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  • Indian women strike gold at Asia 3x3 basketball meet

    Indian women beat Mongolia 21-14 to win the gold medal at the inaugural FIBA Asia 3x3 basketball event here. The team with Geethu Anna Jose at the vanguard of their challenge won the three play-off games without breaking much sweat Thursday. India won all their three games reaching the 21-point mark with ample time left on the clock in each of their games. "We achieved what we set out for," ...

  • National Briefing | Northwest Idaho Uzbek Man Pleads Not Guilty to Charges of Supporting Terrorism

    An Uzbek man pleaded not guilty on Friday to three federal terrorism charges that accuse him of providing support to a terrorist group in Uzbekistan. Wearing slippers and yellow and white striped prison garb, the defendant, Fazliddin Kurbanov, entered the federal courtroom in Boise in shackles and spoke primarily through a Russian interpreter. Federal agents arrested Mr Kurbanov, 30, a truck ...

  • Idaho neighbors surprised by Uzbek refugees arrest allegations

    BOISE, Idaho - The Uzbek national and Boise resident accused of training people to carry out terrorist attacks is a refugee who resettled in Boise in 2009. Jan Reeves, director of the Idaho Office for Refugees, confirmed Friday that Fazliddin Kurbanov was admitted to the U.S. as a refugee in August 2009 and resettled in Boise. Reeves would not say whether Kurbanov came to the U.S. with family ...

  • Russian cargo craft uses thrusters to adjust orbit of space station

    A Russian Progress M-19M resupply spacecraft attached to the International Space Station was used to adjust the station's orbit Friday, Russian officials say. The space freighter's engines were run for slightly more than 15 minutes to raise the ISS's orbit by about 1.6 miles, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos said. The station's orbit is now 259 miles above ...

  • Turkmenistan goes green and is happy

    president Saparmurat Niyazov initiated the project under the name ''Green Belt''. Each Turkmen ministry is responsible for planting its own trees. However, as past initiatives have shown, not all of the trees survive, either because of the harsh weather conditions or the lack of care, such as regular watering. According to Mustafa Bilgin, the owner of a Turkish company ...


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Porky's [DVD]

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Following a few years after the raucous National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), Bob Clark's low-budget hit Porky's was a trend-setting comedy that introduced new lows (or highs, depending on your point of view) in tasteless jokes and frank sexuality to the teen genre. A sort of unin ... ...

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  • Azkals test Kyrgyzstan booters in friendly

    THE PHILIPPINES will face fellow AFC Challenge Cup final round qualifier Kyrgyzstan in an international friendly in Bishkek on June 8. Philippine Football Federation general secretary Ed Gastanes confirmed the development to the Inquirer, even as the PFF is also close to sealing an agreement to play against Tajikistan on June 11. Gastanes said the match with Tajikistan is also ideal as the ...

  • Azerbaijan - Free expression advocates protest Azerbaijans legislative amendments

    The International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan (IPGA) strongly condemns a series of repressive legislative amendments that Azerbaijan's National Assembly (Milli Majlis) adopted on 14 May 2013. The amendments were submitted by the prosecutor-general's office to a parliamentary commission two weeks before and are being enacted in the run-up to October's Presidential election.The ...

  • Fazliddin Kurbanov Idaho man in court for Uzbekistan terrorism plot

    FBI investigators and Boise police officers conduct an investigation at a Boise, Idaho, apartment complex connected to the arrest of Fazliddin Kurbanov, an Uzbekistan ...

  • Uzbek Man in US Court After Terrorism Arrest

    WASHINGTON, May 17 (RIA Novosti) – A 30-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan living in Idaho was to appear Friday in US federal court a day after he was arrested and charged with terrorism offenses including teaching bomb making and conspiring with a designated foreign terrorist organization, officials said. Fazliddin Kurbanov was arrested Thursday in Boise, Idaho in a raid on his apartment ...

  • UPDATE 1-Azeri SOCAR to borrow $4 bln to build refinery in Turkey

    Fri May 17, 2013 10:06am EDT (Adds quotes, details, background) By Lada Evgrashina BAKU May 17 (Reuters) - Azeri state energy firm SOCAR plans to borrow about $4 billion from foreign banks to finance construction of a refinery in Turkey, an company official said, a project that could provide a profitable outlet for its crude. "According to a financing scheme, 65 percent of financing of the ...

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