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Rafael with his tragic family, wife Dayana, son Filipe (left) and Thais (right)
CANADA - British Colombia
Mystery surrounds Manitoba's sale of $1.2 million in guns to Saudi Arabia
Monday July 3, 2009:
WINNIPEG — Manitoba exported a cache of guns worth $1.2 million to Saudi Arabia last year, but the federal government won't say who sold them, who bought them, or what they were used for.
ENGLAND - London
Tower Block Inferno: Tragic Family Picture
Sunday July 5, 2009:
A father has told of his devastation after his wife and two children were killed in the Camberwell tower block inferno in London.
ZAMBOANGA CITY: At least five people were killed and about three dozens wounded in a bomb attack Sunday near a Catholic church in Cotabato City in the southern Philippines.
GERMANY
Hamburg street festival ends with riot
Sunday July 5, 2009:
Anarchists from Hamburg’s autonomous scene battled police for six hours late Saturday and early Sunday in the trendy Schanzenviertel neighbourhood after a street fair. At least 67 rioters were arrested and 27 police officers injured.
There is currently a controversy raging in Malaysia. This particular controversy involves a mysterious and anonymous website that suddenly appeared accusing two DAP Selangor leaders and EXCO members of having links with the Chinese underworld. This website also insinuates that these two are behind the death of Teoh who was thrown off the MACC headquarters in Shah Alam.
The Prime Minister accuses the social-democrats of moving away from the ruling coalition’s protocol and criticizes Mircea Geoana for not attending coalition sessions. Social Democrat spokesperson denies the accusations, says ‘no Boc cabinet anymore’ if coalition splits.
In what was the first tough attack on their Social-Democrat partners in the ruling coalition so far, the Democrat-Liberals, through party leader and Prime Minister Emil Boc, yesterday accused PSD of having moved away from the coalition’s priorities.
USA - Boston
Two held in fatal shooting at store
Friday July 17, 2009:
Two men were arrested yesterday and charged in the killing of a 32-year-old man who attempted to stop an armed robbery in a New Bedford convenience store last month, allowing the city some comfort after a month of unease, according to the Bristol district attorney’s office and city officials.
A Hamilton man has gone on trial, accused of 14 rapes against female members of his family.
PAKISTAN
Wanted gangster 'Dakait' killed in police encounter
Tuesday August 11, 2009:
ISLAMABAD: Sporadic firing erupted amid high tension in Karachi's Layari area after the most wanted gangster, Rehman Dakait, was killed along with three of his accomplices in an encounter with police on Sunday night.
Values of Zik, Awo, Balewa died with them, says Bolarinwa, Rep.
Thursday August 13, 2009:
Corruption has been described as the undoing of many public office holders in the country and as such, has plunged the country into the quagmire of incessant economic crisis. Hon Bashir Bolarinwa of the House of Representatives gave this verdict in this interview.
AFTERMATH: Police inspect a bobcat used in a destructive overnight rampage.
Suaad Hagi Mohamud, seen July 24 in Kenya, was detained at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on May 21.
AUSTRALIA - Perth
Man destroys neighbour's house in wild bobcat rampage
Tuesday August 11, 2009:
A MAN angry about an ongoing neighbours' dispute went on a rampage with a bobcat, badly damaging a house and ending with serious burns.
CANADA
Passport for Canadian stuck in Nairobi
Tuesday August 11, 2009:
Suaad Hagi Mohamud coming home after DNA test reveals she is who she says she is: a Canadian.
Nearly three months after Canadian officials in Africa dismissed her as an "imposter" and stopped her from returning to her 12-year-old son in Toronto, Suaad Hagi Mohamud is coming home.
A murder investigation has begun after a nine-year-old girl was found strangled in a lorry cab and a man was discovered hanged nearby shortly afterwards.
GERMANY - Munich
Two teens arrested for beating man to death
Monday September 14, 2009:
Two German teenagers arrested after beating a 50-year-old man to death at a regional express train station in Munich are likely to be charged with attempted murder and could face long jail sentences, police said on Sunday.
On August 11, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Usackas called in Ambassador of the Russian Federation Vladimir Chkhikvadze and requested him to provide explanations concerning the discriminatory measures that are applied to the Lithuanian road carriers.
It was supposed to have been Annie Le’s wedding night. But hours after the missing Yale graduate student was to have been married, investigators found a body stuffed inside a wall of the lab building where she was last seen alive on Tuesday.
Rescue workers survey the wreckage after a car was crushed between two 18-wheelers on Highway 20 east in Montreal on Sept. 11, 2009. The driver of the car miraculously suffered only minor injuries in the crash.
CANADA - Montreal
Miracle man escapes Hwy. 20 crash
Friday September 11, 2009:
Montreal driver walks away from car wreck with only a few scrapes and a broken arm.
With traffic backed up for several kilometres, a Montreal police officer was directing cars off the eastbound Highway 20 at Angrignon Blvd. early Friday afternoon.
USA - Washington
Obama extends embargo against Cuba
Monday September 15, 2009:
United States President Barack Obama yesterday extended the US trade and economic embargo against Cuba for another year.
AS MULTIPLE bushfires continue to burn across Queensland, a paraglider has sparked a grass fire on the Gold Coast.
The paraglider clipped power lines at Beechmont in the Gold Coast hinterland about 10.30am (AEST) on Sunday, but the pilot escaped injury.
GERMANY
Giants rekindle the magic of German reunification
Sunday October 4, 2009:
David Wroe and photographer Penny Bradfield take in the spectacle of giant marionettes walking the streets of Berlin to celebrate German reunification this weekend.
USVI Delegate to Congress Donna Christensen
US VIRGIN ISLANDS
USVI needs in play as health care debate in Congress continues
Tuesday September 22, 2009:
Delegate to Congress Donna Christensen said on Monday that the health care needs of the US territories, and of most concern to her, the needs of the US Virgin Islands are definitely a part of the health care debate currently going on in the Congress.
Obama has called for a reduction in the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons
Typhoon Parma moving away
OSLO
US President Barack Obama says he is humbled to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Friday October 9, 2009:
The Norwegian Nobel Committee made the award despite the president being in office for less than a year.
The announcement drew audible gasps from some onlookers in Oslo.
TAIWAN
One death, flooding in Yilan because of Typhoon Parma
Tuesday October 6, 2009:
As Typhoon Parma veers away from Taiwan, it has left one person dead, caused flooding in 30 areas in Yilan County, and forced 6,831 people to be evacuated from their homes as of Monday night, the Central Emergency Operation Center (CEOC) reported Tuesday.
'Blacked Up' Model Lands Vogue In Trouble
Lara Stone Saga
Thursday October 15, 2009:
Top fashion magazine Vogue has been criticised after publishing pictures of a white model painted black.
A Dunedin man, who says he was declined an urgent colonoscopy at Dunedin Hospital, sought treatment privately in another centre and was found to have bowel cancer, is pleased the service is coming under scrutiny.
Racial clash in NYPD: Brass probe tense standoff in which white cop pressed black detectives for ID
Wednesday October 28, 2009:
The NYPD is investigating a confrontation between white uniformed cops and black hate-crime detectives who claim they were racially profiled, the Daily News has learned.
ENGLAND - Kent
Murderer Escapes During Shopping Trip
Saturday November 14, 2009:
Police are appealing for help in tracing a "dangerous" woman murderer who absconded during an escorted shopping trip.(...More...)
Jefferson Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison
Longest Ever Given to A Congressman
Sunday November 15, 2009:
Former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, the first African-American elected to Congress from Louisiana since Reconstruction, was sentenced on Nov. 13 to 13 years in prison on charges of corruption.
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BEIJING
Obama admits Guantanamo won't close by Jan. deadline
Wednesday November 18, 2009:
President Obama directly acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay will not close by the January deadline he set, but he said he hoped to still achieve that goal sometime next year. (...More...)
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