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A 2-year-old boy survived on his own for six days after his mother died in their north Sacramento home, police said Thursday.
The child and his 36-year-old mother were discovered at 10:39 a.m. after police forced their way into the home on the 3000 block of Judah Street in the city’s Hagginwood neighborhood, said police Officer [...]

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A MEXICAN police commander who led a botched raid on a nightclub will be charged with 12 counts of homicide - one for each person who died in the crush at the bar’s entrance.
Mexico City Attorney-General Rodolfo Felix Cardenas said his office was bringing the charges against precinct commander Guillermo Zayas for failing to halt [...]

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DUNN St residents are gutted and angry after an appeal to stop a mosque being built in their street was thrown out of court.
The proposed mosque had been the target of intensive opposition from residents and from an anti-Islamic website that was investigated by Australian Federal Police after it called on supporters nationwide to oppose [...]

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A GROUP of young men was ejected from a Kings Cross nightspot after allegedly being told the venue had “an unwritten rule” about patrons of Lebanese descent.
Sydney draftsman Malkoun Taouk, 21, said he and his cousins, Charlie and Anthony Taouk, and their friend Sam Tarabay were “shocked and upset” by the request from a bouncer [...]

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When the next President of the United States is inaugurated in January, either Barack Obama or John McCain will be asked to raise their right hand before swearing the oath of office. But that is the wrong hand for both men.
They are left-handed, as were four of the last six presidents: Bill Clinton, George [...]

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