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Vietnam, US still in conflict over Agent Orange

23rd May 2010 sandrea 0

CAM TUYEN, Vietnam—Her children are 21 and 16 years old, but they still cry through the night, tossing and turning in pain, sucking their thumbs for comfort. Tran Thi Gai, who rarely gets any sleep […] […]

School Board Member Gets 17 Years for Sex with Child

23rd May 2010 sandrea 0

The girl was reportedly one of Martin’s wife’s relatives. OXNARD — A Ventura County school district board member was sentenced to 17 years in prison for molesting a girl for five years and fathering her […] […]

Couple sought after dead child found in empty home

23rd May 2010 sandrea 0

MONUMENT, Colo.—Colorado authorities have been dispatched to California and New Jersey to search for a couple they want to question about the death of a young girl found in the basement crawl space of an […] […]

Mexico searching for TV producer in wife’s death

23rd May 2010 sandrea 0

CANCUN, Mexico—Mexican investigators say they can’t locate a former “Survivor” producer to question him about the death of his wife in this Caribbean resort city. Bruce Beresford-Redman hasn’t been charged in the case, but his […] […]

Hundreds of people take part in walk for poor

23rd May 2010 sandrea 0

OAKLAND, Calif.—The walkways around Oakland’s Lake Merritt were busy as hundreds of people took part in the fifth annual “Walk to End Poverty.” Organizers say about 500 people joined in the 3.5 mile walk around […] […]

Slum standoff in Jamaica over don’s US extradition

22nd May 2010 sandrea 0

KINGSTON, Jamaica—In a gritty slum, they are preparing for war. They are building barricades of junked cars and sandbags, making Molotov cocktails and pitching barbed wire over power lines. They are waiting for the police, […] […]

First female priest ordained in Italy

22nd May 2010 sandrea 0

TALY’S first woman priest was ordained today at a church in central Rome, a stone’s throw from the Vatican, a fierce opponent of women entering the priesthood. Maria Vittoria Longhitano, who is 35 and married, […] […]

Change our attitudes or we won’t win the war on drugs

22nd May 2010 sandrea 0

By Sandrea The war on drugs can never be won so long as the rewards for cultivating, supplying and dealing drugs are so high. When one look at the amount of monetary gains that has […] […]

Drug war has failed on every front

22nd May 2010 sandrea 0

The US is thinking about dealing with drug abuse as a medical issue, says Martha Mendoza After 40 years, the United States’ war on drugs has cost US$1 trillion ($1.5 trillion) and hundreds of thousands […] […]

Madonna condemns Malawi over jailing of gay couple

22nd May 2010 sandrea 0

POP superstar Madonna said yesterday she was “shocked” at the 14-year jail sentencing of a Malawian gay couple for sodomy, after they held the African country’s first same-sex wedding. Madonna, who has adopted two children […] […]