt military rulers vow no more virginity tests

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Egypt's military rulers have promised that women in custody will not be subjected to virginity tests in future, Human Rights Watch said today.


Navy ship that buried bin Laden stops in Hawaii

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The aircraft carrier that buried Osama bin Laden's body at sea arrived in Hawaii, making its first stop on US soil since its deployment to the Middle East six months ago.


Adolf Hitler's hate letters unveiled

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The founder of a Jewish human rights organization said Tuesday the group has acquired a document by Adolf Hitler believed to contain his first written comments calling Jews a threat that should be removed.


Pentagon Papers: The 'WikiLeaks' of 40 years ago

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It may be a first in the annals of government secrecy: Declassifying documents to mark the anniversary of their leak to the press. But that is what will happen Monday, when the federal government plans to finally release the secret government study of the Vietnam War known as the Pentagon Papers 40 years after it was first published by The New York Times.


In US city, fountain used as toilet

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Officials in New London, Connecticut, turned off the water at the city's new waterfront fountain over the weekend, because people have been using it as a toilet.


Is Internet sex cheating? The debate

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Jon Austin's wife, Amy, had a blunt assessment for her husband as the Minneapolis couple watched Rep. Anthony Weiner's stunning confessions on television this week. "You'd be dead," she told him.


Floods leave 21 dead in south-western China

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Rain-triggered floods in south-western China have killed 21 people and left 37 others missing while damaging roads, bridges and thousands of homes, officials said Tuesday.


Gaddafi vows to fight till the end as NATO continues airstrikes

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Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi vowed to fight to the death in a defiant speech Tuesday after NATO military craft unleashed a ferocious series of some daytime airstrikes on Tripoli.


Rana, Headley 'playing on the same team', prosecutors say in closing arguments

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Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana was involved in the Mumbai attacks and he and his friend David Headley were part of the same team that carried out the terror assault in 2008, a US Federal Attorney told a Chicago court.


E. coli outbreak: EU proposes millions in aid for farmers

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The European Union's (EU) farm chief on Tuesday proposed euro150 million ($219 million) in aid to help producers hit by the continent's E. coli contamination crisis.


Mumbai terror trial winds down today

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Closing arguments are expected on Tuesday in the trial of Pakistan-born Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana who is accused of providing material support to Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT) for the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. Rana, 50, told US District Judge Harry Leinenweber in Chicago Federal court on Monday that he was waiving his right to testify after his attorneys presented just two witnesses on his behalf, according to Chicago Sun Times.


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