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They're accused of littering, spitting and smoking in inappropriate places. Mainlanders accuse their neighbors of snobbery.
Turning over personnel files to the special panel probing abuse allegations would be illegal, the deputies union says.
The decision to restore ties to Planned Parenthood may have come too late to pull the venerable breast cancer organization out of the polarizing abortion debate.
A U.N. report says 3,021 noncombatants were killed in wartime violence last year, an 8% increase from 2010. Insurgents are blamed for nearly four-fifths of the deaths.

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