California porn studios denounced by AIDS advocacy group for not requiring actors to wear condoms

Sixteen adult-film studios in California have been named in a complaint by an AIDS advocacy group that they are violating workplace safety requirements for not making actors wear condoms. LOS ANGELES, Aug 20 - An AIDS advocacy group filed complaints against 16 adult-film studios in California on Thursday, accusing them of violating state workplace safety rules by failing to require porn actors to wear condoms. The complaints, submitted along with...

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Lindsay Lohan to be charged with necklace theft

Lindsay Lohan will be charged Wednesday with felony grand theft Los Angeles (CNN) -- Lindsay Lohan will be charged Wednesday with felony grand theft relating to a necklace allegedly taken from a Venice, California, jewelry store last month, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Lohan, 24, will be arraigned on the charge at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Los Angeles Airport Superior Court, Deputy District Attorney John Lynch said. The charge comes five weeks after...

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3 teens killed in Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez; at least 2 attended school in Texas

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Three teenage boys were shot to death in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, and at least two of them had been high school students in Texas, authorities said Monday. The boys were killed at a car dealership in the city across the border from El Paso, Texas, Chihuahua prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval said. He said there were no witnesses and no leads on suspects or a motive. At least 60 bullet casings were found...

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Thailand seeks talks, Cambodia urges UN help to end clashes at border near 11th century temple

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Thailand accused Cambodia of refusing to negotiate to resolve a border dispute that led to the fourth straight day of fierce clashes Monday, as Phnom Penh said that only U.N. peacekeepers can stop the fighting near an 11th century temple. Cambodia says the crumbling stone temple — classified as a World Heritage site — has been heavily damaged during several bursts of artillery fire over four days. The extent of the damage...

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Egypt, Tunisia suffered for being servile to US: Iran’s Khamenei

Tehran: Iran’s Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said that the main cause of the protests of the Tunisian and Egyptian nations was the humiliation they suffered due to their governments' servitude to the United States.  Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks at Friday prayers at the Tehran University campus, in reference to the popular protests which have recently occurred in certain Arab countries.  During...

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U.S. hikers to stand trial Sunday in Iran

(CNN) -- The lawyer representing two U.S. hikers jailed in Iran has been denied a request to visit his clients on the eve of their trial, he told CNN on Saturday. "I asked to see them before the trial, but the judge told me I couldn't," said Masoud Shafii.The judge has granted Shafii permission to visit Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal for a few hours on Sunday prior to the start of the trial, Shafii said. Bauer and Fattal, both 28, and Sarah Shourd,...

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