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  • NSA surveillance revealed abandoned al-Qaedas NY stock exchange bombing plot

    The US-led surveillance programme which has created a lot of furor for snooping on citizens' web activities and phone records has revealed information about al-Qaeda's plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) in 2008. FBI Assistant Director Sean Joyce said that the agency found out through the electronic surveillance that al-Qaeda was actually in the initial stage of bombing the NYSE ...

  • Arrest in cab umbrella slay

    The man who police say fatally stabbed a livery cab driver in the eye with an umbrella was busted in Brooklyn yesterday.Shamel Allen, 28, was nabbed at 11:30 a.m. and charged with manslaughter in last Thursday’s slaying, police said.Orji-Ama Uro was driving Allen in the vicinity of Lott Avenue and Thomas Boyland Street in Brownsville when Allen plunged the tip of the umbrella into ...

  • Feds Surveillance foiled NYSE attack

    Secret US surveillance foiled an al Qaeda plot to blow up the New York Stock Exchange, the FBI revealed to Congress yesterday.A Brooklyn accountant "cased" the stock exchange in 2008 under orders from a mysterious al Qaeda leader in Yemen known as "the Doctor," according to federal authorities.But the accountant and two other suspected terrorists were arrested before the plot ...

  • Condo couple $5M hit

    "If they can’t pay back the money, they could get from one to four years in prison."From 2008 to 2012, the couple raked in millions marketing and selling units to more than 27 buyers at the Broadway Towers Condominiums in Elmhurst, according to a felony complaint. The units started at about $300,000 and one sold for $938,000 in 2012, property records show.Tommy, 59, and Alice, ...

  • Bust in Marine slaying

    Cops arrested the man who fatally stabbed an aspiring Marine just hours before his 20th birthday, police said.Wilson Rivera, 19, stabbed D’Anthony McDonald in the chest at about 9 p.m. on June 14 in South Ozone Park, cops said.Rivera was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.It’s unclear what sparked the violence between the two young men, who lived just ...


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The Canterbury Tales (I racconti di Canterbury) [Blu-Ray]

The Canterbury Tales (I racconti di Canterbury) [Blu-Ray]

The middle film in Pier Paolo Pasolinis controversial Trilogy of Life, The Canterbury Tales (I racconti di Canterbury) is also the darkest and least appealing of the three films, which is ironic given than Pasolini ends with himself playing Canterbury au ... ...

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  • K-9 cop is hurt on job

    A brave NYPD police dog was kicked in the face while breaking up a catfight in a Midtown subway station.Bear, a 6-year-old German shepherd, suffered four broken teeth and a cut on his tongue as he helped an officer break up the fight involving four women in the 59th Street/Lexington Avenue station.Officer Vincent Tieniber, 36, was handcuffing Ravenia Matos-Davis, 22, when she allegedly booted ...

  • Weiner’s meager sext therapy

    Anthony Weiner yesterday admitted that he’s still in therapy for his crotch-tweeting compulsion - but sex-addiction experts say he needs more than just a shrink.Asked if he’s going to counseling, the married former US congressman told The Post, "I am, yes" - then declined to comment further.But psychologists say deeply rooted problems such as the mayoral candidate’s ...

  • Mystery death in W’burg luxe loft

    An accountant was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his luxury Williamsburg loft yesterday morning, authorities said.The body of Mark Garza, 46, was found on his bed in his pad at 184 Kent Ave. in at 8:40 a.m., sources said. His body was found by his brother, who hadn’t heard from him in a few days, law-enforcement sources said.There were no signs of forced entry, and the ...

  • Chris-Drake brawl club’s booze ban KO’d

    Drink up, A-listers!An appeals court yesterday overturned a Manhattan judge’s decision to revoke the liquor license at the Soho club that played host to the infamous brawl between Chris Brown and Drake over Rihanna last summer. The Appellate Division found that Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Wright’s termination of a booze permit for W.i.P. in November 2012 because of ...

  • Gov Senate in abortion-bill deal

    ALBANY - Gov. Cuomo and state Senate leadership reached a late-night agreement yesterday to introduce a controversial pro-abortion bill, a senior administration official told The Post. But it’s still unclear if the measure - which Cuomo has pushed - will actually be put to a vote on the Senate floor, sources said. The deal breaks Cuomo’s Women’s Equality Act into 10 separate ...

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