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Egypt investigates satirist over Morsi ‘insult’
Egypt’s state prosecutor ordered on Tuesday an investigation into a claim that popular satirical show host Bassem Yousef insulted President Mohamed Morsi, a judicial source said. On his show Al-Barnameg (The Programme), Youssef, dubbed the Egyptian Jon Stewart, had poked fun at the ruling Islamists and Morsi’s temporary adoption of…
132 inmates break out of Mexican prison
At least 132 inmates escaped from a Mexican prison near the US border, fleeing through a tunnel they dug in the old carpentry workshop, the state prosecutor’s office said. Federal, state and local police, as well as the Mexican army, were deployed to roads and highways near the correctional facility…
TN Prosecutor: Mailing ‘chicken pox lollipops’ is federal crime
Parents who think that they can avoid the necessity of vaccinating their kids against chicken pox by intentionally exposing them to the disease might want to think again. According to the Associated Press, Tennessee attorney Jerry Miller warns that shipment of materials believed to be infected with chicken pox breaks…
Two Egyptian police officers charged with brutal death of blogger/activist
CAIRO  Two police officers were jailed on Wednesday for four days pending an investigation into the death of a 28-year-old man reportedly killed after they beat him to death, a security official said. “The prosecutor in (the northern city of Alexandria) has ordered the detention for four days of…
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