Low levels of vitamin D appear to increase the risk of death in older adults, researchers report in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Skin produces vitamin D when directly exposed to the sun. But older people, particularly those living in northern regions, rarely obtain sufficient sun exposure for …
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PHILADELPHIA – A wealthy Russian-American car exporter was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday for procuring girls from a Russian orphanage to have sex with them. Andrew Mogilyansky, 39, of suburban Philadelphia raped one girl on her 14th birthday and a 13-year-old in her first sexual encounter, the victims …
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ISLAMABAD – Pakistani soldiers arrested the spokesman for the Taliban in the Swat Valley and four other commanders, the military announced Friday, striking its first major blow against the leadership of the insurgency in the one-time tourist resort. The army gave few details, saying only the arrests came after a …
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LONDON – Some of Britain’s most elite soldiers have been training Libyan forces in counterterrorism and surveillance for the past six months, a U.K. newspaper said Saturday. The Daily Telegraph said that a contingent of between four and 14 men from the Special Air Service, or SAS, were working with …
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday lashed out at Israel and the West, questioning whether the Holocaust ever happened and claiming it was a pretext for occupying Palestinian lands, reiterating anti-Israel rhetoric that has brought him international condemnation. The Iranian president said Israel was formed on a …
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A New Jersey aid worker was rescued from underneath rubble of a collapsed hotel in Haiti, CBS3.com reported. Rescue workers freed Sarla Chand, 65, from the collapsed Montana Hotel in Port-au-Prince, CBS3.com reported. Chand is the vice president of international programs at the faith-based medical relief organization IMA World Health, …
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Drumbeats called the faithful to a Sunday Mass praising God amid a scene resembling the Apocalypse — a collapsed cathedral in a city cloaked with the smell of death, where aid is slow to reach survivors and rescue crews battle to pry an ever-smaller number of the …
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KABUL – A rocket strike at the major international military base in southern Afghanistan wounded eight foreign service members — four Bulgarians and four Romanians — NATO said Monday. The rocket hit inside Kandahar Air Field on Sunday evening, said Flight Lt. Wendy Wheadon, a spokeswoman for the international force. …
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MUNICH – Jewish prisoners had to unload decomposed corpses at the Nazi death camp at Sobibor and were forbidden to warn new prisoners that they would be gassed within the hour, a survivor testified Thursday at the trial of John Demjanjuk. The Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, an 89-year-old retired Ohio autoworker, is …
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SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea said Thursday it has detained an American man for illegally entering the country from China, the second arrest of a U.S. citizen it has reported in the past several weeks. The man was detained Monday and is under investigation, the North’s official Korean Central …
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