[An Nahar] South Korean customs officials say they have tossed in the calaboose eight men over a scheme to allegedly smuggle gold out of the country by hiding it in their rectums. Really? No sheeyit?
The Korea Customs Service said Monday the men allegedly transformed $260,000 in gold bars into small beads and smuggled them in their rectums to Japan two times in 2010 to avoid import taxes.
South Korea says Japanese custom officials caught the men on their second attempt and sent them home after imposing fines. Later, one of the suspects allegedly orchestrated an unsuccessful bid to smuggle gold bars from Mongolia to Hong Kong using a similar method.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bake sale, Umberto's Mom's cannoli were a big hit... South Korean officials gathered evidence against them at home. They say the suspects recently admitted to the smuggling after initial denials.
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Geese lay golden eggs, SKors crap golden beads.
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Goldsphincter
He's the man, the man with the Midas tush
An auric tush
Such a gold stinker
Rectum's used as a safety deposit box
Without any locks.
Golden bars he will stick in his rear
But his piles can't disguise that he's queer
For a Krugerrand shows that it was stuck there
Shoved up the rear, of Mister
Goldsphincter.
Officials at Cairo's international airport confiscated 420 pounds (190 kilograms) of frozen cow brains Friday from three Sudanese travelers who planned to sell them to Egyptian restaurants, authorities said.
An airport official said it was the fourth time this week that customs officers there had foiled an attempt to smuggle cow brains into the country, reflecting the growth of a moneymaking scheme made possible by some realities of international supply and demand: Cow brains are cheap in Sudan, and Egyptians like to eat them.
A pound of raw cow brains bought in Sudan for less than a dollar can be resold in Egypt for six times as much, airport officials said. That means Friday's haul could have earned the men more than $1,500.
Restaurants specializing in liver and brains are popular in Egypt. Both items are deep fried and often eaten in pita bread with spicy red sauce.
Airport officials discovered the brains Friday while inspecting large freezer boxes brought in by three travelers on a flight from Sudan's capital, Khartoum. After inspecting the boxes, the officials confiscated the brains since they couldn't ensure they had been preserved in a sanitary manner.
The brains would be burned, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... under airport rules.
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Subject for this morning's meditations...French/Egyptian fusion cuisine. I'll leave it to the Burg's better-qualified snarkmeisters to fill in the details :-P
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[An Nahar] Swiss archaeologists have discovered the tomb of a female singer dating back almost 3,000 years in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, Antiquities Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said on Sunday.
The rare find was made accidentally by a team from Switzerland's Basel University headed by Elena Pauline-Grothe and Susanne Bickel in Karnak, near Luxor in Upper Egypt, the minister told the media in Cairo.
The woman, Nehmes Bastet, was a singer for the supreme deity Amon Ra during the Twenty-Second Dynasty (945-712 BC), according to an inscription on a wooden plaque found in the tomb.
She was the daughter of the High Priest of Amon, Ibrahim said.
The discovery is important because "it shows that the Valley of the Kings was also used for the burial of ordinary individuals and priests of the Twenty-Second Dynasty," he added.
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I saw this yesterday. These people are the poorest of the poor. They left that part out in this article or I missed it. Numbers should increase now for a variety of reasons.
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What is perplexing is how many cases that showed up all at once. TB reproduces slowly, and can have wildly different incubation rates before symptoms show. From two weeks to many years.
That some doctor suddenly had the idea that, "Hey, let's check this whole ward for TB" doesn't make sense, because TB is always on the watch list. If anyone shows symptoms, everyone around them is tested, and the vast majority of those exposed are *just* exposed. Their TB has not turned active.
So I am guessing that this TR-TB is either novel, to which there is little or no immune resistance in the public, and/or it is so virulent that symptoms show up after the minimum incubation period.
I believe that around 1850, about 1/4th of the people in Europe had the bacillus, though only 500 out of 100,000 developed the active disease.
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Kathleen Sebelius and Janet From another planet Napolitano, both insist that, We are monitoring this issue extremely closely. Americas enemies have no need to be concerned.
Why is it that all the females who wear the niqab during exams seem to have deep voices?
Six female Tunisian students have started a hunger strike to demand the right to wear the niqab, the veil leaving only a slot for the wearer's eyes, according to the official Tap new agency.
The students from Manouba University in northeastern Tunisia launched the hunger strike on Monday calling for the university to respect their demand to be permitted to take exams completely veiled.
Protests in Manouba started on 28 November when students donning the niqab were not allowed to take final exams while wearing their veils. Demonstrations followed by sides calling for the right to attend exams fully veiled and students opposed.
Academic activities at the university have been periodically suspended since the start of protests.
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If they're such devout religious women that they need to be sacked up like that, what are they doing in school taking exams, rather than being at home breeding new jihadists?
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Bring in female police officers to fingerprint and photograph their bare faces for their school file, then have them thumbprint and sign each exam book when complete. Bring in a fingerprint expert to confirm that exam thumbprints match the ones on file. And charge a fee -- female modesty is priceless, so let them pay.
[An Nahar] About 30 international observers will for the first time be allowed to monitor Kuwait's parliamentary election on February 2, the head of a non-governmental organization said on Monday.
Most of the observers will be Arabs from the Arab Network for Election Democracy but contacts are underway with some non-Arab organizations to send monitors, Salah al-Ghazali told a presser.
The foreign monitors will assist 300 local volunteers who have been allowed to monitor the election, also for the first time in an official capacity, said the head of the Kuwaiti Transparency Society.
In previous elections, independent groups and organizations sent monitors to polling stations on their own without coordination with the government.
The foreign and local monitors will be allowed free access to polling stations and report any violations to the authorities, Ghazali said.
The Kuwaiti government last month asked the Kuwaiti Transparency Society and two other NGOs to monitor the parliamentary election before and during the casting of votes.
Ghazali said 300 people have volunteered to become monitors and undergone training.
The Kuwaiti ruler dissolved parliament in December after accepting the government's resignation and appointing a new prime minister following a bitter dispute between the previous government and MPs.
More than 300 candidates, including about 20 women, have registered to contest the election for the 50-seat parliament.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday pressed charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... and three others, accusing them of abusing power in collusion with each other for setting up a charitable trust named after late president Ziaur Rahman.
ACC Assistant Director Harunur Rashid, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka hours after the commission approved its submission around noon.
Main opposition leader Khaleda, who is also the widow of Zia, is scheduled to go to the CMM court today for submitting a bail bond. On December 8 last year she got bail for eight weeks in the case from the High Court.
In mutual collaboration the accused four realised over Tk 2.17 crore from unknown sources for establishing Shaheed Zia Charitable Trust, according to the charge sheet which also points out irregularities in spending another amount of over Tk 1.24 crore in the process of purchasing a land in the name of the trust, ACC Chairman Ghulam Rahman explained to The Daily Star.
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[An Nahar] Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday submitted a bill to parliament that would reinstate the direct election of regional governors following mass protests calling for reform.
Under the bill, Russian citizens would elect their regional leaders running independently or on a party ticket for a term of five years, the Kremlin said in a statement.
In the current system, the Kremlin chooses new governors from a shortlist presented by the ruling party. The appointment is then rubber-stamped by the local parliament.
The bill proposes instead that registered parties consult with the president on their candidates before their formal nomination -- something that the opposition has criticized for allowing the Kremlin to filter out unwelcome candidates.
"The parties will be able to nominate their candidates after consultations with the Russian president, the rules of which will be determined by the president," said the statement.
Russia abolished direct gubernatorial elections in 2004 during Vladimir Putin's ...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he is the current Prime Minister of Russia. His sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, was installed in the 2008 presidential elections. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. 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... presidency, in a move that was strongly criticized by the opposition. The posts have been filled by presidential appointment ever since.
Russia was rocked by record protests after disputed parliamentary elections on December 4.
The next mass rally is scheduled for February 4, a month before the presidential polls where Putin is seeking a historic third Kremlin term.
The Royal Navy and Marine Nationale plan to deploy a large naval force in the Mediterranean in the fall of 2012 with aircraft carriers, amphibious vessels, destroyers and frigates.
Royal Navy will deploy its Response Force Task Group, which will include the Landing Platform Helicopter (LPH) HMS Ocean and Light Aircraft Carrier (CVL) HMS Illustrious used as helicotper carrier.
French Navy is expected to deploy its carrier battle group with the nuclear powered aircraft carrier (CVN) Charles de Gaulle, and probably an amphibious group, with a Mistral class amphibious assault ship.
Both navies will desploy destroyers, frigates and submarines to escort the capital ships of the common naval force as well as auxiliary ships to ressuply the large number of vessels. This deployement will also involve ground units: Royal Marines, French Marine Infantry (9th BLBMa) as well as several helicopter transport and combat helicotpers are expected to be detached to the various amphibious vessels and carriers.
The objective of this major deployement, is to enhance cooperation and interoperability between the two main European navies. Despite relations between Britain and France getting cold in recent weeks over European issues and despite the cancelation of the Cameron / Sarkozy meeting scheduled for December it seems like military cooperation between the two countries remains unaffected. As part of the defense agreement signed in November 2010, the two countries, discussed the establishment of a Franco-British expeditionary force.
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OOOOOOOO, will their fleet units collide like the French + Saudi Air Forces?
The moment Captain Francesco Schettino, commander of the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship, refused to return to his vessel was recorded in their radio exchange.
Mr Schettino is in jail, accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship. He denies all wrongdoing and was questioned by magistrates on Tuesday.
The audio recording, on Corriere della Sera's website, reflected the chaos and confusion in the minutes after the Costa Concordia, carrying more than 4,000 passengers and crew, hit a rock off the Tuscany coast on Friday night and keeled over. Eleven people were killed and 24 are still missing.
The recording is full of background noises such as radio static, beeps and background noise of people and confusion. Some of the exchanges went as follows:
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Reminds me of TV's great "GET SMART" Character SIEGFRIED from KAOS, aka "The First Man out of El Alamein".
As per CNN + FOX NEWS AM, the Italia Coast Guard insisted that they were now officially in charge of the situation because Capt. Schettino had already stated he had declared "abandon ship", + demanded to Capt. Schettino that he return to the vessel to organize + overwatch the lift + rescue of passengers to shore. THE CG EXPRESSED SHOCK + SURPISE THAT HE SCHETTINO WAS ALREADY ON SHORE WHILE THE MAJORITY OF THE CONCORDIA'S PASSENGERS WERE STILL BACK ON THE SHIP TRYING TO GET OFF.
Once again, "Captain goes down wid his Ship" + "Women, Children, + Elderly first", etc. Mariner-isms takes a beating wid this latest Cruise Ship incident in the Med.
FYI Capt. Schettino's proper decisions, or lack of same, as per safe ship maneuvers in narrow waters, are also dubious.
In a trial run of a politically divisive program, U.S. prosecutors in Denver and Baltimore are reviewing thousands of deportation cases to determine which illegal immigrants might stay in the country - perhaps indefinitely - so officials can reduce a huge backlog by focusing mainly on detainees with criminal backgrounds or who are deemed threats to national security. ... or are (illegally) registered as Republicans.
Federal deportation hearings for noncriminal defendants released from custody were suspended Dec. 5 for the review and resume this week. Similar reviews are planned across the country to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to focus deportations of illegal immigrants on those with criminal records or those who have been deported previously.
While the immigration courtrooms in Denver have fallen silent, prosecutors had time to examine case files and check residency histories - such as whether someone was brought to the country as a child - as well as whether suspects had a criminal history.
Officials have not released information on how many cases will be placed on low priority based on the review. When theyre finished, cases of those who are here illegally but not deemed a threat to public safety or national security will be placed on administrative hold and the numbers will be released.
Citing tight budgets, Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano announced this summer that nearly 300,000 deportation cases would be reviewed to determine which could be closed through prosecutorial discretion. Republicans have decried the policy as a backdoor way of granting amnesty to people who are living in the U.S. illegally.
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Pragmatically, I'm interpreting this move as the US' desire to clear out as much of the current + older immigration cases ASAP AMAP, BEFORE THE SYSTEM IS ONCE AGAIN OVERRUN, IFF NOT COLLAPSED, BY MASSIVE NEW WAVES WROUGHT VEE OWG + FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS + NORTH AMERICAN UNION [NAU], + the like.
IMO the 300,000 is just a STARTER FIGURE, + its an election year + both the GOP-DEMS will compete to secure the Hispanic + Asian, etc. votes.
The time when America = Amerika only had a mere or lowly 12.0Milyuhn Illegals will seem like the good ole' days???
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Citing tight budgets, Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano announced this summer that nearly 300,000 TSA Gropers were getting new uniforms and the program of installing 'smart street lights ( with video and audio tracking capabilities) would continue as scheduled.
Since we've withdrawn from Iraq and are standing down in Afghanistan, how about cutting back on TSA since the threat is no longer worthy of the previous level of attention. That should free up a lot of funds.
[Pak Daily Times] Hundreds of Christians held a protest demonstration against the Punjab government and Minorities Minister Kamran Michael for alleged illegal demolition and occupation of their community's two-acre property, 'Gosha-e-Aman' situated on Allama Iqbal Road, Garhi Shahu, on Monday.
Bishop of Lahore Alexander John Malik, The ArchBishop of Lahore Catholic Church Sabestian Shah, PPP MPA Pervaiz Rafiq, PML-Q MPA Shehzad Elahi, Najmi Saleem, civil society activists and hundreds of Christians took part in the protest.
The protesters were holding banners inscribed with slogans such as, 'Down with Kamran Michael', 'Stop Violence against Christianity', etc. The protesters also condemned Michael for supporting and defending the government's "evil act".
Addressing the protesters, Alexander John Malik asked Michael to return the land to the community at the earliest, saying that otherwise the protests would continue and spread to other parts of the country as well.
He said the government had claimed that they got the land vacated from illegal occupants and asked who from Christian community had requested for the vacation. He said the Christian community "knew how to protect their properties very well".
PPP MPA Pervaiz Rafiq, while talking to Daily Times, said that by demolishing the property and illegally occupying the land, the Punjab government had given a very negative message to the Christian community.
He said that a charitable Christian organization had purchased the property in 1887, and now surprisingly, the government was declaring that nobody owned the land.
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[Dawn] In a major shift in its stance, the Pakistain Moslem League-N has decided to contact all parities, including the MQM and PML-Q, in a bid to mount pressure on the beleaguered PPP to announce early election.
The move, according to sources, is aimed at thwarting the possibility of a 'third force' taking advantage of the situation arising out of the memo scandal and observations made by the Supreme Court about implementation of its NRO judgment.
PML-N information secretary Senator Mushahidullah Khan said he would not rule out talks with different parties at the parliament level and a meeting between PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Mian Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... at a later stage.
He said his party was ready for talks with any party agreeing to its agenda for free and fair elections under an independent Election Commission.
The sources said that despite its reservations about the Zardari-Gilani set-up, the PML-N leadership had nothing to do with elements who were floating the proposal for following the 'Bangladesh model' before the next elections.
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[Dawn] The detection of first 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... case of 2012, not in any far-flung area of the county but in Punjab`s capital, has put a big question mark on the performance of provincial health authorities who are already facing allegations of taking inadequate precautionary measures against dengue virus that claimed more than 300 lives last year.
The emergence of the polio case in the second week of the 2012 becomes more embarrassing not only for the provincial health bosses but also for the country at a time when the neighboring Indian has started receiving appreciations from world over for having a period of 12 months without any polio case being reported there.
The United Nation health agency has already declared Pakistain a `high risk` country with regard to international spread of polio virus, particularly during large-scale traveling to Soddy Arabia for Haj and Umrah.
In its recent manifestation, the crippling disease has par-alysed an 18-month-old, Muhammad Bashir, son of Banara Khan, a resident of Darbar Madolay Shah Colony, Shahdara, Lahore.
The National Institute of Health (NIH) has notified the fresh pollo case in its report issued a couple of days ago.
A senior health expert told Dawn, requesting anonymity, the emergence of new case in Pakistain was a matter of grave concern as the World Health Organization (WHO) executive board was meeting between 16-23 January to review a report on polio eradication. The meeting would also discuss a draft of anti-polio resolution to be considered for the 65th session of the World Health Assembly in May, 2012, he added.
He said in the wake of the surfacing of the fresh polio case here, the WHO executive board might intensify international restrictions on travel to and from Pakistain.
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[Dawn] The local leader of Pakistain Mohammedan League-Nawaz and former MNA, Haji Yaqoob Khan, was likely to join the ruling Awami National Party soon, sources said.
They said that he might contest by-election for the National Assembly seat, which fell vacant after resignation of former federal minister Khwaja Mohammad Khan Hoti, on the ticket of ANP.
Khwaja Hoti resigned from the basic membership of ANP and National Assembly after joining Pakistain Tehrik-i-Insaf on December 16 last. By-election on the vacant seat, NA-9 Mardan, is scheduled for February 20.
Sources said that Haji Yaqoob was expected to announce joining ANP within few days.
A delegation of ANP called on Haji Yaqoob at his residence here on Sunday and formally invited him to join the party. Led by Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti and his father Azam Khan Hoti, the delegation was consisted of Syed Masoom Shah Bacha, ANP district vice president Javed Mohammad, general secretary Imran Mandoori and former district 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... Himayatullah Mayar.
The ANP leaders invited Haji Yaqoon to join ANP to play a role for the betterment and welfare of Pakhtun nation.
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YANGON: A US senator who is a leading supporter of Myanmars democracy movement said Monday he is impressed with the new governments reforms but more needs to be done. Republican leader Mitch McConnell met more than an hour with Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and will meet President Thein Sein on Tuesday.
McConnell is the latest prominent Westerner to visit Myanmar and encourage Thein Seins initiative. The top American and British diplomats visited earlier, and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe is in the country now. More of McConnells Senate colleagues plan visits later.
As part of new US engagement, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the US will restore full diplomatic relations with Myanmar after last weeks release of hundreds of political prisoners.
Thein Seins elected, nominally civilian government has made limited democratic reforms since it took office last March and it wants Western political and economic sanctions lifted.
Every year since 2003, McConnell has introduced legislation sanctioning Myanmar and would be a prominent voice should the US contemplate easing those restrictions. The Senate must also approve the appointment of an ambassador.
McConnell told reporters he was delighted to meet Suu Kyi in person, and that the recent dramatic changes were exciting. There is, however, as everyone knows, much left to be done, he said. I think the improved relations with the various ethnic minorities are the most important thing we want to focus on at this point.
He called the recently announced cease-fire with the Karen an important step. wed like to see that kind of progress made with other ethnic groups, McConnell said.
He said the US also looked forward to free and fair by-elections on April 1. He said such steps would clearly merit US consideration of lifting sanctions. The myriad US sanctions heavily restrict trade, investment and foreign aid to Myanmar. The restrictions also block financial transfers, especially by military-backed leaders and their cronies, and deny visas to the same VIPs.
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Romancing Burma and Bangladesh to secure the Bay of Bengal as a Naval gateway to Indonesia/SEA as a preventative for when the Arabian Sea goes Arab??
Maybe revisiting the South China Sea containment strategy with a squeeze from India/Australia/New Zealand?
Irans morality police are cracking down on the sale of Barbie dolls to protect the public from what they see as pernicious western culture eroding Islamic values, shopkeepers said on Monday.
As the West imposes the toughest ever sanctions on Iran and tensions rise over its nuclear programme, inside the country the Barbie ban is part of what the government calls a soft war against decadent cultural influences.
About three weeks ago they [the morality police] came to our shop, asking us to remove all the Barbies, said a shopkeeper in a toy shop in northern Tehran.
Irans religious rulers first declared Barbie, made by U.S. company Mattel Inc, un-Islamic in 1996, citing its destructive cultural and social consequences. Despite the ban, the doll has until recently been openly on sale in Tehran shops.
The new order, issued around three weeks ago, forced shopkeepers to hide the leggy, busty blonde behind other toys as a way of meeting popular demand for the dolls while avoiding being closed down by the police.
A range of officially approved dolls launched in 2002 to counter demand for Barbie have not proven successful, merchants told Reuters.
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.
[An Nahar] South Korean customs officials say they have 
Officials at Cairo's international airport confiscated 420 pounds (190 kilograms) of frozen cow brains Friday from three Sudanese travelers who planned to sell them to Egyptian restaurants, authorities said.
Swiss archaeologists have discovered the tomb of a female singer dating back almost 3,000 years in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, Antiquities Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said on Sunday.
Khaleda Zia
...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he is the current Prime Minister of Russia. His sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, was installed in the 2008 presidential elections. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. 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...
Career of Baltasar Garzón, who ordered the arrest of the Chilean dictator, could be over as he faces abuse of power charges
In a trial run of a politically divisive program, U.S. prosecutors in Denver and Baltimore are reviewing thousands of deportation cases to determine which illegal immigrants might stay in the country - perhaps indefinitely - so officials can reduce a huge backlog by focusing mainly on detainees with criminal backgrounds or who are deemed threats to national security.
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[Dawn] In a major shift in its stance, the Pakistain 
The detection of first 
[Dawn] The local leader of Pakistain 
