September, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

Violence erupts as Afghanistan votes

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INSURGENTS launched a rocket attack in Kabul today as Afghanistan votes, after the Taliban threatened violence. The election is the latest step in a US-led process to bring democracy to the impoverished and deeply conservative […] […]

After 20 years, former priest abuser Peter Chalk is revealed

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FOR more than 15 years, former Catholic priest Peter Chalk had been living a quiet life in a secluded Japanese village in the shadows of Mount Fuji. Although fluent in Japanese, Chalk largely kept to […] […]

Baby clings to life as babysitter sought

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A baby boy lay clinging to life in hospital Thursday as police stepped up the hunt for his babysitter. Homicide investigators have taken over the case, police said. They are looking for Ronnie Munoz-Hernandez, 21, […] […]

U.K. author chronicles her yearlong sex diet

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Hephzibah Anderson went on a sex diet for one year and lived to write about it. In her twenties British journalist Hephzibah Anderson had lots of sex without love. Then she turned 30 and tried […] […]

Men arrested for alleged threat against pope during U.K. visit

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LONDON—British police staged a pre-dawn raid at a London garbage depot Friday, arresting five street cleaners in a suspected terrorist plot against Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of his state visit to Britain. […] […]

Michael Moore calls Canada ‘shameful’ on U.S. war dodgers

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Renowned left-wing American documentary maker Michael Moore on Thursday blasted Canada’s position on U.S. war dodgers as shameful. Speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival, Moore said Ottawa’s refusal to allow U.S. soldiers opposed to […] […]