August 2010
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As Many as 200 Women, Babies Gang-Raped in Congo.
(Aug. 23) — As many as 200 women were systematically gang-raped by Rwandan and Congolese rebels over a four-day period last month less than 20 miles from a U.N. peacekeeping base in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations and aid groups reported. The Associated Press reported that four baby boys were also raped in the attacks that began in a key mining...
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Ken Mehlman, Ex-RNC Chair and Bush Campaign Chief,...
Ken Mehlman, former chief of the Republican National Committee and President Bush’s campaign manager in 2004, has told family and friends that he is gay, The Atlantic reported Wednesday. In an interview with the magazine, Mehlman said he’s going public with his sexual identity now because he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage. “It’s taken me 43 years to get...
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Colorado Authorities Recapture Four-Time Prison...
DENVER (Aug. 25) — An inmate who made his fourth escape by fleeing a maximum-security prison in northeast Colorado surrendered Wednesday in a rural home where he had been holding a woman hostage, a prison official said. Douglas J. Alward, 48, gave up without a struggle near the town of Yuma, and the woman was unharmed, said Alison Morgan, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of...
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Facebook 'Hit List' Raises Fears After 3 Colombian...
(Aug. 24) — In a grim reminder of how seemingly banal online activities are increasingly bleeding over into the real world, where consequences are real and forever, three Colombian teenagers whose names appeared, along with 97 others, on a multipart “hit list” posted to Facebook were fatally shot in the past two weeks, according to multiple international reports. Even more...
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