CAIRO – Switzerland is dropping part of a prosecution case against Egypt’s longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, his close aids and family members, involving hundreds of millions of Swiss francs frozen in Swiss banks. Switzerland froze the funds and opened criminal proceedings over suspicion of money laundering and “support of a …
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MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say they found six tigers, seven baboons, four camels and three dromedaries abandoned in cages without food, water or adequate care in the southern Mexico state of Yucatan. The passage of laws forbidding animal acts in circuses has raised fears that the exotic species might …
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HONG KONG – Hong Kong police charged a prominent figure in Macau’s casino junket industry with laundering 1.8 billion Hong Kong dollars ($231 million) through bank accounts in the southern Chinese city. Cheung Chi-tai is facing three separate counts of money laundering, according to a charge sheet. The businessman was …
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NEW YORK – A New York City teenager is being credited with using Facebook to track down the owner of a wallet she found on a city bus. Eighteen-year-old Michael Sally was on his way to Xaverian High School in Brooklyn on June 4 when his wallet apparently fell out …
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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc. has booted a developer and his apps from its applications store after hundreds of hijacked user accounts were used to push his titles to best sellers over the weekend. Developer Thuat Nguyen has been banned for violating an Apple license agreement, “including fraudulent purchases,” Apple …
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In the ever-important Money Primary, the GOP presidential field has divided into Haves and Have-Nots. The Haves are former Florida Gov.Jeb Bush, who has raised $114 million; Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, at $52 million; Florida Sen.Marco Rubio, at $45 million; and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, at $26 million. These figures …
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AMSTERDAM – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says he supports moves to set up an international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for shooting down a Malaysian Airlines plane over Ukraine last year. Nearly 200 of the 298 passengers and crew killed when the Boeing 777 was brought down were Dutch. …
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BEIJING – A shoe factory collapsed in eastern China during a weekend shift, killing at least 13 people and injuring more than 30, state media reported. One other person remained missing following the collapse Saturday afternoon in the Zhejiang province city of Wenling, and nine people escaped. Rescuers pulled 42 …
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PIERRE, S.D. – A polygamous sect seeking more water for its South Dakota compound wants to block discussion of its faith and member’s personal details during a hearing with regulators. An attorney for the group argues the information isn’t relevant to the application to the South Dakota Water Management Board. …
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LOS ANGELES – A California appeals court has overturned a verdict because of what it called egregious misconducted by a state lawyer who portrayed an injured motorcyclist as a low-life Nazi biker. The 4th District Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday a Transportation Department lawyer ran roughshod over her opponent and …
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