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Ex-US President Jimmy Carter secures release of an American, Aijalon Mahli Gomes, sentenced to hard labour for illegally entering North Korea.

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Three Ontario men accused of taking part in a domestic terrorist plot and possessing plans and materials to create makeshift bombs had allegedly selected specific targets in Canada, sources told CBC News.

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US health officials say they have found samples of salmonella linking two Iowa farms to a nationwide egg recall.

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Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis are ordered to evacuate their homes as flood waters threaten several cities in the south of the country.

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The number of people in England undergoing surgery on the NHS to help them lose weight has increased tenfold in less than a decade, figures show.

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As Chile labors carefully to rescue 33 trapped miners, the nation is subtly working to buoy their hopes and psychological equilibrium by not telling them straight out just how long it could take to free them from the bottom of a dark and craggy shaft.

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Rescuers aren’t telling the 33 Chilean miners straight out just how long they may be trapped. Authorities think it might be too much of a psychological blow.

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Caribbean Cinemas is inaugurating its new movie theater at Novocentro on Lope de Vega Avenue in Santo Domingo with an International Fine Arts Film Festival. The festival will last from 26 August to 1 September. Films are: Dos hermanos (comedy), Musica en espera (romance), Agora (drama), Abel (drama), Contracorriente (drama), My Name is Khan (drama), Cyrus (comedy), Celda 211 (thriller), Pandora’s Box (drama), La Fille de Monaco (comedy), Le Petit Nicolas (drama), El mal ajeno (drama), A ojos cerrados (drama) and Del amor y otros demonios (drama), among others.

www.caribbeancinemasrd.com/festival

For more on upcoming activities, see www.dr1.com/calendar

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Herald Estevez Pena, Miguel Angel Lazala and Adalberto Rosa, employees of the Department of Customs in Santiago, have been released on RD$2 million bail each after a month in jail. The Customs Department had accused them of fraud worth more than RD$100 million at the Cibao regional customs offices. The Penal Chamber of Appeals in Santiago authorized their release on bail. Earlier they had been ordered to jail for eight months while their case was heard. The accused now need to report to the authorities on the 30th of each month and cannot leave the country.

As reported in Diario Libre, on 27 July the Department of Customs (DGA) sent the three men to justice accused of dispatching containers filled with items that had not been verified nor subject to customs controls.

Santiago prosecutor Yenny Berenice Reynoso said that tax evasion in the regional offices was estimated at [...]

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Police officers working for the Central Department of Criminal Investigations have dismantled a ring of forgers in Santo Domingo. They confiscated state-of-the-art equipment used to clone credit cards for fraudulent use. The criminals operated out of an abandoned house at Nicolas de Ovando on the corner of Calle 10 in Las Canitas. Abraham Antonio de Lara Candelario was arrested in the operation. The agents recovered 18 cloned credit cards issued by several banks, as reported in Listin Diario.

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