On March 17, Ibrahim Shareef, the head of the anti-government activist movement Waad, was snatched from his home at gunpoint by what his family describes as Bahraini security forces. Thrown into a waiting sport utility vehicle, he was driven off into the night.
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The Invasion: This is It
The world got the shock it had been waiting for. But to the U.S
Berlusconi Scandal: Ruby Denies Sex with Prime Minister
Karima El Mahroug, the woman at the center of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s latest sex scandal, says that when she was 9 years old, she was raped by two men, then told by her mother to keep quiet because she feared how Karima’s father would react if he discovered she wasn’t a virgin. When Karima was 12, her father spilled a pan of boiling oil on her after she told him she had converted from Islam to Catholicism.
Plagued by Prostitution, California’s Vallejo Fights Back
It’s Saturday night in Vallejo, Calif., a medium-size town 25 miles northeast of San Francisco, and the locals have hit the streets looking for prostitutes — not to do business with them, but to scare them off. Half a dozen members of a local neighborhood group called the Kentucky Street Watch Owls are out on patrol, walking the streets to discourage prostitutes and their customers from plying their trade in the community.
Italy: The Day the Earth Shook
When the first tremors began in the parched, rock-ribbed mountains of western Sicily last week, most of the 3,000 people of Salaparuta took refuge on the slopes just below their hilltop town.
Obama’s Strategy for Troops, Forces in Afghanistan
It has taken President Obama three months to reach the decision on Afghanistan that he’ll share with the nation Tuesday night, because there are no easy solutions. His chosen path will win applause from some quarters but boos from others
Junior Eurovision: Schoolyard Crushes with Glitter
Illuminated by pyrotechnic lighting and oversized LCD screens, a parade of aspiring teenage pop stars took to the stage at Kiev’s Palace of Sport on Saturday night hoping to win European hearts — and televotes. A 13-year-old from Belarus rapped about a rabbit, backed by Gregorian chants
Alien Abduction Stars in the Movie The Fourth Kind
It’s Art Bell month at the movies. Bell, who in the ’90s made his late-night show Coast to Coast AM home for believers in all manner of paranormal activity — a kind of true-life radio version of The X Files — must be tickled to see the November lineup at the multiplex.
Plane, helicopter collide off California coast; 9 missing
A search was on Thursday night for nine people left missing after a Coast Guard plane collided with a Marine helicopter over the Pacific Ocean near Southern California, officials said.
China to investigate U.S. car subsidies
China is preparing to launch a trade investigation into whether US carmakers are being unfairly subsidised by the US government, according to people familiar with the matter.