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MSNBC
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Was it wizardry that guided him? Or too much free time?
Whatever it was, a determined French 16-year-old accomplished a mystifying feat in translating all 759 pages of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” within days of its July 21 release and po..
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CNN
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An Indian court ordered the arrest of Hollywood star Richard Gere on Thursday for kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS awareness event this month saying it was an obscene act committed in public.
Gere's repeated kisses on Shetty's cheeks..
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BBC News
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Germany has ordered the arrest of 13 suspected CIA agents over the alleged kidnapping of one of its citizens...
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News.com.au
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US forces stormed a building in the northern Iraq city of Mosul today and arrested a suspected "high-level al-Qaeda leader" in an operation that led to the death of a 12-year-old boy...
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BBC News
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Burma's ruling junta has renewed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest.
Police earlier detained about 20 activists as they marched to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's home in Rangoon, where she has been held since May 2003.
The decisi..
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CNN
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Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi -- who has been under house arrest for 12 of the last 18 years -- left her home Thursday in Yangon. A U.S. diplomat in Yangon, citing local sources, told CNN Suu Kyi was possibly headed for a meeting with th..
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BBC News
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South African prosecutors have said they have obtained an arrest warrant for national police chief Jackie Selebi, but will not act on it yet.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said the warrant would not be executed until its new acting director..
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BBC News
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A former aide to the UN's top war crimes prosecutor says Russia and the US blocked the arrest of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic.
The former aide, Florence Hartmann, makes the allegation in memoirs published in France.
Former French Pre..
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BBC News
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A court in Pakistan has ordered the arrest of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's brother, Shahbaz, ahead of the two men's expected return next week.
The brothers, who were exiled following a 1999 coup which ousted Nawaz Sharif, are due to leave for h..
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International Herald Tribune
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Germany's Justice Ministry is sounding out U.S. authorities over whether they would be willing to cooperate with legal proceedings against suspected CIA agents sought in the alleged kidnapping of a German citizen, an official said Thursday.
The ministr..
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CNN
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Disgraced Peruvian ex-President Alberto Fujimori has decided to run for Japan's upper house of parliament in July despite being under house arrest in Chile, the head of a Japanese party said Thursday.
Shizuka Kamei, head of the People's New Party, said..
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SF Gate
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Ramping up its campaign against the man it ousted from power, the military government in Thailand Tuesday ordered the former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, to return to the country by the end of the month or face arrest on charges of concealing finan..
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BBC News
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Nigeria's anti-graft agency has given 15 ex-governors wanted for corruption until the end of Friday to turn themselves in or face arrest.
Five of the former governors have already been quizzed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), an..
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BBC News
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Police are still investigating a man regarded as a suspect in Madeleine McCann's abduction, despite not having enough evidence to arrest him.
The 33-year-old man is believed to be Briton Robert Murat, who lives with his mother Jenny in Praia da Luz, Al..
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BBC News
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Simon Bunce was one of 7,000 people whose credit cards had been used to buy pornography from an American website called Landslide.
And in May 2004, he turned up at his local police station in Hampshire to be told he was a suspected paedophile.
"I wa..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Police investigating the murder of a 14-year-old boy stabbed to death by a gang in east London have made a third arrest, Scotland Yard said today.
Paul Erhahon collapsed in the street in front of his screaming mother after he and a friend were stabbed..
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New York Times
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A retired Chinese doctor acclaimed for helping AIDS sufferers has been placed under house arrest, to stop her from traveling to an awards ceremony in the United States held by a nonprofit group connected to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a friend of the doc..
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NPR
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Eight soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were ordered Wednesday to be court-martialed on murder charges stemming from their service in Iraq, and two could get the death penalty for allegedly raping a 14-year-old and killing her and her family...
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