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...Herald. His mother, Kim Odom, demanded a response from Patrick, who met with her and spoke at her son’s funeral. The governor’s office could not be reached for comment last night, but Kyle Sullivan, Patrick’s spokesman, told the Globe last Thursday that Patrick took the issue “very seriously,” and has devoted millions of dollars to crime prevention programs. Lockridge-Steckel said that Patrick’s $15 million statewide anti-crime plan, which he unveiled last May, was not an adequate response to the problem...
...Thursday in the English seaside town of Whitehaven, a transmitter tower that had broadcast British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) programs to analog television sets since the 1950s switched off. The abrupt blackening was the first part of a nationwide program to make British television entirely digital...
...news in France was dominated Thursday by two developments that were as widely expected as they were painstakingly choreographed: The country's unions staged massive, nationwide strikes, and the Elysée announced the eventual divorce of President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Cécilia. Clearly, no one in the country felt much like getting along...
...most significant of the two developments came as unions representing French public service workers fulfilled threats to bring transportation across the nation to a crawl on Thursday, with strikes protesting proposed tightening of pension schemes. The action forced millions of French commuters to drive, cycle, walk, or roller-blade to work as public transport systems in nearly 30 French cities were hit by strikes of varying severity. Such self-reliance wasn't an option for users of inter-city and cross-country train service: state rail company SNCF canceled a whopping 95% of scheduled traffic, and remains the most vulnerable...
More than 20,000 police have been assigned to protect Bhutto and her entourage as she makes her way from the Karachi airport to the mausoleum of Pakistan's founder on Thursday. Snipers will occupy rooftops and flyovers, and bomb disposal units have already started sweeping the route. It's a journey that usually takes less than an hour. Police and party organizers are expecting an ordeal that could last up to eighteen hours, as fans coming as far away as Kashmir, in the country's northeast, block her passage in an attempt to get a glimpse of their rehabilitated...