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Library Cancels Racy Comics Subscription

DENVER – The Denver Public Library (search) has canceled its subscription to four Spanish-language adult comic books after complaints that the series contains sexually explicit illustrations. City librarian Rick Ashton ordered the removal of 6,569 of the fotonovelas earlier this month, pending a content review. Some of the books depicted …

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Brazilian Officials in London to Discuss Shooting

LONDON – Two senior Brazilian officials arrived Monday to meet with British government representatives and an independent watchdog agency investigating the police shooting of a Brazilian mistaken for a potential suicide bomber. Pressure is mounting on London’s Metropolitan Police (search) and its chief, Commissioner Ian Blair, over allegations of serious …

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Travelers Urged to Take Disease Precautions

Is your inner travel bug abuzz with excitement about an excursion abroad? Have not even fears of tsunamis or terrorism dampened your wanderlust for locations foreign and exotic? If so, you’re among the estimated 20 million Americans who will visit a place where the risk of contacting a serious disease …

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