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HONG KONG — In the tiled corridors of Stanley Prison, a maximum-security complex on a rocky edge of Hong Kong’s main island, the chatter among the foreign inmates on Monday mornings tends to revolve around a single question. Did you hear what “Brother Bruce” said last night? Hundreds of prisoners in.... |
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1777: Polish Count Casimir Pulaski is commissioned major general in American Revolutionary Army. 1789: The US Department of Foreign Affairs is renamed the Department of State. 1810: Mexico rejects Spanish rule. 1821: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador declare independence. |
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Around 5.2 million members of the Lutheran Church of Sweden will cast their votes on Sunday. The Swedish Church elections take place every four years, and have traditionally seen low turnouts. In 2013, only 12.8 percent of the electorate made it to the polls. |
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A stunned community will come to a standstill this afternoon for the funerals of a seven-year-old boy, his mother and grandmother - all killed in a horrific crash earlier this week. Tragic schoolboy Sean Wilson, his mother Marcella, who was driving the car, and her mother Mary Ann died in the crash near Claremorris in Mayo on Monday. |
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Bishop Diego (3-0, No. 1 in Division 6) at St. Joseph (2-1, No. 6 in Division 5), 7 p.m. Radio: 1290 AM A clash between two powerhouse programs in the county. Bishop Diego’s defense faces its toughest assignment against an explosive Knights team that just routed St. Bonaventure, 42-12. |
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She told the BBC: "Every child was beaten, punished, locked in a dark room, made to eat their own vomit and I would say that most of us had our mouths rinsed out with carbolic soap." Ms Tolmie-McGrane said she was first sexually abused at the home by a priest when she was eight. |
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I sat on the front row of the audience at the InTouch Ministries broadcast studio, where I was invited to watch the taping of an exclusive interview between two of the most acclaimed pastors of our time. For 45 uninterrupted minutes, Andy Stanley, pastor of North Point Community Church, interviewed his dad, Dr. |
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It was an unprecedented run at the University of Missouri for coach Gary Pinkel, who engineered the rise of what had been a moribund football program to a national title contender before leaving a decade and a half later amid racial unrest on campus that drew national attention shortly after he had been diagnosed with cancer in 2015. |
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I'm still confused as to what's so "disrespectful" about NFL players kneeling for the anthem. In my opinion, it's a heck of a lot more reverent than Joe Schmoe at home who eats chips and picks his navel through the whole thing. — They Love Their Country. Do You? Major wildfires on the West Coast. Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Louisiana. |
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. Today is Friday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2017. There are 107 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On September 15, 1940, during the World War II Battle of Britain, the tide turned as the Royal Air Force inflicted heavy losses upon the Luftwaffe. On this date: In 1789, the U.S. |
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In 1963, four black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen were eventually convicted for their roles in the blast.) In 1972, a federal grand jury in Washington indicted seven men in connection with the Watergate break-in. |
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