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Chinese farmer Yang Youde had other ideas when he was told that he was going to hand the land that he had leased until 2019 over to property developers for the paltry sum of 130,000 yuan ($19,030). He didn’t want “department buildings” built on his little slice of central...
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When some possibly overzealous question from one of Saudi Arabia’s religious policemen from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice apparently caused a young man to collapse, the woman that he was with came to his defense. The resulting beating, in which the officer in...
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A Chinese man has been freed after spending 10 years in jail for a murder that he did not commit that never actually took place. Zhao Zuohai’s neighbor disappeared after the pair were involved in a physical altercation. When a headless, decomposed body was discovered a year-and-a-half later, police...
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A Baltimore motorcyclist was charged with illegal wiretapping after police spotted a traffic stop recording on YouTube that he had made with a helmet-mounted camera. According to The Baltimore Sun, John Graber was pulled over for speeding and reckless driving on March 5 by an officer in an unmarked...
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Rapid City, South Dakota: By now most people are familiar with the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gay servicemen and women. Under the policy, people who keep their private lives a secret are allowed to serve. But what happens if someone else informs the military about...
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Old Reynella, South Australia – A brother was sentenced to seven years jail (with a non-parole period of four-and-a-half years) for a savage assault on a man he says was a pimp who had recruited his two underage sisters to work for him as prostitutes. The court heard that...
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Sixty-year-old retired schoolteacher Chip Cafiero has vowed to fight the $115 parking ticket that he was issued while delivering toys to children from a horse and carriage. ...
