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UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Friday that calls for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, and authorizes the deployment of 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israel withdraws. The draft, adopted unanimously, is the first …

STRASBOURG, France – The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that eight years of solitary confinement for Carlos the Jackal did not violate the jailed terrorist’s rights or amount to inhumane treatment. The court’s Grand Chamber upheld a lower chamber’s January 2005 ruling that the lengthy solitary confinement in …

I’m used to quite a bit of whining. I’m a mom, so you know what I mean. You fix chicken for dinner and the kids complain that it’s chicken for the sixth time in a row — even though we had hamburgers last night. They don’t like the seasoning, etc. …