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Canada’s Vancouver Eastside, where drug dealing, prostitution, and homelessness reign supreme, is known as Vancouver’s “square mile of vice.” This area also houses the city’s sole residential black community, and 70 percent of its residents are aboriginal.  According to the UK’s Daily Mail, the dumping ground for the city’s problems has now become part of a […]

A Michigan man may have intentionally infected hundreds of sexual partners with HIV. SEE ALSO: America’s Drunkest Cities David Dean Smith, 51, was charged with one count of “AIDS-sexual penetration with an uninformed partner” by Grand Rapids police after admitting that he had unprotected sex with “as many people as he could” during the last […]

Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie (pictured) told an audience at TED, a conference of “ideas worth sharing” in technology, entertainment, and design made popular by its free video and discussion site, that knowing only a single story of a person or a place is destructive like the one-noted image we have of Africa – hunger, poverty, […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica — On Jamaica’s rutted streets, the complaints have been chronic — home ownership is out of reach for most wage earners, the cost of electricity has skyrocketed, water service regularly fizzles out and decent jobs are scarce. Fed up with chronic hard times, voters in this debt-wracked Caribbean nation on Thursday threw out […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The weeping, cash-strapped relatives of a woman torched in the elevator of her apartment building said Thursday that she was kindhearted and helped a homeless man and paid with her life. SEE ALSO: Religious Entreprenuers Launch “Holy” Sex Toys Deloris Gillespie’s children told reporters that the 71-year-old had hired Jerome Isaac […]

PARIS (AP) — Doctors Without Borders says that two of its employees in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital – a Belgian and an Indonesian – have been killed in gunfire that occurred in one of its offices. The aid group said Friday that the exact circumstances of the gunfire a day earlier is not immediately clear. However, […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The center-right party of Jamaica’s youngest prime minister was in a tight race Thursday against the left-leaning party headed by the island’s first female leader in a battle to win control of the government for the next five years. SEE ALSO: Most Overlooked Movies Of 2011 Jamaican elections have turned violent […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The U.S. strongly warned Iran on Wednesday against closing a vital Persian Gulf waterway that carries one-sixth of the world’s oil supply, after Iran threatened to choke off traffic through the Strait of Hormuz if Washington imposes sanctions targeting the country’s crude exports. SEE ALSO: Newt Gingrich Lies About First Marriage? […]

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Attackers threw homemade explosives inside an Islamic school in a predominantly Christian city where some 50 children had gathered for an Arabic class, wounding six pupils and a teacher, authorities said Wednesday. SEE ALSO: Michigan To Take Over Detroit? The rare attack in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta comes just days after […]

The United States has promised to help Nigeria track down the people responsible for Sunday’s deadly Christmas bombings, according to Bloomberg News. SEE ALSO: Take That! Walmart Shopper Punches Greeter For Checking Her Receipt

CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Tuesday ordered the country’s military rulers to stop the use of “virginity tests” on female detainees, a practice that has caused an uproar among activists and rights groups. SEE ALSO: Take That! Walmart Shopper Punches Greeter For Checking Her Receipt

BAGHDAD (AP) — An al-Qaida front group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the wave of terrifying attacks that rocked Baghdad last week and killed 69 people. SEE ALSO: Nigeria In Chaos After Church Bombings The coordinated attacks on Thursday targeted markets, grocery stores, cafes and government buildings in a dozen mostly Shiite neighborhoods. They […]