 The grocer, the butcher, a cabinet maker and several other members of the town's Mennonite community are said to be planning to move to Arkansas over a Missouri requirement that all drivers be photographed if they want a license.The Mennonites — a plain-living sect whose members are similar to the Amish, but usually more worldly — say the 2004 law conflicts with the Biblical prohibition against the making of "graven images.""We want to respect our government. We're not trying to fight them. But we still have our beliefs," said Ervin Kropf, a bearded, overall-wearing grocer whose market draws customers from miles around for the fresh milk, brown eggs and spices supplied by his fellow Mennonites.Kropf said he is looking to sell his store. He said if he cannot find a buyer, he will stay in Missouri but rely on someone else to bring in his supplies, because he will not be able to hold a driver's license without agreeing to a photo....
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 Leader says Iran would retaliate if attacked |
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Wednesday Iran would hit back if attacked over its nuclear program, which the United States believes is aimed at making atom bombs. Khamenei, who has previously threatened U.S. regional interests if attacked, was addressing a big crowd of pilgrims at Iran's holiest shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad to mark the Iranian new year, which falls on March 21. "If they want to threaten us and use force and violence against us, they should not doubt that Iranian officials will use all they have in their power to deal a blow to those who assault them," he said in the speech aired on television. The U.N. Security Council is this week considering new sanctions against Iran over its refusal to suspend its uranium enrichment program, whose product can be used to make fuel for power generation or, when more highly enriched, nuclear weapons. ...
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| 'Nanny governments' seek playpen full of laws |
Lawmakers around the country are passing or proposing laws to regulate the grease your doughnuts are fried in, the calls you make from the road, what you listen to when you cross the street, even the bat your kid hits a baseball with. The ideas are offered with the best intentions -- usually to minimize a newly recognized danger or to encourage healthy behavior. Lawmakers worry, for example, that text-messaging while driving can be deadly, and that foods fried in trans fats promote heart disease. Critics counter that regulating french fries and Blackberries infringes on personal liberties. "Nanny government" some critics call it, and they point to a playpen full of behavior-related bills before city councils and state legislatures. "If we were really at war, if we were in a depression, people wouldn't be wasting their time with this stuff," said David Boaz, executive vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute, "but ...
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| Police deaths in Mexico jump 50% |
The number of police deaths in Mexico in incidents involving organised crime has jumped 50% this year, according to official statistics. At least 61 police officers have been killed in Mexico since the year began. The increase in police deaths follows a crackdown on drug-related violence by the Mexican government. One of the most violent areas, according to government reports, was the northern Nuevo Leon state, which registered a quarter of the deaths. Only last Sunday in Monterrey, the main city in the state, three police officers were shot dead after stopping a car for a routine check. It is not just the figures that have shocked Mexicans, but also the way many of these security officers have been killed. Most of the victims had several bullet wounds and were shot with high calibre rifles....
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| Google search challenge dismissed |
A legal challenge to the way Google calculates the popularity of websites for its internet search engine results has been thrown out. US District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel dismissed the case, brought by parenting information site KinderStart. KinderStart alleged Google had severely damaged its business by cutting it from its web search ranking system. But Judge Fogel said KinderStart had "failed to explain how Google caused injury" to the company. The ruling in the Northern District of California was issued on Friday, but came to light late on Tuesday. The judge also imposed as yet undetermined sanctions on KinderStart lawyer Gregory Yu for making unsupported allegations against Google. "Yu had a professional responsibility to refrain from filing such allegations if he did not have appropriate supporting evidence," he said. ...
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| Mexico mulls legalizing abortion |
Senators from Mexico's largest leftist party have offered a bill to legalize abortion nationwide and Mexico's Roman Catholic church vowed an expanding battle against such measures.The proposal Tuesday by the Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD, the second-largest force in Congress, would allow women to have an abortion within the first three months of pregnancy. The bill also proposes that government health clinics provide women with abortions if they request them."We need to stop thousands of women from dying in unsafe operations," said Sen. Carlos Navarrete, who heads the PRD in the Senate. "This is a right our laws should guarantee."Current Mexican law permits abortion only if the pregnancy endangers a woman's life or if the woman has been raped....
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