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What We've Found: Phila. apartment fire, Chinese mine disaster, political hijacking in Philippines, war games censured, Israeli-Hamas prisoner exchange and Pennsylvania plans to send inmates out of state
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What We've Found: Phila. apartment fire, Chinese mine disaster, political hijacking in Philippines, war games censured, Israeli-Hamas prisoner exchange and Pennsylvania plans to send inmates out of state
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
Eighty people were left homeless, and nineteen of them in critical condition in hospitals, after a fire gutted a 41-unit apartment building in northeast Philadelphia yesterday morning.
After at least 104 Chinese mineworkers were killed in a gas blast at a mine in northeast China, their relatives protested outside the mine's entrance, demanding that officials speak to them and answer their questions about the incident.
The bodies of 21 Filipino politicians and supporters were found earlier today in a small town in the Philippines, where they were believed to have been deposited by gunmen who hijacked their convoy and killed them on behalf of other politicians, in anticipation of the next national election in May 2010.
Two Swiss human rights organizations reported in a study that war video games allow players to virtually break many of the laws that actually govern real-world warfare, such as killing civilians, destroying homes and civilian buildings and torturing prisoners. The study's authors called upon game-makers to "consequently and creatively incorporate rules of international humanitarian law and human rights into their games."
Israel was rumored to be close to a deal with the Islamist group Hamas to exchange several Palestinian war prisoners for the Israeli soldier Sergeant Gilad Shalit, who was seized in 2006.
Recognizing the fact that Pennsylvania's prisoner population is growing faster than its prison system, state leaders plan to move as many as 2,000 criminals into prisons in other states beginning early next year.
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