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‘Secret Team’ Airlines? Dominican republic: Authorities investigate “mysterious” plane vanished from radar
Dominican Today/SOTT
Santo Domingo – Intelligence agencies investigate how a “mysterious” aircraft took off from Higüero International Airport with fake registry and a flight plan initially to Port-au-Prince, but once in flight changed course toward South America, vanishing from radar screens.
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Chile
What the hell, planet earth! Chile was just slammed by a 7.2 aftershock, as inaugural ceremonies for right-wing billionaire president-elect Sebastián Piñera began in Valparaiso. Chile was devastated by an 8.8-magnitude quake on Feb. 27.
US: Mississippi
Mississippi’s Itawamba County school district has cancelled a prom after Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old student, asked permission to bring [...]
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Dubai
Interpol joined an international task force investigating the Dubai assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. The international policing organization also said it was convinced of the broad, international scope of the crime.
The notices, short of international arrest warrants but a request to Interpol members to detain the named people for extradition, bring to 27 the [...]
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Drill will simulate shooting at Metro station
February 24, 2010 – 8:07am/WTOP.com
hat tip~ Legitgov
FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS, Md. – If you see lots of police and hear commotion at the Friendship Heights Metro station late Wednesday night, relax. It’s just a drill.
But it is a drill that will simulate gunfire between two shooters in the station, with multiple passengers injured or killed.
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US must bear responsibility for Latin American drug violence
Of course the right wingers refuse to accept that Americans are responsible in any way for the troubles they cause other countries but it’s refreshing to see that some members in the US government can own up to the facts. The US demand for drugs, the “anti-drug” efforts by the US, the intelligence agencies and [...]
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Canada
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has changed his mind on the national anthem.
It’s just fine the way it is.
Two days after Harper, in the speech from the throne, said his government would review the wording of the English version of O Canada, with an eye toward making it “gender neutral,” the idea was abruptly shelved.
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Puerto Rico
A White House task force on Puerto Rico’s ties with the United States heard from islanders across the political spectrum Wednesday at a hearing that tapped into deep emotions surrounding a decades-old debate.
U.S. Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, a task force co-chairman, said the meeting was meant to gather opinions on what role the [...]
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Private armies worry U.N. peacekeepers
Spacewar
Armed militias and mercenaries are at the center of urgent discussions convened by the United Nations in Ethiopia, to explore ways of containing their unlawful activities in Africa, Latin America and Asia.
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Guatemala
Guatemala’s attorney general says authorities have detained the national police chief and the country’s anti-drug czar in a case of stolen cocaine that led to the deaths of five police agents.
Attorney General Amilcar Velasquez says national police chief Baltazar Gonzalez and anti-drug czar Nelly Bonilla and a third, unidentified official were being held for their [...]
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