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Italian’s Detention Illustrates Dangers Foreign Visitors Face

2008-05-15T18:45:54Z

By NINA BERNSTEIN The New York Times Published: May 14, 2008 He was a carefree Italian with a recent law degree from a Roman university. She was “a totally Virginia girl,” as she puts it, raised across the road from George Washington’s home. Thei...

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GCHQ Confirms Violent Riots Staged By Chinese

2008-03-29T23:59:59Z

PLA agents instigated unrest to justify crackdown Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Thursday, March 27, 2008 Britain's GCHQ spy agency has confirmed the fact that Chinese People's Liberation Army agents posing as monks staged viol...

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FBI chief: Report shows improper use of subpoenas in terror cases

2008-03-06T01:52:21Z

Wed March 5, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI improperly used national security letters in 2006 to obtain personal data on Americans during terror and spy investigations, Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday. Mueller told the Senate Judiciary C...

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Ohio School Suspends Boy Over Mohawk

2008-02-28T08:41:22Z

February 27, 2008 PARMA, Ohio (AP) -- A kindergarten student with a freshly spiked Mohawk has been suspended from school. Michelle Barile, the mother of 6-year-old Bryan Ruda, said nothing in the Parma Community School handbook prohibits the hai...

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Organizer Disputes Comcast Over Hearing

2008-02-27T22:13:15Z

By MARK JEWELL The Associated Press Wednesday, February 27, 2008 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The organizer of a federal hearing at Harvard Law School on Comcast Corp.'s treatment of subscriber Internet traffic on Wednesday said "seat-warmers" apparently ...

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AT&T Whistle-Blower Among Award Winners

2008-02-27T22:11:42Z

By ANICK JESDANUN 27 Feb 2008 NEW YORK (AP) — A whistle-blower credited with providing key documents in a lawsuit over the Bush administration's secretive domestic wiretapping program is one of three recipients of the "Pioneer Awards" from a civi...

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Musharraf champions rights, but only with limits

2008-01-25T21:52:53Z

Fri Jan 25, 2008 By Luke Baker LONDON (Reuters) - Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf cast himself as a champion of human rights and free expression on Friday -- then turned on a journalist who questioned him and said rights should have limits. ...

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