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MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota lawmaker Willie Dominguez was mugged Wednesday night outside of his Minneapolis home. The state representative says he was "scared to death" when two young men stole $40 from him while he was in the driveway of his home, shortly after he returned from the state Capitol. Dominguez says one of the robbers threatened him with a gun. Police have no suspects in custody.

Armless man caught speeding in NZ A man with no arms has been caught speeding at 121 km/h (75 mph), according to police in New Zealand. The driver, who used one foot to steer and another to operate the pedals, told officers he was born with no arms but had been driving for years. The 32-year-old had passengers in the car when he was stopped on a highway near Papamoa in the Bay of Plenty area. Police fined the unemployed man NZ$170 (£60) and banned him from driving, local media reported. 'Shocked officer' The driver, whose name has not been...

Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Amnesty International Friday called on the Chinese government to “release all people imprisoned during the 1989 Tiananmen democracy protests” and “arrest those responsible for the June 4 massacre”. "Tiananmen clearly remains very much alive today for the Chinese public and the demands by Chinese citizens for justice continue," the international rights group said in a statement. "We reiterate –said also - our call on the Chinese government to conduct an independent inquiry into the killing of unarmed students and demonstrators. Those found responsible should be tried and brought to justice. We also call on the government to...

The JPFO, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, is fighting to protect our Second Amendment Right To Bear Arms under the US Constitution. While it is true that most American Jews tend to be Liberal Deomcrats, when it comes to the issue of gun control verses the right to bear arms, American Jews part company with the left, and side with the conservatives, and with good reason I might add. I for one, use to favor strict gun control, but after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on 911, I have had second thoughts. I believe that...

Nobody had a gun. This non-descript, middle-aged man confronted his attorney outside a California courthouse, pulled a gun and started shooting at him while the attorney bobbed & weaved behind a tree, and nobody else had a gun to stop the attack. It was a miracle the attorney survived with just face and shoulder wounds. The whole thing was caught on camera and shown on national television from beginning to end, culminating with the tackle-arrest of the gunman by police officers, who finally made it to the scene long after the shooter ran out of ammunition and had walked away...

The extent of street crime in London is revealed in new figures showing there are 164 muggings in the capital every day. A report by independent watchdogs shows that, although street crime has come down from its record high levels of early 2002, it is still higher than at any other time in recent history. It will say that the massive effort to reduce muggings and robberies, involving hundreds of thousands of hours of police time, has produced only a 15 per cent reduction in London. Scotland Yard figures show that Lambeth is the worst of the 32 boroughs for...

A 42-year-old police officer was convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a man during an off-duty fight last fall. Ronald Robbins, a 15-year veteran of the police department in the Volusia County community of Edgewater, said he fired his personal .22-caliber pistol as a last resort to save his own life during a fight with the victim and another man on a Daytona Beach street Sept. 22. Robbins will face at least 25 years in prison when he is sentenced July 9. His attorney said he'll appeal the verdict, which the jury reached after deliberating about an...

October 10, 2002 Unarmed, in a hostile world By LINDA WILLIAMSON -- Toronto Sun Quick - name a country with uncertain weapons and defensive capability, a fragile, demoralized military and an unpredictable strongman leader whose "emerging hostility" has invited the wrath of the U.S., putting his country's sovereignty at imminent risk. If you said "Iraq," go sit in the corner with Defence Minister John McCallum. Try Canada.That's the chilling picture painted in this week's scathing report by the ex-military men and defence experts who make up the Conference of Defence Associations - a report titled, lest anyone miss the urgency...