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Eight years ago a young Muslim woman in Jordan named Dalia was stabbed to death by her father because she’d fallen in love with Michael, a Catholic in the Jordanian army. When Dalia’s father found out about their meetings, he stabbed her 12 times, and waited to make sure she was dead before calling an ambulance. Since it was an “honor killing,” the father wasn’t prosecuted. Articles 340 and 98 of the Jordanian penal code sanction honor killings and excuse the perpetrators.
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A new government plan would look up background information on you and assign you a threat level every time you buy a airplane ticket. A nationwide computer system will check credit reports and bank account activity and compare passenger names with those on government watch lists. “This system threatens to create a permanent blacklisted underclass of Americans who cannot travel freely,” says Katie Corrigan, of the American Civil Liberties Union. Delta Air Lines will try out the system at three undisclosed airports beginning in March, and a nationwide system could be in place by the end of the year.
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A UFO flying over Scotland last Wednesday evening caused two traffic accidents, as drivers took their eyes off the road in order to search the skies. Several people reported seeing the huge silver object around 8:45am last Wednesday. One woman says, “My friend saw something hovering, which was silver in appearance and looked like the dishes you see on the side of television transmitters. It was huge, and it was pulsating?he wasn’t the only one who saw it, as you couldn’t have missed it. He saw it and just thought, ‘Good God!’ and was really quite shaken by the whole thing. Then the object just suddenly disappeared?it was so strange.read more