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BBC News
UK police given £8.5m to probe overseas corruption
BBC News
Specialist British police units working to combat overseas corruption will receive government funding until March 2016, the international development secretary has announced. Justine Greening said parts of the Met and City of London Police and the ...
UK crime agencies to fight overseas corruptionEconomic Times
UK devises strategies to tackle corruptionHimalayan Times

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This was definitely not meant for the "Blue Light Special." Police are currently investigating how 10 pounds of pot got delivered to a Seattle Kmart... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cavan-sieczkowski/

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Yale University student charged in a deadly tailgating crash at a 2011 football game has received a special form of... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-mcguinness/

Do these words get us any closer to answering the interminable questions above, or do they simply attempt to soothe our desperate and restless desire to control the uncontrollable? Mark O'Connell, L.C.S.W. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-oconnell lcsw/

Wall Street Journal (blog)
TeliaSonera CEO Quits Amid Criticism
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Corruption Currents, The Wall Street Journal's corruption blog, digs into the ever-present and ever-changing world of corporate corruption. It is a source of news, analysis and commentary for those who earn a living by finding corruption or by avoiding it.
Indon party chief arrested over corruptionThe Australian
Corruption and Islamists to influence next year's electionsAsiaNews.it

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FBI releases 2012 crime stats for largest U.S. cities; Jacksonville in top 100
Jacksonville Business Journal (blog)
The FBI has released preliminary statistics from its annual Uniform Crime Report for the largest U.S. cities. The data ranks violent and property crimes reported during the first six months of 2012 in cities with more than 100,000 people. Jacksonville ...

BikeRadar.com
Bont Riot shoe comes in under US$150
BikeRadar.com
Bont will release a new lower-cost shoe this March called Riot. Although it's less than half the price of the top-end Vaypor+, it still offers a bathtub-style carbon composite sole, the same fit (and huge range of sizes and lasts), and is supposedly ...

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Sexual violence is a prevalent problem within every community and environment. Key differences exist around the issue of military sexual assault. The structure and organizations of the military are very different than in the civilian world and it can be difficult to navigate the legal process. Stacey Lantz http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stacey-lantz/

CBS News
execution reprieve upsets murder victim relatives
CBS News
Randall Browning was among relatives of murder victim Dorothy Booth headed to Huntsville Tuesday to witness the execution of Kimberly McCarthy when they learned a judge had stopped the punishment. Browning said Thursday Booth's loved ones quietly ...

It is hard to be a Military Sexual Trauma spouse -- not hard to be with a survivor, but hard because at times I feel so helpless to the trauma. Robert McDonald http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-mcdonald/

I often encounter people who wonder why, after three decades, the Church continues to be afflicted by scandal related to abuse cases, many of which are 20 or 30 years old. In the Los Angeles case, all the tragic truth could have come out years ago. Michael D'Antonio http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-dantonio/

News about the hostage situation in Alabama is hard to come by, but KAIT-8 has a bizarre update today: The morning Jimmy Lee Dykes allegedly shot and killed bus driver Charles Albert Poland, Jr., and took a little boy on the bus hostage , Poland had tried to give Dykes a...

In this week's issue, Peter Goodman and Jeffrey Young look at the 49 million Americans who lack health insurance, "a crowded group that no one chooses to join." And Radley Balko writes about a Mississippi cold case -- part real-life murder mystery, part exposé of the state's justice system. Arianna Huffington http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/

CBS News
Mali soldiers accused of murder, torture
CBS News
Mali soldiers accused of murder, torture. A Malian soldier patrols on a street of Timbuktu, Jan. 31, 2013. / Getty. TIMBUKTU Three suspected jihadists arrested in the days since they liberated the town of Timbuktu said Friday that Malian soldiers were ...
Torture and murder linked to Mali's ArmyMorning Star Online

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The Atlantic Wire
Pussy Riot Is Not Doing Well in Prison
The Atlantic Wire
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the members of Pussy Riot, has been hospitalized in her prison colony in Mordovia, for what the Associated Press is calling a "full medical check-up." Tolokonnikova was one of two members of the band sent to prison ...

MTN says probe dismisses corruption allegations
Reuters
Backed by a collection of alleged MTN internal documents including emails, invoices, memos and presentations, Turkcell's lawsuit accuses the South African company of a "staggeringly brazen orchestra of corruption". EMPLOYEE'S TESTIMONY. Turkcell ...

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The Guardian
Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova transferred to prison hospital
The Guardian
The penal colonies inhabited by Tolokonnikova and her fellow Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina, 24, do not differ significantly from the gulags of the Soviet Union, said Alexander Rimmer, a human rights activist who spent four years in Russian prisons.
Jailed Pussy Riot singer hospitalised with headache, fatigueDAWN.com
Imprisoned Pussy Riot Member HospitalizedTIME
Member Of Pussy Riot Hospitalized From Prison OverworkThe Frisky
Fox News -Telegraph.co.uk -Autostraddle
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The Guardian
Hit men convicted of murder after going to wrong home, killing teen instead of ...
Fox News
LONDON – Two bungling British hit men who went to the wrong address and stabbed a teenager to death instead of their intended victim were convicted of murder Friday. Prosecutors said Ben Hope, 39, and Jason Richards, 38, were paid 1,000 pounds ...
'why would anyone kill my boy?'The Guardian
Aamir Siddiqi murder: Bungling hitmen guilty of schoolboy murderThe Independent
Bungling hitmen who killed teenager by mistake guilty of murderThe Sun
Telegraph.co.uk -Huffington Post UK -BBC News
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ABC News
Bungling Hit Men Convicted of Schoolboy's Murder
ABC News
Two bungling British hit men who went to the wrong address and stabbed a teenager to death instead of their intended victim were convicted of murder Friday. Ben Hope, 39, and Jason Richards, 38, were paid 1,000 pounds ($1,600) each to kill a man who ...
'why would anyone kill my boy?'The Guardian
Aamir Siddiqi murder: Bungling hitmen guilty of schoolboy murderThe Independent
Aamir Siddiqi murder: sister's relief at guilty verdicts for hit menTelegraph.co.uk
BBC News -The Inquisitr
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CBS News
Steven Robbins, Indiana murder convict, mistakenly released from custody in ...
CBS News
The Cook County Sheriff's Office said it was investigating how Robbins was released. Robbins was serving a decades-long sentence for murder and weapon convictions in Indiana. He started serving the sentence in October 2004 and his earliest projected ...
Hunt for Murderer Mistakenly Freed in ChicagoABC News
US murder convict mistakenly released in ChicagoInquirer.net
Indiana Murder Convict Mistakenly Released In ChicagoFOX2now.com
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