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Afghan militias form to fight Taliban regime
Pope, archbishop seek stronger ties
Afghan police jeopardize plans to transfer security
World Briefs: 5 dead in gun rampage on Mariana Islands
Fingers, tooth said to be Galileo's are found
Pakistan demands U.S. share Afghan blueprint
Russian ship frees itself from ice in Antarctic
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Police accuse bank robbery suspect of gobbling up note (with dashcam video)
Man found dead in North Akron home is identified
Dad accused of forcing son into field, killing him
Coventry man killed in crash at I-77 ramp
NFL star Chris Spielman's wife loses cancer battle
College student mistaken for deer, shot to death
Browns' roster nearly devoid of consistent players
Blogs:
Pets:
Cat-loving chihuahua suckles seven abandoned kittens
The Heldenfiles:
Friday Night Notebook
Patrick McManamon:
For your Saturday entertainment …
Akron Zips:
Hitchens leads Zips in second-half comeback
Tribe Matters:
Seven players added to Tribe’s 40-man roster
Cleveland Browns:
Holmgren expresses interest in Browns position
Kent State Sports:
Kent State blown out in second half, loses to Temple 47-13
Cleveland Cavaliers:
Gameblog: Cavs vs. Philadelphia 76ers
Buckeye Blogging:
OSU – Michigan college football rivals meet in Baghdad
Varsity Letters:
Four area football teams play tonight
All Da King's Men:
Blog of Mass Destruction:
Will Health Care Reform Pass?
Akron Law Café:
Health Care Financing Reform: (68) Democrats Secure 60 Votes for Cloture
See Jane Style:
Vintage Chic
Car Chase:
TIME TO GET YOUR COLLECTOR CARS WINTERIZED
Let's Talk Real Estate:
Silverdome Potentially SOLD!
Ohio Travels with Betty:
George is looking for a Thanksgiving buffet in Akron.
Sound Check:
Steely Dan Plays "The Royal Scam" at E.J. Thomas Hall
HRLite House:
Colloquium at University of Akron
Akron Gamer:
Nintendo's Mario endures even as games come and go
Published on Saturday, Nov 22, 2008
MEXICO
Ex-drug czar held
Mexico accused its former drug czar Friday of taking $450,000 from a cartel he was supposed to destroy, going public with a scandal that deals a serious blow to the country's U.S.-backed drug war. Noe Ramirez is the highest-ranking law enforcement official detained yet as part of Mexico's sweeping effort to weed out officials who allegedly shared police information with violent drug smugglers.
CONGO
Refugees attacked
Looting soldiers tried to rape one woman and fatally shot another at a refugee camp, witnesses said Friday, as the United Nations prepared to send more soldiers to help protect civilians in eastern Congo. Some 67,000 people have overrun the village of Kibati, just north of the provincial capital of Goma.
NETHERLANDS
Weed cafes shrink
Amsterdam will close almost a fifth of its marijuana cafes to comply with a national ban on having them near schools, the mayor said Friday. Marijuana is technically illegal in the Netherlands, but can be sold in small amounts in designated cafes without fear of prosecution.
FINLAND
Biggest cruise liner
Finnish shipbuilders say the world's largest cruise liner has been launched into water. Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas will be completed within a year before sailing to Miami. It has 16 passenger decks with 2,700 cabins and can accommodate 6,300 passengers and 3,000 crew. It is 1,200 feet long and has an open-air arena the size of a football field.
RUSSIA
AIDS effort blasted
A top Russian anti-AIDS coordinator on Friday lambasted the government's approach to fighting HIV, saying the number of registered cases is growing 10 percent a year despite increased federal funding. Each day about 130 new cases are registered in Russia, said Vadim Pokrovsky, head of the state-funded Federal AIDS Center.
JAPAN
Leader's spouse ill
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's plane made an emergency landing at Kansai International Airport in Japan on Friday after her husband fell ill on board, officials said. Arroyo was on her way from Manila to attend the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru. Arroyo's husband, Jose Miguel ''Mike'' Arroyo, was rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment for an illness related to a chronic health problem, a police official said.
PAKISTAN
8 die at funeral
A bomb killed eight mourners at the funeral of a slain Shiite cleric Friday in northwestern Pakistan, triggering rioting and heightening sectarian tension in the volatile region. Police said the attack in the city of Dera Ismail Khan wounded another 28 people and was followed by riots.
Compiled from wire reports.
MEXICO
Ex-drug czar held
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Orrville, Oh
Posted 04:19 PM, 11/22/2008
Same old defiance of demands of Natural Law (what Mother Nature, God, or Whatever Power decreed to be the reality of the real world), God, democracy, capitalism, the US Constitution, and free, fair, and affordable commerce.
Demanding every corporation, farmer, business, outsourcer sweatshop, and nonprofit, tax-exempt, organization and Church markets the cost in the wholesale and retail price of his or her product and service. Of every workers, consumers, and taxpayers living (including pension and health care). Enabling parents to love, nurse, nurture, discipline, protect, and provide, for every child (job) they conceive and fund schools, infrastructure, national security, government services, and etc.; with money derived from wages or independent business profit.
Causes protests, rioting, poverty, and makes life in The Real World Unaffordable!
