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It has been reported that two brothers who firebombed the home of a Swedish cartoonist who drew the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog were sentenced to prison Thursday.

Swedish news agency TT has reported that Mentor Alija, 21, was given a three-year sentence for the arson attack on the home of cartoonist Lars Vilks and Mensur Alija drew a two-year sentence.

He was demoted for blowing the whistle on financial irregularities surrounding the construction of a medical building on campus, says a Texas A & M professor.

The Austin (Texas) American-Statesman reported on Wednesday that Robert Hash is suing the university, saying he lost his position as vice dean of academic affairs after informing superiors a number of A&M employees had a financial interest in the construction of the school's new Family Medicine Practice building.

South Korea and the United States, bowing to pressure from China, have said that they will change the location of a joint naval exercise seen as a warning to North Korea.

Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday that the two countries planned to stage massive naval maneuvers in the Yellow Sea, close to Chinese territory, in a show of military force after North Korea's alleged sinking of a South Korean warship in March.

Transcripts of lawmakers' meetings during the Vietnam War offer useful lessons for the discussing the Afghanistan war, says U. S. Sen. John Kerry.

The Boston Globe reported on Thursday that Kerry said, "Some of the parallels are almost eerie," "and I think all of us can learn an enormous amount from the way our predecessors dealt with questions very similar to those we face today."

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A human rights group has said that thousands of North Koreans are estimated to have starved to death during crippling food shortages in North Korea.

An Amnesty International report released on Thursday in New York said that shortages of food, made worse by government policies, have left some North Koreans eating barely digestible or even poisonous "wild foods" such as grass and tree bark.