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MINAS TIRITH—Orcs marched on Minas Tirith this morning in a mostly peaceful protest. The rioters marched for peace, justice, and love in a calm, peaceful, orderly gathering outside the city walls. The mostly peaceful protesters launched peaceful siege projectiles at the city and sent Nazguls to maul Gondorian soldiers in a demonstration of their love and tolerance. "Everything is very calm, very peaceful here," said a reporter from Gondor News Network. "It's very tranquil." Just then, an Oliphaunt charged right at him and flattened him into lembas bread. Gondor's government was criticized for "police brutality" when, after a long period...

GONZAGA, Brazil -- Horse-drawn buggies still deliver milk door to door in this sleepy Brazilian town, while young men flush with dollars and euros open stores and buy fully loaded four-wheel-drive pickup trucks. Gonzaga, the remote hometown of the Brazilian electrician killed in London when he was mistaken for a suicide bomber, is at the center of a mostly illegal migration boom from Latin America's largest country to the United States and Europe. There's no end in sight, even with the death of 27-year-old Jean-Charles de Menezes, shot seven times in the head on the subway on his way to...