BANGKOK, Thailand – As much as 25 percent of cyclone relief aid in Burma (also known as Myanmar) is being lost because of the military government’s foreign exchange system, a United Nations official said Friday. Dan Baker, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Burma, said he is concerned that the losses …
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WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took a rare opportunity Thursday to switch roles and testify before his colleagues to blast polygamy, a still-used practice among some who practice the Mormon faith. Reid, D-Nev., is Mormon himself and noted that while his church had cast off its polygamist past, …
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Companies collected tens of millions of dollars in government contracts by claiming to have main offices in poor neighborhoods that were actually empty duplexes, part-time offices and other ineligible locations, congressional investigators charge. Billions more remain at risk because the Small Business Administration doesn’t usually check paperwork, rarely conducts audits …
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The Naked Cowboy was heading back to New York on Monday after San Francisco dropped its case against him on a technicality, according to the New York Post. “I said I am not leaving until this is resolved. I want a clean record,” Times Square tourist favorite Robert Burck told …
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SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea’s Constitutional Court overturned a ban on doctors telling parents the gender of unborn babies, saying Thursday the country has grown out of a preference for sons and that the restriction violates parents’ right to know. South Korea introduced the ban in 1987 to try …
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NEW YORK – A crane accident at a Donald Trump hotel-condominium tower under construction in Manhattan’s trendy SoHo neighborhood sent a worker plummeting 40 stories to his death and injured three other people, authorities said. The worker’s identity was not immediately released. The three injured were taken to a hospital, …
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FORT WORTH, Texas – Fighter jets were training nearby the night dozens of Stephenville-area residents reported seeing a UFO this month, Air Force Reserve officials said Wednesday, backtracking on earlier statements. The announcement did little to satisfy residents of Texas dairy country who swear that what they saw in the …
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WASHINGTON – A soldier killed over the weekend south of Baghdad was the first American casualty in a roadside bomb attack on a newly introduced, heavily armored vehicle, military officials said Tuesday. The death, however, has not changed the Pentagon’s mind about its plans to spend more than $22 billion …
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NEW YORK – Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum, a Talmudic scholar who led a yeshiva in Brooklyn for more than 50 years after fleeing Nazi-occupied Poland and briefly taking refuge in Shanghai, has died. He was 87. Berenbaum died Sunday after a long struggle with cancer, said Rabbi Pinchos Hecht, executive director …
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