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Russian girl forced by parents to live with cows

Jul 29, 2012

A 5-year-old Russian girl who had been living with cow herd and can only communicate through mooing noises was rescued recently, according to Russian media.The unnamed child was found by police after a tip off by a neighbor at Solikamsk district in the Ural Mountains. The neighbor told the officials that there was a little girl living with cows at a farm run by the girl’s parents.Police checked the farm and found that the girl was living in a cowshed with livestock. The girl was unable to speak,
More ships needed in Pacific for U.S. pivot to Asia, panel says

Jul 28, 2012

The Defense Department should move more ships to the Pacific and better define its strategy as it pivots toward Asia to counter a rising China, according to a report commissioned by the Pentagon.The U.S. should deploy a second Amphibious Ready Group of ships from the Atlantic to the Pacific to meet the requirements of the Marine Corps, the report made public yesterday recommends. It also calls for
U.N. states fail to reach global arms trade treaty

Jul 28, 2012

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Member states failed to reach agreement Friday on a new U.N. treaty to regulate the multibillion dollar global arms trade, and some diplomats and supporters blamed the United States for triggering the unraveling of the monthlong negotiating conference.Hopes had been raised that agreement could be reached on a revised treaty text that closed some major loopholes by Friday's d
Obama and Romney talk guns

Jul 27, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) ― The White House made clear Thursday that new legislation on gun control will not be on the political agenda this election year, as President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney engaged in their most extensive discussions on the issue since last week’s Colorado theater shootings.Their comments revived ― if briefly ― a sensitive debate that has faded to the background in national politics and been virtually nonexistent in this year’s close presidential race.While O
Police invited into marijuana grow house

Jul 27, 2012

A Florida man who invited police to his home after accidentally shooting himself in the hand ended up arrested when officers found 46 marijuana plants.Port Orange police said they followed John Pardus, 30, and his wife, Kimberly Pardus, 31, to their home Friday when the couple asked them to accompany them home from the hospital to unload John Pardus‘ guns and show him how to safely store them after he accidentally shot himself in the hand, The Daytona Beach News Journal reported Thursday. Police
113 dead kittens found in California

Jul 27, 2012

Animal welfare officials said 113 dead kittens were found during the search of two properties in California.The discovery was made Tuesday as the Monterey County SPCA and Seaside police served search warrants at the two properties, Bay City News Service reported.The company that manages the properties alerted the SPCA after finding dead kittens at the properties.“It‘s very disturbing,” SPCA humane investigation supervisor Capt. Judi Adams said, adding all the dead felines were very young, “newbo
4 people stuck by needles on NYC beaches

Jul 27, 2012

Four people have been pricked by needles on New York City beaches in the past three weeks, police say.Most recently, an on-duty lifeguard stepped on a needle at Rockaway Beach in Queens Tuesday, WNBC-TV, New York, reported.All the other incidents happened at Staten Island beaches. A 63-year-old woman stepped on a hypodermic needle on Cedar Grove Beach on July 16. On July 14, a 37-year-old man p
3-year-old girl calls ambulance for herself

Jul 27, 2012

3-year-old New Zealand girl called an emergency number by herself when she had trouble breathing, ambulance call center personnel said.The (Wellington) Dominion Post said the toddler, Lina Aiono-Te Tau, had to make the 111 call herself in the early morning hours because her mother is deaf.Personnel at the Wellington Free Ambulance call centre were stunned to get the call from the coughing toddler Saturday morning, the newspaper said.Jordan Lane, who took the call, said when he asked to speak to
Victim’s mother: Accused killer ‘lonely’

Jul 27, 2012

A Kentucky woman says the man charged with killing her daughter and grandsons is a “lonely person.”At a news conference Tuesday, Donna Goldsmith said she has forgiven John Devine, The (Louisville) Courier-Journal reported. Devine, charged with three counts of murder, is being treated at University Hospital in Louisville for a gunshot wound to the chest.Investigators say that Devine broke into Sade Goldsmith’s newly purchased home in Louisville on July 15 and shot her and their two sons, John Jr.
Clinton urges IOC to commemorate Munich massacre

Jul 26, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling on the International Olympic Committee to commemorate the massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian gunmen at the Munich Games in 1972 with a moment of silence at the opening ceremony of this year’s Games in London.A senior State Department official said Wednesday that Clinton wrote to committee President Jacques Rogge to ask the IOC to hold an “appropriate memorial event” in London for the victims. A diplomatic source fami
Sleep aid in Kerry Kennedy’s blood after crash

Jul 26, 2012

WHITE PLAINS, New York (AP) ― The recent troubles of the Kennedy clan played out in two courts in New York on Wednesday in cases involving sisters-in-law who were close friends.A test of blood taken from Kerry Kennedy after a drugged-driving arrest showed traces of a sleeping drug, contradicting her own doctors’ findings. And the oldest son of Robert Kennedy Jr. and estranged wife Mary Kennedy stepped forward to take over the estate Mary Kennedy left behind when she hanged herself in May in the
‘New generation’ of tech-savvy Taliban fighters

Jul 26, 2012

KABUL (AFP) ― Once seen as uneducated thugs, the Taliban are producing dangerous new fighters who use the latest digital technology to plan and publicize attacks against NATO and Afghan forces, analysts say.The militants recently released a video of a June 1 attack on a U.S. military base in the eastern province of Khost, on the border with Pakistan, showcasing far more developed techniques to plan the assault than previously thought.The footage shows the fighters, in military uniforms, being br
U.S. says human rights deteriorating in China

Jul 26, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) ― The United States said Wednesday the human rights situation in China is deteriorating and it is time for its authoritarian government to allow dissent.Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner was speaking after an annual U.S.-China human rights dialogue that ended in Washington on Tuesday.The closed-door dialogue is a chance to broach Beijing’s treatment of democracy activists and religious and ethnic minorities, a perennial sore point in relations with Washington.But the U.
U.S. Senate OKs tax cut for middle class, not wealthy

Jul 26, 2012

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The U.S. Senate approved a Democratic plan Wednesday to extend expiring tax breaks for all but the wealthiest Americans, though the measure is unlikely to resolve the country’s looming fiscal impasse.Republicans want the Bush-era tax cuts extended for all, arguing that Congress should not raise taxes on anyone when the economy is as sluggish as it is now, but their measure to do just that failed and the chamber passed the Democratic bill instead.By a 51-48 vote, lawmakers vote
Daredevil jumper completes 17-mile dive

Jul 26, 2012

Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner jumped from a balloon parked on the edge of space Wednesday, spent 5 minutes in free fall, then parachuted to earth.The stunt in Roswell, N.M., five years in planning and sponsored by Red Bull energy drinks, involved getting a 210-foot tall balloon to an altitude of 90,000 feet, or 17.04 miles, a death-defying dive and a 7- to 10-minute glide back to earth by