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  • ‘Affluenza’ mother enters no plea at Texas arraignment

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    By Marice Richter FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) – The mother of the Texas teenager ridiculed for his “affluenza” defense in the killing of four people while he was driving drunk, did not enter a plea at her arraignment in a Fort Worth court on Friday on a charge of helping her son flee to Mexico…

  • New U.S. diet rule gets mixed response on social media

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    Hashtag #DietaryGuidelines was among the top trending topics on Twitter after U.S. government released a report late on Thursday suggesting people should keep their sugar and corn syrup intake to less than 10 percent of daily calorie consumption. Twitter user @NVGhost005 wrote cynically: “With all these new dietary guidelines coming out, EVERYTHING one eats/drinks puts…

  • Liberia’s last Ebola contacts finish quarantine

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    More than 160 people deemed at risk of catching Ebola in Liberia finished their mandatory surveillance period on Friday, taking the worst affected country a step closer to ending the epidemic. Liberia was the first of West Africa's three most badly hit countries to be declared Ebola-free, once in May and again in September, but…

  • Gambia president declares country an Islamic republic

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    Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh on Friday declared the formerly secular country an Islamic republic in a move he said was designed to distance the West African state further from its colonial past. “In line with the country's religious identity and values, I proclaim Gambia as an Islamic state,” said Jammeh on state television. “As Muslims…