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...Many dispersed only to regroup on the long walk west. Car horns blared furiously. "Allah-o Akbar" could be heard from rooftops all around...
...just in case the emails, tweets and text messages had not yet gotten through, plans for the next day were confirmed face-to-face: "10 o'clock, Imam Hussain Square. Imam Hussain to Azadi...
...conclusion Wednesday when lawyers for the boy's Brazilian stepfamily said they were giving up the fight and handing him back to his American dad. "There comes a time when you have to say the war is over," Sergio Tostes, lawyer for Sean's step father João Paulo Lins e Silva told TIME. "We could appeal but that would only prolong the suffering. We don't want to prolong this any more...
...posted." A letter? He admits he might have even lost the thing during a recent office move. "All I'm doing is throwing away things. I'm sentimental about my grandkids, but that's about it." Still, he's proud of the status it affords him. "I go to O'Hare and LaGuardia and they treat me royally. I know everyone and they are very nice to me," says Solovy. "I don't know what they did for Mr. Clooney; for me I get good service, they get me where I want to go and when I want...
...duty police in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people since 2003, according to a Human Rights Watch report. The deadliest year in Rio--the 2016 Olympic host city--was 2007, when police were tasked with securing the city when it hosted the Pan American Games. Extrajudicial executions often go unpunished: 7,800 complaints against Rio cops from 1999 to 2009 netted just four convictions...