Mon 31 Mar 2008
For years there was no news of Mr. Dith, except for a false rumor that he had been fed to alligators. His brother had been. After more than four years of beatings, backbreaking labor and a diet of a tablespoon of rice a day, Mr. …
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Sun 30 Mar 2008
On Saturday morning about 11:20 am, there men got into a taxi in front of the 7-Eleven in Portsmouth, according to a police news release. The men told the driver they wanted to be taken to Del Mar Lane in Newport News. …
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Sun 30 Mar 2008
Press TV claims that over 70% of the Web site’s hits are from the United States, and the station has just hired Andrew Gilligan, an influential British journalist, former BBC correspondent and columnist for London’s Evening Standard …
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Sun 30 Mar 2008
I am having my 18th b-day party on the 12 of this month. Would a taxi have the same restrictions on carrying them as the train/bus services do. This has to be about UK taxi services only. I have taken fireworks in a taxi before in …
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Fri 28 Mar 2008
Regular meetings will now be held between taxi drivers and the city hall from March 27th, while the drivers themselves will gather frequently to discuss matters related to the taxi-viability plan being suspended. Prior to the decision, …
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Fri 28 Mar 2008
A MAN tried to rape a teenage girl after she got into a car she thought was a taxi. The 18-year-old left city centre nightspot Pure in the early hours of Sunday morning after falling out with friends, and started walking home on her own …
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Thu 27 Mar 2008
A docu-drama about the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years. Battleground: 21 Days on the Empire’s Edge by Stephen Marshall. Artists/Media Cooperation and Guerrilla News Network, 2004 …
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Thu 27 Mar 2008
BAGHDAD, March 25 — Fierce gun battles erupted between Iraqi security forces and Shiite militias in Basra, Baghdad and other cities Tuesday as the government, backed by US and British reconnaissance planes, launched an offensive aimed …
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Thu 27 Mar 2008
New York is teeming with British tourists. Two British women of a certain age we encountered in the lift in our hotel could barely carry the results of their day’s swarm over the counters of New York’s emporia. For them, everything here …
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Thu 27 Mar 2008
“I also want to warn people going for a night out to take extra care when travelling home and to encourage them to either pre-book a licensed hire taxi, use a hackney cab or arrange for someone to collect them. Private hire cabs should …
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