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Roma children are typically used by adult gang-masters to beg and pickpocket in teams

Fitch Ratings has downgraded the sovereign credit rating of Hungary to “junk” status, making it the third rating agency to do so.

General Ilker Basbug, who retired two years ago, is now the highest-ranking officer to be ensnared by the investigation.

Assad’s regime has thus far spent about $40-million on militias to brutalize the opposition.

Paul is such an unusual kind of Republican that he has reported attracted the support of a bewildering array of famous folks.

Malawi in East Africa is one of the poorest nations on earth, with more than 50 percent of the population living in poverty.

Cambodia has made hundreds of drug-related arrests in recent years, including senior police officials implicated in the illegal trade.

Things were not always so rosy between Palin and CPAC.

The United States government said there is no confirmation of these rumors.

John McCain endorsed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday, ahead of the New Hampshire primary,.

Thursday’s carnage represented the worst brutality in Iraq since 60 people were killed by explosions in late December in Baghdad.

Abbott has apologized for the remarks, but the matter will not rest.

Prior to Sein’s ascension, Burma was ruled by brutal military dictatorships for more than fifty years.

The worst, most vulgar aspects of American pop culture are spilling across the globe – even in distant, alien lands like China and India.

Suggs also blasted Tebow’s well known religious activities on the playing field.

At its peak, the facility employed 40,000 workers during World War II and remained Wichita’s largest employed for years after the war.

Palin added that the “worst thing” the Republican Party could do is marginalize the Texas congressman.

President Hugo Chavez has reportedly ordered prison officials to negotiate peacefully with the protesters.

Spike Lee, who solidly endorsed Obama in the 2008 election, has also leveled criticism at the president.

Youthful offenders are subject to a litany of abuses, including sexual assault, from their fellow inmates and from corrections officers.

Of the 4-million Filipinos working overseas about half of them are in the Middle East, principally Saudi Arabia.

Turkey is itself the sixth-largest buyer of Iranian oil, according to Reuters, although the two countries have had a rocky relationship.

It is not clear who is the principal suspect in the latest incident.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s pay would be slashed by 36 percent, while President’s Tony Tan salary would shrink by more than half (51 percent).

The court also requested that Khandakar’s employer, Jahangirnagar University, take action against him.

China has the largest TV audience in the world -- some 95 percent of the country’s 1.3-billion people are regular watchers.

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Greece, deeply mired in its own financial crisis, has been highly dependent on Iranian oil because Teheran has offered debt-ridden nations attractive credit terms.