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...Among the groups trying to thwart any new wave of arson in Detroit this Halloween is Blight Busters, which expects some 500 volunteers to patrol Friday night in one of this city's neighborhoods. In recent years, the group says it has torn down some 300 abandoned homes. Says John George, executive director of Blight Busters: "We now celebrate Detroit on Angels' Night...
...Friday, the army said it had mounted the ridges around Sara Rogha, one of the three towns - along with Makeen and Laddha - that form a "triangle of militancy." After three earlier offensives that faltered, the army said it is demonstrating hardened resolve that will not let up. The last operation was halted, said Abbas, because of "two vulnerabilities": the failure to secure the army's fort at Laddha and to evacuate the civilian population in the area. In the South Waziristan areas under army control on Thursday, no civilians were in sight in the rugged, sparsely populated valley. More than...
When asked in a 2001 television interview about the numerous corruption allegations that had dogged him throughout his years of public service, then-President Jacques Chirac waved the notion away as nothing but hot air. That changed on Friday, however, when a judge ordered Chirac to stand trial for alleged abuse of public funds while he was mayor of Paris just before his election to the Elys...