A Gloucester man and an Ipswich resident, operating a motor boat flying the "skull-and-crossbones" of the pirate ships of old, are facing multiple charges after being arrested in Smith's Cove late Thursday night following an apparent botched robbery of a sailboat. Yarrrr! Hoist the mainsail, matey! We be on the hunt fer treasure tonight!
Okay if I just hoist this bottle of Captain Morgan instead, Captain Blood? And can I put the Sox on the radio?
Gloucester Police Lt. Joseph Aiello said this morning that the robbery was apparently interrupted by the sailboat owner, who had been asleep onboard when Scott D. Stanton of Gloucester and Steven Jette of Ipswich pulled alongside and then came aboard the sailboat, which was at a transient mooring in the Inner Harbor. Aiello said the sailboat owner, now being identified as a Beverly resident, chased away the would-be robbers. He then called the U.S. Coast Guard, which, in turn, called Gloucester police. Get the hell outta here!
Yarrrr! We've been repelled, matey! Back to yon vessel!
According to Aiello, the sailboat owner told police that the would-be robbers' motor boat was flying the pirates' black-and-white flag, adding one of them yelled words to the effect of "Yarrr! Don't come any closer, matey we have a blunderbuss gun, and we'll use it to hole your scurvy hide."
Aiello said police located the motor boat with the use of one or more of the city's homeland security cameras. The Coast Guard also responded and cornered the motor boat coincidentally within Pirates Cove, with Gloucester police responding off Pirates Lane. Muldoon! It's the pirates! Go down to Pirates Lane and block off Pirates Cove!
Smart move, sarge! Hey, can we fire a few rounds across their bow if the Coasties say it's okay?
Aiello said Sgt. Mike Williams led a team of three patrolmen Kevin Mackey, Kevin Muise and Brian Aiello on the Coast Guard boat which cornered the getaway boat in Smith Cove and made the arrests. Okay, show's over, mateys. Let's you and Blackbeard show those hands.
Stanton and Jette were arraigned in Gloucester District Court and entered not-guilty pleas on the charges against them this morning. Stanton is being held on without bail, pending a hearing in Salem court Monday morning He is charged with breaking and entering in the night time with the intent to commit a felony, threatening to commit a crime and intimidating a witness; Jette is charged with breaking and entering and attempt to commit a felony. ...and being really bad pirates.
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Yarr, ye Lundlubbing Dogs, where be the fair RONERY RED-HAIRED MOLLY [Ringwald] + "Iff America surrenders, maybe He'll stop talking" HAWKEYE PIERCE!
BOYNTON BEACH "Daddy's Home." Well, at least his stolen Takamine acoustic guitar is back home, courtesy of Boynton Beach police. It belonged to Joseph Belloise, who died a year ago at the age of 67, but it holds cherished memories for his widow, Francesca.
The treasured guitar was among several items taken from her home and car during break-ins about eight months ago, she said.
"I never thought I was going to see it again," Belloise said.
Detective Ace Brown and Sgt. Paul Sheridan were touched by the case.
Brown tracked down the Takamine at Pawn World in Lake Worth, but the shop wanted $250 to part with the guitar. Sheridan took up a collection to buy back the stolen instrument.
Police officers and civilian employees pooled the $250 and the guitar was purchased and returned to a surprised Belloise on Thursday.
"I just felt overwhelmed with their generosity and their kindness and thoughtfulness," she said. "I didn't expect it."
Police also traced a stolen Fender Stratocaster electric guitar, an amplifier, some jewelry, silver coins, a Tag Heuer watch and a green beret to Pawn Unlimited in Lake Worth. All those items were given back to Belloise, she said.
Under Florida law, pawn shop owners can demand payment from crime victims to reclaim their stolen goods. Victims do have recourse by going to court.
I take it that pawn shop owners are immune to public shaming...
These guitars and the green beret were more than keepsakes. Joseph Belloise was an original member of the U.S. Army Special Forces Green Berets and he was the lead guitarist for the Hustlers, the Intruders and the Rondells in the 1960s.
Keith Dennis is serving a three-year sentence in the South Florida Reception Center in Doral, police said.
[An Nahar] Air La Belle France issued orders for only male staff to serve Dominique Strauss-Kahn when the former IMF boss -- accused of attempted rape in New York -- traveled on its planes, a report said Thursday.
Le Gay Pareeien newspaper also said that lawyers of Strauss-Kahn's accuser were calling for testimony from Air La Belle France female stewards who allegedly suffered inappropriate behavior by him.
A front man for the airline however responded to the report by saying that "Air La Belle France formally denies having given any instruction about the composition of its crews."
Le Gay Pareesien said lawyers of Nafissatou Diallo -- the African hotel maid who made the accusations against the ex-International Monetary Fund chief -- had received at least two testimonies from air crew who had been importuned.
The paper quoted the lawyers as saying that "this inexplicable mindset which enables him to abuse women is further proof which gives credibility to the aggression suffered by Ms Diallo on May 14."
The lawyers -- Kenneth Thompson and Douglas Wigdor -- were not immediately available for comment on Le Gay Pareesien's report.
The French paper also said they had received an anonymous letter stating that Air La Belle France had issued orders that only male employees should work in the first class sections of its planes when Strauss-Kahn was traveling.
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A bottled liter of water with a few teaspoons of bleach is proving to be a successful recipe for dwellers in the light-deprived slums of the Philippines. The simple technology is spreading sunlight in places where it has never been, and saving residents money at the same time.
Invented by MIT students, a neat demonstration of applied physics that provides about 60 watts of light for about five years.
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Not exactly a new idea, rather a new twist on an idea that's been around here for a while...Solatube.
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We just spend $300 a pop to install a couple of solartubes for some dark corners of some hallways. They are quite bright in the daytime - even in cloudy weather.
Cool that someone can get to use this type of thing for a lot less.
[An Nahar] A British politician has updated his guide on how his colleagues can stay true to their constituents while staying true to their partners.
Labour politician Paul Flynn said his new version of "How to Be a Backbencher" will include tips on drafting pithy Twitter messages and tongue-in-cheek ways to dampen what the 76-year-old described as parliamentarians' "sexual magnetism."
Flynn said Wednesday in interviews with British media that it was a mystery to him why elected officials were so attractive. His tips on how to stay faithful include taking cold baths.
In British politics, backbenchers refer to parliamentary rank-and-file who sit near the back of their respective party's benches.
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COLD BATHS
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* HOT AIR > THE GENDER GAP WILL NEVER GO AWAY - THANKS TO THE MOMMY TRACK.
D *** NG IT, PROFESSIONAL, WORKING-CLASS OR NOT, WOMEN WANT KIDDIES + COMMUNITY PROPERTY, + AREN'T TAKING "NO" FOR AN ANSWER!
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Zambia's main opposition party has taken President Rupiah Banda's alleged foreign parentage dispute to the Lusaka High Court, seeking an injunction to restrain him from standing as a presidential candidate in the next month's elections.
In papers filed in the Lusaka High Court, the Patriotic Front (PF) of populist Michael Sata -- the main challenger of President Banda in the September 20 polls -- is demanding that the governing Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) must not be allowed to sponsor the head of state as its presidential candidate because his father was not a Zambian citizen but a Malawian.
Through its secretary general, Wynter Kabimba - a lawyer, the PF sued MMD national secretary Major Richard Kachingwe, the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) and the Attorney General in its bid to prohibit President Banda from standing.
Zambia's former High Commissioner to Malawi, Milton Phiri, recently claimed that President Banda's father -- the late Bwezani Banda -- was a Malawian immigrant labourer who came to work in eastern Zambia.
President Banda, his family and a Malawian chief, including local chiefs have disputed reports that the head of state's father was Malawian, insisting his mother was a Ngoni and father a Chewa -- both from Zambia's Eastern Province.
President Banda said his parents went to work in Zim-bob-we where he was born 74 years ago.
MMD spokesperson Dora Siliya said the PF's "political ploy" to bar President Banda from standing would not work, accusing Mr Sata of being scared of the election.
A former Republican Vice-President, Enoch Kavindele, said Mr Sata and his party were questioning President Banda's parentage because "they know that Mr Banda has the support of the whole country and they want to sway support from him".
A State House media statement said President Banda was surprised that the issue of his parents' nationality had become very important now when the PF had been claiming that it would beat the MMD in the elections.
"Why are they scared to face President Banda in the elections scheduled for 20th September 2011? In 2008, President Banda filed his valid nomination and beat PF leader Michael Sata in the elections. Why did the PF keep quiet in 2008? Why do they want to block him from standing?" said presidential spokesperson Dickson Jere.
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Weak. Like, who can't photoshop a birth certificate these days. Or you can go fancy and get a nice Chinese one for $300.
No, this isn't another birther thread. And shame on you for even thinking that!
Intelligence agents tell of intimidation, smears of American officials, diplomats
In the past four years, Russia's intelligence services have stepped up a campaign of intimidation and dirty tricks against U.S. officials and diplomats in Russia and the countries that used to form the Soviet Union.
U.S. diplomats and officials have found their homes broken into and vandalized, or altered in ways as trivial as bathroom use; faced anonymous or veiled threats; and in some cases found themselves set up in compromising photos or videos that are later leaked to the local press and presented as a sex scandal.
"The point was to show that 'we can get to you where you sleep,' " one U.S. intelligence officer told The Washington Times. "It's a psychological kind of attack."
Despite a stated policy from President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev of warm U.S.-Russian ties, the campaign of intelligence intimidation - or what the CIA calls "direct action" - has persisted throughout what both sides have called a "reset" in the relations.
They have become worse in just the past year, some U.S. officials said. Also, their targets are broadening to include human rights workers and nongovernmental organizations as well as embassy staff.
The most brazen example of this kind of intimidation was the Sept. 22 bombing attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia. A National Intelligence Council assessment sent to Congress last week confirmed that the bombing was ordered by Maj. Yevgeny Borisov of Russian military intelligence, said four U.S. officials who have read the report.
Former Sen. Christopher S. Bond, who served as the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence between 2007 and 2010, said he had raised the issue of Russian intimidation of U.S. diplomats with the Obama administration.
"We are concerned about the acts of intimidation as well as their record on previous agreements and other activities," Mr. Bond said. "It's a real concern, I've raised it. It's not the intelligence committee that fails to understand the problem. It's the Obama administration."
Since 2007, according to two U.S. intelligence officials, American posts in Belarus, Russia, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan have complained about instances in which junior Foreign Service officers have come home to find jewelry rearranged, cigarette butts stubbed out on the kitchen table, defecations in the bathroom, and break-ins with nothing of value stolen.
More recently, visiting congressional staff on official delegations have complained of having their hotel rooms broken into and seeing their things rearranged, according to these officials.
David A. Merkel, who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs in 2008 and 2009, said he had seen an escalation in these kinds of direct actions starting in the last two years of the George W. Bush administration.
"It's meant to limit a diplomat's ability to meet with individuals by aggressively demonstrating that they are being watched. If you are a political officer and you are cognizant your actions are being watched, you are less willing to meet with people, even if this is a normal activity for a political officer," said Mr. Merkel, who also served as director for European and Eurasian affairs on the National Security Council from 2005 to 2007.
Other U.S. officials said the intimidation campaign escalated even more in 2010 after the Obama administration expelled 10 Russian "deep cover" agents as part of a spy swap.
Mr. Merkel said these acts of intimidation were reported throughout what Russia calls its "near abroad," or the independent states that used to be part of the Soviet Union.
"It's mainly focused on people whose jobs are domestic politics and human rights reporting," he said. "You have to appreciate how much courage it takes for a foreign national, a Russian or a Belarusian to meet with our diplomats because they know they are being watched."
Another diplomat who was targeted for embarrassment was Kyle Hatcher, who served at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow as a political officer responsible for tracking religious freedom in Russia.
In August 2009, two Russian newspapers printed stories based on spliced video footage of Mr. Hatcher at a hotel room, claiming he was employing the services of a prostitute.
Two U.S. officials familiar with the incident, who asked not to be named, said the U.S. intelligence community saw this as the work of the FSB.
"They intercepted some phone calls he made and spliced them in a way that made them look strange. Then they took footage of him in a hotel room or something. They made it all look like they had footage of him in sex acts with prostitutes in a hotel," one of those officials said.
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The problem with Russia was always that it was Russian, not that it was Communist. Like China, Russia has what I'll call the will to empire. To the extent that we're allied with the targets of Chinese and Russian territorial acquisitiveness, their neighbors' security problems will become ours.
THE United States' credit rating has been cut for the first time with Standard and Poor's lowering it from triple-A to AA+, citing the country's looming debt and deficit burden.
S&P today attached a "negative outlook" to the new rating, while government sources involved in the negotiations with the agency attacked its analysis as deeply flawed.
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Excerpt: The political brinksmanship of recent months highlights what we see as America's governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed.
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"America's governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed"
You thought the clowns in D.C. were stable and effective? Don't get out much, do ya'? (Predictable, they are - I've predicted for a long time that given the choice of doing what's right for the country or lining their pockets, they'll line their pockets every time.)
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Not surprising. We are technically bankrupt. If you owe more than 50% of what you earn, you are bankrupt. While I believe the US will pay its debts, I would not be willing to loan it money without a higher interest rate.
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Coinage Act of 1792, section 19 stipulates "that the penalty for anyone who would debase the coinage of the US, is death.
So what to use, gallows, guillotine, gas chamber?
Sleep tight Obummer, hope you enjoyed your birthday.
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Its not like S&P didn't state what they were interested in with the budget.
Listened to a guy on radio, said all the right things, seemed to know what he was talking about. He had some snide remarks for S&P, like where have you been until recently and why now that the problem is being publically addressed?
Can't say I disagree with either one of them. My question would be why would anyone loan money to a drunkard, unless it is a down payment or purchasing a controlling interest.
[An Nahar] A French court ordered a probe for embezzlement and other fraud-related charges against IMF head Christine Lagarde dating to her time as La Belle France's finance minister, a prosecutor said Thursday.
If you search for a Euro financier/banker who isn't corrupt to head the IMF, you'll be searching a long time...
She has denied any wrongdoing or illegality in the case which resulted in a big compensation payment for a private businessman out of public funds in 2008. Her lawyer branded the case politically motivated.
The Court of Justice of the Republic, which hears charges against ministers arising during their term in office, approved "a judicial inquiry concerning Mrs Lagarde," presiding judge Gerard Palisse told news hounds.
It asked magistrates to investigate Lagarde's role in settling the financial dispute with a view to possible criminal charges.
State prosecutors in a statement specified the charges to be investigated as "embezzlement of public funds" and "complicity in fraud" and said prosecutor Cecile Petit would formally request the probe "in the coming days".
Lagarde's lawyer Yves Repiquet said the inquiry was "in no way incompatible" with her new role as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He said he expected the case to be dismissed.
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It could be worse. They could have charged her with raping the butler.
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I swear i read she was squeaky clean.
Maybe the was the BHO version of "clean".
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In an effort to ensure their citizens are treated fairly in Alabama, 16 nations, including Mexico, filed briefs against the state's controversial new immigration law that has already drawn fire from the U.S. Department of Justice.
"Mexico has an interest in protecting its citizens and ensuring that their ethnicity is not used as basis for state-sanctioned acts of bias and discrimination," the brief said, according to the paper. Nevermind what they do in their own countries.
Criticism for the law, which is said to be the strictest state-level immigration law in the country, has been fierce and swift. Besides the DOJ's lawsuit, the Roman Catholic Church, three dozen plaintiffs represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Law Center have all filed lawsuits against the state's governor, The Montgomery Advertiser reported. Hot Damn! All those! Looks like we have a real winnner folks. Now if we had the Southern Poverty Law Center it'll be complete. Gov. Robert Bentley signed the law naming it a crime to be an undocumented immigrant in Alabama Not that it's illegal or anything now of course...
and allowing law enforcement officials to detain individuals if they have a "reasonable suspicion" of being in the country illegally. The law also makes it illegal to give undocumented immigrants rides and requires school districts to check on the immigration status of students who enroll. Now that is a good idea which has been advocated here before.
The Justice Department argues that the states are overstepping their authority by wading into something that is a strictly federal responsibility: immigration enforcement.
Proponents of the bill say the Obama administration and federal bureaucrats have turned a blind eye toward the immigration issue and refuse to fulfill their constitutional duty to enforce laws already on the books.
Argentina, Boliva, Brazil and Colombia among other Central and South American countries are also named on the brief.
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Does this mean that - other than in Alabama, of course - all these illegal aliens we've been reading about were not really illegal?
So, "Undocumented, soon-to-be-democratic-voters, not-quite-American-yet, citizens of foreign countries still under the protection of their embassies" is a more accurate title?
No wonder they get sharia law!
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Mexican Constitution -
Foreigners
Article 33. Foreigners are those who do not possess the qualifications set forth in Article 30. They are entitled to the guarantees granted by Chapter I, Title I, of the present Constitution; but the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.
Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.
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There's no "right" to immigrate here! We have a right to control out borders. Would these suing countries sue Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, etc. and other such paradises for not being allowed to immigrate. Many countries have restrictions on immigration such as age, amount of assets, non-criminals, etc. Mexico suing? What a joke! What would Mexico do if we sued them for allowing hordes of illegals to sneak across our border? In fact, the Mexican government printed pamphlets a few years ago on how to cross our border without being detected. Mexico is a failed State. Why even listen to them? Try immigrating to Mexico. There are all kinds of restrictions. These law suits ought not to be dignified by being heard in our courts.
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I think the Arizona example is starting to hit home. Illegal immigrants do not stay in Arizona. They may still pass through, for now, but they do not hang around, and it is already showing dividends with much lower costs.
Several public schools have now closed because of a lack of illegal alien students, yet because illegals in Arizona never ghettoized, it just means that neighborhoods have a few more houses for rent or sale than they would have had otherwise.
[Dawn] The health department's failure to educate the parents on the efficacy of oral polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccine (OPV) has been resulting in large-scale refusals against immunisation of children, officials say.
Unfortunately, a self-punishing problem.
"In the last three-day campaign in July, 16,721 children could not be immunised mainly because of the parents' misperceptions about the efficacy of the OPV," the officials said.
They said that refusals against the OPV were so widespread that except Kohistan and Chitral, the rest of 23 KP districts had been regularly registering refusal cases.
Several measures taken by the government are yet to yield results because there is no field campaign to prevail upon the parents that vaccination is meant to safeguard their children against the crippling ailment. For instance, the parents refuse vaccination of their children on the argument that the OPV is a ploy designed to turn the recipient children infertile and impotent.
The health department doesn't have any mechanism to clearly prove that the OPV is safe and contains no agent that causes impotency. As a result, in areas where literacy rate is very low the parents continue to resist polio vaccination of their children.
Several donor organizations, spearheaded by the WHO and the Unicef, have been financing the polio campaign from the past 15 years, but still achieving the goal of polio eradication seems to be a difficult task.
Last year, when the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... and the Federally Administered Tribal Area (Fata) together recorded 100 cases of the total 142 cases in the country, the donor organizations expressed concern over the surge in polio cases and threatened to stop funding the campaign if the crippling disease was not eradicated this year. On its part the government has been changing strategies to cope with the situation, but instead of recording any improvement Pakistain is inching towards being known as the polio endemic country.
Officials in the UN said that the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa had previously been giving militancy and violence as the reasons for the poor vaccination campaigns, but most of refusal cases were now emerging from peaceful areas. They said that over Rs500 million was being spent on each of the nine campaigns every year to provide the OPV to about five million children.
The UN agencies also argue that Pakistain has been the main source of transportation of polio viruses to the countries long declared polio-free
The UN agencies also argue that Pakistain has been the main source of transportation of polio viruses to the countries long declared polio-free and urging the government to apply political commitment to wipe out the disease as early as possible.
An argument could be made that anyone leaving Pakistan should be required to receive a complete set of inoculations. But given the level of corruption there, even that would be no guarantee...
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has implemented its own polio eradication strategy with the claim that the disease will be eliminated by end of 2011, but the province has so far recorded six cases of the total 60 in the country and indications are that the disease would continue to haunt the children.
The government has also been making efforts to involve the religious figures and teachers in the campaign, but some officials claim such steps fail to produce any tangible results.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... Dr Jan Baz Afridi, the top polio officer in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, argues that they have brought down refusal cases from 26,000 to 16,000 during the past six months and are well on the way to end such cases by convincing the parents in due course of time. "The refusal cases have not increased, but we have strengthened our reporting system to record every child. Earlier, the system of reporting was not so strong to cover the maximum children," he said.
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An argument could be made that anyone leaving Pakistan should be required to receive a complete set of inoculations.
And anyone going there should have their head examined. I wonder how large an un-vaccinated population you need to create a reservoir for endemic polio.
[Dawn] A local court here on Wednesday remanded former union council nazim ...small time big shot, the chief elected official of a local government in Pakistan, such as a district, tehsil, union council, or village council... of Lachi tehsil and his five supporters in police custody for two days for attacking the cop shoppe.
The ex-nazim, Fawad Khan, and his relative Sohail had forcibly entered the Lachi cop shoppe to get his relative released after he was incarcerated on unspecified charges late on Tuesday night. According to reports, they had also exchanged hot words with the station house officer and other coppers and resorted to firing in the air.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... the people of the area surrounded the cop shoppe and pelted stones at the police as a result of which SHO Khanullah and two coppers received injuries. Some accused in the police lockup also got injured in the fighting.
The protesters later blocked the Indus Highway and demanded the release of the suspect Hidayatullah. The police overpowered them and incarcerated Fawad, Manzoor, Waseem, Faisal, Abid and Nazeer for interfering in police affairs, firing, beating coppers and blocking the Indus Highway.
The elders of the area reached the cop shoppe and initiated talks with the coppers for the release of the nazim and his men, who are said to be influential landlords of the area. The negotiations continued for several hours, but the police high ups ordered that the accused should be incarcerated and proper FIR lodged against them.
Later, the police registered cases against several people who had blocked the highway and raids were being conducted for their arrest.
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(KUNA) - Two dead-bodies were retrieved and seventy were feared buried under the debris of a collapsed five-storey building on Thursday in the city of Bloody Karachi, said rescue authorities.
A five-storey building collapsed in the congested Musa Lane area of the town of Liyari. According to Rescue authorities, more than seventy people are feared buried under the debris. While rescuers were still struggling to pull out any survivors, about two dead-bodies of a woman and a child were retrieved and at least twelve maimed were rushed to a nearby hospital.
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[Straits Times] A RELIGIOUS court official in Indonesia has blamed social networking site Facebook for a rise in teenage pregnancies and under-age marriages, a report said on Thursday.
Siti Haryanti, a secretary at the religious court in Mount Kidul, a town in Central Java, said young couples were having sex after meeting online and she had seen the number of under-age marriages increase in the past year.
'Many couples admitted they got to know each other through the site and continued their relationship until they got pregnant outside wedlock,' Ms Haryanti was quoted as saying by Antara state news agency.
'The site is easy to access even to the remote villages so intensive relationships caused many teenagers to get pregnant outside marriage,' she said.
Ms Haryanti said 130 under-age couples have sought marriage licences at the religious court this year compared to 120 couples in 2010.
The legal age for marriage in Indonesia is 16 years for women and 19 years for men.
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Wow! Facebook makes you pregnant?
I mean it can't possibly be the fault of the couple playing hide-the-salami.... Oh No! Not that!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A Gloucester man and an Ipswich resident, operating a motor boat flying the "skull-and-crossbones" of the pirate ships of old, are facing multiple charges after being arrested in Smith's Cove late Thursday night following an apparent botched robbery of a sailboat.
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Intelligence agents tell of intimidation, smears of American officials, diplomats
THE United States' credit rating has been cut for the first time with Standard and Poor's lowering it from triple-A to AA+, citing the country's looming debt and deficit burden.
[Dawn] The health department's failure to educate the parents on the efficacy of oral 
Several measures taken by the government are yet to yield results because there is no field campaign to prevail upon the parents that vaccination is meant to safeguard their children against the crippling ailment. For instance, the parents refuse vaccination of their children on the argument that the OPV is a ploy designed to turn the recipient children infertile and impotent.
Last year, when the 
(KUNA) - Two dead-bodies were retrieved and seventy were feared buried under the debris of a collapsed five-storey building on Thursday in the city of 
A RELIGIOUS court official in Indonesia has blamed social networking site Facebook for a rise in teenage pregnancies and under-age marriages, a report said on Thursday.
