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Ex-prosecutor’s kidnapped brother shown on video (AP)

October 25th, 2010

Patients of El Camino rehab center stand outside it guarded by a soldier after unknown gunmen opened fire inside the center in Tijuana, Mexico, early Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. According to the police at the crime scene, at least 13 people were killed during the incident late Sunday. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - A video posted online Monday shows the kidnapped brother of a former Mexican state attorney general saying at gunpoint that he and his sister worked for a drug…

Nigeria: Bombing suspect’s brother arrested (AP)

October 17th, 2010

AP - Nigerian security forces arrested the brother of a former militant group leader in the country’s oil-rich southern delta, saying they suspected him of involvement in a bombing that…

Kyrgyz police detain ex-president’s brother (AP)

July 22nd, 2010

AP - Police in Kyrgyzstan have detained a brother of deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, authorities said Thursday, in a morale-boosting victory for efforts to round up the former leader’s entourage.

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US teen sailor reunited with brother after drama (AP)

June 26th, 2010

Zac Sunderland, from California, right who sailed around the world at age 17, meets his sister Abby Sunderland, 16, on the French fisheries patrol boat 'Osiris', Saturday, June 26, 2010, at Saint Denis de la Reunion, in the Reunion island, a French oversea territory in the Indian Ocean. Zac is coming to pick up his sister Abby  Sunderland who was rescued by a French fishing boat after her boat became  crippled by storms while trying to become the youngest person to circumnavigate  the globe solo and nonstop.(AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)AP - Sixteen-year-old Californian sailor Abby Sunderland has been reunited with her brother, after her solo around-the-world journey ended when her boat fell apart in an southern Ocean storm.


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Brother braces to greet US teen sailor (AP)

June 25th, 2010

Zac Sunderland, from California, who sailed around the world at age 17, arrives at Saint Denis de la Reunion, in the Reunion island, a French overseas territory in the Indian Ocean, Thursday, June 24, 2010. Zac comes to pick up his sister Abby Sunderland who was rescued by a French fishing boat after her boat became crippled by storms  while trying to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo and nonstop. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)AP - A brother of the 16-year-old Californian sailor rescued in the Indian Ocean after her boat capsized says he’s eager to greet Abby Sunderland as she comes back to…

AP Interview: Karzai brother mends ties with US (AP)

April 14th, 2010

Ahmad Wali Karzai, a half-brother of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - He’s the consummate symbol of Afghan cronyism — the president’s wheeler-dealer half brother and main power broker in the Taliban-ridden south. With the American military facing a showdown…

Church abuse scandal reaches pope’s brother (AP)

March 10th, 2010

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2006 file picture Pope Benedict XVI, right, walks with his brother priest Georg Ratzinger in Regensburg, southern Germany. The pope's brother says in a newspaper interview that he slapped pupils across the face after he took over a renowned German boys' choir in the 1960s. He also says he was aware of allegations of physical abuse at an elementary school linked to the choir, but did nothing about it.  In an interview with the Passauer Neue Presse published Tuesday March 9, 2010 , he said 'repeatedly administered a slap in the face' to pupils at the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir. He says it was common then and he stopped after Germany banned corporal punishment in 1980. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher,File)AP - Church abuse scandals in Germany have reached the older brother of Pope Benedict XVI and are creeping ever closer to the pontiff himself.


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