Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Wednesday | October 14, 2009
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UNITED STATES - Obama's health-care reform clears first hurdle
WASHINGTON (AP): President Barack Obama's vow to reform the United States health-care system cleared a key hurdle yesterday with a bonus vote from a moderate Republican whose backing could be key to final...

Teen attacked for stopping robbery
Florida (AP):Five teenagers were charged with aggravated battery yesterday for dousing a 15-year-old with rubbing alcohol and setting him on fire because he stopped someone from stealing his father's bicycle, authorities said...

SOUTH KOREA - Reverend plans mass wedding
ASAN, South Korea (AP): Nearly a half-century after the Reverend Sun Myung Moon performed his first mass wedding, the 89-year-old leader of the Unification Church is getting ready to marry off tens of thousands of people...


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