Last Minute News Topics » held http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com The latest news Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:27:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 US awaits release of 3 students held in Egypt (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-awaits-release-of-3-students-held-in-egypt-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-awaits-release-of-3-students-held-in-egypt-ap#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:50:09 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-awaits-release-of-3-students-held-in-egypt-ap FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 file image from Egyptian state television, three American students are displayed to the camera by Egyptian authorities following their arrest during protests in Cairo, where an Egyptian official said they were throwing firebombs at security forces. A spokeswoman for the American University in Cairo identified the students as Luke Gates, a 21-year-old Indiana University student from Bloomington, Ind.; Derrik Sweeney, a 19-year-old Georgetown University student from Jefferson City, Mo.; and Gregory Porter, a 19 year-old Drexel University student from Glenside, Pa. An official says an Egyptian court has ordered release of 3 US students arrested during Cairo unrest.(AP Photo/ Egyptian TV, File)AP – Family and friends of three American students arrested during a protest in Cairo waited anxiously Friday for news that they had been released from police custody.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-awaits-release-of-3-students-held-in-egypt-ap/feed 0 Critical power-sharing meeting held in Greece (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/critical-power-sharing-meeting-held-in-greece-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/critical-power-sharing-meeting-held-in-greece-ap#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:18:48 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/critical-power-sharing-meeting-held-in-greece-ap Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou exits after a cabinet meeting at the parliament in Athens on Sunday, Nov. 6 2011. Greek leaders struggled for a second day to end an ongoing political crisis, under intense pressure to ensure the country doesn't go bankrupt in the next few weeks and that it remains in the eurozone. Papandreou informed cabinet members that he asked Greek President Karolos Papoulias for an urgent meeting with opposition leader Antonis Samaras. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)AP – Greece’s president convened crisis talks between the country’s embattled prime minister and the head of the conservative opposition Sunday in an effort to hammer out a solution on forming an interim government and ending a political crisis that threatens the country’s solvency and cherished eurozone membership.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/critical-power-sharing-meeting-held-in-greece-ap/feed 0 Captives held in ‘inhumane’ conditions & abused in ‘dungeon’: police http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/captives-held-in-inhumane-conditions-abused-in-dungeon-police http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/captives-held-in-inhumane-conditions-abused-in-dungeon-police#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:57:54 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/captives-held-in-inhumane-conditions-abused-in-dungeon-police Philadelphia police showed on Monday the “dungeon” where four mentally challenged adults were held captive by three suspects accused of stealing their disability checks.

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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/captives-held-in-inhumane-conditions-abused-in-dungeon-police/feed 0 Kidnap victims allegedly held in Mexican jail (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/kidnap-victims-allegedly-held-in-mexican-jail-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/kidnap-victims-allegedly-held-in-mexican-jail-ap#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:58:51 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/kidnap-victims-allegedly-held-in-mexican-jail-ap Antonia Rentaria shows a picture of her son Victor in Ciudad Juarez August 31, 2011. In Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, federal police arrested two of Antonia Renteria's sons with three other men, all in their 20s, accusing them of setting off a deadly car bomb in the city last year. She claims Victor, 20, a worker at a recycling plant, was beaten and raped in police custody and forced to confess. Picture taken August 31, 2011. To match story MEXICO-DRUGS/ REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez (MEXICO - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST DRUGS SOCIETY)AP – Several police officers in northern Mexico allowed a violent drug gang to hold kidnap victims in the local jail while ransom payments were being negotiated, a state official said Thursday.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/kidnap-victims-allegedly-held-in-mexican-jail-ap/feed 0 Washington couple held in death of adopted daughter http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/washington-couple-held-in-death-of-adopted-daughter http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/washington-couple-held-in-death-of-adopted-daughter#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:10:02 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/washington-couple-held-in-death-of-adopted-daughter A Washington couple was arrested this week on suspicion they abused their adopted daughter to death.

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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/washington-couple-held-in-death-of-adopted-daughter/feed 0 Two hikers held in Iran since 2009 back in U.S.A. http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/two-hikers-held-in-iran-since-2009-back-in-u-s-a http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/two-hikers-held-in-iran-since-2009-back-in-u-s-a#comments Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:41:21 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/two-hikers-held-in-iran-since-2009-back-in-u-s-a The two American hikers imprisoned in Iran for two years finally arrived home on American soil Sunday, saying they had been through hell.

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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/two-hikers-held-in-iran-since-2009-back-in-u-s-a/feed 0 Freed hikers: Iran held us because we’re American (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/freed-hikers-iran-held-us-because-were-american-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/freed-hikers-iran-held-us-because-were-american-ap#comments Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:27:32 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/freed-hikers-iran-held-us-because-were-american-ap Freed Americans Shane Bauer, left, Josh Fattal, center, and Sarah Shourd, right, Bauer's fiance, wave from the door to an airplane before leaving for the United States at the airport in Muscat, Oman, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011. Two Americans freed from an Iranian prison told reporters Saturday they were 'eager to go home' just before boarding their flight to the U.S. from Oman, the Gulf state that helped mediate their release after more than two years in custody on accusations of spying. Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer were scheduled to arrive home on Sunday, according to Samantha Topping, a spokeswoman for their families. The two were released from Tehran's Evin prison under a $1 million bail deal and arrived in Oman on Wednesday in the first leg of their journey home. There they were reunited with joyful relatives. (AP Photo/Sultan al-Hasani)AP – Declaring that they were detained because of their nationality, not their actions, two Americans held for more than two years in an Iranian prison came home Sunday, ending a diplomatic and personal ordeal with a sharp rebuke of the country that had imprisoned them after they hiked over the border from Iraq.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/freed-hikers-iran-held-us-because-were-american-ap/feed 0 U.S. hikers held in Iran since 2009 set free http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/u-s-hikers-held-in-iran-since-2009-set-free http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/u-s-hikers-held-in-iran-since-2009-set-free#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:12:03 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/u-s-hikers-held-in-iran-since-2009-set-free Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, arrested in 2009, were granted an early release from an eight-year prison sentence after $1 million was paid for their freedom, according to Iranian authorities.

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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/u-s-hikers-held-in-iran-since-2009-set-free/feed 0 UBS trader ordered held over fraud allegation (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/ubs-trader-ordered-held-over-fraud-allegation-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/ubs-trader-ordered-held-over-fraud-allegation-ap#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:32:39 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/ubs-trader-ordered-held-over-fraud-allegation-ap People walk outside an office of Swiss bank UBS in the City of London, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011. Swiss banking giant UBS said Thursday that a rogue trader has caused it an estimated loss of $2 billion, stunning a beleaguered banking industry that has proven vulnerable to unauthorized trades. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP – An alleged renegade trader accused of losing Swiss bank UBS about $2 billion in unauthorized trading was ordered held in prison custody Friday charged with fraud and false accounting.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/ubs-trader-ordered-held-over-fraud-allegation-ap/feed 0 24 men held as slaves rescued http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/24-men-held-as-slaves-rescued http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/24-men-held-as-slaves-rescued#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:46:14 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/world/24-men-held-as-slaves-rescued Police north of London rescued 24 men Sunday who they said were being kept as slaves in filthy conditions at a trailer park site, Sky News reported.

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