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Relatives of a Libyan-American man who was detained last month in Tripoli by Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces for 10 days said Monday the man was was released and is safe with his family.
Gibani Gibani, who returned to his native Libya about three years ago, was detained last month while running an errand at a Tripoli courthouse near an anti-government protest, according to relatives.
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Relatives of a Libyan-American man who was detained last month in Tripoli by Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces and held for 10 days said Monday he was released last week and is safe with his family.
Gibani Gibani, who returned to his native Libya from Southern California about three years ago, was detained last month while running an errand at a Tripoli courthouse near an anti-government protest, according to relatives.
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This increasing problem of reckless and irresponsible African-American men has taken its toll primarily upon African American women and their children. Despite this adversity, African-American females have excelled. Certainly in our families, churches and communities African-American women have been the single constant, indispensable beneficial contributor. Scores of African-American females have been both mother and father to their children, wage earner, homemaker, community activist and church supporter, all in a single day. It is the contribution of African-American women that has strengthened, and solidified our entire race. I respect, admire and exalt the contribution of African-American women to our race, culture and country. But sadly, the overall cultural contributions, the fami...
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SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea sentenced a Boston man to eight years of hard labor and ordered him to pay a $700,000 fine for crossing into the communist country illegally earlier this year, state media reported Wednesday.
Aijalon Mahli Gomes, 30, was the fourth American detained by North Korea for illegal entry in less than a year. Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were held for five months before their release last August, and activist Robert Park was expelled some 40 days after crossing into the country last Christmas.
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A bank could be sued under Sect. 1981 for refusing to provide an African-American man change for a $100 bill on the ground that he wasn't an account holder, the 10th Circuit has ruled.
The plaintiff entered a Kansas bank and requested change for a $50 bill. He was refused on the ground that he wasn't an account holder.
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ARCADIA - Hany Habib began producing Nile News, a biweekly newspaper, from his Arcadia home two years ago, joining a small but growing symphony of Arab-American news media in Southern California.
Formerly a mechanical engineer, the Egyptian-American and 22- year resident of the San Gabriel Valley said he was prompted to take up publishing during the 2009 Israeli siege of Gaza.
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Diamond Bar grocers Mohamed and Mahmud Gibani are praying nervously for the safety of their brother, whom they say was detained last week near an anti-government protest in Tripoli.
Libyan security forces on Feb. 19 detained Gibani Gibani, a Libyan-American citizen who moved back to Libya three years ago, while he was running an errand at a Tripoli courthouse, according to relatives.
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Michael Wade Simpson
For The New Mexican
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A young Leonardo DiCaprio is hunched over in an alley, blood dripping down his face. He's just taken a sharp kick to the head from a neighborhood punk...
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WASHINGTON - The family of an American man sentenced to death in Iran for allegedly being a CIA agent said Monday he was visiting relatives there and not spying.
Behnaz Hekmati, mother of Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, said in an email that she and her husband Ali are "shocked and terrified" that their son has been sentenced to death. The verdict is "the result of a process that was neither transparent nor fair," she said.