AN 11-year-old boy forced two pre-school-aged girls to have sex with him, infected them with sexually transmitted diseases, but will not be prosecuted by Western Australian authorities.
Police yesterday confirmed that criminal charges would not be laid against the boy from Balgo, a troubled indigenous community in the northeastern reaches of the Great Sandy Desert 100km [...]

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Charges against a man accused of repeatedly raping and molesting a 7-year-old girl were dismissed last week because the court could not find an interpreter fluent in the suspect’s native West African language.
Mahamu Kanneh, a Liberian native who received asylum in this country and attended high school and community college here, according to The [...]

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It has become apparent that many people have misinterpreted my ‘Peak Oil’ rants. I know this because I get e-mail with messages like, “thanks for giving me hope,” and “thanks for changing my view of the future.” I am sorry to have to report here that the newfound optimism of some of my readers is [...]

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Being able to present one’s own definitions of concepts as well as interpretations of various phenomena and historical events is a vital part of every metapolitical and cultural struggle. This is more important than ever in these modern times, where many concepts have been distorted and lost their original meaning – which can be regarded [...]

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The number of people seeking medical help after Tuesday’s poisonous chemical spill in Ukraine has increased dramatically overnight.
Up to 70 people are being treated for the effects of toxic fumes released in the derailment of a train near the western city of Lviv.
Authorities say that the concentration of noxious gases in the affected [...]

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President Robert Mugabe said on Wednesday that Zimbabwe’s military had rejected British encouragement to stage a coup and warned his government would press ahead with a price blitz that has left shop shelves empty.

Mugabe, in power since independence from Britain in 1980, also mocked one of his critics, Roman Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube, saying he [...]

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Amid a fierce debate about minarets, public services in canton Zurich are being tested to determine if they discriminate against Muslims.
The cantonal authorities commissioned the fact-finding study to provide a more solid foundation for an ongoing political debate on how Muslims practise their religion in Zurich.
The Zurich chapter of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party put [...]

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RAF fighter jets were scrambled to intercept two Russian strategic bombers heading for British airspace yesterday, as the spirit of the Cold War returned to the North Atlantic once again.
The incident, described as rare by the RAF, served as a telling metaphor for the stand-off between London and Moscow over the murder of Alexander [...]

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