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Robin van Persie and Emmanuel Adebayor score two goals each as Arsenal beat Porto in Champions League group G.

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A 24-year-old convert to Islam was sentenced to 35 years in prison Tuesday for plotting to detonate hand grenades in a crowded Illinois shopping mall during the Christmas season.

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Stocks rallied today as investors scooped up shares battered in the bloodletting that followed Congress’ failure to pass a $700 billion bank rescue plan. The Dow Jones industrial average added 485 points, according to early tallies, recovering some of the record 777 points lost the day before, CNNMoney.com reports.

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Police oversight “has hit rock bottom in Ontario” because of a watchdog agency that is timid, fearful and lacking in rigour, says Ontario’s ombudsman.

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Jury selection is underway amid tight security in Camden, N.J., in the trial of five men accused of planning to shoot U.S. soldiers in an attack on Fort Dix in southern New Jersey.

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Canadians who wear coverings over their faces will not be required to remove them to vote if they swear a special oath to affirm their identity and eligibility, a spokesman for Elections Canada said on Tuesday.

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Senator Wilton Guerrero says he is surprised that General Prosecutor Radhames Jimenez Pena is accusing him of the same things as the former Police commander in Bani, General Hilario Gonzalez y Gonzalez. Senator Guerrero has accused General Gonzalez of complicity with drug traffickers in the region. At a press conference yesterday, Senator Guerrero said his son Francisco Alberto Guerrero Melo had been arrested in New York for a traffic accident for which his friend, who was driving the vehicle, was fined US$150. Proof that his son was not involved with drug trafficking activities is reflected in the fact that he was granted US citizenship this year. In response to accusations made by Guerrero of negligence in investigating drug cases, Jimenez said that it was Guerrero who should be investigated for his fortune and for his son’s behavior. Guerrero showed a court report on the traffic incident. He said that Jimenez [...]

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Lawyers Carlos Salcedo and Artagnan Perez Mendez are also warning that the complicity between the authorities and drug traffickers and the failure to apply the law are contributing to the increase in crime in the Dominican Republic, as reported in Hoy. Salcedo said that the increase in crime and drug trafficking is a reflection of the weaknesses shown by the complicity of the authorities with criminals. Artagnan Perez Mendez said, “I don’t think we are taking the necessary measures to effectively fight crime and drug trafficking”. He said that crime levels have increased because of the moral complicity of the authorities in charge of prosecuting crime. He said that where there are men there will always be crime, but added that an organized society has the duty to fight it, “whatever the cost or the consequences.” Perez complained that the laws exist to fight drug trafficking and crime but are [...]

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Pedernales Senator Dionis Sanchez is calling on the government to set up a National Drug Control Department office in Pedernales, on the far southwestern coast of the DR. He said that after last week’s incident in which an airplane loaded with drugs crashed in a remote area of the province, he has observed more activity by drug agents in the area. Sanchez said that Pedernales is on the border with Haiti, has long stretches of beach and uninhabited and inaccessible land, which translates into a need for the DNCD officers to be more active, he told Hoy.

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The Stevens Institute of Technology’s Center for Maritime Systems has launched a project aimed at strengthening the Early Warning System (EWS) for Floods in the Dominican Republic. The project is focused on developing the DR’s EWS technology and providing the most up-to-date equipment to improve accuracy in detection of hurricanes and preventing flooding. The program is the brainchild of Dr. Harold J. Raveche, President of Stevens, and was drawn up with the help of Dr. Alan Blumberg, Dr. Thomas O. Herrington and Janet Kunhardt. The importance of an EWS in the DR cannot be overstated. Many deaths occur each year due to drowning in the wake of powerful tropical storms and hurricanes in the DR. Proposals for funding have already been sent to USAID and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). According to Blumberg, if this program is successful in the DR it could be replicated in other Caribbean nations. [...]

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