TIJUANA, Mexico – Police have found nine more bodies dumped around the Mexican border city of Tijuana, where nearly 50 people have been killed in a week of violence related to the drug trade. Municipal police found five of the bodies Saturday between two small shopping centers in the eastern …
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A plane forced to land in Iran after it accidentally entered Iranian airspace was a Hungarian aid plane, and not a U.S. aircraft as originally reported Tuesday by a state news agency, FOX News confirmed. The semi-official Fars news agency in Iran reported Tuesday that a U.S. Military plane with …
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RABAT, Morocco – A criminal court in Morocco convicted a 31-year-old man Thursday of belonging to a terrorist group involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. Prosecutors at the Sale criminal court, which specializes in terrorism cases, had requested that Abdelilah Ahriz …
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SAN FRANCISCO – A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, repeatedly raped and left naked outside an abandoned apartment building, authorities said Monday. Detectives say the 28-year-old victim was attacked Dec. 13 after she got out of her car, …
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Brad Pitt may have dumped Jennifer Aniston for Angelina Jolie and then rubbed it in her face by being photographed with Jolie and their growing family every other day for two years, but, so far at least, Aniston’s movie is whupping Brad’s movie’s butt! Big Hollywood just came out with …
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BAGHDAD – U.S. military deaths in Iraq plunged by two-thirds in 2008 from the previous year, a reflection of the improving security following the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency campaign and Al Qaeda’s slow retreat from the battlefield. By comparison, the war in Afghanistan saw American military deaths rise by 35 percent …
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JERUSALEM – Israel’s top security official warned Sunday that Gaza militants can hit more Israeli cities with longer-range rockets, on a day when rockets exploded in border towns and a coastal city after an Israel-Hamas truce expired. Only one Israeli was lightly wounded in the barrage of 19 rockets and …
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BOISE, Idaho – Less than a month into the football season, the Idaho Vandals are undergoing another makeover after spectators complained that cheerleaders’ uniforms were flashing a little more than school spirit. After the football team dumped the school logo from the buttocks of their new pants, the university in …
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A Florida man and his son were rescued from the Atlantic Ocean Sunday after being swept away by the outgoing tide the night before while swimming near Daytona Beach. Walter Marino, 46, and his son Chris Marino, 12, both from Winter Park, Fla., were found Sunday morning after more than …
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A government agency has dropped plans for a study of a controversial treatment for autism that critics had called an unethical experiment on children. The National Institute of Mental Health said in a statement Wednesday that the study of the treatment — called chelation — has been abandoned. The agency …
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