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A prisoner in Ft. Lauderdale was convicted of indecent exposure for masturbating in his cell.
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India elected its first woman president.

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Over 500 victims of clergy sexual abuse settled their claims with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles for $660 million; the Archdiocese is expected to sell up to 50 church properties to raise funds, as many of the the cases date from periods when it had little or no sexual-abuse insurance.
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The Iraqi government warned of a massive build-up of Turkish troops along the northern Iraqi border.
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The outgoing Israeli President signed a plea bargain admitting to “indecent acts.” He will not be indicted for the rape he is accused of committing.
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A 65-year-old St. Louis man is missing after Amtrak personnel, mistaking his diabetic shock for drunk and disorderly behavior, kicked him off a train in the middle of a national forest.
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The Australian government announced a ban on alcohol and pornography for Aborigines.
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Scientists were examining the distinct possibility that Hitler hated Jews because a jewish prostitute gave him syphilis. The job of “combating syphilis - the Jewish disease - should be the task of the entire German nation,” he wrote, adding “The health of the nation will be regained only by eliminating the Jews.”
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Thousands of South Korean farmers protested a pending trade deal with the US. “Free trade with the United States is like robbing our right to live,” they said.
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A Malaysian appeals court declared in a landmark ruling that mistresses have rights and should not be treated as mere chattel, news reports said Friday. Goh, a 73-year old businessman, met Heng, 56, almost 40 years ago and bought her a house in southern Johor state in 1980. Goh later demanded the house back after the relationship soured in 1988. “You squeezed her like a lemon and later cast her aside like an old shoe,” the judge said to Goh after overturning the high court’s decision.

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Complaints in the United States of anti-Muslim discrimination rose 25 percent from 2005 to 2006, according to a new report by the US Council on American-Islamic Relations.
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Zimbabwe will collapse within six months, possibly leading to a state of emergency, according to a leaked briefing report for aid workers in the country.
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The government of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in the midst of one of the most intensive crackdowns on domestic dissent in the last two decades, targeting groups as diverse as banks and labor unions, students and civic organizations.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would restore habeus corpus to prisoners at Guantanano Bay. On Thursday, the committee voted eleven to eight to advance a measure that would let prisoners challenge their detentions in federal court.
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Dr. Kevorkian promised not to kill anymore people.

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United Nations officials said on Friday that rebel leaders in the Central African Republic had agreed to begin sending 400 child soldiers home to their families.

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The United Nations top humanitarian chief is saying the refugee situation in Somalia is now worse than Darfur.
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An army survey found that less than half the troops in Iraq think Iraqi civilians should be treated with dignity and respect, and more than a third believed that torture was acceptable if it helped get information about the insurgents.
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An Army commander apologized and paid compensation on Tuesday to families of Afghan civilians killed by marines after a suicide attack in March, in the first formal acknowledgment by the American authorities that the killings were unjustified.
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Former US president Bill Clinton on Tuesday announced a deal with drugs companies to drastically reduce the cost of second line anti-retroviral
HIV/AIDS medicines for people in the developing world.
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