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December 23: Washington resigns as Commander-in-chief, WTC North Tower measured as tallest building
Maine Fast Fact: Inventor John Blondell from Thomaston, Maine invented the doughnut-hole cutter in 1872. The original cutter was made of wood and the ...
Who blew up the Nevsky Express?
On November 27, 2009, terrorists blew up the Nevsky Express, a commuter train in Russia that connects Moscow to St. Petersburg. The bomb, plastic ...
Weapons-carrying cargo plane headed for Sri Lanka
A plane seized in Bangkok with a cache of North Korean weapons wasn't headed to Iran, a senior Thai police official said Wednesday, contradicting a ...
Global human trafficking news round up (Dec. 17, 2009)
NORTH AMERICA Minnesota: A journalist from Nigeria was imprisoned at home for two years by her husband. Her husband threatened to call ...
WHO to send swine flu vaccine to poor countries
The World Health Organization plans to start shipping swine flu vaccine to Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and Mongolia in the next few weeks, flu chief Keiji ...
December 11 quotes of the week
Follow the links to read the whole thing. “We are not for taking the law into your own hands. But we believe there are political forces which ...
Global human trafficking highlights (Dec. 5-7, 2009)
NORTH AMERICA Louisiana: A 53 years old woman was charged with allegedly sex trafficking a woman. She allegedly charged men $400 for having sex ...
Watchdog warning about TV in post-Soviet states
Government-influenced television is hampering democracy in Russia, Belarus and most post-Soviet countries in Central Asia and the South Caucasus, and ...
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