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A Russian woman frustrated at failing to obtain French nationality hurled a ceramic cup at the Mona Lisa but did not damage Leonardo da Vinci’s famed portrait, a spokesman for the Louvre Museum said on Tuesday.
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“U.S. officials who worked in the Middle East at the time say those stories are embellished at best.
They questioned whether Boyd had any connection to Islamic guerilla groups because the soviets were out of Afghanistan by the time he went to the region two decades ago.” -
Egyptian officials have uncovered a plot by three Al-Qaeda linked terrorists to assassinate Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Shalom Cohen and to bomb Muslim and Christian sites, the Arabic-language Cairo-based Almasry Alyaom newspaper reported. However, it is not known if the terrorists’ confessions were voluntary or were made as a result of torture.
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The Globe And Mail criticizes Rasmussen after the latter expressed his views on Canadian departure from Afghanistan on 2011.
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POLICE were yesterday hunting a female terrorist believed to be the mastermind behind a bombing campaign on the holiday island of Mallorca.
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Mexico’s prisons, as described by inmates and insiders and viewed during several visits, are places where drug traffickers find a new base of operations for their criminal empires, recruit underlings, and bribe their way out for the right price. The system is so flawed, in fact, that the Mexican government is extraditing record numbers of drug traffickers to the United States, where they find it much harder to intimidate witnesses, run their drug operations or escape.
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“Jersalem, City of Gold, City of David, City of G-d, Capital of both Ancient and Modern Israel is suppose to be handed over, both sides, Old and New City, to the Arabs before any further talks will be permitted.” Totally unnaceptable!
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