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Black Market in Organ Donations Flourishes in China
Beijing - In China, where a growing demand for organ transplants coupled with a dramatic shortage of donors has fuelled a rampant black market trade, selling your organs for …
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Syrian Troops Reportedly Enter Restive City
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Troops backed by tanks stormed a city on Syria’s Mediterranean coast on Saturday that has proved one of the most restive in the seven-week uprising, besieging …
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Al-Qaeda Confirms Bin Laden’s Death
Al Qaeda released a statement on militant Web sites Friday confirming the death of Osama bin Laden, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi Web sites. The …
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News in Brief: Doctors and State Employees on Strike in Portugal and Greece, and More …
Doctors and State Employees on Strike in Portugal and Greece Doctors in Greece have clashed with police in a three-hour work stoppage to protest the newest round …
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Filling in the Gaping Holes in WikiLeaks’ Guantanamo Detainee Files
A guard house at Delta Camp, a part of the prison facility at the US Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, July 23, 2008. (Photo: Fred R. Conrad / …
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As Housing Shortage Worsens, Tribes Forced to Use FEMA Trailers
Lack of adequate housing on Native American tribal lands has become so critical that tribes have been acquiring mobile homes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The shelters, meant …
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Pakistan’s Terror Ties at Center of Upcoming Chicago Trial
It may be years, if ever, before the world learns whether Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) helped hide Osama bin Laden. But detailed allegations of ISI …
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Egypt Rejects US AID Offer
Egypt has rejected an offer of $150 million in US aid to help overcome the economic losses triggered by the January 25th Revolution and to support the country's embryonic …
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Strong Job Report Shows US Economy Gaining Steam
The United States economy added far more jobs than expected in April as the recovery continued to pick up steam. The Department of Labor said Friday that …
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Obama’s Pakistan Policy Sets Low Bar for Aid
In March, the Obama administration certified to Congress that Pakistan had shown a “sustained commitment” to ending its support for Islamic militants. Two days later, the top U.S. military …