The new Prime Minister of England, David Cameron has called for a clamp down on kerb crawling and said that decriminalization of prostitution should be looked at again. This all comes as police are trying to find the bodies of two missing women in Bradford who worked as prostitutes. Meanwhile Stephen Griffiths, 40, who is [...]
All posts for the month May, 2010
Britain: Decriminalization of Prostitution
Posted by newsdeskinternational on 05/31/2010
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Judge says no to graduation in Connecticutt church
Two Enfield High School students and their parents had objected to the high school from holding the graduation in a church, so they, along with the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State brought the suit, saying using the church for graduations would be unconstitutional. The judge today made his ruling. “We [...]
Posted by newsdeskinternational on 05/31/2010
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Senator wants disclosure on outsourced calls
First of all, what are outsourced calls? They are your phone calls that are transferred outside of the country, when you make long distance calls. What this does is create jobs overseas instead of this country, and one Democrat Senator wants to make companies to have to inform customers when their calls are being transferred. [...]
Posted by newsdeskinternational on 05/31/2010
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Oregon judge sends foster care boy back to Canada
A 12 year old boy has been sent back to Canada, although he doesn’t want to go, by an Oregon Judge. The Lane County Juvenile Court hearing centered on the boy who has been in state custody for 2 years, and the case has threatened to become an international incident. It is a complex story, [...]
Posted by newsdeskinternational on 05/30/2010
http://newsdeskinternational.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/oregon-judge-sends-foster-care-boy-back-to-canada/
US warns of possible terror attack at World Cup
The US government has issued a warning to citizens that South Africa faces a high risk of a terror attack During the World Cup. These large events are targets. “There is a heightened risk that extremist groups will conduct terrorist acts within South Africa in the near future,” the US state department said. “I just [...]
Posted by newsdeskinternational on 05/30/2010
http://newsdeskinternational.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/us-warns-of-possible-terror-attack-at-world-cup/
Parents Jailed for starving baby while playing internet games
Another pair of morons, this time from South Korea. The parents were arrested for starving their baby, while raising a virtual baby online. The husband is a 41 year old taxi driver and the mother is 25, but her two year sentence was suspended because she is pregnant, he still serves the time. The two [...]
Posted by newsdeskinternational on 05/29/2010
http://newsdeskinternational.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/parents-jailed-for-starving-baby-while-playing-internet-games/
David Laws resigns as Chief Secretary
Once again the Expenses Row has been the downfall of a British politician. The Tory-Lib Democrat coalition has suffered a major blow after David Laws resigned from the Treasury. He is the first casualty of the newly formed coalition government. It seems Mr. Laws channelled tens of thousands of pounds in public money to his [...]
Posted by newsdeskinternational on 05/29/2010
http://newsdeskinternational.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/david-laws-resigns-as-chief-secretary/
Ponzi Schemes on Rise in Bay Area
Ponzi schemes and other frauds have grown nationwide, but even more so in the San Francisco Bay area of California. They are commonly called robbing Peter to Pay Paul schemes. This is when the investor money is used to pay off other investors, turn up more often now largely because the economy sapped the capital [...]
Posted by newsdeskinternational on 05/29/2010
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Who is this mystery man from Oregon?
Even more clues are emerging about the mystery man from Oregon, who claims to be the boy who was killed 30 years ago in a kidnapping. The investigators have learned this – Doitchin Krasev went to college in North Carolina in the mid-1990s and lived in Colorado before moving to Oregon. Krasev claims he is [...]
Posted by newsdeskinternational on 05/29/2010
http://newsdeskinternational.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/who-is-this-mystery-man-from-oregon/
MA Police Investigate “Caucasian Ad” Only in Newspaper
The MCAD (Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination), is investigating an ad that was in a local newspaper. The ad said land was for sale, in the New Bedford Standard-Times, and it was placed by the law office of Harmon Law. The advertisement stated that the land “…shall not be sold, leased or rented to any person [...]
Posted by newsdeskinternational on 05/29/2010
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