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...French luxury yacht Ponant for a week and allegedly securing a $2 million ransom from its owner, a band of Somali marauders headed for shore on April 11 with its booty. That's when French navy commandos pounced to free the 30-man crew and, in a dramatic helicopter raid, hunt down the six pirates. They now await charges in Paris...
...April 3, Mankin was driving past the sheriff's office when he noticed a large number of black vehicles parked there. Curious, he called the dispatcher, but when the deputy started to talk, the phone was taken over by the Texas Rangers. The raid had begun. It had been a tightly held secret, known only to the sheriff. Court papers indicated the action had been prompted by a call from a young girl to a child abuse hotline - the state has yet to confirm they have located her and an FLDS spokesman says she does not exist. The Texas Department...
...raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, produced haunting images: 416 children, the girls in calico dresses, removed from log cabin homes, looking questioningly into nowhere as they were led from their polygamist enclave into a secular world they have always been taught to fear. They sang hymns as they were driven away along with 139 adult women from Eldorado's Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a renegade branch of the Mormon faith...
...Perry says, they may well believe "My parents were right!" In some ways, Perry said, this situation highlights "fracture lines in our culture" about lifestyles and parental control. "But the state is not saying 'Don't wear those dresses," Perry says, referring to the legal basis of the Eldorado raid. "It's saying you cannot have sex with 12-year-olds...
...year did not pass peacefully either. In January, police destroyed a terrorist camp in Xinjiang, "killing 18 terrorists in a gun battle and seizing 17," according to the official Xinhua News Agency. In February, two members of a "terrorist gang" were shot dead, and 15 arrested during a police raid in Urumqi city...