[An Nahar] After realising they had burgled a disabled woman in Istanbul, ashamed thieves had a change of heart and returned the stolen goods, local media reported on Thursday.
"We are thieves but we have a conscience. We are really sorry. We didn't know that you were disabled. Please forgive us," wrote the anonymous note.
The burglars last month broke into the apartment of Emriye Celebi, a 50-something civil servant residing in the Maltepe district on the Asian side of the city and stole a computer, a camera and a video recorder.
Celebi told Sabah newspaper that she had lost hope of getting her stolen items back after not hearing from the police for a long time but surprisingly found her computer and camera late Sunday on her apartment door.
"They haven't returned my videotape recorder. I hope they will do so soon," Celebi said.
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[Egypt Independent] The Simpsons was well known as a source of entertainment for generations worldwide, but in Egypt, a TV station has now claimed that a scene in the sitcom animation is showing that the Arab Spring is an American conspiracy.
The Tahrir TV anchor Rania Badwy presented evidence that "suggests what is happening in Syria today was premeditated." All is set amidst conspiracy theories taking hold of society after three years of post-revolution turbulence and paranoia.
Badawy presented a 75-second clip of a Simpsons episode that first broadcast in 2001, showing a scene of soldiers dressed as Arabs, standing next to a jeep painted with a picture of a flag which is similar to the one used by the opposition Free Syrian Army
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[BART AS "PATTON/MCARTHUR", WEARING SUNGLASSES + MUNCHING ON A STEM OF LONG GRASS here].
[Pak Daily Times] A series of small earthquakes hit southern Pakistain on Friday, killing at least two persons and injuring 30 others, officials said.
Three shallow quakes struck near the city of Nawabshah in Sindh in the space of an hour starting at 3:51am, sending frightened residents running into the streets praying for their lives. The most powerful tremor was measured at 5.0 magnitude, an official in the Meteorological Department told AFP. An emergency was declared at the city's hospitals and district offices, with schools and colleges closed down, he said. Around 100 houses in Nawabshah were damaged.
Work was under way to assess the extent of the damage caused by the quakes, which were also felt in several nearby small towns including Sakrand, Daur, Daulat Pur and Bandhi. Asif Arain, a Nawabshah resident, said: "The shaking woke us and we ran out of home reciting verses from the Koran.
"Then we felt another jolt, that was even more terrifying. Bet that was when he stopped reciting verses from the Koran.
"I felt sick." A local administration official, Irfan Kathio, told AFP that at least two persons had died and 30 others were maimed, including women and kiddies.
"We received 30 injured in our hospital, of whom one 71-year-old man died of his injuries," Mohammad Hashim, a senior doctor at Nawabshah's civil hospital, told AFP. He said the condition of five of the injured was critical. Taj Colony neighbourhood in Nawabshah was the worst affected, resident Ghulam Mustafa told AFP. The roofs of many of the houses there had crumbled, he said, with electricity supplies to the area disrupted.
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This is why we can't have nice things. The federal government has planted a news story in the Las Vegas media that the FBI will commence criminal investigations into the Bundy ranch confrontation three weeks ago. Oathkeeper's response: "Hey, that Ryan guy was a fake ranger!" Between the Oathkeepers' hubris, military experience and abject refusal to put it to use in a real environment, and the militias' refusal to get training and maintain discipline in the field, both of these dominoes will fall harder than an Obamanian promise.
Talk about focusing on the wrong thing. New Jersey RKBA advocates think that pressing the notion that imprisoning thousands of citizens will cost more than its worth is a winning argument against the proposed magazine limit bill. Advocates fail to note that the argument that their neighbors are pressing to disarm them and take away first their substance and then their lives, is apparently not a compelling enough argument. Their argument will seal that bill's fate, because it is the state's incessant desire for more and more of its subjects' substance that will carry the day against RKBA advocates.
Vermont has a gun confiscation bill that is based on spurious governmental statistics. Some surprise. The idea is that the state should confiscate arms after a domestic dispute regardless if they were used. This is fascist lawmaking at its most obscene. Law enforcement is about custody, not prevention, and when you pass a law to prevent something, you must take away basic rights to do so.
Prices for pistol ammunition were mixed and prices for rifle ammunition were lower across the board.
Prices for both used rifles and prices for used pistols were lower across the board.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Munire USA, Tulammo, steel cased, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Tulammo, steel cased, .33 per round (+.02 from Last week)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Munire USA, Ultramax, reloaded, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Store Brand, reloaded, .27 per round (Unchanged: Six weeks)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain From Last Week: -.01 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, Steel Cased, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Selway Armory, BVAC, reloaded, CPRN, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, CCI Blazer, JHP, .41 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 250 Rounds: LAX Ammunition, Reloaded, .38 per round (Unchanged from last week (Two Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Selway Armory,Tulammo, steel cased, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Bulk Ammo, Wolf Polyformance, steel cased, .26 per round (from Last Week: -.01 (After unchanged previous three weeks))
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: -.15 Each (!)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ventura Munitions, Prvi partizan, steel cased, .47 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Random Discounted ARs, Wolf WPA, steel cased, .52 per round (From last week: +.06 Each (After+.09 Each previous week(!))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf, steel case, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Lucky Gunner, Wolf, steel case, .21 per round (Unchanged from Last Week (Four Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: OD Green Supply, CCI Blazer, .10 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,575 rounds: Alamo Ammo, Fiocchi, RNL, .12 per round (Unchanged From Last Week (Two Weeks))
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $645 Last Week Avg: $660 (-)
California (186): Smith & Wesson M&P15: $675
Texas (288): Spikes Tactical: $650
Pennsylvania (161): Rock River Arms LAR-8: $700
Virgina (191): Smith & Wesson M&P15: $600
Florida (410): Rock River Arms: $600
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,340 Last Week Avg: $1,365 (-)
California (52): DPMS: $1,400
Texas (64): Smith & Wesson M&P 10: $1,300
Pennsylvania (32): Smith & Wesson M&P 10: $1,199
Virginia (47): DPMS LAR308: $1,400
Florida (82): Core30 Tac 30: $1,400 (Same Gun)
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $625 Last Week Avg: $635 (-)
California (48): Saiga: $650
Texas (50): CAI: $675
Pennsylvania (61): Zastava: $550 (Same Gun)
Virginia (67): WASR: $650
Florida (108): Romak: $600 (Same Gun)
7.62x54mm (Dragunov Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,300 Last Week Avg: Unchanged (-)
California (7): Romak PSL: $1,300 (Same Gun)
Texas (): None Available
Pennsylvania: None Available
Virginia: None Available
Florida: None Available
Pistols
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $455 Last Week Avg: $482(-)
California (149): Rock Island Armory: $400
Texas (220): Rock Island Armory: $375 (!)
Pennsylvania (161): Mixed Build: $450 (Same Gun)
Virginia (150): Taurus PT1911: $500
Florida (367): Charles Daly: $550
9mm Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic Average Price: $391 Last Week Avg: $449 (-)
California (121): Glock 17: $475 (Prolly Same Gun)
Texas (309): Glock 19: $300 (!)
Pennsylvania (179): Glock 19: $380
Virginia (227): Glock 17: $450
Florida (439): Smith & Wesson SD-9: $350
.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $405 Last Week Avg: $455 (-)
California (82): Glock 27: $380
Texas (155): Glock 22C: $395
Pennsylvania (128): Glock 27: $350
Virginia (99): Ruger SR-40: $450
Florida (191): Sig Sauer SP2022: $450
[REUTERS] South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and rebel commander Riek Machar signed a ceasefire deal on Friday after coming under growing international pressure to end ethnic fighting that has raised fears of genocide.
Friday's deal was made at a meeting in Ćthiopia that was the first time the two men had met face-to-face since violence erupted in December following a long power struggle. Kiir and Machar, both Christians, shook hands and prayed together.
The men agreed that a transitional government offered the "best chance" to take the country towards elections next year, though there was no immediate decision on who would be part of an interim administration.
"Now that we have come to our senses ... dialogue is the only answer to whatever problem we had," Kiir said after a signing ceremony in Addis Ababa's presidential palace. "We will continue to move in the right direction."
The truce will take effect within 24 hours and both sides agreed to disengage their forces and refrain from any provocative actions, said Seyoum Mesfin, lead mediator from the regional IGAD grouping.
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[DAWN] SEVASTOPOL: President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... took a victory lap Friday in his first visit to Crimea since its annexation by Russia, as fighting in eastern Ukraine left more than 20 dead just days ahead of a separatist vote.
The visit drew a sharp rebuke from authorities in Kiev, who accused the Russian strongman of stoking tensions with his visit to Sevastopol, home to Russia's Black Sea fleet.
"This provocation once again confirms that Russia deliberately seeks further escalation of tensions," the foreign ministry said, calling the visit a "flagrant violation of Ukraine's illusory sovereignty".
The White House also condemned the trip, with National Security Council front man Laura Magnuson saying it "will only serve to fuel tensions".
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[DAWN] Pakistain is to hold talks with Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... on a new tax treaty in the hope of retrieving state assets illegally stashed in the European country's secretive banking system.
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar told the National Assembly that negotiations on a revised agreement with Switzerland would be held from August 26 to 28.
Former president Asif Ali Zardari, who left office last September after five years, was dogged throughout his tenure by corruption allegations involving Swiss banks dating back to the 1990s.
He was accused along with his late wife, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... , of using Swiss banks to launder $12 million of illegal kickbacks.
Switzerland enacted a new law in 2011 to make it easier for countries to recover assets stolen by politicians and hidden in its banks.
In early 2012, Switzerland said it had returned $1.83 billion in illicitly-placed assets to countries involved in the Arab Spring regime changes, but Pakistain's current tax agreement does not allow it to take advantage of the law.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: A sessions court on Thursday sentenced a man to life imprisonment under the blasphemy law.
Malik Mohammad Farooq was found guilty of tearing up a banner which was inscribed with the name of Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!), Kalma Taiba, Darood Sharif and a picture of Kaaba in January 2013 in Qayyumabad. The court acquitted co-accused for want of evidence.
Additional District and Sessions Judge (east) Nadeem Ahmed Khan also imposed a fine of Rs50,000 and in case of non-payment the convict would have to undergo an additional six-month imprisonment.
The court in its verdict observed that three key prosecution witnesses, including the complainant, categorically deposed against accused Farooq and despite being subjected to lengthy cross-examination their evidence remained unshaken.
The accused took the plea in his defence that he was framed in the case since he had a dispute with the management of a mosque adjacent to his shop. However, ars longa, vita brevis... the court ruled that the accused did not produce any evidence to substantiate his claim.
The case of the co-accused was on a different footing as two of the three witnesses did not say anything about his involvement and the complainant testified that the area people had informed him that the co-accused escaped after committing the offence from the place of the incident at that time.
The court further said that the complainant also deposed that he did not see the co-accused directly and was not sure about his involvement in the case. Therefore, the prosecution failed to establish its case against the co-accused, the verdict added.
According to the prosecution, the main accused and complainant Syed Tahir Hussain Shah had shops adjacent to a mosque in Qayyumabad and on Jan 16, 2013 the accused along with his friend had torn up a banner and thrown it in a dustbin. The area people captured Farooq, beat him up and handed him over to police along with the banner while the co-accused managed to escape. Later he was also enjugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! , it added.
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Moslem Values. Life terms for people who throw things in the garbage. Seems logical. If they can, they will, you see. Got any friendly Moslem neighbors? Be careful if you see them going through your garbage.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: An 18-year-old student and a police guard were killed while another teenage boy and a private security guard were maimed in an exchange of fire in the Defence Housing Authority in the early hours of Thursday.
The deadly exchange of fire took place at the bungalow of Suleman Lashari, an A-level student, in DHA Phase V on Khayaban-e-Shamsheer following a quarrel between the teenagers over some petty issue, police said.
The incident came as a grim reminder of the murder of a student, Shahzeb Khan, in 2012 and a cinema guard in 2013 in the DHA.
According to Clifton SP Abadit Nisar, Salman Abro, 18, along with five police guards of his father arrived at the bungalow of Suleman Lashari at around 2am where the exchange of fire took place. As a result, Lashari was rubbed out, he said.
One of the victim's guards, Ghulam Ali, returned fire, leaving Salman Abro and the police guard, Zaheer Ahmed, maimed. The policeman later died while the officer's son was admitted to a private hospital in a critical condition. Ghulam Ali was also hurt in the exchange of fire.
DIG South Barrister Abdul Khalique Sheikh said the incident followed a quarrel between Suleman Lashari and Salman Abro but he was not sure as to what had triggered it.
SP South (Investigation-I) Faiz Ullah Korejo said the scuffle had recently broken out between the teenagers. He said that Salman Abro might have gone there for a 'compromise' or a 'patch-up' where arguments might have flared up.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... he added, the exact motive for the murder could be determined after recording the statement of the youth. Mr Korejo believed that both the dear departed and the maimed attacker were familiar with each other. But Darakhshan SHO Zawar Hussain told Dawn that the family of the dear departed denied this. He said the young Abro sustained bullet wounds in the abdomen and was admitted to the ICU of a hospital in Clifton where he was not in a position to record his statement.
The brother of the dear departed, Zeeshan Mustafa, in his complaint lodged at the Darakshan cop shoppe said a quarrel between his brother and Salman Abro had taken place a few days ago at the Seaview over 'a car race', said the SHO.
The police registered an FIR (235/2014) on the complaint of Zeeshan against Salman Abro and "four unidentified persons" under Sections 302 (premeditated murder), 324 (attempted murder) and 427 (mischief causing damage) of the Pakistain Penal Code.
The police officer said that the four police guards were taken into custody and their weapons seized following the incident. Besides, a Vigo vehicle had also been seized.
The families of the teenagers were reluctant to talk about the incident when approached by Dawn.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... Zeeshan informed Dawn that his brother, Suleman Lashari, was a student of St Michael's school. He was supposed to take the Cambridge examination of English A-level on Thursday morning, a few hours before his murder.
Yusuf Abro who is also a police officer posted in Nawabshah and uncle of the maimed Salman Abro said that only his father, Sarwar Abro, could speak to the media when he would come to the city.
This was third such incident in Defence when someone was killed in a gun fight between teenagers over a petty issue. On Dec 28, 2013, the step-son of a former governor of Balochistan was incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... over the charges of killing of the guard of a cinema. On Dec 24, 2012, Shahzeb Khan was killed by a teenage boy in Defence.
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[DAWN] A man wanted to the capital police in fraud cases was caught travelling with a parliamentarian on Thursday.
A police officer, on the condition of anonymity, said on a tip-off the CIA police intercepted a Land Cruiser with a green number plate inscribed with the word 'Senator' on Margalla Road, One of the riders introduced himself as a senator and taunted the coppers for stopping his vehicle.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the police took the man travelling with the senator into custody after telling him (senator) that he was a proclaimed offender and was wanted by the police in connection with different fraud cases, including cheque dishonour cases worth over Rs1billion.
When the senator put up resistance, the police also took him into custody and shifted him along with the suspect to the CIA centre.
During preliminary investigation, it was revealed that the accused was a relative of the senator who had provided him shelter, the officer claimed.
He said senior coppers were kept in the dark about the arrest and when they got the report from other sources and asked the in-charge of the CIA team to clarify his position, the latter could not justify his decision of not recording the arrest.
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[An Nahar] Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of 250 million Orthodox Christians, says a meeting with Pope Francis in Jerusalem this month will help move the two churches closer to ending their nearly one-thousand-year divide.
In an interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in his Istanbul office, Bartholomew also praised Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... for improving rights for Christians but said pointedly, "it is not enough."
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Personally, I'm interpreting this Artic as another sign or indicator this week as to why Putin = Russia annexed the Crimea from Ukraine.
Along wid ...
* TOPIX > [National POST] PUTIN MAY BE IGNORING THE EAST UKRAINE PRO-RUSSIA SEPARATISTS BUT THEY ARE FIGHTING [hard-n-dying hard] TO REGAIN HIS ATTENTION.
* SAME > WEST FEARS RUSSIA'S ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY.
* RELATED CHINA DAILY > US IS THREATENED BY RUSSIA'S CHRISTIANITY.
* WAFF > [FreeRepublic] CARL BILDT [Sweden Minister of Foreign Affairs] THINKS EASTERN ORTHODOXY IS MORE A THREAT TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
Ukraine-Crimea Crisis is Putin's attempt to destroy the Ukrainian Orthdox Church in favor of his Putin's Russian Orthodox Church.
Vlad may desire unification or in altern strong coop-n-integration between the major Eastern Orthodox denominations vee the Vatican, + to be agz Soon-to-Be-Nuclear Islam + Global Jihad.
IOW, OWG WESTERN JUDEO-CHRISTIAN UNION vs. OWG EASTERN JUDEOCHRISTIAN UNION vs OWG ISLAMIC CALIPHATE.
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Current Pope will have to get a lot more traditional and "orthodox", more like his predecessors, if this is to happen. Pope Francis is a good hearted man of God, but he is also a rube, and philosophically and intellectually inconsistent - hardly the kind of person that could reunite the whole of the Church.
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Current Catholic church doctrine against married clergy does have exceptions - its not a universal and strict edict. There are married Catholic Priests. The Catholic Church needs to change this policy - but only with a lot of restrictions. This is what I have seen proposed:
The basic new form of married priests would follow the permanent diaconate in terms of formation. Basically, you must be a member of the Church in good standing, a practicing Catholic, involved with your parish and the community, if married, have a marriage of at least 10 years, and be at least 35 years of age. Then after scrutiny and checks by your bishop, you become a deacon, which takes a couple of years (a lot of course work, at a college level, for theology and psychology, etc), just like now. And they take the same oath of chastity - which means no divorces, and if they becomes widowers, no remarriage - they are bound by the same chastity/celibacy rules as current priests. So far, no major changes, all of this mostly in place with the current formation of Deacons. What comes next is all that needs to be added.
Once a man has been a permanent Deacon in a diocese for 5 years, he can petition to advance to the full priesthood. If qualified and selected, he undergoes training for the priesthood, and receives additional formation at the local Catholic seminar. Then he becomes fully ordained as a priest. However, under this form, he is not allowed to be anything other than a parish priest. Much like the Deaconate, his mandate is to serve a parish. So he cannot hold offices in the diocese, and cannot be elevated to become a Bishop or Cardinal. And he is to stay within his diocese as a priest (basically he can't just go around to other diocese at will. His job is that of a vicar for his Bishop/Archbishope/Cardinal to a specific community.
If that change is instituted, then dioceses will all have enough parish priests, based on the number of Ordained Deacons the Church has. This has 2 effects: 1. it solves any priest shortages by having the individual parishes supply the candidates who are already involved and ordained for that community. 2. it is pretty much in line with Orthodox practice, thus removing a barrier to unification.
And yes, this is what I personally would like to see - men with stable marriages who are deeply involved with the local Parish, and who live in the community would be ideal as priests. They also are likely to serve as a brake on clericalism, and things like the whole sexual abuse mess of past decades would not have been so easily done were there priests of this sort who are much less likely to be tolerant of aberrant behavior.
[Dhaka Tribune] A grenade was thrown at the home of a judge on Thailand's Constitutional Court that a day earlier had ousted the country's prime minister for abuse of power, police said on Thursday.
Police Col. Kamthorn Auicharoen said there were no casualties and that the attackers were trying to instigate a situation to further deepen the political conflict, reported AP.
The headquarters of Thailand's major commercial bank and a scientific research facility were also damaged by similar grenades overnight.
The court on Wednesday found Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra guilty of abusing her power by transferring the National Security Council chief in 2011 to another position.
It ruled that the transfer was carried out to benefit her politically powerful family and, therefore, violated the constitution -- an accusation she has denied.
The ruling accomplished what anti-government demonstrators have sought to do for the past six months and further widening the country's sharp political divide.
Supporters of deposed Yingluck have called for a huge rally Saturday to protest the ruling by the Constitutional Court, which exercised powers laid out in a constitution written by a military government after a coup in 2006.
The leader of the anti-government protesters, Suthep Thaugsuban, meanwhile, told his followers that they would stage a "final offensive" on Friday and would achieve their goal of fully ousting the government.
The court found Yingluck guilty of abusing her power by transferring the National Security Council chief in 2011 to another position.
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Thai Judge Surely one of Colonel Sanders minions? No? Different, even better job?
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That would be a judge of the urban political variety who want the popularly elected government to 'step down' to allow minority dictatorial rule over all those bumpkins?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[An Nahar] After realising they had burgled a disabled woman in Istanbul, ashamed thieves had a change of heart and returned the stolen goods, local media reported on Thursday.
[Egypt Independent] The Simpsons was well known as a source of entertainment for generations worldwide, but in Egypt, a TV station has now claimed that a scene in the sitcom animation is showing that the Arab Spring is an American conspiracy. 
[Pak Daily Times] A series of small earthquakes hit southern Pakistain on Friday, killing at least two persons and injuring 30 others, officials said.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[DAWN] Pakistain is to hold talks with 
[DAWN] KARACHI: A sessions court on Thursday sentenced a man to life imprisonment under the blasphemy law.
[DAWN] KARACHI: An 18-year-old student and a police guard were killed while another teenage boy and a private security guard were 
[DAWN] A man wanted to the capital police in fraud cases was caught travelling with a parliamentarian on Thursday.
[An Nahar] Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of 250 million Orthodox Christians, says a meeting with Pope Francis in Jerusalem this month will help move the two churches closer to ending their nearly one-thousand-year divide.
[Dhaka Tribune] A grenade was thrown at the home of a judge on Thailand's Constitutional Court that a day earlier had ousted the country's prime minister for abuse of power, police said on Thursday.
