Wars and Rumors
Tens of thousands of North Koreans shouted slogans to denounce international sanctions at a rally in central Pyongyang on Thursday, as the communist country vowed to enlarge its atomic arsenal and warned of a "fire shower of nuclear retaliation" in the event of a U.S. attack. [Where is G Bush when you really need regeime change?]
China has made its first big foray into Iraq in a C$8bn (£4.4bn) deal to buy London-listed oil explorer Addax Petroleum.
"If the U.S. imperialists start another war, the army and people of Korea will ... wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for all," the official Korean Central News Agency said.
killed at least 14 people earlier Monday, hours after gunmen fired rockets at local army bases.
A U.S. Navy destroyer is tailing a North Korean ship suspected of carrying illicit weapons toward Myanmar.... suspects the cargo ship Kang Nam is carrying missiles and related parts...
North Korea has accused US President Barack Obama of plotting a nuclear war on the communist nation... At a summit with Lee in Washington Wednesday, Obama warned that North Korea is a "grave threat" and vowed to defend South Korea....
The U.S. military is preparing for a possible intercept of a North Korean flagged ship suspected of proliferating weapons material in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution passed last Friday
told them he was sitting on a bus station bench Wednesday, about to put mayonnaise on his sandwich, when another man began staring at him.... Hamilton told police that the man then punched him in the mouth and grabbed his sandwich and left....
Suspected U.S. missiles pounded militant hideouts Thursday in the tribal belt near Afghanistan where Pakistani troops are building up for a major offensive against the country's top Taliban leader.... killed at least eight people...
North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program.
The Miami teen accused of brutally killing nearly two dozen cats can be released on bail because he poses no danger to himself or the community, a judge ruled Wednesday... will wear an electronic monitoring bracelet while he awaits his trial and will be allowed to attend counseling sessions that were recommended by a doctor after a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation...
A man who was arrested by an off-duty state trooper after being seen with a gun and ammunition in a Tulsa restaurant has received a five-year prison sentence... was praying to Allah to help him on a "mission," and the word "kill" was heard... diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia... had not taken any medication for about a month...
The United States has determined that the nuclear test conducted by North Korea last month yielded an explosion of a few kilotons, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence
The mayor of Hiroshima... denounced North Korea for threatening to build more nuclear weapons... "I am furious, with them (North Korea) for defying strong protests from the international community, including Hiroshima, the city attacked in an atomic bombing..."
The teenager accused of mutilating more than a dozen cats in South Miami-Dade was not the reserved yet rabid killer some expected. He was a dog-loving class clown, a swim class instructor, an 18-year-old who grew up before the eyes of the four-legged victims' families. He appeared to be appalled by the horrific killings, and joined the Facebook group "Catch the Cat Killer!'' ... Police, working with tips gathered from the community and reading his Facebook and MySpace pages... ''He was always so nice to my animals... I have three cats and they loved him....''
After hearing the news of the gorilla's escape, a local GOP activist exposed his vile racism, by suggesting that the gorilla was an "ancestor" of Michelle Obama, the lovely and admired First Lady of the United States.
Miami Fla--A teenager has been arrested in a string of cat killings and mutilations that horrified residents of Miami's southern suburbs...
North Korea vowed Saturday to step up its atomic bomb-making program and threatened war if its ships are stopped as part of new U.N. sanctions aimed at punishing the nation for its latest nuclear test.
GLADSTONE, N.D. ...turned out to be four people wanted in an Alabama prison break. The suspects had holed up in a garage and held off authorities for more than 14 hours Saturday before two of them surrendered and two were wounded in a shootout with police....
An Oregon woman was charged with murdering a 21-year-old expectant mother and her unborn baby after faking her own pregnancy. [Scary: Mugshot]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says recent activity by North Korea is forcing US to consider placing Pyongyang back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism... and is pressing for a U.N. resolution authorizing the boarding of North Korean ships to search for nuclear materials....
The "Cape Man" has been captured. Authorities arrested Daniel James Murray, the gun-loving loon from upstate New York who threatened to kill President Obama, at a Nevada casino Friday, ending a nationwide manhunt. [There's that pejorative adjective 'gun-loving' again! Gotta make sure that gets in there to smear all those wacky gun nuts!]
Suspicions that Syria was trying to build a nuclear weapon have gained momentum with the discovery of uranium at a second site in the country, analysts say.
The gun-loving former New Yorker being sought Friday for threatening to kill President Obama was known in his old neighborhood as the "Cape Man" of Blue Jay Way. [Let's be sure to get that "gun-loving" pejorative in there!]
China, Iran, Russia and Venezuela form a clique of authoritarian states that use their wealth and influence to undermine global democracy and rule of law
Veteran Miami-Dade prosecutor David Ranck faces battery charges after an alleged scuffle with a pizza delivery woman on Saturday during a delivery that went horribly wrong. It's the second report of prosecutors gone wild in the past week. A Broward County prosecutor was arrested late last week for punching a cop in the back of the head during a barroom fight.
Court documents show that Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, the suspect in the shooting of two army personnel, has allegedly confessed. He had recently traveled to Yemen, and was under a Joint Terror Task Force investigation.
67-year-old George Tiller... A Kansas doctor reviled by anti-abortion groups for his work providing so-called "late-term" abortions was shot and killed in his Wichita, Kansas, church on Sunday, and police said they captured the man responsible.
A Lubbock man was convicted Friday of kidnapping three children who were taken to Oklahoma on a three-day camping trip where they endured what prosecutors called "terror games" that included talk of cannibalism and sex acts.
Investigators continue to search for a missing 5-year-old girl whose mother spoke of a sex offender considered a person of interest in the case as a "father figure" to her daughter, who disappeared five days ago. Police found a blood-stained towel, shorts and a photo of a girl similar to Nevaeh Buchanan during a search of the motel room where 36-year-old George Kennedy, a registered sex offender, was staying Thursday. Kennedy is a longtime acquaintance of the girl's mother, Jennifer Buchanan.
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