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Paris Hilton Marijuana Charges Dropped In South Africa
The Associated PressPORT ELIZABETH, South Africa - A court in South Africa has dropped charges of possessing and smoking marijuana against socialite Paris Hilton. A local radio station in Johannesburg said Hilton was detained outside the Nelson Mandela Bay stadium,...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Prisons, Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Multiple Sclerosis
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Paris Hilton busted for pot in South Africa
FOX 5 San Diego StaffJOHANNESBURG -- Paris Hilton was detained in the South African city of Port Elizabeth on Friday for possession of marijuana, two South African police officers said. The officers spoke on condition of anonymity, since they were not authorized to release...Tags: Nelson Mandela, Radio Industry, Paris Hilton
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Paris Hilton Busted for Pot in South Africa
PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa -- A court in South Africa has dropped a marijuana-smoking case against Paris Hilton.
The socialite appeared late Friday in a FIFA World Cup courtroom after being arrested on suspicion of possession of marijuana at a...Tags: Nelson Mandela, Radio Industry, Paris Hilton
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Dutch Boy Told Family Died In Libya Plane Crash
Associated PressTRIPOLI, Libya -- Relatives broke the news to a Dutch boy who is the sole survivor of a plane crash in Libya that his parents and brother died in the disaster, as authorities said the 9-year-old would return home on Saturday. Rescuers found Ruben van...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Safety at Work, European Union, Netherlands, Television
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Our correspondents take you around the world to the Middle East and Africa
This is the second of three installments from the Tribune's foreign correspondents on their tips for finding the best of the best around the world.
Last week we covered Rome with Christine Spolar, Moscow with Alex J. Rodriguez and London with Tom...Tags: Cape Town (South Africa), Restaurants, Artworks, Africa, Beirut (Lebanon)
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Old-fashioned phone calls to airline better served by e-mail
Tribune Media ServicesVirgin Atlantic promises Jerry Levine it will send him a paper ticket for his flight from San Francisco to Johannesburg. But when it doesn't, the airline is less than helpful in tracking it down. What should he do now? Q Can you help me with an airline...Tags: Science and Technology, Transportation, Travel, Electronics, Trips and Vacations
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Movie review: Tsotsi'
Tribune arts critic3 stars (out of four) Some worthy pictures--"Syriana" being an example--work better the second time, which doesn't help you the first time, but there it is. Other films do their job effectively, owing more to reasons of blunt narrative force than of...Tags: Crimes, Infants, South Africa, Crime, Law and Justice, Miramax Films
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A coup that could turn the tide on AIDS
Over the last decade, South Africa's government has been less than assertive in combating its AIDS epidemic. But the sometimes-comic, often-tragic soap opera that has been the country's response to the problem has taken a spectacular and positive twist:...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Foreign Aid, Opera (genre), Plastic Surgeons, Africa
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Pontiff's unprecedented attention won loyalty of many congregants
Sun Foreign StaffSOWETO, South Africa - At yesterday's generally somber Mass, hymn-singing members of the Regina Mundi Catholic Church choir danced a stutter-step down the aisle as congregants slapped hymnbooks to the beat. Just outside the cavernous sanctuary, cars on a...Tags: Human Rights, Sociology, Civil Rights, Africa, AIDS
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Blue notes in South Africa
Baltimore Sun foreign staffIt is late afternoon and my wife and I are sitting in soft lounge chairs and sipping cocktails from crystal glasses. Outside our window, the dry, golden grasslands of the karoo, interrupted only by windmills and abandoned farmhouses, stretch out for miles...Tags: Viniculture, Cape Town (South Africa), Mining, Trips and Vacations, Crimes
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Music that cried freedom
Times Staff WriterTrumpeter Hugh Masekela strides purposefully through South Africa's Apartheid Museum, breezing past exhibits on the elaborate racial classification system that relegated black people to the fringes of society, past photographs of bodies of unarmed...Tags: United Nations General Assembly, History, Music Industry, Film Festivals, Dave Matthews
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'Stander'
Times Staff Writer"Stander" opens with an aerial shot of Johannesburg, South Africa, its skyline interchangeable with that of many major U.S. cities — until the shot abruptly gives way to the shanty rooftops of black townships, as potent an image of the severe...Tags: Crimes, Butch Cassidy, Sex, South Africa, Crime, Law and Justice
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