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Some 200 women gang-raped near Congo UN base
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-raped nearly 200 women and some young boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers’ base in an eastern Congo mining district, an American aid worker and a Congolese doctor said Monday.
Will F. Cragin of the International Medical Corps said aid workers knew rebels had occupied […]
18 Signs That America Is Rotting Right In Front Of Our Eyes
Sometimes it isn’t necessary to quote facts and figures about government debt, unemployment and the trade deficit in order to convey how badly America is decaying. The truth is that millions of Americans can watch America rotting right in front of their eyes by stepping out on their front porches. Record numbers of homes have […]
DNA Tests Reveal ‘Adolf Hitler Descended From The Jews and Africans He Hated’ (Shocking News)
DNA tests have revealed Adolf Hitler may have been related to both Jews and black people that he earmarked for extermination.
Brussels news magazine Knack has claimed that DNA obtained from the Nazi leader’s relatives living in America led to the discovery.
Journalist Jean-Paul Mulders garnered the DNA from a serviette dropped by one of three known […]
Obama vacations in the shadow of a nuclear Iran: The massive failure of Obama’s foreign policy
While President Obama enjoys his sixth vacation of the year, at the exclusive playground of America’s liberal elites at Martha’s Vineyard, the United States’ most dangerous state-based adversary on the world stage is celebrating the opening of its first nuclear reactor, the Russian-built power plant at Bushehr. Although purportedly for civilian purposes, there can be […]
Somali insurgents killed by own bombs
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Aug. 21 (UPI) — An explosion at a house used as a bomb-making center by the Somali militant group al-Shabaab killed several people, a member of the group said Saturday.
The unnamed militant described the dead as “top fighters” and said they included both Somalis and foreigners, Garowe Online reported. The man said two […]
China Overtakes Japan as World’s Second-Biggest Economy
China’s economy surpassed Japan’s as the world’s second-largest – a highly anticipated milestone rich in symbolism for a developing country that began market reforms only three decades ago.
Read the whole story from LA Times
India Unveils $35 Computer Tablet
India just debut a $35 tablet prototype. Of course, the tablet will not compete with Apple iPad. But this is a step in the right direction for a developing nation like India. The human resources minister expects the price to fall to $10 per tablet.
Read more at CNN.com
Black Parents, White Baby
A BLACK couple coo over their new baby yesterday - a white, blue-eyed BLONDE. British Nmachi Ihegboro has amazed genetics experts who say the little girl is NOT an albino. Dad Ben, 44, a customer services adviser, admitted: “We both just sat there after the birth staring at her.”
Mum Angela, 35, of […]
Husbands can be jailed for insulting wives under new French law
Couples who insult each other over their physical appearance or make false accusations about infidelity face jail, under a new French law making “psychological violence” a criminal offence.
The law – the first of its kind – means that partners who make such insults or threats of physical violence faces up to three years in prison […]
CIA Chief: Iran has enough uranium for two nuclear bombs
CIA Director Leon Panetta says Iran probably has enough low-enriched uranium for two nuclear weapons, but that it likely would take two years to build the bombs.
Panetta also says he is doubtful that recent U.N. penalties will put an end to Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
He says the penalties could help to weaken Tehran’s government by creating […]