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2008-08-12 Witness Aboard Greyhound Bus Account of Tim McLean's Murder by Vince Li Orato Staff World Affairs
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2007-04-24 Michelle Manhart Joins PETA "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" Campaign Michelle Manhart World Affairs
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2008-07-08 World Record Flight with Helium Balloons Kent Couch Flies 235 Miles Across Oregon and Idaho World Affairs
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2008-02-05 Stark County Police Illegal Strip Searches Video Spurs Investigation into Ohio Force Michelle Kenneth World Affairs
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2008-12-30 Jonestown Massacre 30th Anniversary Jim Jones' People's Temple Mass Suicide in Guyana Tamara Belinc World Affairs
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2007-12-26 Forced to Work as a Concubine Prostitution and Slavery in Vietnam Michelle Kenneth World Affairs
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2006-07-25 Bug Chasers A Minority of Gay Men Deliberately Convert to the "Fetish" of Being HIV-Positive Herni¡n Muñoz Ratto World Affairs
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2006-08-01 Maasai Ritual of Female Circumcision Genital Cutting Practiced throughout Africa and Middle East Denis Gathanju World Affairs
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2008-03-26 A Woman's Tour of Duty in Iraq Amputee Soldier Still Strong After Injury Marissa Strock World Affairs
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2008-08-15 Escaping Chinese Oppression in Tibet A Tibetan Monk Defects to India to Meet the Dalai Lama Mridu Khullar World Affairs
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2008-07-30 I Saw the Twin Towers Fall on 9/11 Witness to the Attacks on the World Trade Center Bill Belina World Affairs
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2009-01-09 Contesting Dick Cheney's POW Policy Prisoner Abuses Justified in Torture Memo John Hatch World Affairs
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2008-11-21 Boys in Darfur Refugee Camps Sold Rebels Turn Youths into Child Soldiers Anna Schmitt World Affairs
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2007-07-02 Sexual Predators in Canada Is Judicial System Breaking Down? Hazel Main World Affairs
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2009-08-19 Nazi War Criminals Still at Large Should Key German SS Figures be Tracked Down? Daniel Angell World Affairs
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2008-03-02 Timothy Boham/Markus Allen Telling It Like It Is Luka Magnotta World Affairs
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2009-07-26 Sudanese Police Inflicting Violence Ethiopia, Eritrean Refugees Violated in Sudan Zenebe H.Mariam Geneme World Affairs
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2007-08-20 Iraq War Veterans Lacking Resources Returning Soldiers in Need of Support John Powers World Affairs
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2006-11-01 Rachel Adams & Mark Rempel Double Suicide Goth Couple Hang in Squamish BC Orato Staff World Affairs
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2007-09-07 Madeleine McCann Abduction Mother Kate McCann Questioned as Possible Suspect Margaret Holborow World Affairs
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2008-01-14 Mark Emery Negotiates Plea Bargain Prince of Pot Attempts to Avoid Extradition Orato Staff World Affairs
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2007-12-13 Cultural Laws re Burqa, Hijab & Niqab Muslim Pride or Oppression for Women? Craig Read World Affairs
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2008-04-23 Hilary Clinton Wins Pennsylvania The NY Times on the Democratic Nominee Race David Mixner World Affairs
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2008-08-20 Eyewitness reports from South Ossetia Georgia Voices from a War Zone Maka Eradze World Affairs
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2007-04-04 Canada's 'Prince of Pot' Marc Emery Legalizing Marijuanna vs U.S. War on Drugs Orato Staff World Affairs
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2007-09-04 Bishop Carlton Pearson on Homosexuality Comments on the Senator Larry E. Craig Situation Bishop Carlton Pearson World Affairs
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2008-11-19 Suicide Bombers Used as Weapons of War Terrorists Who Aren't Afraid to Die Fahd Raza World Affairs
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2008-06-20 Prosecuting George W. Bush for Murder Former District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi Makes a Case Robyn Stubbs World Affairs
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2009-01-14 Actors Used to Train U.S. Marines Wadi al Sahara is 'Fake Iraq' in Mojave Desert Harmon Leon World Affairs
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2008-08-19 India 3 Years After 2004 Tsunami Losses Kerela & Tamilnadu Coastal People Remember Dipalle Parmar Haworth World Affairs
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2006-09-28 Shooting at Platte Canyon High School Student and Police EyeWitness Accounts Cecilia Jamasmie World Affairs
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2008-02-06 Police Strip Searches What are Your Rights as a Suspect? Michelle Kenneth World Affairs
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2007-04-12 What is Causing Global Warming? Cecilia Jamasmie World Affairs
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2006-08-04 Social Cleansing in Central America Murder of Street Children on the Rise in Honduras Duncan Campbell World Affairs
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2008-09-24 Sarah Palin, New Face of Republicans VP Candidate a Sad GOP Representative John Hatch World Affairs
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2008-11-06 Prop 8 Is Passing And I'm Listening How Gay and Lesbian Couples Should React Darcy Baxter World Affairs
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2007-06-13 2010 Winter Games Excluding Rest of BC Olympics Alienating Non-Vancouverites Melissa Carr World Affairs
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2008-11-18 Will the New President Prosecute Bush? Obama Must Deal with Old Administration John Hatch World Affairs
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2008-05-07 Convicted Murderer Josef Fritzl Chalet Manager Recalls Incidents with the Austrian in Amstetten Bernice Dainty World Affairs
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2007-05-10 Marc Emery Discusses His Trial Canada's Prince of Pot Prepares for Jail Time Marc Emery World Affairs
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2008-11-30 George W. Bush Belongs In Prison Former US President Should be Indicted Joel Hirschhorn World Affairs
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2007-01-11 Sarah Devries Murdered by Robert Pickton Missing Sarah Testifies to Life on the Street Hazel Main World Affairs
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2009-08-05 The UK's War On Weed Government Should Decriminalize Marijuana Lee Buttle World Affairs
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2008-09-19 PeaceJam’s Global Call to Action Nobel Peace Prize Winners Unite Heather Moline World Affairs
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2007-10-18 DC Sniper Shootings Washington Killings Result of Domestic Violence Robyn Stubbs World Affairs
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2008-12-04 Historian's View of American Presidents JFK and Abraham Lincoln Conspiracy Theory Roli Rivelino World Affairs
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2009-09-02 Spice Smoking Mix Banned UK's Synthetically-Created Drugs Reclassified Lee Buttle World Affairs
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2008-08-01 Surviving the Israel-Lebanese War Refugee Returns Home After the Conflict Dorit Sasson World Affairs
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2007-03-07 The Work of a Courtroom Sketch Artist Felicity Don Held Job of Drawing the Robert P Cecilia Jamasmie World Affairs
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2008-11-18 Somali Pirates Hijack Oil Tanker The Sirius Star is the Largest Tanker Ever Hijacked Mike Small World Affairs
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