... Ali Abdullah Saleh broke down on May 30th. The agreement came into place after 115 people were killed as a result of a vicious battle between the two sides that used machine guns, mortars, and rocket propelled grenades to abolish the other side in Sanaa (Sudam). Sanaa residents heard heavy explosions and sporadic gunfire early in the morning, although they were unsure what caused the noises. The noises were reportedly coming from the ... Hasabah neighborhood, home to Sheikh Sadeq al-Ahmar, leader of the al-Hashid tribe whose forces oppose the government. The previous day security forces...

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... payment. During this, he developed a relationship with Officer William Masso, who proposed that the two work together to illegally obtain and sell contraband in the form of cigarettes. From there, a yearlong undercover operation began that wiretapped the phones of Officer Masso and the Sanitation Department officer. In October of 2010, Officer Masso's illegal operation began slowly with carting cigarettes into New York. ... into selling stolen or counterfeit goods such as slot machines, clothing, handbags, and firearms. After investigating, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and additio...

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... needed medical attention - a fact that prosecutors are calling an attempt at a cover-up (Los Angeles Times). Jackson's security guard, Alberto Alvarez, took the stand against Murray, claiming that when he walked in the room, he saw Jackson's lifeless body on the floor and Murray acting incompetent. Murray made a half-hearted attempt at CPR, according to Alvarez, who reported that Murray was using one hand ... sporadically while Jackson was lying on his mattress, a soft surface. Murray then asked, "Does anybody know CPR?" although he was the doctor on hand. Murray then calmly told Alvare...

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... with 502 more missing. However, The Associated Press believed the death count to be 113 (MSNBC.com). Although there remains to be a discrepancy between the exact death count, this is typical in the recent aftermath of a disaster. The tsunami left a tragic scene in its wake. Few search-and-rescuers were able to get to the islands, leaving only fishermen to deal with the dead and search for the living. According to Edison Salelo ... Baja, the Mentawai district chief, corpses were strewn about because there were ... ...

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Argentine President Cristina Kirchner was recently in America this week for the UN General Assembly being held in New York City. The problem with this is, that puts her right in the fire, so to speak. She and her country have defaulted on billions in debt owed to U.S. creditors. President Kirchner has repeatedly ignored the U.S. federal court system and supposedly removed any of her country's assets to outside the U.S. and away from collectors. With her being in New York this week for the UN talks, U.S. bondholders' have become more upset due this obvious slap in the face to the U.S. Justice s...

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... begin the medication in addition to the 66,000 New Yorkers who already take the pills (The Washington Post). "The New York City health department is a little bit ahead of the curve," said Dr. Michael Saag, who previously served as the chairman of the HIV Medicine Association. "In my opinion, the rest of the country will follow, and I think it will be pretty quick" (The Washington Post). Saag described the current screening for HIV, which uses a CD4 count ... to measure the strength of the immune system, as an ... ...

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... Echols, Jessie Misskelley, Jr., and Jason Baldwin were released from prison, where they were currently serving out their sentences for the murder of three second-graders in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Steven Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore were found dead in a ditch with their bodies mutilated and hog-tied by their own shoestrings. Police immediately suspected Echols, Misskelley, and Baldwin, ... claiming that they were driven by satanic ritual, regardless of the extreme lack of evidence that they had to indict the boys. Echols and Baldwin entered an Alford plea on three...

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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 where (an ... told Fox News (Grinberg). Cain told Politico that he did not recall such an instance, but when pressed later by radi...

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... the 57 million barrels of confirmed oil there and the 72 trillion cubic feet of natural gas we would have enough fuel to keep the country going for count them folks 2 days! Another article in the USA Today by Rick Jervis, William M. Welch, and Richard Wolf discusses the possibility of 18 billion barrels of oil off the coasts of the United States including protected areas in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Santa Barbara. With the addition of ... these 18 billion barrels of fuel the country could keep running for another I love ... ...

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... allows users to essentially create their own radio stations. Surfing the stations for a good song just went out of style. Can't live without Facebook or Flickr? The iPhone caters to all you social butterflies, too. These social media sources and others are available right in the palm of your hand, so you can take your network of friends, family and colleagues right along with you. And ... you thought having a laptop made your life mobile! The iPhone has made the globe just a little bit smaller, too. In a successful effort to keep pace with the "trend to optimize geographic locations for ...

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... attorneys are pressing for a life sentence without parole because of Sowell's mental instability. However, experts believe that it will be difficult for the jury to sympathize with Sowell because of his standoff attitude during the trial. While the jury was plagued with pictures of the dead bodies bruised and battered and then dumped around the house and yard in trash bags. Mary Myers, a psychologist, retired police ... captain, and teacher at the University of Akron, believes that the jurors will not "buy that he ... exactly what he was doing, just like he sat there in that courtroom a...

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... victims. "One of the suicide attackers told us on the phone that they are in the lobby and chasing guests into their rooms by smashing the doors of the rooms and he added that they have killed about 50 guests of this hotel," Mujahid told CNN in an email. Chief of Criminal Investigation Mohammad Zahir reported that eight civilians had been killed and six were injured at the last count (CNN). The hotel is ... extremely popular among international guests, and a news conference was scheduled to take place there on Wednesday to discuss the transfer of security from international forces back ...

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... red sludge, Zoltan Bakonyi, is being questioned on the suspicion of public endangerment causing multiple deaths and environmental damage (Yahoo! News). The sludge burst from its reservoir last week, killing eight people. The European Union and environmental groups are worried that the sludge could spread down the Danube River, resulting in long-term consequences for many nations. Emergency workers are currently trying to build temporary barriers to ... slow down the sludge before it reaches the Danube River. They will then scoop out as much as possible. The idea is that the sludge will ...

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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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... said Judge Colleen McMahon after a three-hour hearing in a Manhattan federal court. "The government came upon a man incapable of committing an act of terrorism on his own. I have never heard anything like the facts of this case" (Messana). The men planned to plant the IEDs near two synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. They also planned to shoot down military aircraft ... of people" (Messana). The FBI specifically used a Stinger missile in the plot because it carried a minimum 25 years in prison. The defendants' lawyers are using this fact to appeal the sentence (Hays). In ...

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... with less competition for market share, will also have to face laying off more and more of their employees the longer the recession continues. As 2009 begins to unfold, the retail industry could see a dramatic decrease in its workforce. Starting with part-time workers and trickling down to those in full-time employment, the risk of losing one`s job will be a very real threat to more and more ... go shopping again, could easily run up a considerable amount of debt, having the opposite effect on the economy than that which is desired. The holiday season may be over, but our collective mon...

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... a $5 monthly fee on Thursday, September 29th, Bank of America has received great backlash from the angered customers. In fact, Bank of America, which is the largest bank in America by deposits, saw its stock plummet 2 percent on Friday morning, adding to the 56 percent decrease the bank's stock has experienced this year. Shares are down 44 percent for the quarter. Additionally, the bank faces multibillion-dollar lawsuits and financial losses ... from its questionable mortgage practices during the housing boom (Halzack ... ...

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... Bryan Almonte, all 17; and Brian Cepeda, 16. They were arraigned on hate crime charges. They were seen in the courtroom with their heads down as their relatives wept. The charges they face include robbery, assault, sexual abuse, and unlawful imprisonment as hate crimes. None of the eight entered a plea. Peitars and Caraballo were granted bail at $100,000 bond or $50,000 cash while ... attorneys, Paul Horowitz and Fred Bittlingmeyer, represented all eight suspects at the hearing, although they do not expect to represent all eight during the entire process (The Berkshire Eagle). A ninth s...

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... voice to raise a stink. Their sets will merely become trash. One overall affect, then of the decision to do away with analog television for the United States is that landfills will pick up about 6 million energy hogging televisions and over the course of a few years, electronic sellers will benefit from a boom in the sales of converter boxes and new televisions. Television is a privilege, not a right. Change is coming ... , and as the car replaced the horse, and faster cars replaced the model T, change is on the horizon for television. Its affect will make TV better. Information will tra...

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... 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 bank online, we shop online, we work 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 giant CNN and pop-culture porta...

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... already hooked with heroin and their lives are ruined. History of Heroin The heroin comes from morphine which is a natural substance extracted from seedpod of opium poppy. The opium poppy was discovered and cultivated in Mesopotamia about 3400BC. It was until the 19th century that the chemical analysis of opium was revealed. Most of its content could be ascribed to two ingredients, codeine and ... morphine. An English chemist named C.R. Alder Wright was the first person who processed the heroin in 1874. He made an ... heroic". Bayer introduced heroin to the market to cure morphine addict...

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... are being forced to filter pollen heavy air as well. Perhaps it's no wonder that 250,000 asthma related deaths are reported to the World Health Organization each year. Urbanization is another culprit of the pollen flood. The baking effect of the concrete used in many urban areas causes increased temperatures and creates a haven for ragweed. Reports show that pollen seasons are growing longer and more intense ... every year. What relief can we give our children as they struggle to take in air and grow? Until science finds a way to reduce the CO2 levels in the air not much ... and I litera...

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... should increase routine testing in the U.S. for chronic hepatitis B. Hepatitis B is a main cause of liver cancer and disease. The recommendation suggests that testing be done on all persons born in Africa and Asia and that it also be done on others in the at-risk population, such as men who have sex with men and injection drug users. The recommendations sent out by the CDC, for the first time, come ... with guidelines for managing chronically infected patients of hepatitis B. "Chronic hepatitis B affects the lives of more than one million Americans, many ... of whom do not even know th...

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... until he goes," said Mohammed Mahmoud, a protestor in the city's main Tahrir Square. Although tanks were deployed to Tahrir Square, no reports have surfaced about clashes between the army and the protestors. In fact, many feel as though the army is siding with them. One army captain joined the demonstrators, who hoisted him up on their shoulders while the captain ripped a picture of the president. "We don't want him! We ... armored personnel carriers have only been able to protect key government buildings as well as major tourist and archaeological sites, including the Egyptian Museum w...

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... girlfriend. "I love you," he told her. "By the time you get this, I will be gone" (Bailey). The Department of Defense has yet to confirm his death because of a policy of a 72-hour waiting period after notifying family members (Grondahl). Jones' death falls close to the one-year anniversary of the death of Staff Sergeant Amy Seyboth Tirador. Tirador was shot in the back of the head while walking to her evening shift on ... a US military base Camp Caldwell. After investigating, the Army closed the case as a suicide, although her mother is still working hard to challenge this. "I'd gently ...

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