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- Brazil prisoners ride bikes toward prison reform
- Syria rebels in Aleppo dig in their heels
- Quebec police believe rally shooting suspect acted alone
| Brazil prisoners ride bikes toward prison reform Posted: 05 Sep 2012 06:46 PM PDT The alternative energy program lights a boardwalk and benefits inmates, while becoming the focal point of a movement to improve Brazil's troubled prison system. SANTA RITA DO SAPUCAI, Brazil — Muscular young men in red jumpsuits hunch over a set of matching stationary bicycles, sweating and panting. A few more wait to take over when the first group is too tired to go on. They keep the wheels turning nonstop, eight hours a day, seven days a week.  |
| Syria rebels in Aleppo dig in their heels Posted: 05 Sep 2012 07:10 PM PDT The rebels battling Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces deny they are about to retreat from Aleppo. 'We plan to keep fighting,' one commander says. ALEPPO, Syria — They are short on ammunition, pounded daily by artillery and aircraft and facing a sometimes hostile population.  |
| Quebec police believe rally shooting suspect acted alone Posted: 06 Sep 2012 12:00 AM PDT A gunman kills one person and injures another at a Parti Quebecois victory rally in Canada. Police are unsure whether the party's leader was the target. TORONTO — The suspect in a fatal shooting at a Montreal political rally for a Quebec separatist party probably acted alone, police said Wednesday.  |
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