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Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny was briefly detained in Moscow on Thursday, ahead of the country's presidential election from which he has been banned. Navalny, the best-known political opponent of President Vladimir Putin, reported his detention in a series of tweets and said authorities had begun legal proceedings against him for organizing anti-government protests. It's not clear when he might face court, but he could be jailed for a maximum of 30 days and could possibly still be in prison for the March 18 election. His chief of staff, Leonid Volkov, tweeted that he, too, had been detained. The Kremlin...

If you believe the myth that all cats hate getting wet, then you've yet to meet the flat-headed cat. With webbed feet and a streamlined head perfectly adapted for speed in the water, these strange felines not only like the water, they practically live in it. They are also recognized as the world's least known feline. And unfortunately, they may remain mysterious. According to National Geographic, a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE has indicated that the flat-headed cat's habitat is rapidly being transformed into vast biofuel plantations. Native to the swampy peat forests of Thailand, Malaysia and...

If you believe the myth that all cats hate getting wet, then you've yet to meet the flat-headed cat. With webbed feet and a streamlined head perfectly adapted for speed in the water, these strange felines not only like the water, they practically live in it. They are also recognized as the world's least known feline. And unfortunately, they may remain mysterious. According to National Geographic, a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE has indicated that the flat-headed cat's habitat is rapidly being transformed into vast biofuel plantations. Native to the swampy peat forests of Thailand, Malaysia and...

<p>I was taking photographs of the police arresting Occupy Wall Street demonstrators at the December 12 Winter Garden flash mob, which had been organized in solidarity with the port shutdowns on the west coast, when I found myself targeted. "That one," I heard a voice say in a brutal "New Yawk" accent, realizing that a senior police official was pointing me out over a row of people, "he goes. He goes."</p>

They are dedicated to a country without Arabs and democracy. They see themselves at war with secular Israeli society. They believe they are acting out God's will...An investigation of Israeli religious right wing extremeists who are girding for battle to stop Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from Gaza.

NRA calls the shotsGun lobby's success comes at law enforcement's expense Sarasota-Herald Tribune2/23/2004 So what does the National Rifle Association get when it sets up shop in the Oval Office, as a top NRA official promised during the 2000 presidential campaign? Apparently, whatever it wants, from the White House and from Congress. While the NRA hasn't actually installed a desk next to the president's, the gun lobby is enjoying great success in Washington -- even when its proposals might aid criminals and criminally negligent dealers. One NRA-backed measure was tacked onto an omnibus spending bill passed by Congress last month....

Europe quiescent over American-run GulagEUROVISION/RASHMEE Z AHMED TIMES NEWS NETWORKSATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2003 It may all have been very different if we were talking about the rights of terrorists operating in Jammu and Kashmir or the extradition of Abu Salem to India. But, Britain's famous sense of fairplay and Europe's exaggerated emphasis on human rights is as nothing when it comes to the following, intensely ugly facts: At least 20 European nationals, from countries ranging right the way across the European Union, are presently incarcerated in the legal black hole, that American-run Gulag, called Guantanamo Bay. Though impossible to confirm,...

This action-thriller seems like it's ripped from today's headlines! (It's based on a book written by Richard Henrick, who wrote "Crimson Tide"). An international peace summit aboard the legendary luxury liner Queen Elizabeth II is thwarted by a group of extremists. Every threat is real, and no one is immune. Two brothers, one an ATF specialist and the other a Secret Service agent, launch a counterstrike to save the ship and avert global nuclear disaster. Starring Rob Estes (Silk Stalkings), Joe Lando (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) and Marie Matiko (The Art of War). Counterstrike premieres Sunday, March 2, at 8:00...