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Police: At least 15 killed in Bolivia prison melee

24.08.2013 00:03
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - At least 15 people were killed, many burned to death, in a battle among rival gangs for control of part of an overcrowded maximum-security prison in Bolivia's eastern lowlands, police said. Bolivian police chief Alberto Aracena said at least seven of the 50 injured were in...

Hasan convicted of murder for Fort Hood rampage

23.08.2013 23:58
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- Army Maj. Nidal Hasan was convicted Friday in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, a shocking assault against American troops at home by one of their own who said he opened fire on fellow soldiers to protect Muslim insurgents abroad. The Army psychiatrist...

Random attack in Spokane leaves WWII veteran dead

23.08.2013 23:56
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Police in Spokane, Wash., say they have arrested one of two teens suspected of fatally beating an 88-year-old veteran of World War II who had survived the Battle of Okinawa. Authorities say the two young men, between 16 and 19 years old, approached Delbert Belton in his car...

Peru drug arrests: Women 'forced into cocaine trafficking'

16.08.2013 18:15
Two women held in Peru over suspected drug trafficking have told a visiting cleric they were forced at gunpoint by Colombian gangsters to carry the drugs. Melissa Reid, 19, from Lenzie, near Glasgow, and Michaella McCollum, 20, from Dungannon, were stopped trying to board a flight to Madrid last...

Brazil: Rio gang who raped American tourist jailed

16.08.2013 18:13
Two men in Brazil have been sentenced to 49 years in jail each for kidnapping and repeatedly raping an American woman on a minibus in Rio de Janeiro. Driver Jonathan Froudakis de Souza, 20, and conductor Walace Aparecido de Souza Silva, 21, were sentenced for robbery, extortion and rape. They...

Ecuador approves Amazon oil drilling

16.08.2013 18:08
Ecuador has abandoned a conservation plan that would have paid the country not to drill for oil in previously untouched parts of Yasuni National Park in the Amazon rainforest. President Rafael Correa said rich nations had failed to back the initiative, leaving Ecuador with no choice but go...

Edward Snowden documents show NSA broke privacy rules

16.08.2013 18:03
The US National Security Agency (NSA) broke privacy rules and overstepped its legal authority thousands of times in the past two years, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden. The incidents resulted in the unauthorised electronic surveillance of US citizens, according to...

The US National Security Agency (NSA) broke privacy rules and overstepped its legal authority thousands of times in the past two years, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden. The incidents resulted in the unauthorised electronic surveillance of

16.08.2013 18:02

Priority Health: Brain-eating amoebas

16.08.2013 17:48
Health officials say a 12- year-old southwest Florida boy is fighting a rare infection that is attacking his brain. Family members told media outlets that Zachary Reyna contracted Naegleria fowleri an amoeba that causes deadly brain infections while knee boarding with some friends in a ditch near...

Drug safely cuts prostate cancer risk, study finds

16.08.2013 17:43
(AP) Long-term results from a major federal study ease worries about the safety of a hormone-blocking drug that can lower a man's chances of developing prostate cancer. The drug cut prostate cancer risk by 30 percent without raising the risk of dying of an aggressive form of the disease as...
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