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• Shaikh’s execution unlikely to damage Sino-UK ties

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London/Beijing, Dec. 29 (ANI): Britisher Akmal Shaikh’s execution in China on Wednesday for drug smuggling is unlikely to damage Sino-UK ties in the long term.Shaikh’s execution, despite repeated pleas for clemency by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to President Hu Jintao, though will do nothing to improve the mood ...
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• Chinese court confirms British drug smuggler’s death sentence

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Beijing, Dec 29 (IANS) China’s Supreme People’s Court Tuesday said that it had approved the death sentence against Akmal Shaikh, a British man who was convicted of smuggling drugs into China.Shaikh, 53, was caught carrying up to 4,030 grams of heroin at the international airport of Urumqi in northwest China’s ...
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• Briton convicted of drug smuggling executed in China (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Beijing, Dec 29 (IANS) A British national convicted of drug smuggling was executed Tuesday in China, despite international pleas for clemency.Akmal Shaikh, 53, was executed at 10.30 a.m. in Urumqi, in China’s western region of Xinjiang, the British embassy in Beijing confirmed, reports DPA.Shaikh’s family had made ...
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• Supporters Hold London Vigil for British Death Row Inmate in China

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 741
  With less than a day to go before his scheduled execution in China, British supporters of Londoner Akmal Shaikh held an eleventh-hour vigil in London on Monday in an attempt to persuade the Chinese government to spare his life, arguing that Shaikh, 53, suffers from mental illness.  —KA The Independent: A ...
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• Prince Charles’ harpist smoked heroin in royal palaces

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, December 28 (ANI): Former Royal Harpist Jemima Phillips has revealed that she smuggled and smoked heroin into palaces before performing for the Royal Family.The 28-year-old, who was the only musician to play at the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla, said she was battling drug addiction throughout her ...
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• On Shopping Carts, Heroin, Cat Ladies, and Leaking Roofs

  
  Insane Baltimore — Authority: 106
  Woke up to find a Giant shopping cart in front of my house. The whole day Im thinking, "What the hell am I supposed to do with a shopping cart now? Do I call Giant and ask them to pick it up? Or is it now my job to get rid of it?" But the next day it was gone. The junkies use these things as moving trucks. I dont ...
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• Government economic stimulus is financial heroin

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 432
  Summary:  A powerful metaphor, widely used, about this recession — the worst since the 1930’s — providing important insights.Excerpt from “Financial Heroin”, Don Coxe, Coxe Advisors, 16 December 2009:… my father was a doctor in the Canadian Army in WWII, and served in the Italian campaign. He became ...
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• WHO ERASED MILDRED BAILEY?

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 130
  I have been listening to Mildred Bailey’s singing since the early Seventies, when I found the three-record Columbia set devoted to her recordings from 1929-47.  And she never fails to move me — with her tenderness, her technique, her wit.  But Mildred has very few champions these days.  Even the late Whitney ...
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• NarAnon Family Groups

  
  Recovery Is Sexy.com — Authority: 440
  Naranon Reunites Families The NarAnon Family Groups are a worldwide fellowship for those affected by someone else’s addiction. As a Twelve-Step Program, we offer our help by sharing our experience, strength, and hope. NarAnon’s Purpose Nar-Anon is a twelve-step program designed to help relatives and friends ...
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• The Merchant of Seattle

  
  The Nervous Breakdown — Authority: 588
  Tom Hansen transposes elements of Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice and Dostoevskys Crime and Punishment onto a brief story of his lives and crimes
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• Amy Winehouse to Remarry Blake Fielder Civil

  
  Blippitt.com — Authority: 609
  ...and so the train wreck continues. Amy Winehouse plans to remarry ex-hubby Blake Fielder-Civil in a "commitment ceremony" during the holidays. The couple recently reconciled after getting divorced earlier in the year. Amy’s father, Mitch Winehouse , is reportedly absolutely enraged about the news. “They ...
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• Pete Doherty Gets Charged

  
  Mia's Meddlings — Authority: 126
  Pete Doherty was arrested earlier this week and it has now been revealed that the singer is being charged with heroin possession. The Babyshambles rock star was arrested quickly after appearing in court for other charges and he will be heading back to court this coming January for the new ones. Pete could also be ...
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• NYT > World: Appeals to China Intensify in Effort to Spare Briton

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 473
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Prime Minister Gordon Brown again asked that Akmal Shaikh, a British man, be granted clemency, five days before the man is to be executed in China for heroin smuggling.
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• NYT > World: Britain Renews Appeal for China to Spare Inmate’s Life

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 473
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Prime Minister Gordon Brown again asked that Akmal Shaikh, a British man, be granted clemency, five days before the man is to be executed in China for heroin smuggling.
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• Britain Renews Appeal for China to Spare Inmate’s Life

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Prime Minister Gordon Brown again asked that Akmal Shaikh, a British man, be granted clemency, five days before the man is to be executed in China for heroin smuggling.
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• Heroin addicts warned as second user dies following positive anthrax test

  
  2012. The big wobble — Authority: 440
  Heroin addicts were warned about injecting the drug yesterday as a second user died after a positive anthrax test. The man was being treated at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Last week a man with the deadly animal infection died in the citys Victoria Infirmary, where a woman who has also tested positive for anthrax is being ...
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• Van driver jailed over £2m drug smuggling

  
  Express & Star Sport — Authority: 628
  A van driver from Staffordshire has been jailed for 10 years after attempting to smuggle £2 million worth of heroin into the UK.
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• Court turns down Boy George’s Big Brother plea

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, Dec 24 (ANI): The High Court has rejected Boy George’s request to make an appearance on reality show Celebrity Big Brother.The ex-convict and former Culture Club singer was trying to get the court to quash a ruling passed by the Probation Service that barred him from the Channel 4 programme, which begins ...
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• Best Drug Addiction Treatment: Cocaine and Heroin Addiction Therapy , Pyatigorsk | Moscow | Krasnodar , Russia

  
  PlacidWay - Destination For Health & Wellness Tourism — Authority: 124
  Opiates (heroin, methadone, etc.), Cocaine, Psychostimulants and Tranquilizers!! Dr. Vorobiev has been treating patients suffering from alcohol and drugs addiction for the last many years. After great research and evaluation, he invented some new and revolutionary methods for the treatment of heroin, cocaine, ...
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• Brit kids as young as 10 being treated for cocaine addiction

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, December 24 (ANI): Children as young as ten are getting addicted to cocaine, according to reports.In the last three years, there has been 65 percent increase in the number of kids trying to get rid of the drug in England.According to the National Treatment Agency, more than 746 under-18s were nursed through ...
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