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The No-Longer-So-Secret Swiss Bank Account
Bankers from Credit Suisse, one of the world's largest financial institutions, courted wealthy Americans in airports, at family weddings and on golf courses from Florida to the Bahamas with a simple pitch: We'll help you hide your money. The bankers...
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Wed, Feb 02 2014 1:41 PM
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Texas to Washington: Executing Mexicans Is Our Business, Not Yours
When Texas executed Edgar Arias Tomayo on Thursday, he became the third Mexican national to receive the death penalty in that state since 2008. And if it takes three events to establish a trend, then the trend is set: Every few years, Texas begins the...
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Fri, Jan 01 2014 3:29 PM
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One Man's Lonely Quest to Close the Door on Northern Ireland's Troubles
If John Larkin, Northern Ireland's Attorney General, has his way, crimes perpetrated before the end of the country's three-decade conflict between mainly Catholic Irish nationalists and Protestant loyalists will no longer be prosecuted. That conflict...
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Thu, Nov 11 2013 4:27 PM
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So, You Captured an al Qaeda Terrorist and Are Holding Him at Sea. Now What?
On Saturday, U.S. Navy SEALs captured Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, better known by his nom de guerre, Abu Anas al-Libi, in a brazen raid on his home in Tripoli, Libya. Libi was indicted in New York in 2000 for his role in al Qaeda's bombing of U.S...
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Mon, Oct 10 2013 3:50 PM
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Canada Joins Bahrain, Saudi Arabia in Banning Masks -- but Only at Riots
The list of oppressive countries legislating the wearing of masks keeps growing: the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and now ... Canada. Yes, Canada.[[BREAK]] Last month, we reported on Saudi Arabia banning the Guy Fawkes masks popularized...
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Thu, Jun 06 2013 11:00 AM
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Egypt's political crisis
President Mohamed Morsi and his advisors cannot have expected that his November 22 constitutional declaration would throw Egypt into a renewed state of turmoil. That it has speaks volumes to the immense changes that have occurred in the country during...
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Mon, Dec 12 2012 6:48 AM
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Morsi’s majoritarian mindset
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi turned Egyptian politics on its head on Thanksgiving eve with his now familiar style of governance: a unilateral, surprise decree, the fourth of its kind since Morsi assumed his position in June. Each of these decisions...
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Tue, Nov 11 2012 8:14 AM
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Porn fans of Egypt unite against crackdown
Egypt's increasingly influential Salafis won a victory this week by pressuring the government to finally implement a 2009 court ruling , enacted under former President Hosni Mubarak, to ban pornography. On Wednesday, Egyptian Prosector Abdel Maguid...
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Thu, Nov 11 2012 2:58 PM
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Former Maldives president skips trial and evades 'island arrest'
The recently deposed president of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed was scheduled to be tried Monday, Oct. 1, under charges of abuse of power. Instead of making an appearance, he skipped his trial and left in a fishing boat to campaign for the upcoming 2013 election...
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Mon, Oct 10 2012 3:03 PM
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French fare-dodgers get organized
The Parisians who flooded the streets of France's capital city this morning -- part of country-wide push-back against President Nicolas Sarkozy's proposed austerity plan (which includes, among other simply intolerable measures, a new retirement...
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Thu, Jun 06 2010 10:15 AM
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What's the definition of war criminal?
At a Monday lecture in Los Angeles, Bush presidential advisor Karl Rove was given a very, very warm welcome . Audience members called him a war criminal and yelled that he would "rot in hell." One member of activist group Code Pink even approached...
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Tue, Mar 03 2010 9:54 AM
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Marijuana policy controversy continues in UK
"Some people get the giggles after using cannabis -- you may laugh at the most random things" cautions "FRANK," the UK's anti-drug website. Despite declining drug use in the country, in January the British government changed marijuana's...
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Wed, Nov 11 2009 12:34 PM
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