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VIETNAM has banned the advertisement of online games and restricted access after several cases in which young people committed murder or robbery to get money to pay to play. The Ministry of Information and Communications’ […] […]

NEW YORK, USA — Several passengers on the ill-fated American Airlines (AA) plane that crashed in Kingston last December have filed legal claims against the airline, AA officials confirmed yesterday. A total of 92 of […] […]

CAIRO—Amnesty International accused Iran of harassing the lawyer of a woman sentenced to death by stoning, saying Wednesday that he has gone missing and two of his relatives have been detained. A blog maintained by […] […]

The sheriff of Arizona’s most populous county is making room in a vast outdoor jail and determined to round up illegal immigrants to fill it. Police from the United States-Mexico border to the Grand Canyon […] […]

INMATES at the U.S. jail where Lindsay Lohan is serving a 90-day sentence reportedly chanted threats and hammered on their cells in protest at “preferential treatment” the Hollywood star receives from guards. British newspaper the […] […]

WASHINGTON—Dismayed by the massive war-documents leak, intelligence experts are raising alarms that post-Sept. 11 changes promoting information sharing have made it too easy to lose control of the nation’s secrets. Some intelligence veterans say it’s […] […]

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 […] […]

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 […] […]

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 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 […] […]