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• Belarus opposition complains of dirty tricks Dec 18, 2021 02:40 AM
  
  • MINSK, Belarus - An opposition activist depicted as a bikini-clad gay on national TV. Leaflets telling lies about a presidential hopeful.
  • Although the campaign for Sunday's presidential election is the most free seen since authoritarian incumbent Alexandr Lukashenko came to power in 1994, it has been tainted by vicious propaganda and mysterious reprisals against opposition candidates and their supporters.
  • An unprecedented nine candidates are running against Lukashenko, and they have been granted unusual freedom to campaign.

  • Pakistani spy agency denies it unmasked CIA chief Dec 18, 2021 02:27 AM
    
    • ISLAMABAD - An official with Pakistan's top spy service is denying it helped unmask the CIA's Islamabad station chief, who was forced to leave the country after threats were made to his life.
    • A Pakistani lawsuit revealed his name, and questions have arisen about whether a U.S. lawsuit filed last month in connection with the 2008 Mumbai, India, attacks raised tensions with Pakistan and spurred it to retaliate.
    • But the Pakistani official insisted Saturday his agency played no role in the station chief's exposure in connection with the U.S. lawsuit or for any other reason.

    • Mexico outraged by killing of anti-crime crusader Dec 18, 2021 02:04 AM
      
      • CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Anger over Mexico's creaky, inefficient justice system boiled over after a mother who waged a two-year battle to bring her daughter's killer to justice was herself shot to death, possibly by the same man suspected of murdering the teenager.
      • Escobedo was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where she died within minutes.
      • On Friday, a group of demonstrators gathered outside the Interior Department in Mexico City to protest the killing, briefly scuffling with police while chanting "Not one more death!"

      • James has triple-double, dominates again at MSG Dec 18, 2021 01:26 AM
        
        • NEW YORK - LeBron James always said he loved playing here.
        • James delivered another vintage performance at Madison Square Garden, scoring 32 points and finishing with his 30th career triple-double to help the Miami Heat beat the New York Knicks 113-91 for their 11th straight victory.
        • 6 jersey he hoped would belong to James - New York surged back to tie it at 57 at halftime.

        • Bones found on island might be Amelia Earhart's Dec 18, 2021 01:02 AM
          
          • NORMAN, Okla. - The three bone fragments turned up on a deserted South Pacific island that lay along the course Amelia Earhart was following when she vanished.
          • Now scientists at the University of Oklahoma hope to extract DNA from the tiny bone chips in tests that could prove Earhart died as a castaway after failing in her 1937 quest to become the first woman to fly around the world.
          • "There's no guarantee," said Ric Gillespie, director of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, a group of aviation enthusiasts in Delaware that found the pieces of bone this year while on an expedition to Nikumaroro Island, about 1,800 miles south of Hawaii.

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