Every Kuwaiti citizen will get a $694 gift from the government after parliament on Monday unanimously backed the one-time payout. The cabinet announced the plan earlier this month, saying it was to help Kuwaitis with "life's expenses." It is not the first time such a payment has been made. The ruler of this oil-rich state, Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah, ordered the payout for Kuwait's one million citizens regardless of age. It will cost a total of $694 million. ...
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 Couple Charged After Woman Dies During Home Liposuction Surgery |
A couple who authorities say performed liposuction in the basement of a home were charged Monday with practicing medicine without a license after a female patient died. Luiz Carlos Ribeiro, 49, a native of Brazil, and Ana Maria Miranda Ribeiro, also 49, pleaded not guilty to the unauthorized practice of medicine and drug charges at their arraignment. Luiz Ribeiro was ordered held on $250,000 bail while his wife was held on $50,000 bail. Both were ordered to surrender their passports. Neither had yet obtained an attorney, according to the district attorney's office. ...
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| Elderly Duo Charged In Homeless Deaths Women, 73 And 75 Years Old, Charged With Hit-And-Run Murders |
Two elderly women were charged Monday with killing homeless men in hit-and-run car crashes in order to collect million of dollars on their life insurance policies. Olga Rutterschmidt, 73, who was born in Hungary, and Helen Golay, 75, each were charged with two counts of murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder for financial gain. The murder charges carry special allegations that would make the women eligible for the death penalty if convicted. However, prosecutors will wait until the cases move closer to trial before deciding whether to seek capital punishment, county Deputy District Attorney Shellie Samuels said in a statement. ...
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| Russian prosecutors move to seize oil tycoon's family home |
Russian authorities are planning to seize the family home of the jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, says his wife.Inna Khodorkovskaya said Moscow's Basmanny court had informed her that the couple's property in an elite gated community in Zhukovka, on the edge of the capital, was "under arrest"."They have finally reached the women and children," she told Radio Svoboda. Mrs Khodorkovskaya lives in a three-storey brick kottedzh in the luxury Apple Garden settlement, with the couple's daughter Nastya, 15, and their seven-year-old twin sons, Ilya and Gleb. Prosecutors have chipped away at the assets of Khodorkovsky and his former oil company, Yukos, since he was arrested on a Siberian airfield in October 2003. The tycoon was sentenced last year to eight years in jail for fraud and tax evasion...
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| Rhode Island Governor Will Reconsider Requests to Film in Statehouse After Disney Crews Remove State Flag |
Crews filming a Disney movie temporarily replaced the flag at the Rhode Island Statehouse with one from a fictional city, drawing criticism from the governor, who pledged Monday to review more closely any future requests to use the building as a Hollywood set. Crews making the movie "Underdog" had previously removed a historic chandelier and put down a false floor in the Statehouse rotunda. They also replaced lamps with Greco-Roman statues and constructed a false front to the Senate chamber. But when they replaced the Rhode Island flag, Gov. Don Carcieri ordered the fake flag removed immediately. On Monday, he told reporters he did not think it was appropriate "to take apart the inside of the Statehouse" to make the movie. "Underdog," a live-action version of the 1960s cartoon, has been filming in Providence for months. Film crews shot at the Statehouse from July 10 until Friday. They were in the building preparing for the shoot for several weeks before that. ...
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| Poll protests block Mexico City |
The left-wing candidate in Mexico's disputed election, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and his backers are occupying the capital's main square and avenues. Mr Lopez Obrador on Sunday called on his adherents to paralyse Mexico City until every vote was recounted. Official results from the 2 July vote gave victory to the conservative Felipe Calderon by half a percentage point. Mr Lopez Obrador alleges vote counts were rigged - but EU monitors have said they found no irregularities. The country's electoral court has until the end of August to rule on a recount. ...
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