Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour announces that 13 Lebanese Shia pilgrims kidnapped in Syria have been found and should be released soon.
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Lebanese pilgrims ‘to be freed’
Two foreign doctors and three Afghan colleagues are kidnapped in the country’s north-eastern province of Badakhshan, officials say.
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Aid workers held in Afghanistan
Tensions rise after rebels in northern Syria kidnap 13 Lebanese Shia pilgrims on their way home from visiting holy sites in Iran.
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Abductions raise Lebanon tension
Researchers demonstrate a means to use sections of DNA as individually addressable, rewritable “bits” to store data in living cells.
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Rewritable DNA memory shown off
MOSCOW — Police cleared a campsite occupied by political protesters in the Russian capital early Wednesday morning, despite assurances that they would wait until noon. Within hours, another gathering had begun in a small park near the Barrikadnaya metro station, named for the barricades of Russia’s 1905 revolution. Read full article > >
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Moscow police clear occupied park
After kidnapper Adam Mayes shot himself in front of police.
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Rescued Girl: ‘Now We Can Go Home’
The man accused of killing Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew has been found guilty on all counts, the Associated Press reports . A jury today found William Balfour, 31, guilty of three counts of first-degree murder, and one count each of home invasion, aggravated kidnapping, residential burglary and possession of a stolen vehicle in connection with what occurred on Oct. 24, 2008. That was the day that Balfour, estranged husband of Hudson’s sister Julia, allegedly shot and killed Hudson’s mother, Darnell Donerson; her 29-year-old brother Jason Hudson; and 7-year-old nephew Julian King. Prosecutors said Balfour committed the crimes after visiting the Hudson family home in the Englewood section of Chicago and finding a balloon bouquet given to his former wife by a new boyfriend; they argued that he killed the Hudson relatives in a jealous rage, reportedly shooting 7-year-old King after stealing Jason Hudson’s SUV with the young boy inside. Read full article > >
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William Balfour found guilty in murders of Jennifer Hudson’s relatives
Two young girls kidnapped from Tennessee after their sister and mother were slain were found alive in Mississippi, authorities said. Adam Mayes, the man accused of the murders and kidnappings, died after shooting himself, the FBI said.
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Missing Tenn. sisters found; alleged captor dead
Adam Mayes is wanted in the deaths of a mother and daughter, and the kidnapping of two young sisters. Authorities raised the reward in the case to $175,000.
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Murder, kidnap suspect ‘most wanted’
President Obama’s long, tortuous metamorphosis on same-sex marriage finally reached its evolved state right in between stinky cheese and “General Hospital.” Smoked out by his own vice president , Obama decided to come out of the closet on the issue to ABC News’s Robin Roberts, who rushed her scoop onto the air Wednesday afternoon during the closing minutes of “The Revolution,” ABC’s new talk show featuring a “stellar dream team of experts that will help complete transformations in all areas of life.” Read full article > >
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Obama comes out in favor of same-sex marriage
Police arrested the wife and mother of Adam Mayes, the suspect in the kidnapping of Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters. Bain and her oldest girl have been found dead.
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Police arrest kin of kidnapping suspect
Whether you learned kitchen craft at the elbow of a family matriarch or have come to understand the significance of food through the printed word, chances are good that women you’ve never met have imprinted on your culinary DNA. They are mothers of invention, in effect, who have shown us the way by instruction and by example — their strengths passed on in legacy, in creativity and in recipes we adapt as our own. Read full article > >
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For Mother’s Day, honoring these women of culinary substance and sustenance
ISLAMABAD – Warren Weinstein, a 70-year-old American aid expert kidnapped in Pakistan last summer, has appeared in a video asking President Obama to save his life by meeting his al-Qaeda captors’ demands to free convicted terrorists imprisoned in the United States. Read full article > >
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Warren Weinstein, Maryland man kidnapped in Pakistan, pleads for his life in video
The skull of an indigenous Paraguayan girl kidnapped more a century ago is returned to her community for burial after being handed back by a museum in Berlin.
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Paraguay indigenous skull returns
William Balfour found guilty in murders of Jennifer Hudson’s relatives
Friday, May 11th, 2012For Mother’s Day, honoring these women of culinary substance and sustenance
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012Warren Weinstein, Maryland man kidnapped in Pakistan, pleads for his life in video
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