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Saturday, 24 May 2014

NY judge gives ex-Guatemala president prison

Travel deals NEW YORK - (AP) -- Guatemala's ex-president has been sentenced to more than five years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy in New York as part of a bribery scandal. Alfonso Portillo was sentenced Thursday to a prison term of five years, 10 months. The 62-year-old ex-president pleaded guilty in March, admitting that he accepted $2.5 million...

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Seven killed in California shooting Stuff

At least seven people were killed in a drive-by shooting near...

Texas police probe drug cartel-style billboard messages and hanged mannequins The Independent

Police in Texas have been left stumped by messages painted onto two billboards, alongside mannequins dressed in suits and hung from nooses. The messages, which were daubed in white paint on two plaques in central and east El Paso, were brought to the attention of officers by motorists early Thursday...

Mel B says she's not scary just honest on America's Got Talent MUZU.TV

The Former Spice Girl talked to us about her love for her co-hosts - and pigs! Mel also spoke about her biggest job as a mom and step-mom with husband producer Stephen Belafonte , with whom she will soon celebrate her seventh wedding anniversary...

US cyber-scoundrelism doomed to backfire China Daily

BEIJING - "Play by the rules" seems to be Washington's sacrosanct motto on international interaction. But time and again rules are just a lump of clay in Uncle Sam's hands. In a recent farce about cyber-security, the United States slapped some fabricated charges against five Chinese military...

Japanese-American soldier kept quiet about World War II heroics Stars and Stripes

Fifty years is a long time to keep a secret. But that’s what Roy Matsumoto was instructed to do, so that’s what he did. For decades, he seldom said anything about World War II at all, said his daughter, Karen Matsumoto, of Bainbridge Island. He didn’t talk about his time in “Merrill’s Marauders,” a...

Gunmen open fire inside bus, kill 6 in El Salvador The Miami Herald

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Gunmen boarded a bus in a town near the Salvadoran capital and opened fired on passengers Friday, killing six, including three law enforcement officials, police said. The Attorney General's Office said a police investigator and two...

Missing British yacht found, no sign of crew or life raft France24

A US Navy helicopter crew on Friday found the overturned hull of a British yacht that went missing a week ago but found no signs of its four crew members, leaving a midnight deadline for suspending searches for the men unchanged, officials said....

VA pilot program brings health specialists closer to home for veterans in northern Maine Stars and Stripes

After Peter Miesburger broke his hip in January, the retired U.S. Air Force master sergeant underwent an operation to have it replaced with an artificial joint at his local hospital in Caribou. His family visited every day while he was recovering, and he drove just a few miles home after he was...

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