LONDON – British police said Monday that thieves stole $92 million during last week’s heist at a security warehouse — the biggest cash theft in the country’s history. Warehouse owner Securitas had confirmed the total after an audit, said Adrian Leppard, assistant chief constable of Kent Police. The amount eclipses …
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NEW DELHI, India – President Bush gets his first chance Wednesday to see the vast economic and social transformations that many say make India a key global partner for America. Fords and Chevrolets now compete for space on the streets with auto-rickshaws; young men and women tap away at keyboards, …
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WASHINGTON – In its rush to provide Katrina disaster aid, the Federal Emergency Management Agency wasted millions of dollars and overpaid for hotel rooms, including $438-a-day lodging in New York City, government investigators said Monday. Two reports released by the Government Accountability Office and the Homeland Security Department’s office of …
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Why officer, are you here for business … or pleasure? A sheriff’s office in Virginia is in the hot seat after allegations that undercover detectives have been having sex when they bust massage parlors for prostitution, according to local NBC12 News. Sheriff Howard Smith of the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office …
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NEW YORK – The Republican national chairman created a furor this week when he suggested Sen. Hillary Clinton is too “angry” to win the White House in 2008. And to hear Republicans tell it, Clinton is just one of many Democrats with an anger management problem. Former Vice President Al …
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ANNAPOLIS – Top state transportation and homeland security officials sought to reassure Maryland lawmakers Friday that the proposed takeover of Baltimore port operations by a United Arab Emirates company would not compromise port security. The testimony came hours after Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. announced he is more comfortable with …
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed the United States and Israel on Thursday for the destruction of a Shiite shrine’s golden dome in Iraq, saying it was the work of “defeated Zionists and occupiers.” Speaking to a crowd of thousands on a tour of southwestern Iran, the president …
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The slogan on the poster hanging inside Haiti’s (search) electoral office is simple enough: “Elections are the bridge to democracy.” Crossing that bridge, however, is proving anything but easy. Daily killings and kidnappings, dismally low voter registration and logistical snags are hurting efforts to hold free elections …
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TOLEDO, Ohio – Blood on an altar cloth covering a nun’s body and DNA traces on her underwear did not come from the priest charged with her killing 26 years ago, a DNA expert testified Wednesday. The DNA found on Sister Margaret Ann Pahl was likely from a man, but …
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NEW ORLEANS – Mayor Ray Nagin and Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, beginning a monthlong run-off campaign for New Orleans mayor, will be fighting over the white conservative voters who favored other candidates in the primary. Nagin, in a complete reversal from four years ago, scored heavily with black voters and …
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