In the news

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Maxim Molokoedov, 25, a Russian former professional soccer player who completed his three-year sentence in a Chilean prison for drug trafficking, is being allowed to remain in the country to play professional soccer after an order to expel him from the country was revoked, according to Justice Minister Juan Ignacio Pina.

Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said the United States is close to an agreement with Vietnam to let Americans adopt children from there now that the country has safeguards in place to curb baby-selling and offers of babies without parents’ consent, which led to a ban on the adoptions after a 2008 investigation.

Mike Anderson

was fishing along New Hampshire’s Rye Harbor when he winched up the dredge that he trawls behind his boat at a depth of about 120 feet and noticed a 6-inch triangular object that geologists suspect is a mammoth’s tooth.

Russel Honore, a retired Army lieutenant general who spearheaded the military’s response after Hurricane Katrina, said that to stem the number of homicides and shootings on Chicago’s streets, elected officials should call on the state and federal governments for help, even the National Guard if necessary.

Mohamed Nasheed, the former president of the Maldives, who had been ordered arrested there after he missed a hearing on charges that he illegally ordered the detention of a senior judge, has left the Indian Embassy in Male, 10 days after he took refuge there because he said his life was in danger.

Adele Schroeter, principal at Public School 59 in Manhattan, N.Y., ordered sensitivity training for her entire staff after homework questions that were intended to blend social studies and math asked fourth-graders to calculate how many lashes a slave who was whipped five times a day would have received in a month.

Abdullah Ocalan, an imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader, said talks with Turkish officials to halt a decades-long conflict are a historic step and, in a letter conveyed by pro-Kurdish legislators who had visited him, urged all sides involved in the talks to show “care and sensitivity.”

James A. Taylor, 30, of Steubenville, Ill., has been sentenced to six months in prison and two years’ probation for punishing his children, ages 5, 6 and 8, by cramming them into plastic storage boxes that he sealed with duct tape and cut a square in the top for air.

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