July, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

No charges filed in probe of other Jackson doctors

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LOS ANGELES—State investigators probing the death of Michael Jackson have decided not to file charges against seven doctors who treated him, authorities said Wednesday. The doctors were part of an investigation by state Attorney General […] […]

US att’y general: Probe seeking Afghan leak source

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CAIRO—A Pentagon investigation will determine whether criminal charges will be filed in the leaking of Afghanistan war secrets, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday. Holder, speaking to reporters during a visit to Egypt, said […] […]

Judge’s last-minute ruling guts key parts of Arizona immigration law

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PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona’s immigration law from taking effect, delivering a last-minute victory to opponents of the crackdown. The overall law will still take […] […]

Lying for sex—old sin means jail time in Israel

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JERUSALEM—Lying for sex. It happens all the time. Yet a married Palestinian man has been ordered jailed for 18 months for having sex with an Israeli woman after giving her the impression he too was […] […]

Senators grill Google, Facebook, Apple over privacy policies

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WASHINGTON — In a sign of Congress’ seriousness in passing legislation to shield consumers’ personal Web browsing history and other online information from misuse, members of a key Senate committee on Tuesday questioned representatives of […] […]

Pope’s book on Jesus ‘edited out’ women

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THE Pope is at the centre of a new controversy after church campaigners accused him of demeaning the role of women in Jesus’s life in a children’s book, The Friends of Jesus. Pope Benedict XVI […] […]

Germany charges former Nazi guard in death camp murders

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GERMAN prosecutors have charged a 90-year-old former Nazi death camp guard with helping to murder 430,000 Jews in World War II. Samuel Kunz, who confessed to working at the Belzec extermination camp in German-occupied Poland […] […]

France vows to tear down gypsy camps

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FRANCE vowed on Wednesday to tear down illegal Gypsy camps and expel Gypsies from other EU states who break the law, after President Nicolas Sarkozy said the minority posed security “problems”. The announcement followed crisis […] […]

Kenyan gets 14 years for sex with donkey

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A KENYAN court has sentenced a 30-year-old man to 14 years in jail for having sex with a donkey. Stephen Kipkemoi Rono was convicted after pleading guilty before a court in the southern town of […] […]

Can cancers be prevented?

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Scientists recognise that many cancers can be prevented by modifying what people eat and their level of physical activity. To this end, the World Cancer Report Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research produced […] […]