Tag: world
member name: Savo Heleta
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August 16, 2009 02:58 PM EDT --
Appearing on Bill Maher's show, Brad Pitt said that religion doesn't make sense to him but gay marriage does!
"I grew up in a religious family, in a religious community and it just doesn't make sense . . .
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August 16, 2009 03:53 PM EDT --
Kimani Nganga Maruge, Kenya's and world's oldest primary school pupil, has died at the age of 90.
He held the Guinness World Record for being the oldest person to start primary school at the age . . .
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September 01, 2009 05:13 AM EDT --
"It’s not everywhere that you can shop for milk at 10 am next to a 400lb mother of 6 wearing a pink tube top, leopard tights, and hooker heels."
Probably only at Walmart!
Peopleofwalmart.com . . .
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August 09, 2009 10:52 AM EDT --
George Vera, an obese prisoner in Texas , has been charged with illegal possession of a firearm in prison after the authorities discovered a gun between his rolls of fat.
A police spokesman told the . . .
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September 08, 2009 04:36 AM EDT --
As the police and media report in Jingdezhen, China, a customer at a local Walmart was allegedly beaten to death by the store employees after suspecting her of stealing.
The France 24 reports that . . .
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June 09, 2009 05:02 AM EDT --
This question is posed by Senator James Webb, Democrat from Virginia.
The United States, according to Webb , "with 5 percent of the world's population, houses nearly 25 percent of the world's prisoners." . . .
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August 02, 2009 06:13 AM EDT --
No, this is not a story from the 1960s.
Two black employees at a Philadelphia waste transfer plant have recently filed a complaint against the city for racial discrimination, writes CNN.
Among . . .
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August 02, 2009 06:47 AM EDT --
Ryanair, European low-cost airline, plans to charge its passengers for toilet use in an attempt to cut the costs and increase profits, writes the New York Times.
This move, predicts Michael O'Leary, . . .
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August 02, 2009 07:54 AM EDT --
Wisconsin jury has found Dale Neumann "guilty of killing his sick 11-year-old daughter by praying for her recovery rather than seeking medical care," writes BBC.
Neumann told a court he "believed . . .
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August 10, 2009 02:05 PM EDT --
When the police discovered over 1,000 child pornography photos on Keith Griffin's home computer, he told them it wasn't him who downloaded the photos.
Instead, it was his cat's fault the illicit . . .
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August 27, 2009 10:58 AM EDT --
U.S. Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins, Republican from Kansas, "told a recent gathering in northeast Kansas that the Republican Party is looking for a 'great white hope' to help stop the political agenda . . .
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September 03, 2009 04:59 AM EDT --
Sonya Matthews and her two-year-old daughter Paige were shopping at a local Walmart in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Paige wasn't in good mood so she cried.
Roger Stephens, 61, was shopping at the same . . .
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September 05, 2009 03:12 AM EDT --
The readers of Ship of Fools , a British "magazine of Christian unrest," have debated for some time about the worst Bible verses that seem to approve brutality, murder, slavery, genocide, and sexism. . . .
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October 04, 2009 02:42 PM EDT --
Greetings from Juba and South Sudan!
I arrived in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on Saturday, October 3, and will stay here for seven days.
Since March 2009, I'm working on South Sudan Executive . . .
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January 13, 2008 02:16 PM EST --
By Savo Heleta
Published in Sudan Tribune on January 13, 2008
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article25558
What is wrong with Africa? Why is the largest number of failed . . .
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November 13, 2008 05:02 AM EST --
Saudi Arabia is a country that uses special police force , called the "Society for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice," to make sure that only "one narrow sect of Islam . . .
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June 24, 2009 07:26 AM EDT --
According to the American National Prison Rape Elimination Commission , about 60,000 inmates are raped and sexually abused each year in the United States.
The commission quotes a 2007 study by the . . .
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June 25, 2009 09:16 AM EDT --
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released the World Drug Report 2009 on June 24 2009.
The report shows that "global markets for cocaine, opiates, and cannabis are steady or in decline, while . . .
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June 25, 2009 09:54 AM EDT --
Last night's 2-0 victory over the European champions Spain is seen as the greatest win for the United States soccer team since they beat England 1-0 in the 1950 World Cup .
At the same time, this is . . .
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July 12, 2009 06:38 AM EDT --
According to a new study by travel company Expedia, French tourists are considered "the worst in the world."
Expedia asked 4,500 hotels around the world to rank tourists' behavior.
French tourists . . .
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