Riot at California Institution for Men injures hundreds
A prison riot at the California Institution for Men in Chino involved about 1,300 inmates in seven dorms. At least 250 inmates were hurt and 55 were hospitalized as officers responded. authorities cited racial tensions between black and Hispanic prisoners as a likely trigger.
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Chino
Calif
California
Los Angeles
California Institution For Men
Mark Hargrove
Hargrove
Saudi Arabia shuts LBC office over sex talk interview
Saudi authorities closed the Jiddah office of LBC after it aired a man’s frank discussion of sex and display of erotic toys on Bold Red Line. Mazen Abdul-Jawad, 32, detained since last Friday, seeks forgiveness for his appearance.
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Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
Abdul-Rahman al- Hazza
Ministry of Culture and Information
LBC
Jiddah
Mazen Abdul-Jawad
Abdul-Jawad
Saudi Airlines
Pope calls Nazi camps symbols of evil and hell on earth
Pope Benedict XVI, in Castel Gandolfo, said Nazi concentration camps were extreme symbols of evil and hell on earth. He recalled saints who died at Auschwitz and noted the camps embody ultimate evil, stressing the horrors of persecution.
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Castel Gandolfo
Italy
Pope Benedict XVI
Hell
Auschwitz
Benedict
Arctic Ocean melts to record low as polar ice shrinks
TUKTOYAKTUK, Northwest Territories The Arctic Ocean continued melting in a relentless summer, with satellite observations hinting at a record low polar ice cap. Global temperatures rose about 1 degree Fahrenheit since last century, while Arctic warming accelerated up to two times that pace.
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Tuktoyaktuk
Northwest Territories
Arctic Ocean
Arctic
Briton among Armor Group staff in Baghdad shootings
Iraqi police say a British security contractor, Danny Fitzsimmons, is under arrest in the International Zone after a drinking argument led to two colleagues dead and one Iraqi wounded. Victims named as Paul McGuigan and Darren Hoare. The shooter faces possible execution under new Western contractor rules.
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Abdul Karim Khalaf
Khalaf
Interna
Armor Group
Paul McGuigan
Darren Hoare
Patrick Toyne-Sewell
Danny Fitzsimmons
Iraq
Nine Die After Hudson River Helicopter Plane Crash
Divers pulled a helicopter and four more bodies from the murky Hudson River as investigators search for victims after a midair collision with a small plane. The victims include three fathers and their three teenage sons and a Pennsylvania family aboard the plane. Two people remained missing as wreckage was found and removed from the river.
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Hudson River
Hoboken
N.J
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Stephen Jones
U S. Army Corps of Engineers
Hudson
US Airways
Florida natural hazards: sharks, snakes, storms, and more
Florida faces multiple threats from lightning and hurricanes to shark attacks and alligator bites. The state records include 610 unprovoked shark attacks 1882 to 2008 with 13 fatalities and 449 lightning deaths 1959 to 2007. Burmese pythons proliferate with an estimated tens of thousands in South Florida.
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Medlatchy
Orlando
Fla
Florida
U.S
National Hurricane Center
Miami
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Governor Sanford’s use of state plane questioned
An AP investigation finds South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford used state aircraft for personal trips since 2003. He flew to his children’s events hair appointments and a donor’s birthday, sometimes with his wife and four sons, at costs totaling thousands. He faced scrutiny amid a separate mistress scandal.
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Columbia
S.C
South Carolina
Mark Sanford
Associated Press
Sanford
Myrtle Beach
Argentina
Border police corruption rises with US Mexico trafficking
An Associated Press investigation finds widespread corruption among United States border officers from federal to local levels since 2007. Bribes and gifts from traffickers, including placement in applicant pools, have led to convictions and highlighted a cross border crime problem cited by Mexican President Calderon.
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Mcallen
Texas
Associated Press
U.S
Felipe Calderon
Calderon
The
United States
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