... was abducted at a government checkpoint and held for days while officials bound, beat, poured alcohol in her eyes, and gang raped her repeatedly. The accused men plan to sue her, according to government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim (The Huffington Post). Al-Obeidy fled from Libya into Tunisia aided by a defecting military officer and his family. Apparently, she left in a military car ... was awaiting resettlement as a refugee, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees was busily preparing papers for her departure. During this time, Qatari authorities took her and her parents fro...

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The Occupy movement that began months ago in New York and has since grasped hold of the rest of the country turned violent for the first time on November 2nd in Oakland when a small group of protestors smashed the windows of a Wells Fargo bank branch during a protest of wealth inequalities. The Occupy Oakland movement scheduled a noon rally in front of City Hall and then a free lunch afterward. The day's events were planned to wrap up with a "general strike mass convergence, rally, and labor cookout." Each of these were intended to be peaceful protests, but a small faction began passing out fl...

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To add to the growing tension between Iran and the United States, members of the Iranian Parliament's human rights committee have taken a strong, public stand against the planned execution of a woman in Virginia. According to a British newspaper, "the parliamentary human rights committee said her case reflected ...

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A landlord of a Philadelphian apartment discovered four mentally handicapped people chained in the basement when he went to investigate a short circuit on October 15th. Turgut Gozleveli discovered dogs locked inside of the boiler room and four adults hiding underneath a blanket. They were hunched together in a space not tall enough for an adult to stand, surrounded in human waste with only a jug of orange juice (Hoye). He unchained them while asking questions about their identity, but he didn't receive any answers. Believing them to be illegal immigrants, Gosleveli called in the police who qui...

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Believing himself to be a victim of a smear campaign, presidential candidate Herman Cain suddenly recalled the financial settlement he was a part of years before. In the late 1990's, as the head of the National Restaurant Association, Cain battled two sexual harassment claims involving two different women, although he later remembered the first accusation and denies remembering the second accusation altogether (Oliphant). "My general counsel said this started out ... ," Cain told Fox News (Grinberg). Cain told Politico that he did not recall such an instance, but when pressed later by radio ho...

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... history-making moments. Voting turnouts broke some records, and with the election of Senator Barack Obama, the United States allowed a new era of American politics to be ushered in. And the way it all happened was revolutionary, too. The Internet has, it seems, forever changed the way Americans experience their political lives. The Internet has infiltrated our everyday lives in countless ways: We ... online, and we form social relationships online. And, in the presidential race of 2008, Americans got political online. The Internet gave voters a new, direct link to their candidates. News g...

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The United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women recently awarded $10 million in grants to 13 initiatives in 18 countries. The UN Trust Fund, which is managed by the United Nations Development Fund for Women, or UNIFEM, was established in 1996 by the United Nations, and still remains the only multilateral grant-making mechanism solely devoted to supporting local and national efforts to end violence against women and girls. Its recent grant completed the UN Trust Fund's 14th grant-making cycle of 2009, which awarded a total of $20.5 million to 26 projects ...

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... and call it transportation in a world full of cars and freeways, you do him no favors. This is the sort of thinking that is killing analog television. The effects of the full switchover to digital television broadcasts are likely to be as catastrophic as the Y2K phenomenon proved to be - it's a lot of hoopla over a bang that will likely be less than a fizzle. That's likely what lawmakers ... had in mind when they enacted the law that requires television stations to make the switch which has been rescheduled for June 12, 2009. While certainly 6.5 million households that now receive signa...

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... her with her campaign for the law. Payne was later informed that her name appeared on Glen Mulcaire's list, the private investigator hired by The News of the World. The list contained about 4,000 people rumored to be targets of the tabloid's phone scandal (Somaiya). "The last edition of The News of the World made great play of the paper's relationship with the Payne family," said Tom ... Watson, a parliament member who investigated the phone scandal. "I have nothing but contempt for the people that did ... The News of the World did, in fact, give Payne a cell phone "for the last 11 years...

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... (Barstow). One thing most of the Tea Partiers do have in common though is the fact that most had previously been uninvolved in politics. Not until the recession hit did many of them feel the need to contribute their input. After seeing the jobs lost, the homes foreclosed, and the retirement funds depleted, they felt an increasing need to know the root cause and who to blame for it. Many believe ... that their constitutional rights are being ignored by government (Barstow). However, for the majority of the Tea Partiers, neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have run government proper...

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... and many have lost their homes or are in danger of losing their homes, it seems that the bulk of Americans are more plagued by the promise of woe than the reality thereof. Internationally, the economic news for the travel industry is even better. 43 percent of international respondents to the same survey stated that they saw economic conditions as "terrible" and of those, only 15% ... have cancelled or delayed travel plans as the result of a sluggish or receding economy. In a time when gas ... beleaguered travel industry is set on surviving without a government bailout. While this is go...

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... troops had slowly been building a huge presence in the region. On August 8, in response to air raids on South Ossetia by Georgia that killed hundreds of civilians, Russia marched full force into South Ossetia and not only chased the Georgian troops out of the state, but also invaded Georgia and embarked on a bitter four-day killing spree that included air raids and bombings and ... displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians while raising civilian death and injury tolls into the thousands. The cause of the conflict goes back to the fall of the former Soviet Union, the division of states...

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... emergency meeting scheduled for January to advise women about the serious side effects. "We are going to be re-evaluating W.H.O.'s clinical recommendations on contraceptive use," said Mary Lyn Gaffeld, an epidemiologist at the organization's department of reproductive health and research. She described the contraceptive as "something that a woman can do privately herself and it doesn't need to be remembered to be taken every day. It's also a relatively inexpensive ... method" (Belluck). "Recommendations regarding contraceptive use, particularly emphasizing the importance of dual protect...

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... , most consumers did not pay the sales tax, prompting many supporters of the legislation to argue that Amazon and other online retailers have the upper hand because their prices will always be lower (Hull). "In California, out-of-state online retailers basically had a 10 percent price advantage every day of the year," said Bill Dombrowski, a spokesman for the California Retailers Association, which backed the legislation. "This is nothing ... more than some companies trying to get a competitive advantage through a tax loophole, and now we have closed it" (Hull). Dombrowski hopes that Cal...

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... immediate help (Rooney). Lagarde is already involved in these affairs. While in Paris, she advised the Greek government to come to terms with the political differences that exist and approve the austerity measures that are currently preventing the country from receiving their next installment loans from the IMF and EU. Additionally, she lectured Greece's creditors, which consist mostly of French and German ... banks, on their ability to compromise (Rooney) "It must be done in a concerted, collective way," she said. "All the lenders must come to the bedside of Greece and Greece must itse...

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... networking service called the Google+ project. The project looks conspicuously a lot like Facebook, but Google insists its added some tweeks that will hopefully prove this new initiative to be successful (Miller). The Google+ project that launched on June 28th is only available to a select group of Google users who will test the product and then invite others to join. Like Facebook, the social networking site ... allows people to share and discuss status updates, photos and links. The major difference is that the Google+ project is meant for ... as colleagues, roommates, or running bud...

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... by 2013. Although India is experiencing record-breaking numbers, many residents are still skeptical of the goal. Improvements have been seen in the past, but polio always seems to resurge. The real test will be after the July-September monsoon season, when the virus flares due to water-borne transmission. Additionally, nations are only considered polio-free after three consecutive years without an ... outbreak, and new epidemics can take hold quickly (Magnier). Not everyone is in favor of the measures the Indian government is taking to eradicate polio. Many critics argue that the money ...

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... -moon appoint an envoy "to consult on urgent measures" to settle the crisis peacefully. Diplomats from the emergency session said that China objected to the North being singled out for criticism over the two deadly attacks, including the one on Yeonpyeong (Lederer). Tensions continue to rise as South Korea's military plans to conduct live-fire drills for an entire day on the island of Yeonpyeong, the same island that the North attacked last month ... as the South conducted a similar exercise ... ...

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... a 15-hour fire consisting of 100-foot flames (Uncoverage). China's crisis is one of a lesser degree than the crisis in the Gulf, according to the Associated Press, who reported that the spill had only spread over 165 square miles, just a small area compared to the 2,700 square miles covered by BP's oil spill (Adams). MSNBC.com further reported that China's spill released approximately ... 400,000 gallons of oil as compared to the 94 million to 184 million gallons now polluting the Gulf, although The Huffington Post believes the damage is dramatically underestimated. They estimate that th...

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... into a proposal that excludes abortion from the coverage. Then the argument will shift to women's rights. The infuriating thing about this reactionary sort of approach to lawmaking is that the rhetoric will completely negate the fact that the lawmakers in both cases will agree personally with 99% of the proposed bill, and given the freedom to act without the threat of losing their job, most ... Germany is heard by millions instead of dozens. 2) The result of lawmakers bowing to the sentiments of their single issue constituents is that the healthcare reform bill that is passed will be a ...

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... fashion he wants. Absolute majority of these programs comes free of charge, but without support from the vendors. The open-source software has recently gained popularity in governmental and commercial sector, especially in some European countries. Apart from the obvious advantage it has over the programs you need to pay for - that it comes free of charge, open-source software has other good sides as ... sometimes cannot save files in some formats so your partners and friends may have problems opening the files you send them) and in some cases the alternative is much, much weaker than th...

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... a single parent with one child and $50,000 in income, $1200 for joint filers with two children and $60,000 in income, or the $2400 rebate amount mentioned above. In addition, after lobbying by groups supporting senior citizens, social security payments were added to the "eligible" income, so most seniors on fixed incomes who filed a tax return and did not owe tax over ... the amount of the rebate have or will receive a check from the federal government. The rebate checks are distributed to citizens in hopes that they will spend them on goods and services and keep ... up on credit or mo...

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... provide detailed information about the nature, cost, and objectives of the American contribution to the NATO operation within 14 days. It also requests an explanation for why the White House did not come to Congress for permission for the air offensive in Libya, a step that the White House was required to take. The administration replied that early in the conflict Obama possessed the power to initiate American participation in the hostilities without Congressional approval ... because the combat was of limited ... ...

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... Hollywood director of "Million Dollar Baby" and "Crash," left the church after 35 years of membership. He composed his resignation to the chief spokesman for the Church of Scientology International, Tommy Davis. Haggis became disenchanted with the church ten months prior to his resignation after a member of the Church of Scientology of San Diego signed an online petition supporting ... where they encouraged members to sever ties with friends and family who did not agree with the church (Lengel). The article in The New Yorker also claimed that some church members who "failed to fulfill t...

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... data in that many prisoners have minor children, who very rarely get to interact with their parents. It is reported in 2007 that there were roughly 1,706,600 minor children in the U. S. living without a parent due to the parent's prison stay. The statistics, also include (from surveys) information on the amount of time these children are in contact with their incarcerated parent, ... sources of financial contributions to the children's households, caregiver information for the children and more. This type of data can help in ... reducing risk of recidivism due to the desire of incarcera...

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