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Out on Home Video: 'No Strings Attached' released
limiro@juno.comNO STRINGS ATTACHED (2011/B-/Directed by Ivan Reitman/Starring Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kline, Cary Elwes, Greta Gerwig, Lake Bell, Mindy Kaling, Olivia Thirlby, Chris Bridges/DreamWorks//Rated R/Comedy/107 minutes/Available on: DVD and Blu-...Tags: Wilmer Valderrama, Science, Kevin James, Kyle Gallner, Murder
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Rights groups hail surrender of Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- In his seven years on the run from international justice, Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda became a symbol of the International Criminal Court's impotence. Now the court, which lacks a police force to arrest those it has...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, March 23 Movement, War Crimes, United Nations
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Foltz honored for international development work
MANILA, Philippines -- Joseph Foltz of Petoskey, deputy chief for the Office of Environment, Energy and Climate Change at the U.S. Agency for International Development in the Philippines, was recently honored for his outstanding work in the...
Tags: Human Interest, Environmental Issues, Global Change, Manila (Philippines), Philippines
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Susan Rice's troubled steps toward secretary of State
Four thoughts about Susan Rice’s decision to withdraw as a possible nominee for secretary of State: 1) Rice should not have been disqualified because of her now-notorious talk-show comments about the attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four...
Tags: Minority Groups, Paul Kagame, Benghazi, Al-Qaeda, Crime, Law and Justice
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Letters: U.S. money for mass murder
Re "Pressure mounts on U.S. to curtail aid to Rwanda," Dec. 21 This article casually mentions the killing of about 5 million people in Congo, many of them by rebels assisted by Rwanda, which receives U.S. aid. I was under the impression that the...Tags: Fiscal Cliff, World War II (1939-1945)
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Letters: U.S.-funded violence in Congo
Re "Congo rebels thrive on fear and chaos," Dec. 11 The article about the situation in Congo reveals the alarming truth about Rwanda's exploitation of eastern Congo's natural resources and the unspeakable sexual violence being committed against Congo'...
Tags: Congo, National Government, Republican Party, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hate Crimes
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U.N. Security Council imposes arms embargo on Congo rebels
In a bid to quell violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations Security Council imposed an arms embargo late Monday on two armed groups accused of rape and mass killings. The decision came just before Rwanda, which has been...
Tags: Rebellions, Crime, Law and Justice, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Justice and Rights, Politics
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Rebels in eastern Congo pull back from key city of Goma
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Two weeks after seizing Goma, the M23 rebels withdrew Saturday with a warning that they still could retake the key eastern Congo city. M23, backed by neighboring Rwanda, caused a geopolitical crisis with its...
Tags: Paul Kagame, Rebellions, Crime, Law and Justice, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Joseph Kabila
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Ending the cycle of abuse in Congo
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — On Nov. 19, armed men from a rebel group called the M23 were looking for a prominent civil society leader in a village outside Goma, a provincial capital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He'd been...
Tags: Rebellions, Crime, Law and Justice, War Crimes, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Murder
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Former Rwandan minister sentenced to 35 years on genocide charges
A former Rwandan minister was sentenced Thursday to 35 years in jail for crimes tied to the nation's brutal genocide, including handing out machetes to a Hutu militia and spurring them to kill Tutsis. Witnesses described Augustin Ngirabatware as being...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hate Crimes, Wars and Interventions, United Nations
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Congolese rebels defy regional leaders' call to leave key city
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Rebels who this week seized a key city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo refused to leave Thursday despite pleas from regional leaders including the presidents of Rwanda and Uganda, who were named in a United...
Tags: Congo, Paul Kagame, Rebellions, Armed Forces, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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State Sen. Wright fined for not reporting gift of foreign travel
PolitiCalSen. Roderick Wright agrees to pay fine for not reporting $13,000 travel gift...
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