For over a decade U.S. citizen Lori Berenson had been imprisoned within the South American nation of Peru on charges of attempting to aid communist guerillas in overthrowing the government. However, despite serving 15 years of a 20 year sentence Berenson
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Recently the U.K. and France announced that they are to sign an agreement for the development and testing of nuclear weapons. The plan will see the UK developing the necessary technology while their French neighbors will carry out the actual testing of th
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Recently the President of Chile had to issue an apology due to something he wrote in a guest book during a recent visit to the German capital of Berlin. President Sebastian Pinera wrote ?Deutschland uber alles? in the guest book, which translates as ?G
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Not that long ago New Zealand was hit by a very strong earthquake that destroyed buildings and tore up roads. Last week another earthquake hit the city of Christchurch, resulting in electricity and phone lines being cut. Although not as powerful as the fi
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Police in Washington D.C. are still investigating an incident where a police car crashed into “Bumblebee”, one of the cars from the Transformers franchise, involved in the shooting for the Transformers 3 movie. The movie’s producers assured the authori
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Last week an unnamed South Korean government official told the press that an agreement between the nation and South Africa had been reached for the construction of a nuclear plant. However South African officials responded by saying they will not sign any
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In the past U.S. president Barack Obama has made it no secret that he admires the Korean education system and already he is making moves to make the U.S. school system more like the Korean one, primarily by lengthening school hours. The president also sai
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Recently U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled to Egypt to begin the second round of Middle East peace talks. She joined with the leaders of Palestine and Israel at a meeting hosted by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at a resort by the Red Sea
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Snacking in the wrong places can cost you fines of up to 80 dollars Rome, in one of the most visited cities in the world. In the first five months of this year, at least 7.6 million people visited the city. The ban, which began July 12 and ends at the end of October, is designed to help preserve Rome’s artistic treasures and decorum. Visitors are not allowed to eat snacks or loiter near
Recently a church in Gainesville, Florida in the U.S. announced they planned to hold a mass burning of the Muslim holy book the Quran on September 11, the ninth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York. Yet the church and its rever
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