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Abuse of government-issued credit cards is all over the headlines this week. A Canadian bureaucrat made news by charging $230,000 to her state-issued credit card to buy souvenir coins from the Royal Canadian Mint which she then deposited in her personal bank account.
Veronica Topic, 24, later withdrew […]

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Authorities searched for years for the source of racially hateful letters, including one threatening to blow up the U.S. Supreme Court, before charging a suburban Cleveland man this week.
The FBI said Thursday that the letters dating to the late 1980s seemed to stop in the early 1990s but started again later that decade. Cleveland FBI […]

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A housewife in the Philippines today cut off her husband’s penis while he was sleeping in their house because she suspected he was having extra marital affairs, a police officer said.
Police officer Rolly Lipata said 37-year-old Lenly Bayabado had long suspected her younger husband’s infidelity, prompting her to cut off his organ.
Lipata said neighbours rushed […]

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Actress and human rights activist Angelina Jolie has urged the international community to make educating Iraqi children a greater priority.”The best way to heal children of conflict from trauma is to have them focus on their future,” Jolie told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York today.
Jolie, who visited Iraq in August, and other […]

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Thai health authorities are banning “cosmetic castrations” of underage boys, after parents complained about teenagers seeking out the operation as a first step toward a sex change.
Thailand last week imposed a total ban on the procedure pending a review by a medical board.
Under the new rules, boys under 18 will only be allowed to receive […]

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