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A professor at George Washington University medical school in Washington, D.C. has resigned following student complaints that the professor never showed up to class and that all the students enrolled received an A for essentially signing up for the course. The assertion that the professor did not show up for class should be taken in [...]

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In China an elderly female government official, nicknamed the ‘Land Granny’ by the press and convicted of corruption in a land development scandal, has been executed following the revelation of evidence of some $23 million made illicitly, mostly from bribes. Luo Yaping, an official at a land sub-bureau in the district of Fushun, used her [...]

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei predicted stiff resistance and bloody conflict if the United States and Israel were to launch attacks against Iran in order to disable its nuclear weapons program. Khamenei’s warning is given in light of leaked Israeli intelligence detailing plans for an attack by Israel on Iran that were in the implementation [...]

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The Occupy movement suffered a tragedy in Burlington, Vermont yesterday when a war veteran participating with the protestors and camping with them in City Hall Park died of a self-inflicted gun shot wound to his head. Protestors are at odds with police over cordoning off the park and limiting access to it as it is [...]

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