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Restaurant Owner Claims Record With 134-Pound Burger

SOUTHGATE, Mich. – A Detroit area restaurant owner believes he broke the Guiness World Record for “largest hamburger commercially available.” After 12 hours of preparation and baking, the 134-pound burger emerged at Mallie’s Sports Bar and Grill on Saturday. The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press report the “Absolutely …

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Freedom Remains Elusive for Journalist in Belarus Jailed For Printing Islamic Cartoons

MINSK, Belarus – Freedom could be years away for Aleksandr Sdvizhkov, the Belarusian journalist sentenced to three years of hard labor for republishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked mass demonstrations and anti-Western violence across the Muslim world. Sdvizhkov is currently being held with no means of communication at …

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Report: More Than 200 Iraqi Children Infected With Disfiguring Skin Disease Spread by Sandflies

More than 200 children in southern Iraq have been infected with a disfiguring skin disease in an outbreak that some health officials are blaming on the war’s devastating effect on the nation’s public health system. According to local officials in Iraq’s southern province of Qadissiyah, who reported the outbreak to …

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