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Last month, reports surfaced that traces of horse meat and pork made their way to products identified as 100 percent beef in supermarkets across Great Britain, France, and Sweden. It turns out that some of that meat may actually be donkey meat originating from Romania, according to a Feb. 10 report by British paper The Independent.
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On Monday, the Vatican announced that Pope Benedict XVI, who is 85-years-old, will resign on Feb. 28, citing advanced age as the cause. He has served less than eight years as leader of the Christian faith after taking over Pope John Paul II in 2005.
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On Sunday, the world's largest saltwater crocodile died in captivity in the Philippine town of Bunawan which is located 515 miles southeast of Manila. Local villagers are in mourning after the 21-foot-long, 2,370-pound crocodile named "Lolong" turned over its bloated stomach and died, according to a Feb. 10 AP report. An autopsy will be performed on Monday to determine the cause of death.
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He may not be Pink Panther but Terry Miracle was a football player in the 1950's. The 82-year-old retiree tackled a burglary suspect in Longview, Wash. and prevented the loss of valuables, according to a Feb. 10 UPI report.
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On Sunday, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared to a large rally in Tehran that "Iran is now a nuclear country," according to a Feb. 10 IRNA report. In response to U.S. president Barack Obama's statement last week that the United States is prepared to hold talks regarding Iran's nuclear programs, Ahmadinejad said that the West should first reduce its military presence in the Middle East as a precondition to discussing the nation's nuclear ambitions.
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On Sunday, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a rally that its space program has successfully launched a "living creature" into space for the first time in the nation's history and returned it safely to earth, according to a Feb. 10 report by Iran's propaganda media IRNA.
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On Thursday, NYPD officers captured a frightened goat trying to escape a parking lot near Brooklyn, according to a Feb. 7 report by the New York Daily News. The feisty four-legged goat ran across the lot during a cold night in the Big Apple, and it appeared intimidated being chased by nearly a dozen police officers wearing bullet proof vests.
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Sri Lankan prisoners must not be allowed to call collect from jail. According to a Feb. 8 AFP report, a male prisoner at the Welikada jail in Colombo got caught hiding a smuggled cellphone up his anus. Literally.
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On Feb. 4, California's Fourth District Court of Appeals reinstated a birther case against President Barack Obama after a lower court ordered its dismissal last year. FindLaw, one of the largest legal search engines, reported Monday's surprising decision.
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On Friday, a district court in California issued a notice of default on Barack Hussein Obama for the president's lack of response to the plaintiff, Dr. Orly Taitz, in the latter's birther allegations. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California ruled that Obama had until Jan. 25, 2013 to respond to allegations that he had submitted fake IDs and forged documents in order to run for the nation's highest elected office in 2008 and 2012.
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In a 1996 questionnaire, then-state senator Barack Obama answered "Yes" to a question asking whether he would support legislation to "ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns." In effect, Obama supported the complete banishment of firearms in Illinois.
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Late Monday, the White House removed at least one birther-related petition seeking Barack Obama's resignation due to his alleged ineligibility to be president of the United States. The online solicitation read: "We petition Barack H. Obama (aka Soetoro aka Soebarkah) to resign due to his use of a stolen CT SSN, forged BC and SS".
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A Jan. 16 discovery by the American Freedom blog shows that barely a month after winning re-election, the Obama administration sent $40 million in taxpayer money to fund various foreign labor causes around the world through grants issued by the Department of Labor (DOL).
