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8
2010
SEP
8
2010

The crime of giving water to thirsty people

Daniel Millis, a volunteer with the faith-based organization No More Deaths, was arrested in 2008 for littering. His crime: leaving bottles of drinking water on trails near the Arizona-Mexico border so immigrants walking through the desert would not die of thirst.

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8
2010

EU court rules against German state gambling monopoly

The state monopoly on gambling in Germany is ´unjustifiable´ and must be broken up at once, the European Union´s top court ruled on Wednesday. The court said the gambling laws were being applied inconsistently.

SEP
8
2010

AFP bungled evidence - Solomons judge

A Solomon Islands´ judge has thrown out evidence in a murder trial because investigating Australian Federal Police "forgot" basic procedures, including reading the suspect their rights.

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8
2010

Couple to walk free in Travolta extortion case

Two people accused of trying to extort US$25 million ($34.5 million) from John Travolta after his son died are to walk free after a judge in the Bahamas dismissed the case against them, apparently at the actor´s request.

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8
2010

Baggy pants ban to be signed into law in Georgia town

A town in Georgia is the latest municipality to pass a baggy pants ban into law, CNN reports.

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8
2010

G20 detainee files $1-million suit

Woman says she was shot twice by police with rubber bullets, and detained for about 30 hours.

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8
2010

BP report spreads blame across Gulf spill actors

Faulty cementing, a misread pressure test and an improperly maintained blowout preventer all contributed to the April 20 explosion that uncorked the worst oil spill in U.S. history, BP´s investigation of the disaster concluded Wednesday.

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8
2010

Sri Lanka ends presidential term limits

Sri Lanka´s Parliament on Wednesday passed a proposal to remove presidential term limits from the Constitution, paving the way for the popular president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, to run for a third term and cement his grip on power.

SEP
8
2010

Extradition law review to consider US-UK treaty

A review of the UK´s extradition laws will consider whether the treaty with the US is "unbalanced", the home secretary has said.

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8
2010

Brazilian race gets dirty as vote nears

A war has erupted in Brazil’s election campaign. Spurred by a growing disadvantage in voter surveys, the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) has launched a full-scale attack against the ruling Workers Party (PT), whose presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff is favored in the polls.

SEP
8
2010

Iran says stoning sentence suspended

Iranian authorities have suspended the sentence of death by stoning for a woman convicted of adultery, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world.

SEP
3
2010

Goldcorp to buy Andean resources for $3.42 billion

Canada´s Goldcorp Inc. says it has agreed to buy Andean Resources Ltd. for about 3.6 billion Canadian dollars ($3.42 billion).

SEP
3
2010

Feds sue Ariz. Sheriff in civil rights probe

The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics.

SEP
3
2010

High-profile Portugal child sex abuse ´proved´

All seven defendants in a long-running trial in Portugal have been found guilty of sexually abusing children in the care of a state-run home.

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3
2010

Is billionaire warren buffett buying up land in Brazil?

Brazilian magazine Exame reports that America’s favorite investor is headed to Brazil.

SEP
3
2010

Assange says rape probe a ´legal circus´

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called a Swedish investigation into rape and molestation allegations against him a "legal circus".

SEP
3
2010

Suspect nabbed in elaborate theft of $41M in pension cash

Police have arrested a 28-year-old suspect on suspicion of stealing $41 million from the federal pension fund in an elaborate scheme that involved Cyprus bank accounts, 23 cell phone numbers and a travel regime that avoided the use of trains and planes.

SEP
3
2010

US stings German-Chinese honey-smuggling scam

In what officials say is the biggest food smuggling case in American history, US prosecutors have announced charges against 10 German executives for illegally importing tainted Chinese honey.

SEP
3
2010

Six accused in forced labor of 400 Thai in U.S.

Six recruiters were accused Thursday of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United States and forcing them to work, according to a federal indictment that the FBI called the largest human-trafficking case ever charged in U.S. history.

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