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 The News Tribune 
Immigration center plans expansion
The corporation that runs the federal immigration detention center on Tacoma's Tideflats plans to expand the facility's capacity by 50 percent. | When completed, the Northwest Detention Center should ... (photo: GFDL / Tomas Castelazo)
 US Supreme Court
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 International Herald Tribune 
The fragile center of America's Supreme Court
| In some ways, the U.S. Supreme Court term that just ended seems muddled: disturbing, highly conservative rulings on subjects like voting rights and gun control, along with important defenses of basi... (photo: US DoJ file)
 Oil Prices, oil, Gasoline Prices, gasoline, energy, fuel, economic growth, inflation, consumer. tp1  London Evening Standard 
Stock market falls follow oil surge
03.07.08 | Europe's major stock markets were nursing falls of around 1% as oil prices hovering near record levels overshadowed trading. | London's FTSE 100 Index fell 1% below 5400 early on as the com... (photo: WN/Theresa Poongan)
Europe   Market   Money   Oil   Photos  
Grade School Pupils - Davao City - Philippines  London Evening Standard 
Schools told to monitor pupils' health and homes
Schools and local authorities are to be made accountable for tackling drug abuse, pregnancies and obesity among pupils under measures to improve "wellbeing". | Schools Secretary Ed Balls will today pu... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)
Children   Health   Obesity   Photos   Teachers  
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Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt gives a thumbs up upon arrival to a military base in Bogota after being rescued from six years of captivity, Wednesday, July 2, 2008. BBC News
Betancourt hails 'perfect' rescue
"I saw this guerrilla commander, who had so often been cruel to us, on the floor," she said. "But I did not feel happiness. I felt sad." | Armed forces chief Gen Freddy P... (photo: AP / Fernando Vergara)
Colombia   France   Hostage   Photos   S America  
Mayor Gavin Newsom San Fransisco Chronicle
S.F. mayor shifts policy on illegal offenders
| (07-02) 14:39 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco will shift course and start turning over juvenile illegal immigrants convicted of felonies to federal authorities for p... (photo: Creative Commons / Frederick Manligas Nacino )
Gavin Newsom   Government   Photos   Society   US  
Charles Sobhraj The Times Of India
Sobhraj finds love in Nepal, with a 20-year-old
|                 KATHMANDU: The 64-year-old has cast the remnants of his old charm from behind bars on a Nepali belle and th... (photo: AP Photo)
India   Kolkata   Nepal   Paris   Photos  
 Candle light vigil for Peace and Harmony in Tibet The Miami Herald
Mixing Olympics, politics hurt 1980's athletes
| EUGENE, Ore. -- Candy Young-Sanders has been watching the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials from the Hayward Field grandstand with a 28-year-old picture of herself ha... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang)
Olympic   Olympics   Photos   Politics   Slideshow   Trials  
Jack Nicholson/Wam2 Penn Live
'One of the greatest screen villains'
| Heath Ledger's Joker could earn rare, posthumous Oscar. | Jack Nicholson's Joker was a blast. Heath Ledger's Joker is as dark and anarchic a figure as Randle McMurphy i... (photo: public domain / )
Actor   Entertainment   Hollywood   Movies   Photos  
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Canada Dot Com
Philippines says uncovers new plot against Arroyo
| MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine authorities have foiled a fresh plot to oust President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, arresting an opposition lawyer, three retired colonels and... (photo: OPS/NIB / Rey Baniquet)
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Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia International Herald Tribune
U.S. is in no shape to give advice, Medvedev says
| : Russia's new president, Dmitri Medvedev, less swaggering than his predecessor but as touchy about criticism from abroad, said in an interview that an America in "esse... (photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office)
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- Waterboarding test for torture, says Christopher Hitchens
- Over-the-counter cloak and dagger
- Sweden pays exonerated terror suspect $502K
- International legal experts unveil index to measure how well
- U.S. assures UK over secret flights, doubts persist
- Sweden pays $500,000 to exonerated terror suspect
Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe, at podium, listens to former hostage Ingrid Betancourt during a press conference at the presidential palace in Bogota, Wednesday, July 2, 2008.
3 rescued US hostages arrive safely in Texas
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- Families’ hopes depend on DNA
- Rebels stage attacks in Compostela, Davao
- Tourist bomb plot foiled
- Grieving family tell of 'little funny fella'
- Asian vigilantes hit back against crime
- Thriving sex trade takes hold in suburban homes
An elderly Palestinian man walks by a section of Israel's separation barrier at the Kalandia checkpoint between the outskirts of Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007.
Jerusalem fears Arab enemy within
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Violence Murders
- Iraq report details impact of violence on minorities
- Mbeki calls violence shameful
- IRAQ: Ministry report details impact of violence on minoriti
- Afghanistan violence leaves 5 Afghan soldiers, 25 Taliban de
- Men say sorry for abuse, violence
- 25 hurt in renewed violence in Jammu
An armored personnel carrier patrols on a street in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, Wednesday July 2, 2008.
Heavy security in Mongolia after riots
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- How about workers abused by their employers?
- Video column by Michael Janusonis: 'Vantage Point' i
- Movies: Friday-Sunday, July 4-6
- Asian vigilantes hit back against crime
- Murder accused played games after killings
- Court acquits 4 QC cops of trader's slay
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Stock market falls follow oil surge
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Human Rights Terrorism
- Learning from Wangari Maathai
- Reflecting on US-RP relations
- Pressure to ditch Mbeki as mediator
- Old-fashioned fake-out results in freedom for hostages
- Former DRC rebel arrives in The Hague to face war crimes cha
- Iraq report details impact of violence on minorities
 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) meets with Thabo Mbeki, President of the Republic of South Africa at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Berlin, Germany. (mb1)
Pressure to ditch Mbeki as mediator
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- Second al Qaeda suspect freed from British jail
- Tourist bomb plot foiled
- US presidential elections 2008
- Jerusalem fears Arab enemy within
- Terror accused Abdul Nacer Benbrika 'driven by fear'
- George W. Bush pledges more US troops to battle Taliban
 President George W. Bush addresses the American Legion on the global war on terror, Friday, Feb. 24, 2006 at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington. President Bush voiced his support for free elections in the Middle East, saying that free elections are i
US presidential elections 2008
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