KJ Mullins: A man who was the driver in a 2006 car crash that killed three people was freed by a judge today. Koua Fong Lee was driving a 1996 Toyota Camry when he claimed the car accelerated uncontrollably. Lee, 32, had been in prison serving an eight year sentence for the June 2006 crash [...]
Continue reading …KJ Mullins: The grieving family in Tulancingo, Mexico had gathered to bury their newborn daughter when a sob came from within the coffin. The premature girl, born on Monday, had been declared dead by a doctor. The family was at her funeral when crying was heard from within the coffin. The parents opened their daughter’s [...]
Continue reading …KJ Mullins: Mexican President Felipe Calderon is warning that drug cartels want to overthrow the government and put in their own laws. Calderon said that drug cartels have been known to impose fees like taxes in areas that they control. The cartels use force in these areas. Since the war on drugs begin in 2006 [...]
Continue reading …OTTAWA, Aug. 5 /CNW Telbec/ – The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement is ramping up its relief operations in response to flooding in Pakistan. Over three million people have been affected as the worst flooding in 80 years wreaks havoc across 70 per cent of the country. Despite a rapid humanitarian response Red Cross officials [...]
Continue reading …KJ Mullins: In a speech at the funeral of his sister Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe said that Western nations interfering in his country’s issues should “go to hell.” Mugabe was offended when three Western envoys were attending the funeral rose and left during the middle of the ceremony. Mugabe’s speech upset the EU, German and [...]
Continue reading …KJ Mullins-New York, New York: A plan is in action to build a 13-story mosque on Ground Zero has been back in the news since Sarah Palin posted comments on her Twitter account a few days ago. Palin’s Twits said that building the religious building was unwanted and disrespectful. The building in question is already [...]
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KJ Mullins-Vienna: Bill Gates gave the keynote speech to the 18th International AIDS Conference today calling on all countries to keep up the fight against HIV/AIDS saying that the world has an historic opportunity to “change the face of AIDS.” Gates is in Vienna representing the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation at the AIDS conference. [...]
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KJ Mullins: On Saturday the Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, announced that the Government of Canada will be adding $6,825,000 to Chad and Niger’s hunger crisis. This donation is in addition to the nearly $1.95 million Canada has provided to the World Food Programme and Médecins sans frontières in Niger over the [...]
Continue reading …KJ Mullins: When the nearly 8,000 3rd Infantry Division based out of Fort Stewart, Georgia return from Iraq and Afghanistan at the end of the year they will be receiving Battalion-specific historical records. The “Remember My Service” pilot program will be giving soldiers in the DSTB (Division Special Troops Battalion), the 2BCT (2 Brigade Combat [...]
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KJ Mullins-Toronto: Fifty years ago a young Jane Goodall, then 26, stepped on the shorts of Lake Tanganyika, in what is now Tanzania’s Gombe National Park. That step changed the way people view the natural world. Today Dr. Goodall is a world-renowned primatologist, conservationist and UN Messenger of Peace. Her Jane Goodall Institute (JGI)has pioneered [...]
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