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On October 26 2007, the Backstreet Boys released Unbreakable, their new album. The American boy band now only has four members left, since Kevin Richardson left the band in June 2006. The four remaining members insist in an interview that they are still very happy together. the.point.is. news agency met with Howie Dorough and Nick Carter in Los Angeles. San Diego / Camp Pendelton (California). Clothes are piled up in large plastic boxes at the back of the truck. Erasmo Blanco, the owner of the vehicle, is playing a tune on his son’s miniature guitar. The resident of Julian, a town in the mountains east of San Diego, fled his house with his family on Tuesday night, October 23, as the one of the wildfires, which have charred 500,000 acres in Southern California, was closing in on his house. Erasmo and his family had about 20 minutes to pack important papers and clothes before leaving their home behind. “We could see the flames, says Carlos, Erasmo’s 14-year old son. It was hard to breathe. I had to abandon my toys and my photos of my family. I am sure everything is burnt now.” New York. Blaise Hofmann is a constant traveler. The 29-year old Swiss author from Lausanne, Switzerland has written two books about his travels: Billet aller simple (”One-way ticket”, published in 2004) takes place in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, where he spent numerous months on the road between 2001 and 2003. Estive (published in 2007) is a different kind of travel taking place in the heart of Switzerland. During the Summer of 2005, Blaise Hofmann was a shepherd in the Swiss Alps and Estive is the story of this experience. New York. US authorities are worried by the situation in Turkey. As the Turkish parliament overwhelmingly agreed on Wednesday October 17 to allow military incursions against Kurdish rebels in Northern Iraq, the White House is starting to rethink its strategy to rethink its supply route into Iraq. The goal for the Pentagon is to make sure that the160,000 US troops would still get what they need to fight the war should Turkey decide to shut its borders and prevent the US military to use the base of Incirlik. “We always do planning, said lieutenant Todd Vician, a Pentagon spokesman in Washington. Our decision to think about an alternate supply route is based on both the situation in Turkey and here at home” New York. Mike Hanson is blind. The 42-year old man has been hunting for almost 30 years. “I do not want my disability to define my life, he said in a phone interview with thepoint.is. news agency from his home in Minnesota. His State is one the states in the U:S. allowing the use of laser sights for blind hunters. In the last few years, Mike Hanson has been using a specially equipped rifle with a laser sight mounted atop the gun barrel. He also has a shotgun with a scope. “The laser allows the person assisting me to sit in a different position, he said. With the scope, the person, who helps me aim, has to sit behind me”. New York. Up to September 20, they had face the US Justice together. But on that day, Thomas Frischknecht and Andrea Dalla Valle, who share a cell at the Alexandria Jail, have decided to go separate ways. Andrea Dalla Valle pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to import ecstasy to the US. The young man from Lausanne, Switzerland, who has been incarcerated since his arrest on June 1 2006 in Amsterdam, will be sentenced in December. Southside (Queens). The warning came from a young man, who was walking through Rochdale Village, a project in Queens’ Southside. “If you want to find people, who could tell you about 50 Cent, check the strip. But it might be hard for you to find somebody to talk to considering the fact that you are white”, he said before politely declining a request for an interview. The “strip” is in fact a group of a dozen of shops on the other side of the Guy Brewer Boulevard, where the rapper 50 Cent was arrested in 1994 for selling drugs to an undercover police officer. |
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