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2010-07-31: Headlines

• Trend News Agency: Trend News: Date of court hearing on armed incident in Azerbaijan Defense Ministry's military unit determined 2010-07-31

  A preparatory meeting of the court on the case of an armed incident in the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry's military unit, located in Dashkesan, which killed six, injured two people, will be held Aug.13.

• Bollywood Mantra: Dimpy forgives Rahul, goes back to him 2010-07-31

  Judges called former construction company executive William Irey's conduct 'horrific' and 'far beyond the heartland of depravity.

• ikhwanWeb.com: The US Embassy denies intervention in Egypts affairs 2010-07-31

  Keywords: function chngFont(size) | window.onload=setFontSize; | Haynes Mahoney, spokesman for the US Embassy in Cairo stressed that the drafted law to support democracy and freedoms in Egypt submitted by a number of the US Senators was not an intervention in Egypt 's internal affairs.

• Scoop.co.nz: Asia: Womens views on prevention of torture 2010-07-31

  Keywords: broadcast journalist. | it should be different? | all vehicles could be stopped and subjected to inspection. | to save the life of the victim. | Definitely bad! I am against all aspects of torture. | relationship between the police and citizens? | police are seen as heroes, fighting evil, promoting the law. | you feel safe to go the police and complain? | an answer to the problems of others. | implemented?

• Orlando Sentinel: Child pornographer gets longer term for acts 'far beyond heartland of depravity' 2010-07-31

  Judges called former construction company executive William Irey's conduct 'horrific' and 'far beyond the heartland of depravity.

• Dallas Morning News: Dallas mother whose children were locked in motel bathroom gets life 2010-07-31

  It may have been remorse and love for her children that led Abneris Santiago to plead guilty in the middle of her trial. | But the jurors who spent 25 minutes deliberating before they sent her to prison for life on Friday said they didn't think so.

• Lew Rockwell: WikiLeaks: Whos Hiding What and Why 2010-07-31

  Keywords: if you look at what the military (the president, remember, is commander-in-chief) | details. But men screaming, choking, crying, bleeding, begging – | torture does not make it easier for the Taliban to ambush Marines. | the war. The golden goose.

2010-07-30: Headlines

• KATU: He was doing what he was ordered to do, and somehow they got him 2010-07-30

  For Jared Newlove's father, awaiting word on the whereabouts and condition of his missing son was sheer torture. And the outcome was the one Joseph Newlove had feared ever since his son had vanished in Taliban territory.

• LubbockOnline.com: Peppered with plot holes, spy script was a recipe for disaster 2010-07-30

  Has screenwriter Kurt Wimmer been surfing the 007James.com website? | Either that, or perhaps he was enjoying James Bond movies before writing disappointing action film "Salt." | I mention the website simply because of details it makes available about poison-tipped knives embedded into the front of SPECTRE agents' shoes in 1963's "From Russia with Love." | Never mind the lack of a Soviet Union. Russians again are the enemy in

• Record-Searchlight: No headline 2010-07-30

  RED BLUFF €” A 46-year-old Red Bluff woman was arrested Thursday on a felony warrant alleging she embezzled about $18,000 from the city while working as a city account technician, the Tehama County district attorney€™s office said. | Eileen Jean Lampron is accused of embezzling public money from July 2006 through this month, District Attorney Gregg Cohen said.

• In-Forum: Animal abuse letter appalling 2010-07-30

  I was appalled to see a letter published in Tuesday€™s (July 20) edition of The Forum, where the writer, Adam Freeman, stated it was OK for people to abuse animals.

• San Bernardino Sun: Terrorists son who converted to Christianity to speak at Fontana church 2010-07-30

  The Christian son of an Islamic terrorist who founded a militant Palestinian organization will speak this weekend at Water of Life Community Church. | Mosab Hassan Yousef, the oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas, will talk about his life during services on Saturday and Sunday. | "He'll probably share his story about leaving Hamas, and he'll probably talk about his decision to work for Israel as a spy,"

• Eurasia Review: EurActiv: EU Kosovo Mission Steps Up Corruption Crackdown 2010-07-30

  U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says he h ... | Retired U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, who ov... | U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke with several... | Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and other... | On June 12th, the Panamanian National Assembly passed Law 30, nicknamed by critics the €œchorizo law,€ for wh ...

• Greeley Tribune: Mailbox for July 30 2010-07-30

  Issue one: During the 2008 campaign, President Barack Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay prison on the island with Cuba. The reason was torture (read more)

• ABS CBN News: Plagiarized SC ruling catches attention of intl law group 2010-07-30

  Plagiarized portions of a Philippine Supreme Court ruling that dismissed reparation demands of Filipino "comfort women" has caught the attention of an international law group.

2010-07-29: Headlines

• Casper Star-Tribune Online: Touring a murder factory 2010-07-29

  Keywords: attention when I glanced at the front page of today's paper. | with baseball bats. This was done to save ammunition. | their children being murdered before they too were killed! | to be brutally murdered. | be shown at the Wyoming State Fair (Aug. 19-21) in Douglas. | public domain), from my recent trip to Cambodia and Vietnam.

• Psychology Today: Novel Non-Addicting N60 For Chronic Pain Relief 2010-07-29

  Why people experience chronic pain, and the power they have to de-intensify it. | Switching off chronic pain without tuning out. | Even before I heard John Lennon encourage everyone to smoke pot as my big sister spun that long-lost Beatles LP backwards, researchers have been trying to find ways to protect the world from becoming addicted, halting the further decline of western civilization.

• The Public Record: World 2010-07-29

  Unfortunately, I don€™t have time to examine the question posed in the title of this piece as carefully as I€™d like, but even the quickly poste...

• Sudan Tribune: African Union moves aggressively to shield Bashir from prosecution 2010-07-29

  July 28, 2010 (WASHINGTON) — The heads of states who attended the African Union (AU) summit in Kampala this week decided to take a more radical (...)

• Irish Times: Legacy of the killing fields 2010-07-29

  ONLY A dozen inmates are believed to have survived the hell that was Phnom Penh's Tuol Sleng. At least 14,000 died in four years from 1975 at the former Chao Ponhea Yat High School, renamed by the Khmer Rouge Security Prison 21 (S-21), their deaths, after excruciating torture, meticulously recorded by guards.

• Vanity Fair: Aristocrats and Demons 2010-07-29

  Members of the aristocratic de Védrines family turned over their lives, fortune, and ancestral château to a shadowy grand master.

• Minneapolis Star Tribune: Strange Voices 2010-07-29

  Blogs on news, politics, sports and entertainment in Minneapolis, St. Paul, the Twin Cities metro area and Minnesota.

• On Public Speaking: Man Found Guilty By Texas Jury Of Sexual Abuse And Starving Three Children 2010-07-29

  DALLAS, TEXAS - Sexual Abuse And Starving Three Children Alfred Santiago was accused of starving three children and then confined them to a squalid hote...

2010-07-28: Headlines

• The Associated Press: Texas man sentenced to 99 years in starvation case 2010-07-28

  A Dallas man convicted of starving three children locked in a hotel bathroom for nearly a year was sentenced to 99 years in prison Tuesday after jurors heard testimony that one child was suicidal and another preferred urinating in his hospital bed to entering a restroom.

• Sacramento Bee: Santa Barbara Co. man accused of murder for hire 2010-07-28

  For sexually assaulting a 12-year-old child of a family friend, Jason Helm will spend 10 days in King County jail.

• Denver Post: Chinese leaders call for end to public shaming of suspects 2010-07-28

  The government has called for an end to the public shaming of criminal suspects, a time-honored cudgel of Chinese law enforcement that has increasingly rattled the public. | According to state-run media, the Ministry of Public Security has ordered the police to stop parading suspects in public and to enforce laws in a "rational, calm and civilized manner."

• Human Rights Watch: India: Dont Repeat Misuse of Counterterrorism Laws 2010-07-28

  The Indian government should revise its draconian 2008 amendments to counterterrorism laws that can lead to serious violations of human rights, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.

• South Carolina Now: Boys in Hartsville abuse case on road to recovery 2010-07-28

  Even after enduring torture in their young lives, the grandsons of a Hartsville couple who beat them with goat whips and physically abused them in other ways are well on the road to recovery, according to the child abuse victim’s advocates who are working with them.

• The Irrawaddy News Magazine: Verdict Marks End of Impunity for Khmer Rouge Torturer 2010-07-28

  BANGKOK — For a country plagued by a weak judiciary and where government officials have profited from a culture of impunity, Monday’s verdict in the first case to try a surviving commandant of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime broke new legal ground in Cambodia.

• Seattle Post Intelligencer: After hung jury, plea nets child abuser 10-day jail term for preying on 12-year-old 2010-07-28

  For sexually assaulting a 12-year-old child of a family friend, Jason Helm will spend 10 days in King County jail.