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Man Beheads Hitler's Waxwork in Berlin's Madame Tussauds Museum A man raced into Berlin's Madame Tussauds wax museum on Saturday, its opening day, and ripped the head off a waxwork of Adolf Hitler, CNN reported. The 41-year-old entered the exhibit shortly after the museum doors opened and "made for the Hitler figure," scuffling with a guard and the manager befo...
Manowar Writes History in Bulgaria with 5-Hour Gig Legendary Manowar lived up to their reputation of the most uncompromising and loudest heavy metal band after treating 20,000 exalted fans with a record-long, five-hour-gig in Kavarna. The band opened the annual Kaliakra Rock Festival 2008 on the Black Sea coast on Saturday. The group kept their p...
26 Bulgarians Suffer Injuries in 26 Crashes Overnight A total of 26 passangers were injured as 26 heavy car crashes were reported overnight across Bulgaria, according to the data of the country's Interior Ministry. Luckily no lives were claimed but one person is in critical condition. In the capital city of Sofia, the number of traffic accidents duri...
Experts Enter Blasts Hit Chelopechene Area after Soil Cooling Bulgarian authorities announced they are to cool the surface soil layer in the area of the military storehouses on fire in Chelopechene to allow sappers, military police officers, prosecutors and chemists enter it on Monday. The announcement was made Sunday by the Defense Ministry. The situation i...
11 More Military Storehouse Explosions Shake Chelopechepe District A total of 11 explosions shook late on Saturday Chelopechene's military storehouses, which are on fire for about three days now. The blasts were heard at about 11 pm, awaking the residents of the district as well as those, living in the nearby Chepintsi. Bulgaria's Defense Minister Nikolay Tsonev ...
Serial Rapist Nabbed in Bulgaria's Pleven Police have arrested a serial rapist in the Bulgarian town of Pleven, authorities reported Saturday. The 38-year-old Ilian Ivanov, who was arrested during an investigation of a case with a 13-year-old girl raped in 2003, has confessed to 10 rapes, police said. The rapist used to stalk victims in d...
Iran Warns of Huge Oil Price Leap if Attacked Oil prices on the global market will jump to unprecedented levels in case of any aggression against Iran, the country's oil minister said on Saturday. "Even a slightest hint [on a possibility of the attack] will lead to an increase [in global oil prices] by USD 10-15, but in case of a real aggress...
More than 600 Homes Damaged by Chelopechene Blast Authorities are still trying to determine the exact number of homes that were damaged by Thursday's huge blast in a military facility near the Chelopechene district of Sofia. Until now special teams have found that more than 600 houses in Chelopechene alone have been damaged by the explosion. Ther...
Israel Blamed for Shooting at Fishermen Israeli marine vessels opened fire on Saturday at Palestinian fishermen, thus violating a ceasefire with Palestinian militant groups led by Hamas, Palestinian security sources said, as cited by Xinhua. The shooting, which occurred in the Mediterranean along northwest Gaza city, caused no casualtie...
Fears over Bulgarian nuclear boom By Oana Lungescu BBC News, Bulgaria Two safety scares in June at nuclear plants in Slovenia and the Czech Republic have led to renewed calls for Europe to abandon nuclear power. But with energy prices soaring, the nuclear sector is actually on the rise. The EU already has the highest number of n...
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Employers Fight Tough Measures on Immigration
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/us/06employer.htmlhttp://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/06/us/06employers.75.jpgimage7575An electronics plant in Southern California. The chief executive worries that an immigration raid could cripple the company.Monica Almeida/The New York TimesBusinesses are proposing alternatives to laws with harsh punishments for hiring illegal immigrants, reopening a rift in the Republican Party.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/us/06employer.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/us/06employer.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Employers Fight Tough Measures on Immigration Businesses are proposing alternatives to laws with harsh punishments for hiring illegal immigrants, reopening a rift in the Republican Party.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/us/06employer.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/us/06employer.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Costly Cancer Drug Offers Hope, but Also a Dilemma Avastin, which can cost as much as $100,000 a year, has become one of the most popular cancer drugs, but studies show it prolongs life by only a few months.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/health/06avastin.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/health/06avastin.html" border="0"/></a></span>
McCain Battles a Nemesis, the Teleprompter A politician who has thrived in informal settings is now trying to meet the more scripted speaking demands of a general election campaign.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/us/politics/06mccain.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/us/politics/06mccain.html" border="0"/></a></span>
American Energy Policy, Asleep at the Spigot Today’s oil crisis could have been foreseen, but analysts say chances to head it off were ignored, missed or blocked.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/business/06oil.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/business/06oil.html" border="0"/></a></span>
At $100 for Tank of Gas, Some Choke on ‘Fill It’ Owners of large vehicles have hit an uncomfortable price milestone and are cutting back on recreational driving.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/business/06tank.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/business/06tank.html" border="0"/></a></span>
As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll As the Web has become an irreplaceable part of life, users have become less forgiving of even occasional outages.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/technology/06outage.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/technology/06outage.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection The writing on an ancient stone may contribute to a re-evaluation of popular and scholarly views of Jesus.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/middleeast/06stone.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/middleeast/06stone.html" border="0"/></a></span>
In Japan, Bush Defends N. Korea Shift Arriving in Japan for the Group of 8 summit, President Bush defended his decision to remove North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/world/asia/07prexy.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/world/asia/07prexy.html" border="0"/></a></span>
A Ban on Cockfighting, but the Tradition Lives On Fueled by cultural inertia and light penalties, cockfighting in New Mexico continues unabated in hidden venues.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/us/06fight.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/us/06fight.html" border="0"/></a></span>
Wimbledon: All-Williams Wimbledon Final Is All Venus Despite a ferocious start from her sister Serena, Venus Williams was able to absorb the shock and went on to a 7-5, 6-4 victory, her fifth Wimbledon singles title.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/sports/tennis/06tennis.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/sports/tennis/06tennis.html" border="0"/></a></span>
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