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Los Angeles Times
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The voice on the other end of my cellphone was oddly calm, but intent.
"Abukar, I am calling to inform you that we have decided to take your life," the caller said. I glanced down at my phone to see the caller ID, which read "private."
"You're not w..
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CNN
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A Russian serial murderer dubbed the "Chessboard Killer" was given the maximum sentence of life in prison Monday and ordered to undergo psychiatric therapy for a string of at least 48 murders that terrorized Moscow for years. A Moscow jury convicted Alexa..
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Independent
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The spiritual leader of the Tibetan people is now 71 - and finally talking about retirement. But his successor is likely to face the same life of exile as China's persecution continues. Peter Popham reports.
He seems always to have been around. Was th..
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FOX News
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A man who spent his life savings after being told he had months to live is seeking compensation after doctors in Britain conceded they had got the diagnosis wrong.
John Brandrick, 62, was told two years ago that he had terminal pancreatic cancer. He de..
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Times Online
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THE world has just 10 years to reverse surging greenhouse gas emissions or risk runaway climate change that could make many parts of the planet uninhabitable...
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BBC News
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Austrian former kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch has said she is finding it hard to adjust to her new life...
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Guardian Unlimited
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The creator of China's largest pornographic Web site was jailed for life on Wednesday, state media reported...
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SF Gate
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Nearly 500 Iraqi detainees were released at a ceremony at a sprawling U.S. detention center in western Baghdad early Thursday, where they were urged by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to "start a new life, a different life from months ago."
The ceremony..
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BBC News
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A Moscow court has sentenced serial killer Alexander Pichushkin, known to the Russian media as the "Bittsa maniac", to life imprisonment.
The Russian shop assistant was found guilty of 48 murders, which he once said he recorded on a chessboard.
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BBC News
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Rwanda is the most improved sub-Saharan nation according to a survey looking at performances over the past five years.
The Ibrahim Index, financed by Sudanese mobile phone magnate Mo Ibrahim, names Mauritius as the best-governed and Somalia as the wors..
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Alter Net
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Tony Wheeler traveled to Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan and found that the media's image of the countries has very little to with what daily life is like in those places.
It's been a hectic day for Tony Wheeler. He missed his morning flight from Por..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Like many abused women, Lakeesha Sexton had known for some time that her life was at risk. The last time her estranged husband Kenneth attacked her, his assault began at a petrol station. He bundled her into her car and then forced her to drive to the San..
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CNN
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A Tokyo court on Tuesday acquitted a Japanese real estate developer in the death and dismemberment of a British bar hostess, but convicted him of a series of rapes and sentenced him to life in prison, a news report said.
Joji Obara, 54, was arrested in..
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Washington Post
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This was Tanko Bala's life before the arrival of democracy: He had a steady job at a factory, a predictable supply of electricity in his home and a few of life's indulgences. Milk with his morning tea. Movies in the evenings.
This is his life now: The..
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FOX News
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Thousands of Poles took to Warsaw's streets Wednesday to demand a complete ban on abortion, including in cases of rape or incest.
Two separate marches merged into a demonstration of 4,000 people in front of parliament, where lawmakers were debating ame..
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BBC News
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In the run-up to the EU's 50th birthday a Financial Times poll has found that 44% of Europeans think life has got worse since their country joined.
The FT/Harris online poll surveyed 6,772 adults in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. US citizen..
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BBC News
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Help is at hand for the Amazon rainforest and Brazil's poverty-stricken rural people - courtesy of the country's famous native nut...
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www.aftenposten.no
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Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has turned part of his visit to Afghanistan into a mission to save a goat herder's daughter...
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Guardian Unlimited
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For Zarqa Nawaz, a hijab-wearing Muslim woman living in the Canadian prairies, life in the west has always provided certain conundrums. For example, is a woman obliged to cover herself in the presence of a gay man?..
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ABC News
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Fourteen people who spent nine days on a life raft after their ferry sank in the Java Sea were rescued when a cargo ship saw them frantically waving for help and heard their whistles, officials said Monday...
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