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...Interior Ministry has announced that it will crack down on sexual assault. During a recent press conference, President Hamid Karzai said that rapists should face "the country's most severe punishment." Yet on the same day, a man charged with the rape of a 7-year-old boy in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif escaped from prison. Three policemen, thought to have assisted his escape in exchange for a payoff, have been detained; the man has not been recaptured...
...Moscow's ruthless attempt to suborn, subdue and subordinate this tiny, independent democracy is reminiscent of Stalin's times. The assault on Georgia is similar to what Stalin's Soviet Union did to Finland in 1939: in both cases, Moscow engaged in an arbitrary, brutal and irresponsible use of force to impose domination over a weaker, democratic neighbor. The question now is whether the global community can demonstrate to the Kremlin that there are costs for the blatant use of force on behalf of anachronistic imperialist goals...
...mystery as Meetic and Match do battle for the English heart. Match.com does a big chunk of its European business in the U.K., where it's in a dead heat with Meetic. Last year, Meetic acquired a large British site called Dating Direct as part of a new frontal assault on its chief competitor. Still, Match CEO Thomas Enraght-Moony claims he's not threatened by his rival in love: "Match is about people looking for an enduring relationship. It's a more poetic, romantic sensibility. Meetic is a lot more casual. It's a different proposition." Simoncini says bring...
...after the assault the scene outside the Yijin Hotel roughly matched the description given by authorities. Three saplings that had stood outside the hotel the day before were gone, a neighbor said, and detached electrical wires dangled from above. The front entrance of the hotel was covered with a red, white and blue plastic tarp, and some of the windows were broken. But there were no signs of blood or explosive detonations on the sidewalk outside the three-story yellow building, which is backed by the old city wall...
Edwin Ramos had been in trouble before. In 2003, when he was 17, he was found guilty of attempted robbery and assaulting a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority passenger. Last March, he was detained for several days after police found in the car he was driving a gun used in a double homicide. And then came June 22, when Anthony Bologna's car prevented Ramos from turning left at an intersection. San Francisco police say Ramos opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle, killing Bologna and his two sons, Michael and Matthew, who were driving home from a family...